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“Christian” Fiction

The Circle Trilogy by Ted Dekker

The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis

Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis

The Visitation by Frank Peretti

Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers

Dystopian Fiction

Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Genesis by Bernard Beckett

Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (series)

Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde

Historical Fiction

Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

Elizabeth Street by Laurie Fabiano

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Trudy’s Promise by Marcia Preston

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

International Fiction

Sister of My Heart by Chitra Divakaruni

Kiterunner by Khaled Hosseini

Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Science Fiction

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card (series)

The Space Trilogy by C. S. Lewis

The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

Contemporary Fiction

Everything Matters! by Ron Currie, Jr.

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde (series)

31 Hours by Masha Hamilton

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

The City and the City by China Miéville

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

Classic Fiction

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (and her other titles)

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton

Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier

A History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

1984 by George Orwell

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde