Suggested American Novels for English III Summer Reading
Author
Title
Allison, Dorothy
Bastard out of Carolina
Alvarez, Julia
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Ambrose, Stephen
Band of Brothers
Anderson, Sherwood
Winesburg, Ohio
Auster, Paul
The New York Trilogy
Auster, Paul
The Music of Chance
Baldwin, James
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Baldwin, James
If Beale Street Could Talk
Bellamy, Edward
Looking Backward: 2000-1887
Bellow, Saul
The Rain King
Bellow, Saul
The Adventures of Augie March
Boyle, T.C.
The Tortilla Curtain
Cameron, Peter
Someday This Pain Will be Useful to You
Cather, Willa
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Cather, Willa
My Antonia
Cather, Willa
O Pioneers!
Chabon, Michael
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Chandler, Raymond
The Big Sleep
Cheever, John
The Wapshot Chronicle
Chopin, Kate
The Awakening
Cisneros, Sandra
Caramelo
Clark, Walter Van T.
The Ox-Bow Incident
Conroy, Pat
Lords of Discipline
Conroy, Pat
My Losing Season
Cooper, James Fenimore
The Deerslayer
Cooper, James Fenimore
The Last of the Mohicans
Crane, Stephen
The Red Badge of Courage
DeLillo, Don
Americana
Doctorow, E.L.
Ragtime
Dorris, Michael
Yellow Raft in Blue Water
Dos Passos, John
The U.S.A. Trilogy
Dreiser, Theodore
An American Tragedy
Dreiser, Theodore
Sister Carrie
DuBois, W.E.B.
The Souls of Black Folk
Dubus III, Andre
House of Sand and Fog
Egan, Jennifer
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Eggers, Dave
What is the What
Ellison, Ralph
Invisible Man
Faulkner, William
Absalom, Absalom!
Faulkner, William
As I Lay Dying
Faulkner, William
Intruder in the Dust
Faulkner, William
The Sound and the Fury
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Tender is the Night
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
This Side of Paradise
Flagg, Fannie
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café
Foer, Jonathan Safran
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Ford, Richard
The Sportswriter
Fox, Paula
Desperate Characters
Franzen, Jonathan
The Corrections
Frazier, Charles
Cold Mountain
Gaines, Ernest
Gathering of Old Men
Grisham, John
A Painted House
Haley, Alex
Roots
Hansberry, Lorraine
A Raisin in the Sun
Harbach, Chad
The Art of Fielding
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The Scarlet Letter
Heller, Joseph
Catch 22
Hemingway, Ernest
A Farewell to Arms
Hemingway, Ernest
The Sun Also Rises
Hemingway, Ernest
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Irving, John
The World According to Garp
Irving, John
A Prayer for Owen Meany
James, Henry
Portrait of a Lady
James, Henry
The Turn of the Screw
Jen, Gish
Typical American
Johnson, James Weldon
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Jones, Edward P.
The Known World
Kerouac, Jack
On the Road
Kerouac, Jack
The Dharma Bums
Kesey, Ken
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Kidd, Sue Monk
The Secret Life of Bees
Kingsolver, Barbara
The Bean Trees
Kingsolver, Barbara
The Poisonwood Bible
Kingsolver, Barbara
Animal Dreams
Lahiri, Jhumpa
The Namesake
Larsen, Erik
Devil in the White City
Larson, Nella
Passing
Lethem, Jonathan
The Fortress of Solitude
Lewis, Sinclair
Arrowsmith
Lewis, Sinclair
Babbitt
Lewis, Sinclair
Main Street
Mailer, Norman
An American Dream
Malamud, Bernard
The Assistant
Malamud, Bernard
The Fixer
Malamud, Bernard
The Natural
Mason, Bobbie Anne
In Country
McCarthy, Cormac
Crossing
Melville, Herman
Moby-Dick
Millhauser, Steven
Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
Mitchell, Margaret
Gone With the Wind
Momaday, N. Scott
House Made of Dawn
Morrison, Toni
Sula
Morrison, Toni
Beloved
Morrison, Toni
Song of Solomon
Mosley, Walter
The Man in My Basement
Mosley, Walter
Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
Nabokov, Vladimir
Lolita
Naylor, Gloria
The Women of Brewster Place
Niffenegger, Audrey
The Time Traveller's Wife
Nordhoff and Hall
Bounty Trilogy
O'Brien, Tim
Going After Cacciato: A Novel
O'Brien, Tim
Things They Carried
O'Toole, John Kennedy
A Confederacy of Dunces
Pessl, Marisha
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Picoult, Jodi
Salem Falls
Proulx, Annie
The Shipping News
Pynchon, Thomas
Vineland
Pynchon, Thomas
The Crying of Lot 49
Rand, Ayn
The Fountainhead
Rand, Ayn
Atlas Shrugged
Rees, Celia
Witch Child
Robinson, Marilynne
Gilead
Robinson, Marilynne
Home
Rolvaag, O.E.
Giants in the Earth
Roth, Philip
American Pastoral
Roth, Philip
Portnoy’s Complaint
Roth, Philip
The Human Stain
Russo, Richard
Empire Falls
Salinger, J.D.
The Catcher in the Rye
Senna, Danzy
Caucasia
Shaara, Michael
Killer Angels
Shange, Ntzoke
Sassafrass, Cypress, and Indigo
Sheff, David
Beautiful Boy
Sinclair, Upton
The Jungle
Smiley, Jane
A Thousand Acres
Steinbeck, John
East of Eden
Steinbeck, John
The Grapes of Wrath
Steinbeck, John
In Dubious Battle
Steinbeck, John
Sweet Thursday
Steinbeck, John
To a God Unknown
Steinbeck, John
The Winter of Our Discontent
Stone, Irving
Love is Eternal
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Tan, Amy
Joy Luck Club
Tartt, Donna
The Secret History