Books Every American Should’ve Read _I found this somewheres and copied it, scroll through it, does it make you feel insignificant. There were more books on the college bound list! AAK!!!!!
Agee, James A Death in the Family
Anderson, Sherwood Winesburg, Ohio
Baldwin, James Go Tell It On the Mountain
Bellamy, Edward Looking Backward: 2000-1887
Bellow, Saul Seize the Day
Bradbury, Ray Fahrenheit 451
Cather, Willa My Antonia
Chopin, Kate The Awakening
Clark, Walter Van Tilburg The Ox-Bow Incident
Cormier, Robert The Chocolate War
Crane, Stephen The Red Badge of Courage
Dorris, Michael A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man
Faulkner, William As I Lay Dying
Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Great Gatsby
Gaines, Ernest The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Hawthorne, Nathaniel The Scarlet Letter
Heller, Joseph Catch-22
Hemingway, Ernest A Farewell to Arms
Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes Were Watching God
Kesey, Ken One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird
Lewis, Sinclair Main Street
London, Jack Call of the Wild
McCullers, Carson The Member of the Wedding
Melville, Herman Moby-Dick
Morrison, Toni Sula
O'Connor, Flannery A Good Man is Hard to Find
Parks, Gordon The Learning Tree
Plath, Sylvia The Bell Jar
Poe, Edgar Allan Great Tales and Poems
Potok, Chaim The Chosen
Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye
Sinclair, Upton The Jungle
Steinbeck, John The Grapes of Wrath
Stowe, Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom's Cabin
Twain, Mark The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Vonnegut, Kurt Slaughterhouse-Five
Walker, Alice The Color Purple
Wells, H.G. The Time Machine
Welty, Eudora Thirteen Stories
Wolfe, Thomas Look Homeward, Angel .
Wright, Richard Native Son .
World Literature
Achebe, Chinua Things Fall Apart
Allende, Isabel House of the Spirits
Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice
Balzac, Honore de Pere Goriot
Borges, Jorge Luis Labyrinths
Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre .
Bronte, Emily Wuthering Heights
Camus, Albert The Stranger .
Carroll, Lewis Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Cervantes, Miguel de Don Quixote
Conrad, Joseph Heart of Darkness
Defoe, Daniel Robinson Crusoe .
Dickens, Charles Great Expectations
Dostoevski, Feodor Crime and Punishment .
Eliot, George The Mill on the Floss
Esquivel, Laura Like Water for Chocolate
Flaubert, Gustave Madame Bovary
Forster, E.M. A Passage to India
Fuentes, Carlos The Death of Artemio Cruz
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Gogol, Nikolai The Overcoat
Golding, William Lord of the Flies
Grass, Gunter The Tin Drum .
Hardy, Thomas Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Hesse, Hermann Siddhartha .
Huxley, Aldous Brave New World
Joyce, James A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kafka, Franz The Trial
Lawrence, D.H. Sons and Lovers
Mann, Thomas Death in Venice
Orwell, George Animal Farm
Pasternak, Boris Doctor Zhivago .
Paton, Alan Cry, the Beloved Country
Remarque, Erich Maria All Quiet on the Western Front
Scott, Sir Walter Ivanhoe
Shelley, Mary W. Frankenstein.
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksander One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Swift, Jonathan Gulliver's Travels
Tan, Amy The Joy Luck Club
Tolstoy, Leo Anna Karenina .
Weisel, Elie Night
Biography/History
Angelou, Maya I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Ashe, Arthur and Arnold Rampersad. Days of Grace
Baker, Russell Growing Up
Berenbaum, Michael The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as told in the United States
Brown, Dee Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Cooke, Alistair Alistair Cooke's America
Criddle, Jan. D. and Teeda Butt Mam To Destroy You Is No Loss: The Odyssey of a Cambodian Family
Crow Dog, Mary and Richard Erdoes Lakota Woman
Curie, Eve Madame Curie
Delany, Sara and A. Elizabeth with Amy Hill Hearth Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
Epstein, Norrie Friendly Shakespeare: A Thoroughly Painless Guide to the Best of the Bard.
Frank, Anne The Diary of a Young Girl
Franklin, Benjamin The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Haley, Alex Roots
Hersey, John Hiroshima
Karlsen, Carol The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England
Keller, Helen The Story of My Life
Kennedy, John F. Profiles in Courage
King, Martin Luther, Jr. A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Kovic, Ron Born on the Fourth of July
Machiavelli, Niccolo The Prince
Malcom X, with Alex Haley The Autobiography of Malcom X
Marx, Karl The Communist Manifesto
Mathabane, Mark Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa
Maybury-Lewis, David Millenium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World
McPherson, James Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
Mills, Kay This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer .
Plato The Republic
Rogosin, Donn Invisible Men: Life in Baseball's Negro Leagues .
Thoreau, Henry David Walden
Tocqueville, Alexis de Democracy in America
Tuchman, Barbara A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century
Williams, Juan Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-65
Yolen, Jane Favorite Folktales From Around the World .
Science
Attenborough, David The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth.
Bronowski, Jacob The Ascent of Man
Carson, Rachel Silent Spring
Darwin, Charles The Origin of Species
Hawking, Stephen A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes
Leopold, Aldo A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There
Social Science
Campbell, Joseph The Power of Myth
Hamilton, Edith Mythology
Kotlowitz, Alex There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in Urban America
Kozol, Jonathan Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools .
Terkel, Studs Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession
Drama
Beckett, Samuel Waiting for Godot .
Brecht, Bertolt Mother Courage and Her Children
Chekhov, Anton The Cherry Orchard
Ibsen, Henrik A Doll's House .
Marlowe, Christopher Doctor Faustus
Miller, Arthur Death of a Salesman
O'Neill, Eugene Long Day's Journey Into Night
Sarte, Jean Paul No Exit .
Shakespeare, William Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, others.
Shaw, Bernard Man and Superman, Saint Joan, Pygmalion, others.
Sophocles Oedipus Rex
Wilde, Oscar The Importance of Being Earnest
Wilder, Thornton Our Town
Williams, Tennessee A Streetcar Named Desire
Wilson, August The Piano Lesson
Poetry
Angelou, Maya And Still I Rise
Brooks, Gwendolyn Selected Poems
Cummings, E.E. Complete Poems, 1904-1962
Dickinson, Emily The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson .
Donne, John The Complete Poetry of John Donne .
Eliot, T.S. The Waste Land .
Frost, Robert The Poetry of Robert Frost
Ginsberg, Allen Howl and Other Poems
Giovanni, Nikki My House
Hughes, Langston Selected Poems
Keats, John Complete Poems
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth The Poetical Works of Longfellow
Sandburg, Carl Complete Poems
Thomas, Dylan Poems of Dylan Thomas
Williams, William Carlos Selected Poems
Wordsworth, William Poems
Yeats, William Butler The Poems |