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BOOK TITLE AUTHOR Genre/time period YOUR NAME Harriet Beecher Stowe Benjamin Franklin James Fenimore Cooper Margaret Mitchell Revolutionary writers Revolutionary Uncle Tom’s Cabin Revolutionary writer Autobiography Historical Fiction Historical fiction Shelby Foote Romance; historical fiction Historical fiction William Styron Historical fiction John Hersey Historical; military Tim O’Brien Meta-fiction; military James Jones World War II fiction Washington Irving Nathaniel Hawthorne (no Romanticism Romanticism Romanticism The Pioneers; Deerslayer; The Last of the Mohicans (not the movie) Gone with the Wind Follow me Down; Shiloh; Love In A Dry Season Lie Down in Darkness; The Confession of Nat Turner Hiroshima; A Bell for Adano If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home; Northern Light; Going After Cacciato; The Things They Carried; In The Lake of the Woods From Here to Eternity; The Thin Red Line; Some Came Running; Whistle The Sketchbook Scarlet Letter) Stephen Crane Henry James Realism/Naturalism Naturalism Realism; psychological realism Jack London (no Realism; Naturalism Call of the Wild or White Fang) William Dean Realism; Civil War writer Howells Theodore Dreiser Early 1900s Edith Wharton (no Naturalist Ethan Frome) Frank Norris Progressive era; Naturalism Herman Melville Henry David Thoreau Louisa May Alcott Maggie a Girl of the Streets; Red Badge of Courage The Portrait of a Lady The Turn of the Screw The Rise of Silas Lapham Sister Carrie: An American Tragedy The House of Mirth; The Age of Innocence The Octopus Transcendentalism/AntiTranscendentalism Anti-Transcendentalism Moby Dick Transcendentalism Walden Transcendentalism; Civil War Local Color Mark Twain (no Too many to list; depends Huckleberry Finn) on the work Modernism/The Lost Generation (1915-1946) Modern; The Lost Generation War; Romance; The Lost Generation Sherwood Anderson Ernest Hemingway (no Old Man and the Sea) F. Scott Fitzgerald Modern; The Lost (no Great Gatsby) Generation Little Women; Jo's Boys… A Connecticut Yankee…Arthur’s Court Winesburg, Ohio For Whom the Bell Tolls; The Sun Also Rises This Side of Paradise; The Beautiful and John Dos Passos Gertrude Stein William Faulkner Willa Cather Thomas Wolfe J. D. Salinger (no Catcher in the Rye) John Updike Katherine Ann Porter Dorothy Parker Sinclair Lewis Ayn Rand (no Anthem) Damned; Tender is the Night; The Last Tycoon The Lost Generation; Manhattan Transfer The Lost Generation; The Autobiography of modernist; avant-garde Alice B. Toklas; Three Lives "Southern" writer; A Light in August; Modernism; Stream of Intruder in the Dust; Consciousness As I Lay Dying Modern O Pioneers!; My Antonia Modern; Diversity in You Can't Go Home American Culture; fiction, Again; Look yet autobiographical Homeward, Angel Modern Collection of Short Stories: Nine Stories or Franny and Zoey Modernist Rabbit series (Rabbit Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit is Rich; Rabbit at Rest; Rabbit Remembered). Modern Fiction The Ship of Fools Modernism; satire objectivism John Knowles Joyce Carol Oates Post Modernism (1946present) Post modern Post Modern Tom Robbins Post modernism; satire Joan Didion Post Modern; non-fiction on conspiracy theorists, paranoiacs, & sociopaths Gore Vidal Post Modernism; homosexuality; political Main Street; Babbit; Arrowsmith Fountainhead; Atlas Shrugged A Separate Peace We Were the Mulvaneys; Blond; The Grave Diggers Daughter Even Cowgirls Get the Blues; Another Roadside Attraction The White Album; Where I Was From Several others to choose from Myra Breckinridge; The City and The Pillar One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest; Sometimes a Great Notion The Naked and the Dead; An American Dream Trout Fishing in America; A Confederate General from Big