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.
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just American novels (mostly)
Date: 2017-11-17 06:45 am (UTC)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.