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AmericanLit-Books
Authors and their Works
| Author | Works |
|---|---|
| Agee, James | A Death in the Family, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men |
| Alcott, Louisa May | Little Women; Little Men, Eight Cousins; Jo's Boys |
| Alger Jr., Horatio | Ragged Dick Series; Luck and Pluck Series; Tattered Tom Series |
| Anderson, Sherwood | Winesburg, Ohio; Windy McPherson's Son |
| Angelou, Maya | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now, On the Pulse of Morning |
| Baldwin, James | Go Tell It on the Mountain, Nobody Knows My Name; Another Country, Notes of a Native Son; The Fire Next Time |
| Barth, John | The Sot-Weed Factor, Giles Goat-Boy, Chimera, The Friday Book |
| Bartlett, John | Bartlett's Familiar Quotations |
| Baum, L. Frank | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz |
| Bellamy, Edward | Looking Backward |
| Bellow, Saul | The Adventures of Augie March; Henderson the Rain King, Herzog, Mr. Sammler's Planet, Humboldt's Gift, Seize the Day, The Den's December, More Die of Heartbreak |
| Bierce, Ambrose | The Devil's Dictionary |
| Bradbury, Ray | Fahrenheit 451; The Martian Chronicles; The Illustrated Man; Dandelion Wine |
| Burroughs, Edgar Rice | Tarzan of the Apes |
| Buck, Pearl S. | The Good Earth; A House Divided; Fighting Angel; The Exile; Dragon Seed |
| Burns, Olive Ann | Cold Sassy Tree |
| Cabell, James Branch | Jurgen |
| Cable, George Washington | The Grandissimes |
| Caldwell, Erskine | Tobacco Road; God's Little Acre; You Have Seen Their Faces; Trouble in July, George Boy, The Sure Hand of God |
| Capote, Truman | Other Voices, Other Rooms; Breakfast at Tiffany's; In Cold Blood |
| Cather, Willa | O Pioneers!; One of Ours; My Antonia; Death Comes for the Archbishop |
| Chandler, Raymond | The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; The Blue Dahlia; The Long Good-Bye |
| Cheever, John | The Wapshot Chronicles; The Wapshot Scandal; Bullet Park; Falconer; Oh What a Paradise It Seems |
| Chopin, Kate | The Awakening |
| Clark, Walter Van Tilburg | The Ox-Bow Incident |
| Clancy, Tom | The Hunt for Red October; Red Storm Rising; Clear and Present Danger; Patriot Games; Red Rabbit; The Teeth of the Tiger |
| Clavell, James | Taipan; King Rat; Shogun; Whirlwind |
| Conroy, Pat | The Boo; The Great Santini; The Lords of Discipline; Prince of Tides; The Water Is Wide |
| Cooper, James Fenimore | The Leather-Stocking Tales: The Pioneers; The Last of the Mohicans; The Prairie; The Pathfinder; The Deerslayer |
| Crane, Stephen | The Red Badge of Courage; Maggie: A Girl of the Streets |
| Crichton, Michael | The Andromeda Strain; The Terminal Man; The Great Train Robbery; Rising Sun; Jurassic Park |
| Dana Jr., Richard Henry | Two Years Before the Mast |
| de Vries, Peter | The Tunnel of Love; Reuben, Reuben; Peckham's Marbles |
| Dickey, James | Deliverance |
| Didion, Joan | Play It as It Lays |
| Dillard, Annie | Pilgrim at Tinker Creek; An American Childhood; The Living |
| Doctorow, E.L. | Welcome to Hard Times; The Book of Daniel; Ragtime; Loon Lake; World's Fair |
| Dos Passos, John | Manhattan Transfer; U.S.A. |
| Dove, Rita | Thomas and Beulah |
| Dreiser, Theodore | Sister Carrie; The Financier; The Titan; An American Tragedy; The Bulwark |
| Ellison, Ralph | The Invisible Man; Shadow and Act |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Nature; Self-Reliance; Experience; The American Scholar |
| Faulkner, William | The Sound and the Fury; A Fable; The Reivers; Light in August; Soldier's Pay; Sanctuary; Absalom, Absalom!; The Hamlet; Intruder in the Dust; As I Lay Dying |
| Ferber, Edna | So Big; Show Boat; Cimarron; Giant! |
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott | The Great Gatsby; This Side of Paradise; The Beautiful and the Damned; Tender Is the Night; The Last Tycoon |
| Gaines, Ernest | Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman |
| Gardner, Erle Stanley | The Case of the Velvet Claws |
| Gardner, John | The Sunlight Dialogues; Jason and Medea; Grendel; October Light |
| Glasgow, Ellen | The Descendant; Barren Ground; In This Our Life |
| Godwin, Gail | The Perfectionists; The Odd Woman; A Southern Family; The Finishing School; The Good Husband; Father Melancholy's Daughter |
| Gordon, Mary | Final Payments; Company of Women; Men and Angels |
| Grey, Zane | The Last of the Plainsmen; Riders of the Purple Sage |
| Haley, Alex | Roots |
| Hammett, Dashiell | The Maltese Falcon |
| Hansberry, Lorraine | A Raisin in the Sun |
