Text Type: play
Genre: Fiction
Theme: Duty, Courage, Justice, Ignorance, Moral Dilemmas, Race, Racism

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Text Type: play
Genre: Historical Fiction
Theme: Class Struggles, Belonging, Guilt, Individual vs. Society, Race, Truth

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Text Type: film
Genre: Coming of Age, Historical Fiction
Theme: Coming of Age, Found Family, Identity, LGBTQIA+, Resistance, Femininity

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Text Type: film
Genre: Dystopian
Theme: Civilization vs. Wilderness, Death, Fate vs. Free Will, Individual vs. Society, Man vs. Nature, Spirituality, Consciousness

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Text Type: article
Genre: History
Theme: Inequality, Belonging, Freedom, Hope, Injustice, Power, Racism, Survival, Trauma, Storytelling

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The Beatles originally wrote the song, but Beyonce's version on Cowboy Carter brought modern and historical contexts into conversations around the piece.

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https://music.apple.com/us/album/blackbiird/1738363766?i=1738363769

Text Type: short story
Genre: Dystopian, Science Fiction, Allegory
Theme: Loyalty, Duty, Gender, Nature, Survival

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Text Type: novel
Genre: Non-fiction
Theme: Civilization vs. Wilderness, Nature, Postcolonialism, Spirituality

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Text Type: play
Genre: Musical
Theme: Oppression, Good vs. Evil, Moral Dilemmas, Reality vs. Illusion, Resistance, Survival, Propaganda, Censorship

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Text Type: film
Genre: Romance, Allegory
Theme: Betrayal, Gender, Redemption, Moral Dilemmas, Masculinity

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Tashi, a tennis player turned coach, has transformed her husband from a mediocre player into a world-famous grand slam champion. To jolt him out of his recent losing streak, she makes him play a challenger event -- close to the lowest level of tournament on the pro tour. Tensions soon run high when he finds himself standing across the net from the once-promising, now burnt-out Patrick, his former best friend and Tashi's former boyfriend.

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Text Type: film
Genre: Comedy
Theme: Man vs. Nature, Corruption, War, Colonialism, Capitalism, Cultural Heritage

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Text Type: article
Genre: Coming of Age
Theme: Belonging, Friendship, Identity, Parent & Child Relationships

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Text Type: novel
Genre: Coming of Age, Historical Fiction
Theme: Immigration, Sacrifice, The Past, Parent & Child Relationships, Race, Racism, Resistance, Tradition vs. Progress, Cultural Heritage, Masculinity

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follows four generations of a Filipino-American family, exploring themes of identity, masculinity, and father-son relationships through the experiences of Francisco, Emil, Chris, and Enzo, each grappling with their own struggles and family history

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Text Type: novel
Genre: Coming of Age, Fiction
Theme: Coming of Age, Courage, Individual vs. Society, Power, Self-Discovery, Sibling Rivalry, Cultural Heritage, Spirituality

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Text Type: graphic novel
Genre: Non-fiction
Theme: Coming of Age, Death, Identity, LGBTQIA+, Parent & Child Relationships, Self-Discovery

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Text Type: film
Genre: Horror
Theme: Fear, Freedom, Oppression, Identity, Good vs. Evil, Justice, Power, Race, Racism, Deception, Trauma, Consciousness

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Text Type: film
Genre: Comedy, Fiction, Allegory
Theme: Betrayal, Corruption, Deception

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Tech billionaire Miles Bron invites his friends for a getaway on his private Greek island. When someone turns up dead, Detective Benoit Blanc is put on the case.

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Text Type: film
Genre: Coming of Age
Theme: Betrayal, Class Struggles, Death, Found Family, Belonging, Friendship, Identity, Isolation, Connection, Love, Moral Dilemmas, Parent & Child Relationships, Power, Self-Discovery, Deception, Trauma

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Text Type: novel
Genre: Historical Fiction
Theme: Class Struggles, Individual vs. Society, Man vs. Nature, Nature, Survival, Tradition vs. Progress, Spirituality

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Text Type: poetry
Genre: Free Verse, Political Writing
Theme: Class Struggles, Inequality, Freedom, Good vs. Evil, Injustice, Corruption, Race, Racism, Resistance

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Text Type: article
Genre: Fiction
Theme: Class Struggles, Fate vs. Free Will, Courage, Freedom, The Past, Parent & Child Relationships, Race, Survival, Colonialism, Cultural Heritage, Healing

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Text Type: novel
Genre: Coming of Age, Romance
Theme: Coming of Age, Courage, Belonging, Freedom, Gender, Identity, Love, Femininity, Storytelling

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Text Type: poetry
Genre: Free Verse
Theme: Inequality, Freedom, Oppression, Injustice, Race, Racism, Colonialism, Capitalism, Patriotism

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Text Type: poetry
Genre: Fiction, Free Verse
Theme: Belonging, Connection, Nature, The Sublime, Consciousness

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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/12675/in-a-station-of-the-metro

Text Type: article
Genre: Non-fiction
Theme: Fear, Justice, Madness & Sanity, Trauma, Masculinity

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In Cold Blood is a non-fiction novel by the American author Truman Capote, first published in 1966. It details the 1959 Clutter family murders in the small farming community of Holcomb, Kansas. Capote learned of the quadruple murder before the killers were captured, and he traveled to Kansas to write about the crime.

