['To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. ... ', 'Ceremony, by Leslie Marmon Silko. ... ', 'Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe. ... ', 'Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville. ... ', 'The Color Purple, by Alice Walker. ... ', 'Catch-22, by Joseph Heller. ... ', 'Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand. ... ', 'The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, by William L.']