Sur; The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western Naked Lunch Ken Kesey Beatnik generation; hippies; Post modernism Norman Mailer New Journalism Richard Brautigan Counter culture era; black comedy; parody; satire; Zen Buddhism William Burroughs Jack Kerouac Beat generation; sci/fi; satire; avant- garde Beat generation; stream of On The Road consciousness Post modernism White Noise Several to pick from New Journalism; gonzo In Our Time; The journalism' nonfiction; Electric Kool-Aid fiction Acid Test (nonfiction); A Man in Full; I am Charlotte Simmons; Back to Blood New Criticism All the Kings Men Don Delillo Tom Wolfe (no The Bonfire of the Vanities) Robert Penn Warren Paul Bowles American Existentialist James Purdy Post Modern Philip Roth aka Nathan Zuckerman Anne Tyler Post modern; Fiction John Irving Post modern Post modern The Sheltering Sky; Let It Come Down; The Spider’s House; Up Above the World; Too Far From Home Malcolm; Gertrude of Stony Island Avenue; Moe’s Villa Many to choose from Breathing Lessons; The Accidental Tourist; Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant A Prayer for Owen Meany; The World Pat Conroy Post modern Annie Dillard Nonfiction; fiction; nature theology Jim Carroll Diaries/prose Robert Pirsig Metaphysics of quality Dalton Trumbo Anti-war movement; Hollywood blacklist Saul Bellow Cultural Writers Asian cultures; women's rights Jewish writer Bernard Malamud Jewish Isaac Bashevis Singer Yiddish Literary Movement Amy Tan Chinese-American Julia Alvarez Latin American literature; The dictator novel Pearl S. Buck Jerzy Kosinski (no Polish American The Painted Bird) Ralph Ellison According to Garp; The Cider House Rules The Great Santini; The Lords of Discipline; My Losing Season; The Prince of Tides Pilgrim at Tinker Creek; The Living; The Maytrees The Basketball Diaries; Forced Entry Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance… Johnnie Got His Gun The Good Earth Adventures of Auggie March; Herzog; Humbolt's Gift The Fixer; The Natural The Family Moskat; Satan In Goray; The Wicked City; Shosha Joy Luck Club; Kitchen God’s Wife; Bonesetter’s Daughter; Saving Fish From Drowning How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents; In the Time of Butterflies Steps; Being There African American Writers Criticism; Fiction; African Invisible Man Richard Wright Langston Hughes Zora Neale Hurston James Baldwin Malcolm X Toni Cade Bambara American writer African American culture; Harlem Renaissance African American culture; Harlem Renaissance African American culture; Harlem Renaissance African American culture; Harlem Renaissance Black Nationalism; PanAfricanism African American Jamaica Kincaid Maya Angelou autobiography Gwendolyn Brooks African American literature/poetry Joseph Heller Upton Sinclair Kurt Vonnegut Flannery O’Connor Truman Capote (no In Cold Blood) Harriet Arnow Carson McCullers Satire/Black Comedy Satire; Black comedy Political propaganda; political satire Satire; black comedy; science fiction Southern Gothic/Southern Writers Southern gothic Southern Gothic Southern Appalachian Writer Southern Gothic Native Son; Black Boy; Uncle Tom's Children Mulatto (play); Not Without Laughter Their Eyes Were Watching God Go Tell It On the Mountain; Giovanni's Room; Another Country The Salt Eaters; Those Bones Are Not My Child Lucy; Annie John; The Autobiography of My Mother I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Malcolm X Catch-22 The Jungle Cat’s Cradle; Slaughterhouse-Five; Breakfast of Champions A Good Man Is Hard to Find Breakfast At Tiffanies Hunter's Horn; The Doll Maker The Heart is a Lonely Hunter; Reflections in a Golden Eye; The Member of the Wedding E. B. White (no Charlotte’s Web) Sylvia Plath Children's Literature Children's literature Women's Issues Semi-autobiographical; confessional poetry Ellen Glasgow Kate Chopin Barbara Kingsolver