American Classic Checklist
I found this fantastic list from Bridgett on her blog Writing and Musing. How many of these have you read? Comment which ones you have, how many out of 50, or do a blog post about it to keep sharing it and link below in the comments.
I’ve read only about 8 of these…so I need to get my act together and start getting through them. Those underlined are the ones I’ve read.
How about you?
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
My Antonia by Willa Cather
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, an American Slave by Frederick Douglas
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Call of the Wild by Jack London
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Anthem by Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Native Son by Richard Wright
