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English required reading audiobooks & videos

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Audiobooks for English

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Books with numbers for titles

1984
by George Orwell

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THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART TIME INDIAN
by Sherman Alexie
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This is an mp4 file.
ALL AMERICAN BOYS
by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
AS YOU LIKE IT
by William Shakespeare

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BEOWULF
Translated and read by Seamus Heaney
BALZAC AND THE LITTLE CHINESE SEAMSTRESS
Written by Dai Sijie and read by B.D. Wong
BORN A CRIME
By Trevor Noah
THE BLUEST EYE
by Toni Morrison. Incomplete: awaiting discs 2 & 3.
BRAVE NEW WORLD
by Aldous Huxley
THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO
by Junot Diaz (GGL Drive)

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CAT'S CRADLE
by Kurt Vonnegut
CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN
by Sakaya Murata
THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME
by Mark Haddon

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THE DEW BREAKERS
by Edwidge Dandicat

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EDUCATED
by Tara Westover
EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU
by Celeste Ng

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FATIMA, THE BILOQUIST
by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
THE FIGHT
by Norman Mailer
FIRE KEEPER'S DAUGHTER
by Angeline Boulley
FOSTER
by Claire Keegan
FRANKENSTEIN
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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GABI, A GIRL IN PIECES
by Isabel Quintero
THE GLASS CASTLE
By Jeanette Walls
THE GREAT GATSBY
by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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THE HANDMAID'S TALE
by Margaret Atwood
THE HATE U GIVE
by Angie Thomas
THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET
by Sandra Cisneros

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KING LEAR
by William Shakespeare

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LIFE OF PI
by Yann Martel

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MACBETH (Unabridged)
by William Shakespeare
Macbeth Act II
Macbeth Act III
Macbeth Act IV
Macbeth Act V

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THE ODYSSEY
by Homer
ONE OF THESE DAYS
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
THE OTHER WES MOORE
by Wes Moore

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PARABLE OF THE SOWER
by Octavia E. Butler
PLAYING FOR PIZZA
by John Grisham
THE POET X
by Elizabeth Acevedo

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RAGTIME
by E.L. Doctorow
THE RESISTERS
by Gish Jen
ROMEO AND JULIET
by William Shakespeare

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THE SCARLET LETTER
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE
by Claire Keegan
STATION ELEVEN
by Emily St. Mandel
THE SOUND AND THE FURY
by William Faulkner
THE SUN IS ALSO A STAR
by Nicola Yoon
THE SWIMMER
by John Cheever
THE SYMPATHIZER
by Viet Thanh Nguyen

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A TALE FOR THE TIME BEING
by Ruth Ozeki
THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD
by Zora Neale Hurston. To speed up playback, download VLC and listen there. Here is a screencast with directions: https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cbVlYnQpKK
THINGS FALL APART
by Chinua Achebe
THE TEMPEST
by William Shakespeare
A TEMPORARY MATTER
by Jhumpa Lahiri
THE THINGS THEY CARRIED
by Tim O'Brien
TRAVELS WITH CHARLEY
by John Steinbeck

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UNDER THE FEET OF JESUS
by Helena Maria Viramontes.
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Part One 00:00:01 -- Part Two 1:13:14 -- Part Three 2:24:53 -- Part Four 3:27:08 -- Part Five 4:05:50

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A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD
by Jennifer Egan

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WALDEN
by Henry David Thoreau
A WALK IN THE WOODS
by Bill Bryson
WHERE ARE YOU GOING, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?
by Joyce Carol Oates
WHITE TIGER
by Aravind Adiga

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YELLOW FACE
by David Henry Hwang