Adams, Richard.  Watership Down.  In a constant struggle against oppression, a group of rabbits search for peaceful co-existence.
 

Bradbury, Ray.  Something Wicked This Way Comes.  Story of two young boys who begin to encounter evil secrets when a lightning rod salesman gives them one of his contraptions covered with mystical symbols.
 

Christie, Agatha.  Death on the Nile. When a murder occurs aboard a Nile steamer, the passengers find themselves in a state of panic and emotional conflict. 
 

Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir.  The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.  A collection of Sherlock Holmes mystery adventures, including "A Scandal in Bohemia," "The Red-headed League," and "The Adventure of the Speckled Band."
 

Dumas, Alexandre.  The Count of Monte Cristo.  Imprisoned unjustly for supposedly having helped the exiled Napoleon, Edmond Danté escapes after 15 years, finds funds in the cavern of Monte Cristo, and punishes his enemies.
 

Haddon, Mark.  The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time:  A Novel.  Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.
 

Hansberry, Lorraine.  A Raisin in the Sun.  A three-act play concerned with the tensions in a middle- class African American family living on Chicago's Southside in the 1950s.
 

Kidd, Sue Monk.  The Secret Life of Bees.  After her "stand-in mother," a bold black woman named Rosaleen, insults the three biggest racists in town, Lily Owens joins Rosaleen on a journey to Tiburon, South Carolina, where they are taken in by three black, bee-keeping sisters.
 

Knowles, John.   A Separate Peace.  Gene Forrester remembers a World War II year in prep school and the unexpected events of that year.
 

Krakauer, Jon.  Into the Wild.  Tells the story of Chris McCandless, a twenty-four-year-old who walked into the Alaskan wilderness on an idealistic journey and was found dead of starvation four months later. Attempts to discover what led the young man to that point.
 

Martel, Yann.  Life of Pi:  A Novel.  Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain.
 

Mowat, Farley.  Never Cry Wolf.  The author reports his observations of the Keewatin Lands northwest of the Hudson Bay, and the caribou and wolf populations living in the region; includes an afterword section with assorted writings about wolves.
 

Schlosser, Eric.  Fast Food Nation:  The Dark Side of the All-American Meal.  Traces the history of the fast food industry and discusses how it arose in postwar America.
 

Stevenson, Robert Louis.  The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.  The story of Dr. Jekyll, who becomes transformed into the horrifying Mr. Hyde after conducting a scientific experiment.
 

Vonnegut, Kurt.  Slaughterhouse-five: or, The Children’s Crusade:  A Duty-Dance with Death. A fourth-generation German-American now living in easy circumstances on Cape Cod (and smoking too much), who, as an American infantry scout hors de combat, as a prisoner of war, witnessed the fire-bombing of Dresden, Germany, The Florence of the Elbe, a long time ago, and survived to tell the tale.
 

Wiesel, Elie. Night.  The narrative of a boy who lived through Auschwitz and Buchenwald provide a short and terrible indictment of modern humanity.