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Utopian world
Jonas’s community has eliminated pain and conflict by removing all color, emotion, and memory from society. Jonas is chosen to be the sole keeper of humanity’s past, and what he discovers changes everything.
The Giver by Lois Lowry, Paperback | Barnes & Noble®
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The nameless narrator isn’t literally invisible — he’s a Black man in America whose identity and humanity are constantly unseen and dismissed by the society around him. It’s one of the most powerful opening lines in American literature.
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
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In a future America, firemen don’t put out fires, they start them — burning books, which are outlawed. The title refers to the temperature at which paper supposedly ignites. Bradbury wrote much of it on a rented typewriter in a library basement.
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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Gatsby’s legendary parties were all essentially thrown for one person — Daisy, his lost love across the bay. The green light at the end of her dock is one of literature’s most famous symbols of longing and the American Dream just out of reach.
The Great Gatsby: Only Authorized Edition
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This is the first of seven autobiographical volumes Angelou wrote about her life. The title comes from a Paul Laurence Dunbar poem, and the book ends when Angelou is just 17, having already lived an extraordinarily difficult and resilient life.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings