Freedom to Read Week – Adult FictionLike this list

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• The Handmaid's Tale

  Atwood, Margaret, 1939-

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  The Handmaid's Tale is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States and is now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• To Kill a Mockingbird

  Lee, Harper

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  A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, Scout, as her father, Atticus Finch-- a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Brave New World

  Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963

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  Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs, all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone in feeling discontent.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Maus

  a Survivor's Tale. Part I, My Father Bleeds History

  Spiegelman, Art

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  Maus is the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his father's terrifying story, and History itself.

• Gender Queer

  a Memoir

  Kobabe, Maia,

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  In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Wars

  Findley, Timothy

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  Grieved by the death of his older sister Rowena, and seeking escape from the stifling confines of Victorian society, nineteen-year-old Robert Ross enlists in the Canadian army to try and absolve himself of the guilt and grief he carries with him.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Essex County

  Lemire, Jeff

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  Presents the award-winning trilogy of graphic novels set in an imaginary version of the author's hometown, the eccentric farming community of Essex County, Ontario, and reveals the problems and issues the families within the community face.

• 1984

  Orwell, George, 1903-1950,

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  Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fahrenheit 451

  a Novel

  Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012

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  This novel of censorship and rebellion portrays a horrifying future where books are not just banned but burned. All books. A book burner in a future fascist state finds out books are a vital part of a culture he never knew. He clandestinely pursues…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Giver

  Lowry, Lois, 1937-

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  Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.

• Lord of the Flies

  Golding, William, 1911-1993

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  The classic study of human nature which depicts the degeneration of a group of schoolboys marooned on a desert island.

• Of Mice and Men

  Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968

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  An unlikely pair, George and Lennie, two migrant workers in California during the Great Depression, grasp for their American Dream. They hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Gone Girl

  a Novel

  Flynn, Gillian, 1971-

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  On the morning of their fifth wedding anniversary, Nick's wife, Amy, has disappeared. Nick is weak, Nick is a liar, and maybe he's not the very best of husbands, but is he a killer? Amy's diary reveals turmoil over their marriage, strange…Read moreRead more of this annotation