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Literature by Author Vocabulary Word List (136)
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# Author Name Book Name Word Information
1 Albom (Mitch) Tuesdays with Morrie a word list of 59 vocabulary words
2 Alexander (Michael) Beowulf a word list of 95 vocabulary words
3 Allende (Isabel) The House of the Spirits a word list of 218 vocabulary words
4 Angelou (Maya) I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings a word list of 150 vocabulary words
5 Austen (Jane) Emma a word list of 123 vocabulary words
6 Austen (Jane) Pride and Prejudice a word list of 137 vocabulary words
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# Author Name Book Name Word Information
1 Babbitt (Natalie) Tuck Everlasting a word list of 26 vocabulary words
2 Balliet (Blue) Chasing Vermeer a word list of 49 vocabulary words
3 Beals (Melba Pattillo) Warriors Don't Cry a word list of 92 vocabulary words
4 Bradbury (Ray) Fahrenheit 451 a word list of 68 vocabulary words plus activities
5 Bradbury (Ray) Something Wicked This Way Comes a word list of 147 vocabulary words
6 Bronte (Charlotte) Jane Eyre a word list of 217 vocabulary words
7 Bronte (Emily) Wuthering Heights a word list of 168 vocabulary words
8 Brown (Dan) Da Vinci Code a word list of 171 vocabulary words
9 Burns (Olive Ann) Cold Sassy Tree a word list of 87 vocabulary words
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# Author Name Book Name Word Information
1 Carson (Ben) Gifted Hands a word list of 89 vocabulary words
2 Chaucer (Geoffrey) Canterbury Tales a word list of 155 vocabulary words
3 Chopin (Kate) The Awakening a word list of 113 vocabulary words
4 Cisneros (Sandra) The House on Mango Street a word list of 26 vocabulary words plus activities
5 Coelho (Paulo) The Alchemist a word list of 40 vocabulary words
6 Comer (James P.) Maggie's American Dream a word list of 79 vocabulary words
7 Conrad (Joseph) Lord Jim a word list of 271 vocabulary words
8 Cormier (Robert) The Chocolate Wars a word list of 538 vocabulary words
9 Crane (Stephen) Red Badge of Courage a word list of 154 vocabulary words
10 Craven (Margaret) I Heard The Owl Call My Name a word list of 123 vocabulary words
11 Creech (Sharon) Absolutely Normal Chaos a word list of 143 vocabulary words
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# Author Name Book Name Word Information
1 Defoe (Daniel) Robinson Crusoe a word list of 242 vocabulary words
2 Dickens (Charles) A Christmas Carol a word list of 17 vocabulary words
3 Dickens (Charles) A Tale of Two Cities a word list of 53 vocabulary words plus activities
4 Dickens (Charles) David Copperfield a word list of 114 vocabulary words
5 Dickens (Charles) Great Expectations a word list of 189 vocabulary words
6 Dickens (Charles) Hard Times a word list of 112 vocabulary words plus activities
7 Dorris (Michael) Guests a word list of 59 vocabulary words
8 Du Maurier (Daphne) Rebecca a word list of 101 vocabulary words
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# Author Name Book Name Word Information
1 Ellison (Ralph) Invisible Man a word list of 157 vocabulary words
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# Author Name Book Name Word Information
1 Fitzgerald (F. Scott) The Great Gatsby a word list of 31 vocabulary words plus activities
2 Fitzgerald (F. Scott) Winter Dreams a word list of 28 vocabulary words
3 Forbes (Esther) Johnny Tremain a word list of 165 vocabulary words
4 Forster (E.M.) A Passage to India a word list of 111 vocabulary words
5 Frank (Anne) Anne Frank
6 Frazier (Charles) Cold Mountain a word list of 142 vocabulary words
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# Author Name Book Name Word Information
1 Gibson (William) The Miracle Worker a word list of 85 vocabulary words
2 Gipson(Fred) Old Yeller
3 Golding (William) Lord of the Flies a word list of 108 vocabulary words plus activities
4 Goldman (James) The Lion in Winter a word list of 18 vocabulary words
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# Author Name Book Name Word Information
1 Hamilton (Edith) Mythology a word list of 71 vocabulary words
2 Hansberry (Lorraine) A Raisin in the Sun a word list of 52 vocabulary words
3 Hardy (Thomas) The Mayor of Casterbridge a word list of 63 vocabulary words plus activities
4 Hawthorne (Nathaniel) The Scarlet Letter 65 vocabulary words plus activities
5 Hemingway (Ernest) The Sun Also Rises a word list of 52 vocabulary words
6 Hinton (S.E.) The Outsiders a word list of 29 vocabulary words plus activities
7 Hosseini (Khaled) The Kite Runner a word list of 78 vocabulary words plus activities
8 Hurston (Zora Neale) Their Eyes Were Watching God a word list of 117 vocabulary words
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# Author Name Book Name Word Information
1 Irving (John) A Prayer for Owen Meany a word list of 211 vocabulary words
2 Irving (Washington) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow a word list of 103 vocabulary words
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# Author Name Book Name Word Information
1 Joyce (James) Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man a word list of 91 vocabulary words
2 Joyce (James) Ulysses a word list of 331 very challenging vocabulary words
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# Author Name Book Name Word Information
1 Kesey (Ken) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest a word list of 78 vocabulary words
2 Kidd (Sue Monk) The Secret Life of Bees a word list of 38 vocabulary words plus activities
3 Kingsolver (Barbara) Pigs in Heaven a word list of 72 vocabulary words
4 Kingsolver (Barbara) The Bean Trees a word list of 42 vocabulary words
5 Klass (David) Firestorm (The Caretaker Trilogy: Book 1) a word list of 111 vocabulary words
6 Knowles (John) A Separate Peace a word list of 73 vocabulary words
7 Krakauer (Jon) Into The Wild a word list of 115 vocabulary words
8 Krakauer (Jon) Into Thin Air a word list of 214 vocabulary words
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# Author Name Book Name Word Information
1 Lee (Harper) To Kill a Mockingbird a word list of 99 vocabulary words plus activities
2 Leroux (Gaston) Phantom of the Opera a word list of 116 vocabulary words
3 Li (Moying) Snow Falling in Spring: Coming of Age in China a word list of 170 vocabulary words
4 London (Jack) Call of the Wild a word list of 100 vocabulary words plus activities
5 London (Jack) White Fang a word list of 31 vocabulary words
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# Author Name Book Name Word Information
1 Mahmoody (Betty) and Hoffer (William) Not Without My Daughter a word list of 100's of vocabulary words
2 Martel (Yann) Life of Pi a word list of 98 vocabulary words
3 Maugham (W. Somerset) Of Human Bondage a word list of 188 vocabulary words
4 McCourt (Frank) Angela's Ashes a word list of 124 vocabulary words
5 McMurtry (Larry) Lonesome Dove a word list of 135 vocabulary words
6 Melville (Herman) Moby Dick a word list of 150 vocabulary words
7 Miller (Arthur) Death of a Salesman a word list of 15 vocabulary words
8 Miller (Arthur) The Crucible a word list of 48 vocabulary words plus activities
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# Author Name Book Name Word Information
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# Author Name Book Name Word Information
1 O'Brien (Tim) The Things They Carried a word list of 109 vocabulary words
2 Okada (John) No-No Boy a word list of 59 vocabulary words
3 Orwell (George) 1984 - Nineteen Eighty-Four a word list of 125 vocabulary words
4 Orwell (George) Animal Farm a word list of 75 vocabulary words plus activities
5 Oufkir (Malika) and Fitoussi (Michele) Stolen Lives a word list of 18 vocabulary words
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# Author Name Book Name Word Information
1 Paton (Alan) Cry-The Beloved Country a word list of 116 vocabulary words
2 Peck (Robert) A Day No Pigs Would Die a word list of 43 vocabulary words
3 Petry (Ann) The Street a word list of 20 vocabulary words
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# Author Name Book Name Word Information
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# Author Name Book Name Word Information
1 Remarque (Erich Maria) All Quiet on the Western Front a word list of 141 vocabulary words
