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American Literature
Literature Written by Americans
| Author | Work |
|---|---|
| Thornton Wilder | Our Town |
| William Saroyan | The Human Comedy |
| Jonathan Edwards | Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God |
| James Baldwin | Go Tell It on the Mountain |
| Lillian Hellman | The Little Foxes |
| William Styron | Sophie's Choice |
| Henry James | Daisy Miller |
| Henry James | The Ambassadors |
| James Agee | A Death in the Family |
| Stephen Vincent Benet | The Devil and Daniel Webster |
| Tennessee Williams | The Glass Menagerie |
| Gertrude Stein | The Autobiography of Alice Toklas |
| Kurt Vonnegut | Slaughterhouse Five |
| Henry David Thoreau | Walden |
| Thornton Wilder | The Bridge of San Luis Rey |
| Henry James | The Americans |
| William Faulkner | The Sound and the Fury |
| Toni Morrison | The Bluest Eye |
| Larry McMurtry | Terms of Endearment |
| Ray Bradbury | The Illustrated Man |
| John Steinbeck | The Red Pony |
| Kurt Vonnegut | Cat's Cradle |
| Saul Bellow | Herzog |
| Upton Sinclair | The Jungle |
| Thomas Paine | Common Sense |
| John Steinbeck | The Winter of Our Discontent |
| Toni Morrison | Tar Baby |
| John Dos Passos | U.S.A Trilogy |
| John Updike | "Rabbit" Saga |
| Dashiell Hammett | Maltese Falcon |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | This Side of Paradise |
| William Faulkner | As I Lay Dying |
| Carson McCullers | The Ballad of the Sad Cafe |
| Norman Mailer | The Naked and the Dead |
| William Faulkner | Light in August |
| Stephen Crane | The Red Badge of Courage |
| Ernest Hemingway | The Sun Also Rises |
| Ernest Hemingway | Death in the Afternoon |
| Henry James | The Portrait of a Lady |
| Henry James | The Bostonians |
| Joseph Heller | Good as Gold |
| Jack Schaffer | Shane |
| Sinclair Lewis | Dodsworth |
| William Faulkner | Absalom, Absalom |
| Gertrude Stein | The Making of Americans |
| Robert Sherwood | Abe Lincoln in Illinois |
| Bernard Malamud | The Fixer |
| Saul Bellow | The Adventures of Augie March |
| James Dickey | Deliverance |
| Richard Wright | Black Boy |
| Ralph Ellison | Invisible Man |
| Sylvia Plath | The Colossus |
| Mark Twain | Life on the Mississippi |
| Thomas Wolfe | Look Homeward, Angel |
| Joseph Heller | Catch-22 |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | The House of the Seven Gables |
| Sylvia Plath | The Bell Jar |
| Alice Walker | The Color Purple |
| Louisa May Alcott | Little Women |
| John Steinbeck | Of Mice and Men |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | The Last Tycoon |
| Mark Twain | The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg |
| Joel Chandler Harris | Uncle Remus |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | Tender is the Night |
| Henry James | Turn of the Screw |
| John Steinbeck | Cannery Row |
| Ben Franklin | Poor Richard's Almanac |
| Ray Bradbury | Fahrenheit 451 |
| Herman Melville | Billy Budd |
| Mark Twain | The Prince and the Pauper |
| Jack London | The Call of the Wild |
| John Steinbeck | East of Eden |
| John Steinbeck | The Grapes of Wrath |
| Truman Capote | Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| Ernest Hemingway | For Whom the Bell Tolls |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| John Steinbeck | Tortilla Flat |
| Jack London | White Fang |
| Mark Twain | The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County |
| Sinclair Lewis | Arrowsmith |
| Truman Capote | In Cold Blood |
| Larry McMurtry | Lonesome Dove |
| James Fenimore Cooper | The Pilot |
| Carl Sandburg | Rootabaga Stories |
| Stephen Crane | The Open Boat and Other Tales of Adventure |
| Ed Streeter | Father of the Bride |
| William Dean Howells | The Rise of Silas Lapham |
| Eudora Welty | Losing Battles |
| William Faulkner | Requiem for a Nun |
| John Dos Passos | Manhattan Transfer |
| Larry McMurtry | The Last Picture Show |
| James M. Cain | The Postman Always Rings Twice |
| Edgar Lee Masters | Spoon River Anthology |
| Booth Tarkington | The Magnificent Ambersons |
| Washington Irving | The Legends of the Alhambra |
| Thornton Wilder | The Matchmaker |
| Edna Ferber | Showboat |
