which of these books are good?

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She lies like this for fifteen or twenty minutes, and then rolls into another equally bizarre pose.

What can I say? She’s just Enid and was evidently dropped on her head as a baby kitten.

In October of 2003 I got her from a dreadful ‘sanctuary’ called Angel Puss, in Chatsworth, in the SFV, and she made a bee line for me when I went into the cage with about a hundred cats in various states of ill health.

The proprietors of Angel Puss couldn’t even tell me Enid’s history, so they gave her shots to make sure she was up to date. The vet assured me she had been sterilised. And of course she doesn’t go out becasue we live in So Cal, so there’s not much chance of any cat action for her.

Enid is approximately eight years old.

She is a lovely lap cat, and I’m glad I adopted her.

Here’s the scoop on Angel Puss from last December, and it’s not the first time they’ve been shut down for dreadful animal abuse:

City animal-control officers have shut down an unlicensed animal-rescue operation after seizing dozens of sick cats during a recent raid, officials said.

Department of Animal Services officials said there have been numerous violations related to animal abuse at Angel Puss Rescue, which no longer will be allowed to house or rescue cats. Angel Puss Rescue had been operating without permits for animal boarding or running a cat or dog kennel, officials said. Animal-control officers also questioned the actions of the Bureau of Humane Law Enforcement, a new agency based in Hawthorne, for previously confiscating 22 diseased cats from the Canoga Park rescue while leaving 74 sick cats behind. "I’m concerned about the welfare of all the animals in the city of Los Angeles," said Animal Services Capt. Karen Knipsheer. "There were sick cats. That’s why we impounded them: 74 needed immediate care."

Volunteers at Angel Puss Rescue, 7508 Topanga Canyon Blvd., did not respond to a request for comment.

Animal-control officers seized the cats December 1, 2005 after receiving complaints about the condition of cats left behind by officers of the Hawthorne-based agency. Knipsheer said city officers found 128 cats, including the 74 that were taken for treatment to the Animal Services Annex, a city kennel in South Los Angeles that houses animals used as evidence in criminal cases. The Bureau of Humane Law Enforcement had acquired a search warrant on Nov. 27, 2005, to enter Angel Puss Rescue. During that raid, an agency officer accompanied by Los Angeles police seized 24 seriously ill cats. One cat was found dead in her cage, and more than 15 dead cats were found in a freezer, authorities said.

"Their faces were covered with mucous. Their eyes were glued shut. We have a couple of kittens who will lose their eyes they were so infected," said Bureau of Humane Law Enforcement Capt. Brenda Carey, co-founder of the agency. "We had three or four little kittens die because of it."
Carey said the agency, which doesn’t have an animal shelter, had intended to confiscate only 10 sick cats as evidence, but decided to take the "very sickest of the sick." But city officials have raised questions about why the agency left behind so many sick cats and did not conduct a follow-up investigation.

"L.A. Animal Services has concerns about the (Bureau of Humane Law Enforcement) investigation and it is being reviewed by the appropriate city agencies," said Geurdon Stuckey, general manager of the Department of Animal Services, in a printed statement. "We will do everything we can to ensure that these cats obtain proper medical care and do not return to this location."

Question by Cassie: which of these books are good?
James Agee- A Death in the Family
Sherman Alexie – Flight, Indian Killer
James Baldwin-Go Tell it on the Mountain; Another Country, Giovanni’s Room
John Barth- The Floating Opera, End of the Road,
Giles Goat Boy, Sabbatical
Saul Bellow- The Dangling, Humbolt’s Gift, Mr. Sammler’s Planet, Herzog
Octavia Butler – Kindred, Fledgling
Willa Cather- O Pioneers!, Death Comes for the Archbishop, My Antonia
Kate Chopin- At Fault, The Awakening
John Cheever- The Wapshot Chronicle, The Wapshot Scandal
Sandra Cisneros – Caramelo
Stephen Crane- The Red Badge of Courage
Don Delillo – Underworld, White Noise
Ralph Ellison- Invisible Man
Dave Eggers- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Louise Erdrich – The Painted Drum, Love Medicine, The Beet Queen
William Faulkner- The Unvanquished, Intruder in the Dust, Light in August, As I Lay Dying
F. Scott Fitzgerald- Tender is the Night, The Last Tycoon, This Side of Paradise
John Gardner- Grendel, October Light
Nathaniel Hawthorne- Blithedale Romance, Marble Faun, House of Seven Gables
Joseph Heller- Catch-22, Closing Time
Hemingway- A Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises, For Whom The Bell Tolls, To Have and Have Not
William Dean Howells- The Rise of Silas Lapham, A Hazard of New Fortunes
Zora Neale Hurston- Their Eyes Were Watching God
John Irving- The World According to Garp, The Cider House Rules, A Prayer for Omen Meany
Henry James- Portrait of a Lady, The Americans, The Bostonians
Ken Kesey- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Sue Monk Kidd- The Secret Life of Bees
Barbara Kingsolver- The Poisonwood Bible, Prodigal Summer
Jerzy Kosinski- The Painted Bird, Being There, Cockpit
Nella Larsen – Passing, Quicksand
Sinclair Lewis- Babbitt, Arrowsmith, Main Street
London- Martin Eden, The Call of the Wild, The Iron Heel
Norman Mailer- The Naked and the Dead, The Deer Park, Harlot’s Ghost
Bernard Malamud- The Assistant, The Natural, The Fixer
Cormac McCarthy – The Road, Blood Meridian, No Country for Old Men
Carson McCullers- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The Member of the Wedding, Ballad of The Sad Café
Herman Melville- Moby Dick
Margaret Mitchell- Gone with the Wind
M. Scott Momaday- House Made of Dawn, The Way to Rainy Mountain
Toni Morrison- Song of Solomon, Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Sula
Vladimir Nabokov- Pale Fire
Gloria Naylor- The Women of Brewster Place
Frank Norris- McTeague, The Octopus
Flannery O’Connor – The Violent Bear It Away, Wise Blood
Carolyn Parkhurst- The Dogs of Babel
Robert Pirsig- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Lila
Sylvia Plath- The Bell Jar
Katharine Anne Porter- Ship of Fools
Thomas Pynchon – V., Gravity’s Rainbow
Ayn Rand- Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, We the Living
Frederick Reiken- The Odd Sea, The Lost Legends of New Jersey
Marilynne Robinson – Housekeeping
Philip Roth- The Plot Against America, Exit Ghost, American Pastoral
J. D. Salinger- Franny and Zooey, Raise High the Roof Beams, The Catcher in the Rye
Alice Sebold – The Lovely Bones
Upton Sinclair- The Jungle
Jane Smiley- A Thousand Acres, Moo
John Steinbeck- East of Eden, Winter of Our Discontent, The Moon Is Down, Cannery Row
Amy Tan- The Kitchen God’s Wife, The Bonesetter’s Daughter
Mark Twain- Innocents Abroad, Mysterious Stranger, Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
John Updike- Rabbit Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit is Rich, Rabbit at Rest, The Centaur, The Coup
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. – Slaughterhouse Five, Cat’s Cradle, Breakfast of Champions, The Sirens of Titan, Mother Night
Alice Walker- The Color Purple, Possessing the Secret of Joy
Robert Penn Warren- All the Kings Men, A Place to Come to
Dorothy West – The Living is Easy
Nathaniel West- Miss Lonely Hearts, Day of the Locusts
Edith Wharton- Ethan Frome, The Age of Innocence, Custom of the Country
Thomas Wolfe- Look Homeward, Angel, You Can’t Go Home Again
Richard Wright- Native Son, Black Boy

I need to choose one to read for american lit. let me know if you’ve read any that were good

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