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Title: 1984
Author: George Orwell
Winston Smith wrestles with oppression in Oceania, a place where the Party scrutinizes human actions with ever-watchful Big Brother. Defying a ban on individuality, Winston dares to express his thoughts in a diary and pursues a relationship with Julia. These criminal deeds bring Winston into the eye of the opposition, who then must reform the nonconformist. George Orwell's 1984 introduced the watchwords for life without freedom: BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU.

Title: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Author: Jules Verne
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne, published in 1870. The novel is about the fictional Captain Nemo and his submarine, Nautilus, as seen by one of his passengers, Professor Pierre Aronnax.

Title: A Christmas Carol
Author: Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol is a Victorian morality tale of an old and bitter miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, who undergoes a profound experience of redemption over the course of one evening. Mr Scrooge is a financier/money-changer who has devoted his life to the accumulation of wealth. He holds anything other than money in contempt, including friendship, love and the Christmas season.

Title: A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Carnivorous Carnival
Author: Lemony Snicket
The story begins where the Baudelaires are listening to Count Olaf and his troupe from the back of a trunk they were hiding in. They talk about a woman named Madame Lulu. Madame Lulu has told Count Olaf where the Baudelaires are hidden each time they move.

Title: A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Author: Madeleine L'Engle
In A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Charles Wallace Murry, an advanced and perceptive child in A Wrinkle in Time and A Wind in the Door, has grown into an adolescent. His intelligence and remarkable goodness carry him through an adventure in time to save the world from nuclear disaster threatened by Mad Dog Branzillo, the dictator of the fictional South American country of Vespugia. In order to change the outcome of the present, Charles Wallace must change the past, in a series of 'might-have-beens,' events which are turning points fought over by the powers of good and evil.

Title: A Wind in the Door
Author: Madeleine L' Engle
A Wind in the Door (1973) is a young adult science fantasy novel by Madeleine L'Engle. It is a sequel to A Wrinkle in Time, and part of the Time Quartet.

Title: A Wrinkle in Time
Author: Madeleine L' Engle
A Wrinkle in Time is a children's fantasy novel by Madeleine L'Engle, written from 1959 to 1960 and published in 1962 after at least 26 rejections by publishers because it was, in L'Engle's words, too different. The book went on to win a Newbery Medal, Sequoyah Book Award, and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, and was runner-up for the Hans Christian Andersen Award. It is the first in L'Engle's series of books about the Murry and O'Keefe families.

Title: All Tomorrow's Parties
Author: William Gibson
All Tomorrow's Parties is the third book in William Gibson's Bridge trilogy. Like its predecessors, All Tomorrow's Parties is a science-fiction novel set in a postmodern, dystopian, cyberpunk future. The novel borrows its title from the Velvet Underground song of the same name, is told in the third-person plural, and once again deals with emergent technology.

Title: An Acceptable Time
Author: Madeleine L'Engle
An Acceptable Time is a 1989 young adult science fiction novel by Madeleine L'Engle. Sometimes marketed as part of the author's Time Quintet (the other four volumes of which are called the Time Quartet), An Acceptable Time is more properly part of a series of novels about Polyhymnia O'Keefe, better known as Poly (The Arm of the Starfish, Dragons in the Waters) or Polly (A House Like a Lotus, An Acceptable Time). Polyhymnia is the name of one of the Greek muses.

Title: Anthem
Author: Ayn Rand
Anthem is a dystopian, science-fiction novella by philosopher Ayn Rand, first published in 1938. It takes place at some unspecified future date when mankind has entered another dark age as a result of what Rand saw as the evils of irrationality and collectivism and the weaknesses of socialistic thinking and economics.

Title: Ape and Essence
Author: Aldous Huxley
This story of nuclear war and worldwide destruction, in the form of a film scenario, is set in Los Angeles in 2108. It portrays what remains of the world a century after the Third World War has left it in ruins. From spared New Zealand, a Rediscovery Expedition to North America has been dispatched, and it is from the experiences of Chief Botanist Alfred Poole that we learn about the 22nd-century way of life.

Title: Ark Angel
Author: Anthony Horowitz
Alex Rider is in hospital and determined to put his spying days behind him. But he is forced back into action when the vicious terrorist group Force Three takes him prisoner. Alex makes his escape – yet his most perilous adventure is only just beginning. Alex must stop Force Three in their attempt to destroy Russian billionaire Nikolei Drevin and his revolutionary space hotel Ark Angel; but this time, the teenage superspy will have to push himself to the limits – and beyond.

