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January 2002
Compiled by Patty Langley, of Delaware Division of Libraries, from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.

(To use this list in your library, book club, etc., please include the following credit line: "Compiled by the subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list." This list may not be used for commercial purposes.)

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Alcott, Louisa May   Little Women

Baker, Brad   Dreamland

Baldwin, James   Another Country

Baldwin, James   Go Tell it on the Mountain

Barkley, Brad   Money, Love

Bellow, Saul   Henderson the Rain King

Boyle T. Coraghessan   The Tortilla Curtain

Cahan, Abraham   Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom....

Cather, Willa   My Antonia

Chandler, Raymond   The Big Sleep

Chandler, Raymond   Farewell my Lovely

Chang-rae Lee   A Gesture Life

Chang-rae Lee   Native Speaker

Cheever, John   The Stories of John Cheever

Clemens, Samuel   Puddin' Head Wilson

Crane, Stephen   The Red Badge of Courage

Crane, Stephen   Maggie, A Girl of the Streets...

Crews, Harry   The Mulching of America

Cunningham, Michael   Flesh and Blood

Doctorow, E. L.   Ragtime

Dorris, Michael   Yellow Raft on Blue Water

Dreiser, Theodore   An American Tragedy

Dubus, Andre III   House of Sand and Fog

Ellison, Ralph   Invisible Man

Erdrich, Louise   Love Medicine

Farrell, James T.   Young Lonigan

Fast, Howard   The Immigrants

Fast, Howard   Second Generation

Fast, Howard   The Immigrant's Daughter

Fitzgerald, F. Scott   The Great Gatsby

Fitzgerald, F. Scott   Tender is the Night

Fitzgerald, F. Scott   This Side of Paradise

Forbes, Kathryn   Mama's Bank Account

Gish Jen   Typical American

Gish Jen   Mona in the Promised Land

Gish Jen   Who's Irish: Stories

Glassgold, Peter   The Angel Max

Grattan-Dominquez, Alej.   The Dark Side of the Dream

Hamett, Dashiell   The Maltese Falcon

Hemmingway, Ernest   Farewell to Arms

Hemmingway, Ernest   The Sun Also Rises

Heller, Joseph   Catch 22

Hinton, Gregory   Cathedral City

Howells, William Dean   The Rise of Silas Lapham

Hurston, Zora Neale   Their Eyes were Watching God

Jakes, John   American Dreams

Jakes, John   Homeland

Kerouack, Jack   On the Road

Kesey, Ken   One Flew Over the Cuckcoo's Nest

Kingsolver, Barbara   Bean Trees

Kingsolver, Barbara   Animal Dreams

Kingston, Maxine Hong   The Woman Warrior, China Men

Lee, C Y   Flower Drum Song

Lewis, Sinclair   Main Street

Lewis, Sinclair   Babbitt

Mailer, Norman   An American Dream

Malamud, Bernard   The Natural

Melville, Herman   Billy Budd

Miller, Arthur   Death of a Salesman

Miller, Arthur   All My Sons

Morrison, Toni   Sula

O'Brien, Tim   The Things They Carried

O'Neill, Eugene   A Long Day's Journey Into Night

Pate, Alexs D.   Losing Absalom

Pearce, Jonathan   The Far Side of the Moon

Plath, Sylvia   The Bell Jar

Porter, Katherine Anne   Pale Horse Pale Rider

Puzo, Mario   The Fortunate Pilgrim

Puzo, Mario   The Godfather

Rolvaag, Ole   Giants in the Earth

Rosten, Leo   The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N

Salinger, J.D   Franny and Zooey

Sandburg, Carl   Remembrance Rock

Selby, Hubert   Requiem for a Dream

Sinclair, Upton   The Jungle

Steinbeck, John   Cannery Row

Steinbeck, John   The Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John   Tortilla Flat

Steinbeck, John   East of Eden

Stowe, Harriet Beecher   Uncle Tom's Cabin

Styron, William   The Confessions of Nat Turner

Tan, Amy   The Joy Luck Club

Updike, John   Rabbit at Rest

Vonnegut, Kurt   Slaughterhouse Five

Walker, Alice   The Color Purple

West, Nathaniel   The Day of the Locust

Wharton, Edith   The Age of Innocence

Williams, Tennessee   Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Williams, Tennessee   A Streetcar Named Desire

Wolfe, Tom   Bonfire of the Vanities

Wright, Richard   Native Son

Yates, Richard   Revolutionary Road

NON-FICTION

Hunter, Gordon, ed   Immigrant Voices

Jackson, Kenneth R.   Crabgrass Frontier

Levenson, Sam   Everything but Money

Morgan, Ted   On Becomming American

Papshgvily, George   Anything can Happen

(also suggested were collections of photography by Lewis Hine, Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans and Eudora Welty)

 
 
      
   
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