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
  2. 2.
    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker
  3. 3.
    Go Down Moses (Modern Library)
    by William Faulkner
  4. 4.
    Ragtime: A Novel
    by E.L. Doctorow
  5. 5.
    Chickenhawk
    by Robert Mason
  6. 6.
    A Prayer for Owen Meany (Modern Library)
    by John Irving
  7. 7.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller
  8. 8.
    For Whom the Bell Tolls (War Promo)
    by Ernest Hemingway
  9. 9.
    Cold Mountain
    by Charles Frazier
  10. 10.
    Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut
  11. 11.
    ?
    A Treasury of Damon Runyon
    by Damon Runyon
  12. 12.
    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Bloom's Guides)
    by Maya Angelou
  13. 13.
    Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
    by Mildred D. Taylor
  14. 14.
  15. 15.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison
  16. 16.
    Another Country (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Baldwin
  17. 17.
    ?
    Roots. The Saga Of An American Family
    by Alex Haley
  18. 18.
    The Bonfire of the Vanities
    by Tom Wolfe
  19. 19.
    The Complete Stories
    by Zora Neale Hurston
  20. 20.
    Hannah's Gift
    by Maria Housden
  21. 21.
    St.Agnes' Stand
    by Thomas Eidson
  23. 23.
    Shane
    by Jack Schaefer
  24. 24.
    My Antonia
    by Willa Cather
  25. 25.
    The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings (Bantam Classics)
    by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  26. 26.
  27. 27.
    The Bell Jar
    by Sylvia Plath
  28. 28.
    Blonde
    by Joyce Carol Oates
  29. 29.
    We were the Mulvaneys
    by Joyce Carol Oates
  30. 30.
    Black Water
    by Joyce Carol Oates
  31. 31.
    Less Than Zero (Picador Books)
    by Bret Easton Ellis
  32. 32.
    Brighton Beach
    by Mark D. Girshin
  33. 33.
    Tales of the City: A Novel (P.S.)
    by Armistead Maupin
  34. 34.
    Slaves of New York
    by Tama Janowitz
  35. 35.
    Bright lights, big city
    by Jay McInerney
  36. 36.
    The New York Trilogy (Green Integer)
    by Paul Auster
  37. 37.
    The Thin Man
    by Dashiell Hammett
  38. 38.
    American Pastoral
    by Philip Roth
  39. 39.
    The Crucible
    by Arthur Miller
  40. 40.
    ?
    A View from the Bridge
    by Arthur Miller
  41. 41.
    The Jungle (Enriched Classics)
    by Upton Sinclair
  42. 42.
    The Dark Side of Camelot
    by Seymour M. Hersh
  43. 43.
    Daisy Miller
    by Henry James
  44. 44.
    The Age of Innocence
    by Edith Wharton
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Created by luluem on Aug 20, 2007.
 

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