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Book cover with author name and book title and image of a a butterfly at the bottom of a mason jar

Julia Alvarez

In the Time of the Butterflies

Bless Me Ultima book cover

Rudolfo Anaya

Bless Me, Ultima

Cover of Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 451

Advice from the Lights cover

Stephanie Burt

Advice from the Lights

Five Skies cover: photo of a western landscape with the sky taking a large area of the picture

Ron Carlson

Five Skies

My Aontonia Cover. Sunrise photo of a farm field with title and author name underneath

Willa Cather

My Ántonia

The House on Mango Street book cover

Sandra Cisneros

The House on Mango Street

Pael yellow book cover with author name in brown and title in green, will a very positive blurb and a seal noting the book won the NBCC prize fo autobiography

Edwidge Danticat

Brother, I'm Dying

Essential Emily Dickinson Cover

Emily Dickinson

The Essential Emily Dickinson

Love Medicine book cover

Louise Erdrich

Love Medicine

Book cover: author name in large white serif, title in black large sans serif, background a huge red field as a cape covering most of a woman except har face just above the eyes with streaming black hair

Louise Erdrich

The Round House

The Great Gatsby book cover

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

A Lesson Before Dying Book Cover - typographic layout with author name and book title with small image of an African American man standing beneath a wooden structure

Ernest J. Gaines

A Lesson Before Dying

The Paperbark Shoe cover

Goldie Goldbloom

The Paperbark Shoe

The Maltese Falcon book cover

Dashiell Hammett

The Maltese Falcon

Book cover with title and author name over an aerial shot of three native american dancers in eagle costumes moving in a line from right to left

Joy Harjo

How We Became Human

An American Sunrise book cover

Joy Harjo

An American Sunrise

A Farewell to Arms book cover

Ernest Hemingway

A Farewell to Arms

Book cover; title in Yellow with background black and white illustration of a woman in a long dress carrying large ceramic vessels approaching the base of a tall wooden ladder

Jorge F. Hernández (editor)

Sun, Stone, and Shadows

Book cover: torso picture of someonewith hands clasped, lower green background with title in white and author name in yellow

Yu Hua

To Live

Their Eyes Were Watching God book cover

Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Lab Girl cover

Hope Jahren

Lab Girl

Robinson Jeffers cover

Robinson Jeffers

Selected Poetry

Book cover: Author name in blue, title in red-brown, over nicely dressed half visible african american girl

Tayari Jones

Silver Sparrow

Book cover: yellow background with a blue and brown colored leafrising up in the middle, title in lower case blue, author name in lowercase gold

Jhumpa Lahiri

The Namesake

Large elaborate typeface for title and author and an illustration of a menacing eagle flying right towards the reader over a blue forbidding landscape

Ursula K. Le Guin

A Wizard of Earthsea

To Kill a Mockingbird book cover

Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird

Kelly Link

Pretty Monsters

The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories book cover

Jack London

The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories

Book cover: title and author name in white over a background of large night sky and canvas tents illuminated from within behind a stone wall

Emily St. John Mandel

Station Eleven

Hustle cover

David Tomas Martinez

Hustle

Book cover: the words The Big Smoke, Poems, Adrian Matejka and a ventered drawing of an African America boxer ready for action

Adrian Matejka

The Big Smoke

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter book cover

Carson McCullers

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Book cover: title in black author name in yellow again a green-blue brushed background sky and dark mountains

Dinaw Mengestu

The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

Beloved book cover: red with title in yellow script

Toni Morrison

Beloved

Book cover with brushed white lettering for title and author name against an aerial view of deep blue water with a women swimming

Celeste Ng

Everything I Never Told You

The Things They Carried book cover with author name and book title with a blurred image of soldiers carrying their weapons through a forest

Tim O'Brien

The Things They Carried

Book cover: author name in all caps orange, title in white against a background of two hands offering an orange origami bird

Julie Otsuka

When the Emperor Was Divine

Book cover with author name in yellow, title in dark brown over an illustration of a large billowing cloth with a small portion of a large number of metal bars

Cynthia Ozick

The Shawl

In the Heart of the Sea cover

Nathaniel Philbrick

In the Heart of the Sea

Edgar Allan Poe book cover.

Edgar Allan Poe

Great Tales and Poems

Book cover: title and author name with testimornials on a yellow background in an old west poster style

Charles Portis

True Grit

White book cover with title and author in bold black type with a hood place in the top center. Also a seal with National Book Award Finalist

Claudia Rankine

Citizen: An American Lyric

Upper half is a black and white photo of worn wooden and metal mailboxes in a parched landscape. The bottom half is a solid yellow background with the book title and author name

Ron Rash

Burning Bright

Book cover: author name and title in red serif type over a yellow background of an orange watercolor of a banyan tree

Vaddey Ratner

In the Shadow of the Banyan

Book cover: Red border, the words Alberto Rios, A Small Story About the Sky at the top above a large drawing of a woman from behind, hair in a bun, holding a parasol

Alberto Ríos

A Small Story About the Sky

Book cover with title and author in black type again a background of faded panels of a wooden door

Marilynne Robinson

Gilead

Housekeeping book cover

Marilynne Robinson

Housekeeping

The Grapes of Wrath book cover

John Steinbeck

The Grapes of Wrath

The Joy Luck Club book cover

Amy Tan

The Joy Luck Club

Adventures of Tom Sawyer book cover

Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Luis Alberto Urrea

Into the Beautiful North

Borne cover

Jeff VanderMeer

Borne

Bridge of San Luis Rey book cover

Thornton Wilder

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Cover of play Our Town

Thornton Wilder

Our Town

Old School book cover

Tobias Wolff

Old School

Book cover: title and author name in pink and white outline type over a background of an illustration of a car making its way around a curve on a mountain road

Tobias Wolff

This Boy's Life

Book cover: author name and book title in the upper right corner against a blue background with calligraphy style clouds

Kao Kalia Yang

The Latehomecomer

Dark organge book cover with author name and title and an illustration of a single eye with several tear running down the page

Kevin Young

Book of Hours

Book cover: Title and author name in handwriting grey in a background of streaming blue arrows in the middle of which tow heads are formed, one by organge arrows, the by blue arrows

Alejandro Zambra

Ways of Going Home