American Literature Books and Authors

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

1984

George Orwell

Moby-Dick

Herman Melville

The Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salinger

Beloved

Toni Morrison

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck

The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Sound and the Fury

William Faulkner

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck

Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison

Catch-22

Joseph Heller

The Road

Cormac McCarthy

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë

The Color Purple

Alice Walker

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë

The House on Mango Street

Sandra Cisneros

The Joy Luck Club

Amy Tan

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

No Exit

Jean-Paul Sartre

The Fountainhead

Ayn Rand

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

The Secret Life of Bees

Sue Monk Kidd

The Kite Runner

Khaled Hosseini

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Stephen Chbosky

The Book Thief

Markus Zusak

Life of Pi

Yann Martel

All the Pretty Horses

Cormac McCarthy

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Michael Chabon

The Poisonwood Bible

Barbara Kingsolver

Black Boy

Richard Wright

Ask the Dust

John Fante

The Road

Cormac McCarthy

Where the Red Fern Grows

Wilson Rawls

Americanah

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Ready Player One

Ernest Cline

The Great Alone

Kristin Hannah

Big Little Lies

Liane Moriarty

Normal People

Sally Rooney

An American Tragedy

Theodore Dreiser

The Glass Menagerie

Tennessee Williams

The Cuckoo's Calling

Robert Galbraith

The Last Battle

C.S. Lewis

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Haruki Murakami

The Night Circus

Erin Morgenstern

A Visit from the Goon Squad

Jennifer Egan

The Namesake

Jhumpa Lahiri

Me Before You

Jojo Moyes

The Nightingale

Kristin Hannah

The Girl on the Train

Paula Hawkins

The Immortalists

Chloe Benjamin

Station Eleven

Emily St. John Mandel

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

Gail Honeyman

The Light We Lost

Jill Santopolo

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Vanishing Half

Brit Bennett

Circe

Madeline Miller

The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller

The Overstory

Richard Powers

The Goldfinch

Donna Tartt

The Time Traveler's Wife

Audrey Niffenegger

The Help

Kathryn Stockett

The House of the Spirits

Isabel Allende

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho

The Lovely Bones

Alice Sebold

We Were Liars

E. Lockhart

The Magic Mountain

Thomas Mann

Into the Wild

Jon Krakauer

The Night Watchman

Louise Erdrich

The Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Junot Díaz

Everything I Never Told You

Celeste Ng

The Feminine Mystique

Betty Friedan

The Book of Joy

Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu

The Hobbit

J.R.R. Tolkien

The Road Less Traveled

M. Scott Peck

The Art of War

Sun Tzu

The Tipping Point

Malcolm Gladwell

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot