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Question: Good American novels to read!?
I have to read three for school, excluding:
The Great Gatsby
The Grapes of Wrath
Snow Falling on Cedars
A Lesson before Dying
A Raisin in the Sun
Hiroshima
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Crucible and All My Son's
Walden
Huckleberry Finn
Our Town
In Cold Blood
Those are on the recommendation sheet, so yeah!. haha
It does not have to be a classic!. It can be modern, but the writing has to be good!. It's AP English!. I really like fantasy, and it HAS TO BE an American novel!. Cannot be British!. Www@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
Read "Outlander" by Diana Gabaldon!. Seriously good reading!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
A Separate Peace
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Fahrenheit 451
The House of Mirth (haven't read this, but my mom loves it)
Moby-Dick (another one I haven't read, but I have read Bartleby the Scrivener, a short story by Melville, and it was brilliant)
Catch-22 is a classic!. The Da Vinci Code is not!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Little Women, Little Men, Jo's Boy by Louisa May Alcott
Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Call of the Wild or White Fang by Jack London
Gone With the Wind
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayWww@QuestionHome@Com
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
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The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand is one of the best books ever writtenWww@QuestionHome@Com