Title: Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic
Author: Douglas Adams,  Terry Jones
A novel based on the computer game of the same name by Douglas Adams. It takes place on a starship of the same name which has undergone Spontaneous Total Existence Failure and crash landed on Earth on its maiden voyage (in an allusion to the 1912 disaster involving the real-world RMS Titanic).

Title: Dr. Ox's Experiment: Drama in the Air
Author: Jules Verne
This book is about a mad scientist who visits a sleepy town and, under the appearances of setting up gas lighting for the town, instead performs an experiment on the townspeople, turning them into frenetic lunatics.

Title: Dragon Rider
Author: Cornelia Funke
Dragon Rider follows the exploits of a silver dragon named Firedrake, the brownie Sorrel, and Ben, a human boy, in their search for a mythical Himalayan mountain range called the Rim of Heaven.

Title: Eldest
Author: Christopher Paolini
When the first book in the trilogy opens, Eragon is just a farm boy from a remote valley; when he discovers a dragon egg and it hatches, he and the dragon, Saphira, become linked for life and he assumes the only person alive with the rare and powerful status of a Dragon Rider. He and Saphira are pursued by the king, Galbatorix, a Dragon Rider himself who became evil; Galbatorix’s sinister, inhuman agents kill his Uncle Garrow, who raised him, and burn his farm.

Title: Eragon
Author: Christopher Paolini
Eragon, a 15 year-old boy, lives with his uncle Garrow and cousin Roran on a farm on the outskirts of a small village, Carvahall. While hunting in The Spine, a large range of mountains running down the West side of Alagaësia, which is believed to have mysterious happenings, Eragon is surprised to see a polished blue stone appear in front of him. After failing to sell or trade the stone, Eragon witnesses a baby dragon hatch from the stone, which was in reality a dragon egg.

Title: Fahrenheit 451
Author: Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian soft science fiction novel by Ray Bradbury that was published in 1953. It is set in a society where censorship is prevalent, and moronic citizens learn only from television. Most books are banned and critical thought is suppressed.

Title: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Author: J.K. Rowling
Harry has finally come of age, and finally started on his final journey to defeat Voldemort for good. The Durselys are forced to go into hiding so that Voldemort’s Death Eaters will not torture them for information, and Harry sets off with Ron and Hermione on a difficult quest to find and destroy the last of Voldemort’s Horcruxes. Only once those have been destroyed, Harry knows, can Voldemort truly be killed.

Title: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Author: J.K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré
Lord Voldemort, an evil and powerful wizard, has just been defeated. When he tried to kill an infant boy, Harry Potter, the killing curse rebounded upon him. Harry is left an orphan. Shortly before Harry's eleventh birthday, he is invited to study magic at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry enters the wizarding world for the first time, learns that he is famous.

Title: Idoru
Author: William Gibson
Idoru is the second book in William Gibson's Bridge trilogy. Idoru is a science-fiction novel set in a postmodern, dystopian, cyberpunk future. The main character, Colin Laney has a talent for identifying nodal points, analogous to Gibson's own.

Title: Igraine The Brave
Author: Cornelia Funke
Igraine, who lives in an old castle, is about to turn twelve and dreams to become a knight some day. One day her neighbor's nephew, Greedy Osmund, moves next door and has plans to capture Igraine's castle and steal her parents' prized possesions: the talent of singing, and their magical books.

Title: Inkdeath
Author: Cornelia Funke
Inkdeath (German title Tintentod) is the third book in the Inkworld trilogy. No plot details have been given by author Cornelia Funke, but it will resume only a few weeks after where Inkspell left off with Farid and Meggie's mission of bringing Dustfinger, who died at the end of Inkspell, back to life. Cornelia Funke has confirmed that Dustfinger will come back in Inkdeath. It will also start at the capital of Lombrica, (the city of Ombra), and continue to head north. The story will revolve around Meggie and Farid's quest, as well as the Bluejay (a rather reluctant Mo).

Title: Inkheart
Author: Cornelia Funke
This book is about a girl named Meggie whose life changes dramatically when she realizes that her father, a bookbinder named Mortimer (nicknamed Mo), has an unusual ability: when he reads aloud, he can bring characters from books into the real world. Meggie and Mo's adventure takes them throughout Europe, particularly Italy, and brings them into contact with many unusual characters.

Title: Inkspell
Author: Cornelia Funke
A year has passed since Meggie discovered her ability of reading aloud like her father. Dustfinger has located a poser megalomaniac calling himself Orpheus and once again hopes to be able to return to the world of Inkheart. This time Orpheus does read him back into the Inkworld.
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