luluem's "A-Level English Literature Reading List"

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This list was given to me at school and consequently the inclusion of them in this list is subjective, and does not necessarily reflect my opinion. This is supposed to be a background reading list for those studying American literature at a Sixth Form level. The following categories were given to attempt to gain a broad understanding of America, and recommended books as an exploration of each. Obviously, there may be some overlap, but the main concept was to read at least one book from each section to gain a full picture of America.

20th Century American Prose: 1-4
War: 5-11
Civil Rights: 12-19
Setting the Western Frontier: 20-24
Feminism: 25-30
Cities: 31-37
The World/Historical Perspectives: 38-44

  1. 1.
    A Farewell To Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  2. 2.
    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker

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  3. 3.
    Go Down Moses (Modern Library)
    by William Faulkner

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  4. 4.
    Ragtime: A Novel
    by E.L. Doctorow

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  5. 5.
    Chickenhawk
    by Robert Mason

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  6. 6.
    A Prayer for Owen Meany (Modern Library)
    by John Irving

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  7. 7.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

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  8. 8.
    For Whom the Bell Tolls (War Promo)
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  9. 9.
    Cold Mountain
    by Charles Frazier

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  10. 10.
    Slaughterhouse-Five
    by Kurt Vonnegut

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  11. 11.
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    A Treasury of Damon Runyon
    by Damon Runyon

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  12. 15.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

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  13. 16.
    Another Country (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Baldwin

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  14. 17.
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    Roots. The Saga Of An American Family
    by Alex Haley

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  15. 18.
    The Bonfire of the Vanities
    by Tom Wolfe

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  16. 19.
    The Complete Stories
    by Zora Neale Hurston

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  17. 20.
    Hannah's Gift
    by Maria Housden

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  18. 21.
    St.Agnes' Stand
    by Thomas Eidson

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  19. 23.
    Shane
    by Jack Schaefer

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  20. 24.
    My Antonia
    by Willa Cather

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  21. 25.
    The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings
    by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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  23. 27.
    Bell Jar (P.S.)
    by Sylvia Plath

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  24. 28.
    Blonde
    by Joyce Carol Oates

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  25. 29.
    We were the Mulvaneys
    by Joyce Carol Oates

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  26. 30.
    Black Water (Contemporary Fiction, Plume)
    by Joyce Carol Oates

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  27. 31.
    Less Than Zero (Picador Books)
    by Bret Easton Ellis

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  28. 32.
    Brighton Beach
    by Mark D. Girshin

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  29. 33.
    Tales of the City: A Novel (P.S.)
    by Armistead Maupin

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  30. 34.
    Slaves of New York
    by Tama Janowitz

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  31. 35.
    Bright lights, big city
    by Jay McInerney

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  32. 36.
    New York Trilogy (Green Integer)
    by Paul Auster

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  33. 37.
    The Thin Man
    by Dashiell Hammett

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  34. 38.
    American Pastoral
    by Philip Roth

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  35. 39.
    The Crucible (Penguin Classics)
    by Arthur Miller

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  36. 40.
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    A View from the Bridge
    by Arthur Miller

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  37. 41.
    The Jungle (Enriched Classics)
    by Upton Sinclair

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  38. 42.
    The Dark Side of Camelot
    by Seymour M. Hersh

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  39. 43.
    Daisy Miller
    by Henry James

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  40. 44.
    The Age of Innocence (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

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Created by luluem on Aug 20, 2007.
 

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