http://www.listsofbests.com/list/39951 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 Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:45:02 GMT en-us 0 50 44 0 0 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2808200 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2808200"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01igSKC2yiL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18026 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18026"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0671727796.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alice Walker</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/256295 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/256295"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679601740.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2730766 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2730766"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812978188.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E.L. Doctorow</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43383 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43383"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143035711.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1132606778_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Mason</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18602 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18602"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679642595.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Irving</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/53327 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/53327"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099477319.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Heller</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2336080 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2336080"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099481561.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/846154 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/846154"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802142842.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Frazier</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961898 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961898"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385333846.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44910329_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kurt Vonnegut</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2108404 <div id="position">11</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Damon Runyon</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/982496 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/982496"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0791077683.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1018209 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1018209"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142401129.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mildred D. Taylor</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/837116 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/837116"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/039598078X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Twain</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28911 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28911"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400033411.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Toni Morrison</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1772789 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1772789"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141186372.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Baldwin</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2891796 <div id="position">17</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alex Haley</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2764350 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2764350"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0330491938.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tom Wolfe</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/146256 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/146256"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060921714.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Zora Neale Hurston</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1210105 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1210105"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0007155670.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Maria Housden</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2901953 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2901953"><img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/019BPBVZRDL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Eidson</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2901954 <div id="position">22</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/997696 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/997696"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0395941164.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jack Schaefer</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968281 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/968281"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1583485090.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Willa Cather</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15607 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15607"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/055321375X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charlotte Perkins Gilman</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11030 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11030"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393961478.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Adrienne Rich</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2066760 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2066760"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061148512.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sylvia Plath</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2423213 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2423213"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/2253152854.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joyce Carol Oates</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2870100 <div id="position">29</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joyce Carol Oates</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59052 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59052"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452269865.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joyce Carol Oates</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2793366 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2793366"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/11RMB71ERJL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bret Easton Ellis</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2901956 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2901956"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01GCA7B2BFL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark D. Girshin</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2768757 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2768757"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061358304.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V24690232_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Armistead Maupin</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2594020 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2594020"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/074757460X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45173829_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tama Janowitz</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2511866 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2511866"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/2879290937.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jay McInerney</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2813547 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2813547"><img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/01vx+LgO2QL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Auster</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2773705 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2773705"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/014102724X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V24184434_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dashiell Hammett</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2487798 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2487798"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099771810.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Roth</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3715 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3715"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437336.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur Miller</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2901957 <div id="position">40</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur Miller</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/118690 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/118690"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743487621.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Upton Sinclair</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/343919 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/343919"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316360678.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Seymour M. Hersh</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/972941 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/972941"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1592243002.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry James</div> http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/231019 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/231019"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1593080743.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edith Wharton</div>