100 American Authors and the book associated with them. Once more, this is not a comprehensive list nor are all of these titles on a list that specifies them as “classic” but it is a sampling of American authors listed by several sites. Wikipedia offers a rather good list but is not comprehensive either. Some of these books are repeated on my 100 Banned Books list but I did attempt to not overlap but in some cases that was not possible. There are books that I consider to be classics due to referencing in other works and pop culture, so I listed them on both lists. I’m glad there is over-lapping!
Read: 6 Unread: 94
1. Rudolfo Anaya – Bless Me, Ultima
2. Isaac Asimov – The Gods Themselves
3. Maya Angelou – I Shall Not Be Moved
4. Gloria Anzaldua – This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
5. Kathy Acker – Blood and Guts in High School
6. James Baldwin – Go Tell It On the Mountain
8. L. Frank Baum – The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
9. William S. Burroughs – Naked Lunch
10. Truman Capote
a. In Cold Blood
b. Other Voices, Other Rooms
11. Willa Cather
a. One of Ours
12. Sandra Cisneros – The House on Mango Street
13. Ernest Hemmingway
b. The Garden of Eden
c. The Sun Also Rises
d. A Farewell to Arms
14. E. E. Cummings – The Enormous Room
15. Stephen Crane – Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
16. Emily Dickinson – The Poems of Emily Dickinson
17. Betty Frieden – The Feminine Mystique
18. W. E. B. Du Bois – The Souls of Black Folk
19. T. S. Elliot – Tradition and the Individual Talent
20. Ralph Ellison – Invisible Man
21. Ralph Waldo Emerson – Essays: The First and Second Series
22. Bret Easton Ellis – American Psycho
23. William Faulkner
a. The Sound and the Fury
b. As I lay Dying
c. Requiem for a Nun
24. F. Scott Fitzgerald
a. This Side of Paradise
b. The Great Gatsby
25. Robert Frost – Selected Works
26. Marcus Garvey – The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey
27. Allen Ginsberg
a. Howl and Other Poems
b. The Fall of America: Poems of These States
28. Micahel Gold – Jews Without Money
29. Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton
a. Who Would Have Thought It?
b. The Squatter and the Don
31. Joseph Heller – Catch-22
32. Langston Hughes – Not Without Laughter
33. Washington Irving - Salmagundi
34. Lawson Inada - Drawing the Line
35. William Inge – Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff
36. Helen Hunt Jackson - Ramona
37. Henry James
a. The Portrait of a Lady
b. The Wings of the Dove
c. The Ambassadors
38. June Jordan – Things I Do in the Dark
39. Jack Kerouac – On The Road
41. Yusef Komunyakaa – Thieves of Paradise
42. Stanley Kunitz – The Collected Poems of Stanley Kunitz
43. Philip Levine – What Work Is
44. Sinclair Lewis – Main Street
45. Mina Loy – The Lost Lunar Baedeker
46. Cormac McCarthy
a. The Road
b. No Country for Old Men
47. Herman Melville – Moby-Dick
48. Arthur Miller – The Crucible
49. Henry Miller – Tropic of Cancer
50. Toni Morrison – Song of Solomon
51. Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita
52. Joyce Carol Oates
a. Expensive People
b. Middle Age: A Romance
c. Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart
53. Flannery O’Connor – Wise Blood
54. Cynthia Ozick – Heir to The Glimmering World
55. Sylvia Plath – The Bell Jar
56. Edgar Allen Poe – The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
57. Ezra Pound – In a Station of the Metro
58. Thomas Pynchon
a. Gravity’s Rainbow
b. V
c. The Crying of Lot 49
59. Richard Rodriguez
a. Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez
b. Brown: The Last Discovery of America
c. Days of Obligation: An Argument With My Mexican Father
60. Theodore Roethke – The Waking
61. J. D. Salinger
a. Nine Stories
b. Franny and Zooey
62. John Steinbeck
a. Of Mice and Men
b. East of Eden
63. Harriet Beecher Stowe – Uncle Tom’s Cabin
64. Gertrude Stein – The Things as They Are (Q.E.D.)
65. Henry David Thoreau
a. Walden
b. Civil Disobedience
66. James Thurber – Is Sex Necessary? Or Why You Feel The Way You Do
67. Mark Twain
a. The Prince and The Pauper
b. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
c. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
68. John Updike – Rabbit, Run
69. Gore Vidal – The City and the Pillar
70. Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse-Five
71. Alice Walker - The Color Purple
72. Edith Wharton – The Age of Innocence
73. Richard Yates – Revolutionary Road
74. Anzia Yezierska – Bread Givers
75. Paul Zindel – The Pigman
Note:
Those books in red color font and strike-through have been read.
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