Margaret Atwood Thomas Pynchon Ursela K. Le Guin Local Color writer; women's issues Fiction; historical fiction; feminism; social justice; environmentalism Romance; historical fiction; speculative fiction; dystopian society Science Fiction/ Fantasy/Horror Historical fiction; satire; science fantasy; post modernism Science Fiction; fantasy Edgar Rice Burroughs Robert Heinlein (No Starship Trooper) Adventure; Lost Worlds; Sci/Fi; Westerns Sci/Fi; Fantasy H. P. Lovecraft Sci/fi; Horror; Cosmicism Philip K. Dick Sci/fi; post modernism Stuart Little; The Trumpet of the Swan MUST read both The Bell Jar The Wheel of Life; Virginia; Barren Ground; In This Our Life The Awakening The Bean Trees; The Poisonwood Bible; Pigs in Heaven; High Tide in Tucson The Handmaid's Tale; Alias Grace; The Blind Assassin Gravity's Rainbow Earthsea novels; Hainish Cycle novels Several to pick from Barsoom Series; Tarzan Series Double Star; Stranger in a Strange Land; The Moon is a Harsh Mistress Macabre stories; Death Cycle; Cthulhu myths A Scanner Darkly; VALIS Richard Matheson (no I Am Legend) Sci/fi; fantasy; horror Isaac Asimov Sci/Fi Ray Bradbury Sci/Fi Elmore Leonard Raymond Chandler Jim Thompson Crime Fiction/Detective Pulp fiction; westerns; crime fiction Crime fiction Crime fiction; pulp fiction Dashiell Hammet Detective stories Barbara Neely African American mystery; female detective Gangster William Kennedy P. G. Wodehouse James Thurber Comedy/Humor Comedy; romantic comedy Humorist; children's literature Thornton Wilder Modern Drama Modern Drama August Wilson Modern Drama A Stir of Echoes; The Shrinking Man; Hell House The Caves of Steel; The Naked Sun; The Robots of Dawn; Robots and Empire (lots more to choose from) Lots to pick from Lots to pick from. The Long Goodbye; Farewell My Lovely The Killer Inside Me; Savage Night The Maltese Falcon; The Thin Man; The Simple Art of Murder Blanche novels (series) Ironweed; Very Old Bones; Billy Phelan's Greatest Game; Roscoe My Life and Hard Times Must read both children's lit. books--The 13 Clocks and The White Deer 3 plays---many to pick from The Bridge of San Luis Rye (novel) 3 plays---Fences; The Piano Lesson; Ma Rainey’s Black Tennessee Williams Modern Drama; homosexuality; alcoholism; mental instability Eugene O’Neill Modern Drama; techniques of realism; American vernacular Theater of the Absurd; Post Modern Drama Edward Albee Sam Shepard David Mamet Larry McMurtry John Steinbeck (no Of Mice and Men) Zane Grey Westerns Influence western California influence Westerns Bottom; Joe Turner’s Come and Gone 3 plays---A Streetcar Named Desire; Night of the Iguana; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; The Glass Menagerie; The Rose Tattoo 3 plays---many to choose from 3 plays---Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolfe; The Zoo Story; The Sandbox; The American Dream 3 plays---Buried Child; True West; A Lie of the Mind; Curse of the Starving Class 3 plays---Glengary Glen Ross; Speedthe-Plow; Wag the Dog Novels---The Wicked Son; The Old Religion; Five Cities of Refuge…; Bambi vs. Godzilla Several others to choose from Lonesome Dove The Grapes of Wrath; Cannery Row; East of Eden Tons to pick from Requires Signed Parent Permission to do any of these. Brett Easton Ellis (no Postmodernism; American Psycho) satire Charles Bukowski Transgressive fiction; dirty realism Hunter S. Thompson Gonzo Journalism; New Journalism Vladimir Nabakov Modernism; post modernism Toni Morrison African American studies; Post Modern Alice Walker African American studies Elderidge Cleaver Black (no Soul on Ice) Nationalism; Nation of Islam James Dickey Less Than Zero Ham on Rye; Post Office; Factotum Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; Hells Angels Lolita The Bluest Eye; Sula; Beloved; Song of Solomon The Color Purple Soul on Fire Deliverance; Alnilam; To the White Sea