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THE CLASSICS --THE AWARD WINNERS

 * Great Expectations || Charles Dickens || Middlesex || Jeffrey Eugenides ||
 * Fathers and Sons || Ivan Turgenev || The Bluest Eye || Toni Morrison ||
 * The Catcher in the Rye || J.D. Salinger || White Teeth || Zadie Smith ||
 * To Kill a Mockingbird || Harper Lee || A Fine Balance || Rohinton Mistry ||
 * The Red Badge of Courage || Stephen Crane || A Complicated Kindness || Miriam Toews ||
 * A Room With a View || E.M. Forster || The Hiding Place || Trezzia Assopardi ||
 * The Bell Jar || Sylvia Plath || The Virgin Suicides || Jeffrey Eugenides ||
 * Brideshead Revisited || Evelyn Waugh || Alias Grace || Margaret Atwood ||
 * The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie || Muriel Spark || Life and Times of Michael K || J.M.Coetzee ||
 * Sense and Sensibility || Jane Austen || Paddy Clarke, Ha, Ha, Ha || Roddy Doyle ||
 * [|Pierre and Jean]/[|A Woman's Life] || Guy de Maupassant || [|White Tiger] || Aravind Adiga ||
 * Sons and Lovers || D.H. Laurence ||
 * [|The Sun Also Rises] || Ernest Hemingway ||
 * A Separate Peace || John Knowles ||||~  ||
 * Daisy Miller || Henry James ||
 * A Tree Grows in Brooklyn || Betty Smith ||
 * The Picture of Dorian Grey || Oscar Wilde ||

CANADIANGLOBAL AUTHORS

 * The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz || Mordicai Richler || Never Let Me Go || Kazuo Ishiguro ||
 * The Edible Woman || Margaret Atwood || Bonjour, Tristesse || Francoise Sagan ||
 * The Way the Crow Flies || Anne Marie MacDonald || Obasan || Joy Kogawa ||
 * The Emperor of Ice Cream || Brian Moore || The Jade Peony || Wayne Choy ||
 * Life of Pi || Yann Martel || Girl With a Pearl Earring || Tracey Chevalier ||
 * Fugitive Pieces || Anne Michaels || Memoirs of a Geisha || Arthur Golden ||
 * Cat's Eye || Margaret Atwood || Brick Lane || Monica Ali ||
 * Generation X || Douglas Coupland || Le Grand Meaulnes || Alain Fournier ||
 * The Wars || Timothy Findley || The Joy Luck Club || Amy Tan ||
 * ~  || Out Stealing Horses || Per Petterson ||
 * ~  || The Good Earth || Pearl S. Buck ||
 * ~  || Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress || Dai Sijie ||

MALE PROTAGONISTS-RECENTLY PUBLISHED

 * Vernon God Little || DBC Pierre || The Lovely Bones || Alice Sebold ||
 * Funny Boy || Shyam Selvadurai || The Kite Runner || Khaled Hosseini ||
 * Empire of the Sun || J.G. Ballard || The Secret Life of Bees || Sue Monk Kidd ||
 * Everything is Illuminated || Safron Foer || Push (film-Precious) || Sapphire ||
 * Angela's Ashes || Frank McCourt || A Thousand Splendid Suns || Khaled Hosseini ||
 * The Way I Found Her || Rose Tremaine || The Night Watch || Sara Waters ||
 * Spies || Michael Frayn || Running With Scissors || Augusten Burroughs ||
 * A Crowded Heart || Nicholas Papandreou ||||~ Macaverty, Bernard The Anatomy School ||
 * [|The Emperor of Ice Cream] || Brian Moore ||||<  ||
 * [|City of Thieves] || David Benioff ||||  ||

FEMALE PROTAGONISTS--ALIENATED YOUTH

 * [|How The Light Gets In] || M.J. Hyland || [|The Ice Storm] || Rick Moody ||
 * [|The God of Small Things] || Arundhati Roy || [|The Girl Who Played Go] || Shan Sa ||
 * [|Behind the Scenes at the Museum] || Kate Atkinson || [|The Rule of the Bone] || Russell Banks ||
 * [|Breadfruit] || Celestine Hitura Vaite || [|Felicia's Journey] || William Trevor ||
 * [|Daughter of Fortune] || Isabelle Allende || [|The House of Seven Sisters] || Elle Eggels ||
 * [|Le Bal] || Irene Nemirovsky || [|The Story of Lucy Gault] || William Trevor ||
 * [|Mister Pip] || Lloyd Jones ||||~  ||
 * [|The Lonely Girl] || Edna O'Brien ||||~  ||
 * [|Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit] || Jeanette Winterson ||||~  ||

PLAYWRIGHTS EXPLORE COMING OF AGE

 * [|The Glass Menagerie] || Tennessee Williams ||
 * [|A Memory of Two Mondays] || Arthur Miller ||
 * [|Spring Awakening] || Frank Wedekind ||
 * [|A Taste of Honey] || Sheilagh Delaney ||
 * [|Leaving Home] || David French ||
 * [|Diary of Anne Frank] || Several Translations -Anne Frank ||