Amerika by Franz Kafka 

Kafka’s first novel (published posthumously), Amerika tells the story of the young immigrant who, after an embarrassing sexual misadventure, finds himself “packed off to America” by his parents.  Expected to redeem himself in this magical land of opportunity, young Karl is swept up instead in a whirlwind of dizzying reversals and strange escapades.

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Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain (1894; app. 110 pages). A light-skinned black baby and a white infant are switched at birth by a slave mother. The black baby grows up thinking he’s white and mistreats his slaves. The white baby makes a living stealing, drinking, and committing immoral acts – until their true identities are revealed by lawyer Puddn’head Wilson during a murder trial. (We should consider reading another short piece in the same anthology, Mississippi Writings.)

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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937; app. 231 pages). An enduring Southern love story sparkling with wit, beauty, and heartfelt wisdom, TEWWG is the story of fair-skinned, fiercely independent Janie Crawford and her evolving selfhood through three marriages and a life marked by poverty, trials, and purpose. Perhaps the most widely read novel in the canon of African American literature.

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Death Comes For the Archbishop by Willa Cather (1927; app. 297 pages). In 1851, Father Latour is named vicar of New Mexico. What he finds is a vast territory of red hills and tortuous arroyos, American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and belief. In the 40 years that follow, Latour spreads his faith in the only way he knows – gently, all the while contending with an unforgiving landscape, derelict priests, and his own loneliness.

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Villette by Charlotte Brontë (1853; app. 658 pages). After an unspecified family disaster, a self-reliant young girl travels from her native England to the fictional French-speaking city of Villette to teach at a girls' school, where she is drawn into adventure and romance – as well as gothic-style encounters with a nun who may be the ghost of a woman put to death for breaking her vow of chastity.

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Adam Bede by George Eliot (1859; app. 592 pages). George Eliot's first full-length novel, Adam Bede follows the virtuous carpenter of the same name, whose world is disrupted when the all-too-beautiful Hetty betrays him for another villager. Her actions precipitate a turmoil of tragic events that shake their serene rural community.

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