Fifty American Works You Should Read
A list of books for kids that "speak" about America
- MY ANTONIA by Willa Cather
- A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN by Betty Smith
- THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton
- MOBY DICK by Herman Melville
- TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
- THE FINANCIER by Theodore Dreiser
- SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser
- LUCY GAYHEART by Willa Cather
- GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell
- I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS by Maya Angelou (Vol 1)
- GATHER TOGETHER IN MY NAME by Maya Angelou (Vol 2)
- SINGIN’ AND SWINGIN’ AND GETTIN’ MERRY LIKE CHRISTMAS by Maya Angelou (Vol 3)
- DINNER AT THE HOMESICK RESTAURANT by Anne Tyler
- THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand
- ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand
- THE BELL JAR by Sylvia Plath
- JOHNNY TREMAIN by Esther Forbes.
- THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- I NEVER PROMISED YOU A ROSE GARDEN by Joanne Greenberg
- THE SCARLET LETTER by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- THE HOUSE OF SEVEN GABLES by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- THE LOTTERY AND OTHER STORIES by Shirley Jackson
- THE COLLECTED STORIES OF EUDORA WELTY by Eudora Welty
- THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
- OF MICE AND MEN by John Steinbeck
- THE PEARL by John Steinbeck
- A MOVEABLE FEAST by Ernest Hemingway
- THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway
- A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway
- SOPHIE’S CHOICE by William Styron
- DARKNESS VISIBLE by William Styron
- THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
- PORTNOY’S COMPLAINT by Philip Roth
- GOODBYE, COLUMBUS by Philip Roth
- PATRIMONY by Philip Roth
- THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH by Saul Bellow
- THE CHOSEN by Chaim Potok
- MY NAME IS ASHER LEV by Chaim Potok
- SELECTED WRITINGS/EDGAR ALLAN POE by Edgar Allan Poe
- SELECTED WRITINGS/RALPH WALDO EMERSON by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- WALDEN/OTHER WRITINGS by Henry David Thoreau
- SELECTED POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON by Emily Dickinson
- THREE BY FLANNERY O’CONNOR by Flannery O’Connor
- THE WINDS OF WAR by Herman Wouk
- WAR AND REMEMBRANCE by Herman Wouk
- A WOMAN OF INDEPENDENT MEANS by Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
- THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE by Stephen Crane
- THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
- ORDINARY PEOPLE by Judith Guest
- THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP by John Irving