| Harris, Joel Chandler | Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings |
| Harris, Thomas | The Silence of the Lambs |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The Scarlet Letter; The House of the Seven Gables; The Marble Faun |
| Heinlein, Robert | Stranger in a Strange Land; Starship Troopers |
| Heller, Joseph | Catch-22; Something Happened; Good As Gold; God Knows |
| Hellman, Lillian | The Little Foxes; The Children's Hour; Toys in the Attic |
| Henley, Beth | Crimes of the Heart; Miss Firecracker |
| Hemingway, Ernest | In Our Time; The Sun Also Rises; A Farewell to Arms; For Whom the Bell Tolls; The Old Man and the Sea; Intruder in the Dust |
| Herbert, Frank | Dune; Dune Messiah; Children of Dune |
| Hersey, John | A Bell for Adano; Hiroshima; The Wall; The War Lover; The Child Buyer; The Algiers Motel Incident |
| Hurston, Zora Neale | Their Eyes Were Watching God; Jonah's Gourd Vine; Mules and Men |
| Irving, John | The World According to Garp; The Hotel New Hampshire; Cider House Rules |
| Irving, Washington | The Sketch Book; Salmagundi; A History of New York |
| Jackson, Helen Hunt | Ramona |
| James, Henry | Daisy Miller; The Portrait of a Lady; Washington Square; The Spoils of Poynton; The Turn of the Screw; The Ambassadors; The Golden Bowl; The Bostonians; The American; The Europeans |
| Jewett, Sarah Orne | The Country of the Pointed Firs |
| Johnson, James Weldon | The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man; Black Manhattan; Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing |
| Jones, James | From Here to Eternity; Some Came Running; The Thin Red Line |
| Kantor, MacKinlay | Long Remember; Andersonville; The Voice of Bugle Ann |
| Kennedy, William | The Ink Truck; Ironweed; Quinn's Book |
| Kerouac, Jack | On the Road |
| Kesey, Ken | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| King, Stephen | Carrie; The Shining; The Stand; The Dead Zone; Cujo; The Tommyknockers; Misery; The Green Mile |
| Knowles, John | A Separate Peace; Phineas; Peace Breaks Out |
| L'Amour, Louis | Hondo; Shalako; The Haunted Mesa |
| Lee, Harper | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Lewis, Sinclair | Main Street; Babbitt; Arrowsmith; Elmer Gantry; Dodsworth |
| London, Jack | The Call of the Wild; The Seawolf; White Fang; Martin Eden; The Road |
| Mailer, Norman | The Naked and the Dead; Executioner's Song; The Armies of the Night |
| Malamud, Bernard | The Natural; The Assistant; A New Life; God's Grace; The Tenants; Dubin's Lives |
| Marquis, Don | archy and mehitabel |
| Mccarthy, Mary | A Charmed Life; Cannibals and Missionaries; The Group; The Groves of Academe |
| McCullers, Carson | The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter; The Member of the Wedding; Reflections in a Golden Eye; Clock Without Hands |
| McMurtry, Larry | Horseman, Pass By; The Last Picture Show; Terms of Endearment; Lonesome Dove |
| Melville, Herman | Moby-Dick; Typee; Omoo; White-Jacket; Pierre; Billy Budd; Benito Cereno |
| Michener, James | Tales of the South Pacific; The Bridges at Toko-Ri; Sayonara; Hawaii; The Source; Space; Texas; Alaska; Caribbean; Centennial; Chesapeake |
| Mitchell, Margaret | Gone With the Wind |
| Morrison, Toni | The Bluest Eye; Tar Baby; Beloved; Sula |
| Nabokov, Vladimir | Lolita; The Real Life of Sebastian White; Bend Sinister; Pale Fire; Ada |
| Norris, Frank | Epic of Wheat: The Octopus; The Pit; The Wolf (not written) |
| Oates, Joyce Carol | Wonderland; Do with Me What You Will; Childwold; Unholy Love; A Bloodsmoor Romance; Solstice; A Garden of Earthly Delights; Expensive People; Them; Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart |
| O'Conner, Edwin | The Last Hurrah; The Edge of Sadness |
| O'Connor, Flannery | Wise Blood; The Violent Bear It Away |
| O'Hara, John | Butterfield 8; Appointment in Samarra; A Rage to Live; Ten North Frederick; From the Terrace; Pal Joey |
| Plath, Sylvia | The Bell Jar |
| Porter, Katherine Anne | Ship of Fools |
| Potok, Chaim | The Chosen; The Promise; My Name Is Asher Lev; Davita's Harp |
| Proulx, E. Annie | The Shipping News; Postcards |
| Puzo, Mario | The Fortunate Pilgrim; The Godfather; The Sicilian |
| Pynchon, Thomas | The Crying of Lot 49; Gravity's Rainbow; Vineland; V |
| Rand, Ayn | The Fountainhead; Atlas Shrugged |
| Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan | The Yearling; Cross Creek; Blood of My Blood |
| Rice, Anne | Interview With the Vampire; The Witching Hour; Tahos |
| Rolvaag, Ole E. | Giants in the Earth; Their Father's God; Peder Victorious |