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Text Type: film
Genre: Fantasy, Science Fiction
Theme: Good vs. Evil, Humanity vs. Technology, Connection, Knowledge, Madness & Sanity, Memory, Moral Dilemmas, Power, Deception, Artificial Intelligence, Consciousness

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Text Type: film
Genre: Dystopian, History
Theme: Class Struggles, Death, Inequality, Oppression, Good vs. Evil, Justice, Injustice, Corruption, Race, Resistance, War, Postcolonialism, Capitalism, Propaganda, Tradition vs. Progress, Cultural Heritage, Trauma, Consciousness, Patriotism

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Text Type: novel
Genre: Non-fiction
Theme: Class Struggles, Freedom, Corruption, Resistance

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Text Type: article
Genre: Science Fiction
Theme: Death, Belonging, Freedom, Connection, Love, Artificial Intelligence

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Text Type: film
Genre: Memoir, Romance
Theme: Gender, Love, Loss, Race, Cultural Heritage, Femininity

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Text Type: article
Genre: Adventure, Fiction, Magical Realism
Theme: Courage, Hope, Despair, Nature, Religion

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Life of Pi is a fantasy adventure novel by Yann Martel published in 2001. The protagonist, Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel, a Tamil boy from Pondicherry, explores issues of spirituality and practicality from an early age. He survives 227 days after a shipwreck while stranded on a boat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.

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Text Type: novel
Genre: Fiction
Theme: Civilization vs. Wilderness, Death, Fear, Good vs. Evil, Isolation, Man vs. Nature, Moral Dilemmas, Corruption

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Text Type: novel
Genre: Coming of Age, Fiction, Mystery
Theme: Loyalty, Coming of Age, Duty, Good vs. Evil, Justice

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Text Type: novel
Genre: Coming of Age, History
Theme: Death, Oppression, Individual vs. Society, Injustice, Corruption, Revolution, Survival, War, Colonialism, Propaganda, Cultural Heritage, Trauma

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Text Type: novel
Genre: None
Theme: Belonging, Friendship, Identity, Isolation, Sacrifice, Moral Dilemmas, Racism, Deception, Cultural Heritage, Femininity

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Clare Kendry leads a dangerous life. Fair, elegant, and ambitious, she is married to a white man unaware of her African American heritage, and has severed all ties to her past. Clare’s childhood friend, Irene Redfield, just as light-skinned, has chosen to remain within the African American community, but refuses to acknowledge the racism that continues to constrict her family’s happiness. A chance encounter forces both women to confront the lies they have told others—and the secret fears they have buried within themselves.

First published in 1929, Passing is a remarkably candid exploration of shifting racial and sexual boundaries. As acclaimed Larsen biographer Thadious M. Davis writes in her introduction, this landmark novel by the Harlem Renaissance’s premier woman writer also depicts “the golden days of black cultural consciousness.”

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Text Type: novel
Genre: Coming of Age, Dystopian, Fantasy, Fiction, Magical Realism
Theme: Existentialism & Meaning, Courage, Belonging, LGBTQIA+, Moral Dilemmas, Tradition vs. Progress

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Text Type: film
Genre: Coming of Age
Theme: Coming of Age, Existentialism & Meaning, Belonging, Gender, Propaganda, Tradition vs. Progress, Consciousness

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Text Type: novel
Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance, Satire
Theme: Class Struggles, Gender, Identity, Individual vs. Society, Love, Femininity

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Text Type: novel
Genre: Fiction
Theme: None

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Text Type: novel
Genre: Fiction
Theme: Class Struggles, Fate vs. Free Will, Freedom, Good vs. Evil, Immigration, Corruption, Revolution, Resistance, Survival, War, Cultural Heritage

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Text Type: song
Genre: Romance
Theme: Consumerism, Femininity

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Text Type: novel
Genre: Coming of Age, Fiction, Tragedy, Historical Fiction, Romance
Theme: Class Struggles, Duty, Existentialism & Meaning, Identity, Individual vs. Society, Isolation, Connection, Self-Discovery, Tradition vs. Progress, Cultural Heritage

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Spring Snow is set in Tokyo in 1912, when the hermetic world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders -- rich provincial families unburdened by tradition, whose money and vitality make them formidable contenders for social and political power. Among this rising new elite are the ambitious Matsugae, whose son has been raised in a family of the waning aristocracy, the elegant and attenuated Ayakura. Coming of age, he is caught up in the tensions between old and new -- fiercely loving and hating the exquisite, spirited Ayakura Satoko. He suffers in psychic paralysis until the shock of her engagement to a royal prince shows him the magnitude of his passion and leads to a love affair that is as doomed as it was inevitable.

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Text Type: film
Genre: Dystopian, Fiction, Thriller
Theme: Betrayal, Class Struggles, Death, Inequality, Fear, Friendship, Good vs. Evil, Power, Corruption, Resistance, Trauma

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Text Type: novel
Genre: Dystopian, Political Writing
Theme: Class Struggles, Death, Capitalism

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Text Type: poetry
Genre: Historical Fiction
Theme: Belonging, Individual vs. Society, LGBTQIA+, Moral Dilemmas

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Text Type: film
Genre: Dystopian, Political Writing, Satire, Thriller, Allegory
Theme: Civilization vs. Wilderness, Duty, Corruption, Resistance, Deception, War, Capitalism, Censorship, Surveillance

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Text Type: novel
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Theme: Coming of Age, Belonging, Good vs. Evil, Trauma, Religion

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Text Type: novel
Genre: Coming of Age, Dystopian, Fiction, Allegory
Theme: Civilization vs. Wilderness, Coming of Age, Found Family, Belonging, Good vs. Evil, Guilt, Humanity vs. Technology, Individual vs. Society, Isolation, Parent & Child Relationships, Corruption, Survival, Capitalism, Religion

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Text Type: short story
Genre: Coming of Age, Historical Fiction
Theme: Death, Identity, Despair, Connection, Love, Loss, The Past, Cultural Heritage

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Text Type: song
Genre: Free Verse
Theme: Identity, Power, Capitalism, Trauma

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Text Type: novel
Genre: Fiction
Theme: Fate vs. Free Will, Friendship

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Text Type: novel
Genre: Dystopian
Theme: Class Struggles, Death, Corruption, Trauma

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Text Type: novel
Genre: Fantasy, Science Fiction
Theme: Ignorance, Colonialism, Censorship, Cultural Heritage

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There lived a girl named Petra Peña, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita.

But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children – among them Petra and her family – have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race.

Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet – and the discovery that she is the only person who remembers Earth. A sinister Collective has taken over the ship during its journey, bent on erasing the sins of humanity's past. They have systematically purged the memories of all aboard – or purged them altogether.

Petra alone now carries the stories of our past, and with them, any hope for our future. Can she make them live again? (GoodReads Synopsis)

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Text Type: short story
Genre: Dystopian, Fiction, Horror
Theme: Class Struggles, Good vs. Evil, Individual vs. Society, Sacrifice, Capitalism, Tradition vs. Progress

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Text Type: short story
Genre: Fiction, Allegory, Surrealism
Theme: Existentialism & Meaning, Freedom, Identity, Isolation, The Sublime, Consciousness

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Text Type: novel
Genre: Coming of Age, Free Verse
Theme: Coming of Age, Belonging, Gender, Love, Self-Discovery, Cultural Heritage, Healing, Religion

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Text Type: article
Genre: Adventure
Theme: Betrayal, Loyalty, Fate vs. Free Will, Courage, Friendship, Injustice, Love, Femininity, Storytelling

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Text Type: film
Genre: Historical Fiction
Theme: Class Struggles, Courage, Oppression, Injustice, Race, Racism, Revolution, Resistance, Peace

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Text Type: novel
Genre: Dystopian, Fiction
Theme: Class Struggles, Humanity vs. Technology, Connection, Man vs. Nature, Self-Discovery, Femininity, Surveillance

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Text Type: song
Genre: Memoir, Political Writing
Theme: Loyalty, Class Struggles, Coming of Age, Good vs. Evil, Individual vs. Society, Corruption, Race, Self-Discovery, Capitalism, Propaganda, Censorship, Cultural Heritage, Consciousness, Patriotism

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Text Type: memoir
Genre: Memoir
Theme: Death, Existentialism & Meaning, Hope, Consciousness

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Student reconnects with dying professor and they talk about the meaning of life each Tuesday.

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Text Type: novel
Genre: Documentary, Non-fiction
Theme: Existentialism & Meaning, Good vs. Evil, Trauma

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Underground recounts the 1995 Tokyo gas attack perpetrated by the Aum Shinrikyo cult, told through interviews conducted by its author, Haruki Murakami. The book explores the lives of both victim and perpetrator, delving into the accounts of survivors as well as members of the cult.

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Text Type: essay
Genre: None
Theme: Oppression, Femininity

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Text Type: film
Genre: Coming of Age, Fiction
Theme: Class Struggles, Existentialism & Meaning, Found Family, Identity, Humanity vs. Technology, Individual vs. Society, Connection, Injustice, LGBTQIA+, Love, Man vs. Nature, Race, Sibling Rivalry, War, Cultural Heritage, Trauma, Spirituality, Masculinity

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Text Type: novel
Genre: Fiction, Tragedy, Historical Fiction
Theme: Belonging, Despair, Connection, Love, Colonialism

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Text Type: speech
Genre: History, Political Writing
Theme: Freedom, Injustice, Knowledge, Power, Revolution, Truth, Patriotism

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Text Type: film
Genre: Fiction, Political Writing
Theme: Class Struggles, Found Family, Belonging, Race, Self-Discovery, Capitalism, Propaganda, Consciousness

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