5 Books You Have to Read

According to Barnes and Nobles these are the 5 books you have to read!

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1). TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, by Harper Lee

Lawyer Atticus Finch defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee’s classic, Puliter Prize-winning novel. Through the eyes of Atticus’s children, Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unanswering honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930’s.

2). I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS, Maya Angelou

Since its publication in 1969, this modern American classic has inspired everyone from President Clinton to Oprah Winfrey — and countless readers in between.

3). ON THE ROAD, by Jack Kerouac

Practically a “How To” for hipsters, it’s been said that Jack Ker­ouac wrote On the Road in 3 weeks, typ­ing on 120-foot long roll of paper.

4). THE GRAPES OF WRATH, by John Steinbeck

An epic tale of the Joads — a farm family struggling in the Oklahoma Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Depressing? Maybe — but as The Guardian so perfectly puts it: “Steinbeck didn’t want us to lose hope — he wanted us to get angry at those who would strip hope from us.”

5). BEL CANTO, by Ann Patchett

Loosely based on real-life 1996 events in which terrorists took 400 people hostage at the Japanese ambassador’s residence in Lima, Peru, Patchett’s 2001 Pen/Faulkner Award-winning novel is a tale of terrorists, hostages, and the complicated bonds that are sometimes forged between them.