2 Rowling (J.K) Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix a word list of 130 vocabulary words plus activities
3 Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone a word list of 160 vocabulary words plus activities
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# Author Name Book Name Word Information
1 Sachar (Louis) Dogs Don't Tell Jokes a word list of 50 vocabulary words
2 Sacher (Louis) Holes a word list of 61 vocabulary words
3 Salinger (J.D.) Catcher in the Rye a word list of 98 vocabulary words
4 Santiago (Esmeralda) When I Was Puerto Rican a word list of 49 vocabulary words
5 Saroyan (William) The Human Comedy a word list of 57 vocabulary words
6 Shaara (Michael) The Killer Angels a word list of 90 vocabulary words plus activities
7 Shakespeare (William) Julius Caesar a word list of 84 vocabulary words
8 Shakespeare (William) Macbeth a word list of 92 vocabulary words
9 Shakespeare (William) Much Ado About Nothing a word list of 55 vocabulary words plus activities
10 Shakespeare (William) Romeo and Juliet a word list of 35+22 vocabulary words
11 Shakespeare (William) The Taming of the Shrew a word list of 68 vocabulary words
12 Shelley (Mary) Frankenstein a word list of 150 vocabulary words
13 Sinclair (Upton) Oil! a word list of 344 vocabulary words
14 Smith (Betty) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn a word list of 95 vocabulary words
15 Sophocles Oedipus the King a word list of 18 vocabulary words
16 Steinbeck (John) Of Mice and Men a word list of 45 vocabulary words
17 Steinbeck (John) The Grapes of Wrath a word list of 88 vocabulary words
18 Steinbeck (John) The Pearl a word list of 64 vocabulary words
19 Steinbeck (John) The Red Pony a word list of 64 vocabulary words
20 Stevenson (Robert Louis) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a word list of 189 vocabulary words
21 Stevenson (Robert Louis) Kidnapped a word list of 83 vocabulary words
22 Stevenson (Robert Louis) Treasure Island a word list of 174 vocabulary words
23 Swift (Jonathan) Gulliver's Travels a word list of 277 vocabulary words
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# Author Name Book Name Word Information
1 Tan (Amy) The Joy Luck Club a word list of 75 vocabulary words
2 Taylor (Peter) A Summons to Memphis a word list of 40 vocabulary words
3 The Diary of a Young Girl--a word list of 107 vocabulary words plus activities
4 Thurber (James) The Secret Life of Walter Mitty a word list of 18 vocabulary words
5 Trumbo (Dalton) Johnny Got His Gun a word list of 55 vocabulary words plus activities
6 Twain (Mark) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn a word list of 67 vocabulary words plus activities
7 Twain (Mark) The Prince and the Pauper a word list of 185 vocabulary words
8 Twain (Mark) Tom Sawyer a word list of 217 vocabulary words plus activities
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# Author Name Book Name Word Information
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# Author Name Book Name Word Information
1 Voigt (Cynthia) A Solitary Blue a word list of 18 vocabulary words
2 Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet de) Candide a word list of 18 vocabulary words
3 Vonnegut (Kurt Jr.) A Man Without a Country a word list of 140 vocabulary words
4 Vonnegut (Kurt Jr.) Slaughterhouse Five a word list of 336 vocabulary words
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# Author Name Book Name Word Information
1 Watson (James D.) The Double Helix a word list of 163 vocabulary words
2 Wells (H.G.) The War of the Worlds a word list of 151 vocabulary words
3 Wharton (Edith) Ethan Frome a word list of 109 vocabulary words
4 White (T.H.) The Once and Future King a word list of 201 vocabulary words
5 Wiesel (Ellie) Night a word list of 33 vocabulary words
6 Wilder (Thornton) Our Town a word list of 45 vocabulary words
7 Williams (Tennessee) A Streetcar Named Desire a word list of 57 vocabulary words
8 Williams (Tennessee) The Glass Menagerie a word list of 105 vocabulary words
9 Woolf (Virginia) Mrs. Dalloway a word list of 16 vocabulary words
10 Wright (Richard) Black Boy a word list of 56 vocabulary words
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