Works discussed in this volume : The adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain) -- The adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) -- The adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain) -- Alice's adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll) -- The amboy dukes (Irving Shulman) -- The American Heritage dictionary of the English language -- Am I blue? (Marion Dane Bauer) -- And still I rise (Maya Angelou) -- Anne Frank : the diary of a young girl (Anne Frank) -- Annie on my mind (Nancy Garden) -- Another country (James Baldwin) -- Aphrodite (Pierre Louys) -- Appointment in Samarra (John O'Hara) -- As I lay dying (William Faulkner) -- The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Benjamin Franklin) -- The autobiography of Malcolm X (Malcolm X, with Alex Haley) -- The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (Ernest J. Gaines) -- Baby Be-bop (Francesca Lia Block) -- The basketball diaries (Jim Carroll) -- Being there (Jerzy Kosinski) -- The bell jar (Sylvia Plath) -- The best short stories by Negro writers (Langston Hughes, ed.) -- Black like me (John Howard Griffin) -- Bless the beasts and children (Glendon Swarthout) -- Blubber (Judy Blume) -- Brave new world (Aldous Huxley) -- Bridge to Terabithia (Katherine Paterson) -- Cain's book (Alexander Trocchi) -- Camille (Alexandre Dumas, Jr.) -- The Canterbury tales (Geoffrey Chaucer) -- Captain Underpants, series (Dav Pilkey) -- Catch-22 (Joseph Heller). The catcher in the rye (J.D. Salinger) -- The chocolate war (Robert Cormier) -- A clockwork orange (Anthony Burgess) -- The color purple (Alice Walker) -- Cujo (Stephen King) -- Daddy's roommate (Michael Willhoite) -- A day no pigs would die (Robert Newton Peck) -- Deliverance (James Dickey) -- A dictionary of American slang (Harold Wentworth) -- Dictionary of slang and unconventional English (Eric Partridge) -- Doctor Dolittle, series (Hugh John Lofting) -- Dog day afternoon (Patrick Mann) -- Down these mean streets (Piri Thomas) -- Dracula (Bram Stoker) -- The drowning of Stephan Jones (Bette Greene) -- East of Eden (John Steinbeck) -- Elmer Gantry (Sinclair Lewis) -- End as a man (Calder Willingham) -- Esther Waters (George Moore) -- Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury) -- Fallen angels (Walter Dean Myers) -- A farewell to arms (Ernest Hemingway) -- Final exit (Derek Humphry) -- The fixer (Bernard Malamud) -- Fruits of philosophy : the private companion of married couples (Charles Knowlton) -- Gargantua and Pantagruel (François Rabelais) -- Gentleman's agreement (Laura Z. Hobson) -- The giver (Lois Lowry) -- Go ask Alice (Anonymous) -- Gone with the wind (Margaret Mitchell) -- Gorillas in the mist (Dian Fossey) -- Go tell it on the mountain (James Baldwin) -- Grendel (John Gardner) -- Heather has two mommies (Leslea Newman) -- A hero ain't nothin' but a sandwich (Alice Childress) -- Howl and other poems (Allen Ginsberg) -- I know why the caged bird sings (Maya Angelou). In the night kitchen (Maurice Sendak) -- Invisible man (Ralph Ellison) -- Jake and Honeybunch go to heaven (Margot Zemach) -- James and the giant peach (Roald Dahl) -- Jaws (Peter Benchley) -- Junky (William S. Burroughs) -- King & King (Linda de Haan and Stern Nijland) -- Kingsblood royal (Sinclair Lewis) -- Last exit to Brooklyn (Hubert Selby, Jr.) -- Leaves of grass (Walt Whitman) -- Little Black Sambo (Helen Bannerman) -- Little house on the prairie (Laura Ingalls Wilder) -- Little Red Riding Hood (Charles Perrault) -- Lord of the flies (William Golding) -- Manchild in the promised land (Claude Brown) -- Married love (Marie Stopes) -- My house (Nikki Giovanni) -- The naked ape (Desmond Morris) -- Naked lunch (William S. Burroughs) -- Nana (Émile Zola) -- Never love a stranger (Harold Robbins) -- New dictionary of American slang, discussed with A dictionary of American slang (Robert L. Chapman) -- Of mice and men (John Steinbeck) -- Of time and the river (Thomas Wolfe) -- One flew over the cuckoo's nest (Ken Kesey) -- Ordinary people (Judith Guest) -- The ox-bow incident (Walter Van Tilburg Clark) -- The red pony (John Steinbeck) -- The scarlet letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) -- A separate peace (John Knowles) -- Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser) -- Soul on ice (Eldridge Cleaver) -- Steppenwolf (Hermann Hesse) -- Strange fruit (Lillian Smith) -- Stranger in a strange land (Robert A. Heinlein) -- The sun also rises (Ernest Hemingway) -- To have and have not (Ernest Hemingway) -- To kill a mockingbird (Harper Lee) -- Unlived affections (George Shannon) -- We all fall down (Robert Cormier) -- Welcome to the monkey house (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.) -- The well of loneliness (Radclyffe Hall) -- Whale talk (Chris Cutcher) -- Woman in the mists, discussed with Gorillas in the mist (Farley Mowat) -- Working : people talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do (Studs Terkel) -- A world I never made (James T. Farrell).