| Roth, Philip | Portnoy's Complaint; Letting Go; When She Was Good; The Great American Novel; The Professor of Desire; The Counterlife; The Ghost Writer; Zuckerman Unbound; The Anatomy Lesson |
| Salinger, J.D. | The Catcher in the Rye; Franny and Zooey; Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters; Seymour: An Introduction |
| Saroyan, William | My Name is Aram; The Human Comedy |
| Segal, Erich | Love Story; Oliver's Story |
| Seuss, Dr. | The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins; The Butter Battle Book; Yertle the Turtle; Horton the Elephant; The Cat in the Hat; And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street; You're Only Old Once; How the Grinch Stole Christmas |
| Shaw, Irwin | The Young Lions; Two Weeks in Another Town; Rich Man, Poor Man; Evening in Byzantium; Beggarman, Thief; Acceptable Losses |
| Siddons, Anne Rivers | Colony; Outer Banks; Peachtree Road |
| Sinclair, Upton | World's End; Dragon's Teeth; King Coal; Oil!; The Jungle |
| Singer, Isaac Bashevis | Satan in Goray; Gimpel the Fool; The Magician of Lublin; Old Love; Yentl, The Yeshiva Boy; Shosha; The Family Moskat; The Manor; The Estate |
| Smiley, Jane | A Thousand Acres; The Greenlanders; Good Faith |
| Smith, Betty | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; Maggie-Now; Joy in the Morning; Tomorrow Will Be Better |
| Steele, Danielle | The Gift; Wings; Wanderlust; Secrets; Remembrance; Changes; Kaleidoscope |
| Stein, Gertrude | Things as They Are; Mrs. Reynolds; The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas; Three Lives |
| Steinbeck, John | Tortilla Flat; In Dubious Battle; Of Mice and Men; The Grapes of Wrath; Cannery Row; The Pearl; East of Eden; The Winter of Our Discontent |
| Stowe, Harriet Beecher | Uncle Tom's Cabin; The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Styron, William | Sophie's Choice; The Confessions of Nat Turner; Lie Down in Darkness; Set This House on Fire |
| Tan, Amy | The Joy Luck Club; The Kitchen God's Wife |
| Tarkington, Booth | Seventeen; The Magnificent Ambersons; Alice Adams |
| Thoreau, Henry David | Walden; Civil Disobedience |
| Thurber, James | The Thirteen Clocks; My Life and Hard Times; The Secret Life of Walter Mitty |
| Toole, John Kennedy | A Confederacy of Dunces |
| Twain, Mark | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; The Prince and the Pauper; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court; The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson |
| Tyler, Anne | If Morning Ever Comes; Earthly Possessions; The Accidental Tourist; Breathing Lessons; Saint Maybe |
| Updike, John | Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; The Centaur; The Music School; Couples; The Coup; Too Far to Go; The Witches of Eastwick; A Month of Sundays; Roger's Version |
| Uris, Leon | Battle Cry; Armageddon; Topaz; Exodus; Mila Eighteen; Trinity; The Haj |
| Vidal, Gore | Williwaw; The City and the Pillar; Myra Breckinridge; Lincoln |
| Vonnegut Jr., Kurt | Player Piano; Cat's Cradle; Slaughterhouse Five; Breakfast of Champions; Galapagos; God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater |
| Walker, Alice | The Color Purple; The Third Life of Grange Copeland; Meridian; The Temple of My Familiar; Horses Make a Landscape More Beautiful; Possessing the Secret of Joy; Ben Hur |
| Warren, Robert Penn | All the King's Men; A Place to Come To |
| Wasserstein, Wendy | The Heidi Chronicles |
| Welty, Eudora | Losing Battles; Delta Wedding; The Optimist's Daughter; A Curtain of Green; The Ponder Heart |
| West, Nathanael | The Dream Life of Balso Snell; Miss Lonelyhearts; A Cool Million; The Day of the Locust |
| Wharton, Edith | The House of Mirth; Ethan Frome; The Age of Innocence |
| White, E.B. | Stuart Little; Charlotte's Web; The Trumpet of the Swan |
| Wilder, Laura Ingalls | Little House in the Big Woods; Farmer Boy; Little House on the Prairie; On the Banks of Plum Creek |
| Wilder, Thornton | The Bridge of San Luis Rey; The Cabala; The Woman of Andros; Heaven's My Destination |
| Wister, Owen | The Virginian |
| Wolfe, Thomas | You Can't Go Home Again; Look Homeward, Angel |
| Wolfe, Tom | The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test; The Bonfire of the Vanities; The Right Stuff |
| Wouk, Herman | The Caine Mutiny; Marjorie Morningstar; The Winds of War; War and Remembrance; Inside, Outside |
| Wright, Richard | Native Son; Black Boy; The Outsider; The Long Dream |
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