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Summary: Native Son (1940) is a novel written by African-American author Richard Wright. The novel tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, an African-American youth living in utter poverty in a poor area on Chicago's South Side in the 1930s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Son
Opinion: I think that this novel would be an interesting and exciting work to read because the idea of learning more about the harsh realities of poverty intrigues me.

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Summary: The Joy Luck Club describes the lives of four Asian women who fled China in the 1940s and their four very Americanized daughters. The novel focuses on Jing-mei "June" Woo, a thirty-six-year-old daughter, who, after her mother's death, takes her place at the meetings of a social group called the Joy Luck Club.
https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/j/the-joy-luck-club/about-the-joy-luck-club
Opinion: I do think that this novel could possibly be one that I choose to read because the plot of four Chinese women sets a setting as one the class as a whole has read before.

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Summary: Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian and theocratic state that has replaced the United States of America. Because of dangerously low reproduction rates, Handmaids are assigned to bear children for elite couples that have trouble conceiving.
www.sparknotes.com/lit/handmaid/summary.html
Opinion: The context of this book does not interest me compared to the other choices, therefore I would not choose this novel to read.

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Summary: Empire Falls is a 2001 novel written by Richard Russo. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2002, and follows the story of Miles Roby in a fictional, small blue-collar town in Maine and the people, places, and the past surrounding him, as manager of the Empire Grill diner.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_Falls
Opinion: In my opinion, I would not choose this novel to read because the context of it does not interest me at all.

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Summary: Middlesex opens with Cal Stephanides (also known as Calliope) introducing herself/himself. Cal was born a girl in January of 1960 in Detroit, Michigan to a Greek-American family. (S)he is a 5-Alpha-Reductase pseudohermaphrodite, which he discovered when he was sixteen.
www.gradesaver.com/middlesex/study-guide/summary-book-one
Opinion: This novel really intrigues me because of the interesting event of a person being born both male and female; this will be the novel that I choose to read.

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Summary: The Tortilla Curtain (1995) is a novel by U.S. author T.C. Boyle about middle-class values, illegal immigration, xenophobia, poverty, and environmental destruction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tortilla_Curtain
Opinion: I would be interested in learning more about the typical struggles on a daily basis in the life of a middle-classed person.

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Summary: In Cold Blood tells the true story of the murder of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, in 1959. The book is written as if it were a novel, complete with dialog, and is what Truman Capote referred to as "New Journalism" — the nonfiction novel.
https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/i/in-cold-blood/book-summary
Opinion: The murder and mystery factor included in the novel makes me quite intrigued in learning more about the plot.

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This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Summary: This Side of Paradise is the debut novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published in 1920 and taking its title from a line of Rupert Brooke's poem Tiare Tahiti, the book examines the lives and morality of post–World War I youth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Side_of_Paradise
Opinion: I personally enjoyed F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, as well as his writing style, therefore I would definitely be interested in reading this novel.

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

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Summary: When Maya Angelou was three years old and her brother was four, they were sent from their father in California to their paternal grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas. Their grandmother runs a store there, which is the center of life in the Negro community of the town.
www.gradesaver.com/i-know-why-the-caged-bird-sings/study-guide/summary
Opinion: This novel does not interest me because of its context and setting.

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Summary: The Bell Jar is the story of 19-year-old Esther Greenwood, the breakdown she experiences, and the beginnings of her recovery. The year is 1953 and Esther Greenwood, having finished college for the academic year, has won a one-month paid internship at Ladies Day magazine in New York City.
https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/b/the-bell-jar/book-summary
Opinion: I do think that this is a novel I would be interested in reading because of my curiosity for the main protagonist's life journey and struggles she undergoes.

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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

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Summary: Their Eyes Were Watching God is a 1937 novel and the best known work by African-American writer Zora Neale Hurston. The novel narrates main character Janie Crawford's "ripening from a vibrant, but voiceless, teenage girl into a woman with her finger on the trigger of her own destiny."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Their_Eyes_Were_Watching_God
Opinion: This novel seems like an exciting read based on the foreshadowing phrase about a "voiceless, teenage girl into a woman with her finger on the trigger of her own destiny."

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Summary: The Sun Also Rises is a 1926 novel written by American author, Ernest Hemingway, about a group of American and British expatriates who travel from Paris to the Festival of San Fermín in Pamplona to watch the running of the bulls and the bullfights.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sun_Also_Rises
Opinion: This novel interests me because of its unique setting of a bull run, and in addition to this, Ernest Hemingway's known to be an extraordinary author.