Book Recs

[jpgr]

Even though I was an English major, there are a number of classic novels I haven't read. I am asking for your recommendations, British or American. Just list them and I'll respond if I've read them, if they're already on my list, or if I will add them.

Thanks in advance

Comments

just American novels (mostly)

[acciochocolate]

American:

1. Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
(well, everything by him)

2. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
(again, everything)

3.Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor

4. Edgar Poe---everything :)

5. Thoreau's Walden (granted, not a novel)

6. Hawthorne's short stories

7. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

8. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

9. J. D. Salinger (everything)

10. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.'s Slaughterhouse-Five

11. Philip Roth's Goodbye, Columbus

12. everything by Carson McCullers

13. William Faulkner's The Reivers (The Sound and the Fury isn't a fave)

14. Herman Melville's Billy Budd (of course also the one where they hunted the great white whale for pages and pages)

15. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (one of the greatest novels ever)

16. Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (Travels w/ Charley, though not a novel, is a great read; he was also writing a novel abt King Arthur at his passing)

17. Hemingway--everything, but A Farewell to Arms is the best

18. Sinclair Lewis' It Can't Happen Here (Babbit and Main Street are the classics)

19. Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio (short story collection, I'll admit)

20. William Dean Howells' The Rise of Silas Lapham

21. Henry James' The Ambassadors

22. Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth

23. Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man

24. works by Emerson

I've read all the works by title, as class reads, in high school and university, and the everything as my further interest. I know little of publications after 1960. The poets and playwrights were left out.

Re: just American novels (mostly)

[jpgr]

Wow, that's some reading list!

I've read Gatsby in high school. A big chunk of Poe, Walden, Scarlet, Letter. Mockingbird's on the list. Found Gone with the wind movie boring. Read Catcher in the Rye, Sound and the Fury. Tried Grapes of Wrath but couldn't finish it. Farewell to Arms, Good Earth.

This will keep me busy, thank you