| Leon Uris | Exodus |
| Washington Irving | A History of New York |
| Jack Kerouac | On The Road |
| Edna Ferber | Giant |
| Gore Vidal | Burr |
| Eugene O'Neill | Ah! Wilderness |
| August Wilson | Fences |
| Eugene O'Neill | Desire Under the Elms |
| Robert Sherwood | The Petrified Forest |
| Willa Cather | My Antonia |
| Sam Shepherd | Paris, Texas |
| Sinclair Lewis | Babbitt |
| Larry McMurtry | Evening Star |
| Eugene O'Neill | Beyond the Horizon |
| Kate Chopin | The Awakening |
| James Clavell | Shogun |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. | The Autocrat on the Breakfast Table |
| Marjorie Kinninan Rawlings | The Yearling |
| Eugene O'Neill | The Emperor Jones |
| Laurence Sterne | The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman |
| Jack London | The Sea Wolf |
| Saul Bellow | Humboldt's Gift |
| Edward Hale | The Man Without a Country |
| Edna Ferber | So Big |
| Carson McCullers | Reflections in a Golden Eye |
| Willa Cather | The Professor's House |
| Henry James | Washington Square |
| Robert Sherwood | Idiot's Delight |
| Kurt Vonnegut | Deadeye Dick |
| Niel Simon | The Sunshine Boys |
| William Saroyan | The Time of Your Life |
| Dashiell Hammett | The Thin Man |
| Booth Tarkington | Penrod |
| John Steinbeck | The Pearl |
| Kurt Vonnegut | Player Piano |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | Tanglewood Tales |
| Willa Cather | One of Ours |
| Jack Kerouac | Mexico City Blues |
| Carl Sandburg | The American Songbag |
| Allen Ginsberg | Kaddish and Other Poems |
| Sam Shepherd | Mad Dog Blues |
| James Jones | From Here to Eternity |
| Eugene O'Neill | Anna Christie |
| Esther Forbes | Johnny Tremain |
| Neil Simon | Brighton Beach Memoirs |
| Kenneth Roberts | Arundel |
| James M. Cain | Double Indemnity |
| Niel Simon | Broadway Bound |
| Truman Capote | The Grass Harp |
| Mark Twain | The Gilded Age |
| Alice Walker | In Search of our Mothers' Gardens |
| Neil Simon | Lost in Yonkers |
| Jack Kerouac | The Dharma Bums |
| Booth Tarkington | Alice Adams |
| Truman Capote | Other Voices, Other Rooms |
| Joseph Heller | Something Happened |
| Henry James | The Wings of a Dove |
| Ernest Hemingway | A Movable Feast |
| Eudora Welty | The Optimist's Daughter |
| James Fenimore Cooper | The Leatherstocking Tales |
| Neil Simon | Barefoot in the Park |
| Richard Wright | Uncle Tom's Children |
| William Kennedy | Ironweed |
| Herman Melville | Typee |
| John Updike | The Witches of Eastwick |
| Flanery O'Conner | The Violent Bear it Away |
| Eugene O'Neill | The Iceman Cometh |
| Robert Penn-Warren | World Enough and Time |
| Peter Benchley | Jaws |
| T.S. Eliot | Murder in the Cathedral |
| E.E. Cummings | The Enormous Room |
| James Clavell | Tai Pan |
| John Steinbeck | Travels with Charley |
| Thomas Pynchon | The Crying of Lot 49 |
| William Armstrong | Sour Land |
| Richard Adams | The Plague Dogs |
| Eugene O'Neill | Long Day's Journey Into Night |
| Ken Kesey | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| Henry David Thoreau | Civil Disobedience |
| Ray Bradbury | Something Wicked This Way Comes |
| Katherine Anne Porter | Ship of Fools |
| Richard Wright | Eight Men |
| Eudora Welty | Delta Wedding |
| Bernard Malamud | The Assistant |
| James Clavell | Noble House |
| Kenneth Roberts | Northwest Passage |
| booth Tarkington | Seventeen |
| Ernest Hemingway | A Farewell to Arms |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay | A Few Figs from Thistles |
| William Saroyan | The Daring Young man on the Flying Trapeze |
| Leon Uris | Armageddon |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | This Side of Paradise |
| Frank Norris | McTeague |
| Allen Ginsberg | Reality Sandwiches |
| Arthur Hailey | Hotel |
| Sam Shepherd | Buried Child |
| Erskine Caldwell | God's Little Acre |
| Eugene O'Neill | Mourning Becomes Electra |
| Neill Simon | I Ought to be in Pictures |
| Richard Bach | Jonathan Livingston Seagull |
| Pearl S. Buck | The Good Earth |
| Allen Ginsburg | Howl and Other Poems |
| O.E. Rolvaag | Giants in the Earth |
| Charles Portis | True Grit |
| Ernest Hemingway | Green Hills of Africa |
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