for those wondering which books are included in The Big Read:
In the Time of the Butterflies Julia Alvarez
Bless Me, Ultima Rudolfo Anaya
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
My Antonia Willa Cather
The Poetry of Emily Dickinson
Love Medicine Louise Erdrich
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Lesson Before Dying Ernest J. Gaines
The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett
A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway
Sun, Stone, and Shadows (edited by) Jorge F. Hernandez
Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston
Washington Square Henry James
The Poetry of Robinson Jeffers
The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri
A Wizard of Earthsea Ursula K. Le Guin
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
The Call of the Wild Jack London
The Poetry of Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow
The Thief and the Dogs Naguib Mahfouz
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers
The Things They Carried Tim O’Brien
The Shawl Cynthia Ozick
Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
True Grit Charles Portis
Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan
The Death of Ivan Ilyich Leo Tolstoy
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain
Into the Beautiful North Luis Alberto Urrea
The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton
The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Our
Town Thornton Wilder
Old School Tobias Wolff
Happy Reading!
