American Classics Meme
15 years ago
[ ]Esther by Henry Adams. (1838 - 1918)
[ ]The Man With the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren (1909 -1981)
Sherwood Anderson (1876 - 1941)
[ ]Winesburg, Ohio
[ ]The Triumph of the Egg
Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
[x]The Complete Stories Vol. 1
[x]The Complete Stories Vol. 2
Saul Bellow 1 (1915 - 2005) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1976
[ ]Ravelstein
[ ]Humboldt's Gift
[ ]Editors
[ ]The Adventures of Augie March
[ ]Mr. Sammler's Planet
[ ]Henderson the Rain King
[ ]Seize the Day
[ ]Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories
[ ]More Die of Heartbreak
[ ]The Dean's December
[ ]Him With His Foot in His Mouth: And Other Stories
[ ]The Actual
[ ]The Victim
Paul Bowles (1910 - 1999)
[ ]The Sheltering Sky
[ ]Without Stopping: An Autobiography
[ ]The Spider's House
[ ]Collected Stories, 1939-1976
[ ]Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue
[ ]Hundred Camels in the Courtyard
[ ]Let It Come Down
Ray Bradbury (1920)
[x]Fahrenheit 451
[ ]The Martian Chronicles
[ ]The Illustrated Man
Joseph Brodsky 2 (1940 - 1996) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1987
[x]Watermark
[ ]A Part of Speech
[ ]So Forth
[ ]Collected Poems in English
Pearl S. Buck (1892 - 1973) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1938
[ ]The Good Earth
[ ]Sons
[x]A House Divided
[ ]The House of Earth
William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997)
[ ]The Naked Lunch
[ ]Junky
[ ]Speed / Kentucky Ham : Two Novels
[ ]Cities of the Red Night
[ ]Truman Capote (1924 - 1984)
[ ]Other Voices, Other Rooms
[ ]The Muses Are Heard
[ ]A Tree of Night
[x]Breakfast at Tiffany's
[ ]In Cold Blood
[ ]A Christmas Memory
[ ]The Thanksgiving Visitor
Stephen Crane (1871 - 1900)
[x]The Red Badge of Courage
[ ]Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
[ ]The Open Boat
[ ]The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky
[ ]The Blue Hotel
Don DeLillo (1936)
[ ]Players
[ ]Running Dog
[ ]The Names
[ ]White Noise
[ ]Libra
[ ]Mao II
[ ]Underworld
[x]Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) (1886 - 1961)
[ ]HERmione
[ ]Helen in Egypt
[ ]Collected Poems
Theodore Dreiser (1871 - 1945)
[ ]Sister Carrie
[ ]An American Tragedy
[x]Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1914 - 1994)
William Faulkner (1897 - 1962) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1949
[ ]Intruder in the Dust
[x]As I Lay Dying
[ ]Absalom, Absalom!
[ ]The Sound and the Fury
[ ]Collected Stories of William Faulkner
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)
[x]The Great Gatsby
[ ]This Side of Paradise
[ ]The Beautiful and Damned
[ ]The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
[ ]Flappers and Philosophers
[ ]The Jazz Age
[ ]The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
[ ]Tender is the Night
[ ]Babylon Revisited
[ ]The Love of the Last Tycoon
[ ]The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald by Zelda Fitzgerald (1900 - 1948)
[x]Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged by Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864)
[x]The Scarlet Letter
[ ]The House of the Seven Gables
[ ]Joseph Heller (1923)
[x]Catch-22
Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1954
[ ]Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923)
[ ]In Our Time (1925)
[ ]Torrents of Spring (1925 - 26)
[x]The Sun Also Rises (1926)
[ ]Men Without Women (1927)
[x]A Farewell to Arms (1929)
[ ]Death in the Afternoon (1932)
[ ]Winner Take Nothing (1933)
[ ]Green Hills of Africa (1935)
[ ]To Have and Have Not (1937)
[x]The Fifth Column (1938)
[ ]First 49 Stories (1938)
[x]For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
[ ]Men at War (edited by E. H.,1942)
[ ]Across the River and Into the Trees (1950)
[x]The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
[ ]A Moveable Feast (ph. 1964)
[ ]By-line: Ernest Hemingway (ph. 1967)
[ ]Islands in the Stream (ph. 1970)
[ ]88 Poems (ph. 1979)
[ ]E. H.: Selected Letters (ph. 1981)
[ ]The Dangerous Summer (ph. 1985)
[ ]The Garden of Eden (ph. 1986)
[ ]The Complete Short Stories of E. H. (ph. 1987)
[ ]True at First Light (ph. 1999)
[ ]Whirligigs by O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) (1862 - 1910)
Patricia Highsmith (1921 - 1995)
[ ]Strangers on a Train
[ ]Those Who Walk Away
[ ]The Cry of the Owl
[ ]This Sweet Sickness
John Irving (1942)
[ ]The Cider House Rules
[ ]The World According to Garp
[ ]Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
[x]Rip Van Winkle
[x]The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Shirley Jackson (1919 - 1965)
[ ]The Haunting of the Hill House
[ ]The Lottery and Other Stories
Henry James 3 (1843 - 1916)
[ ]The Portrait of a Lady
[ ]The Ambassadors
Robinson Jeffers (1887 - 1962)
[ ]Tamar and Other Poems
[ ]Cawdor
[ ]Thurso's Landing
[ ]Be Angry at the Sun
[ ]Euripides' Medea (an adaptation by R. Jeffers)
[ ]From Here To Eternity by James Jones (1921 - 1977)
Barbara Kingsolver (1955)
[ ]Homeland and Other Stories
[ ]The Bean Trees
[ ]Prodigal Summer
[ ]The Poisonwood Bible
[ ]Animal Dreams
[ ]Pigs in Heaven
[ ]Another America
Jack London (1876 - 1916)
[x]White Fang
[x]Call of the Wild
[ ]Collected Short Stories
[x]To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1926)
Jeffrey Lent
[ ]In the Fall
[ ]Lost Nation
Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1930
[ ]Main Street
[ ]Babbitt
[ ]Edgar Lee (E.L.) Masters (1868 - 1950)
[ ]Spoon River Anthology
Cormac McCarthy (1933)
[ ]The Orchard Keeper
[ ]Outer Dark
[ ]Child of God
[ ]Suttree
[ ]Blood Meridian
The Border Trilogy:
[ ]All the Pretty Horses
[ ]The Crossing
[ ]Cities of the Plain
Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)
[x]Moby Dick
[ ]Billy Budd
[ ]Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life
[ ]Benito Cereno
[ ]Bartleby the Scrivener
Arthur Miller (1915)
[x]Death of a Salesman
[x]The Crucible
Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
[ ]Tropic of Cancer
[ ]Tropic of Capricorn
Toni Morrison (1931) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1993
[ ]The Bluest Eye
[ ]Sula
[ ]Song of Solomon
[ ]Tar Baby
[ ]Beloved
[ ]Jazz
[ ]Paradise
Vladimir (Dmitri) Vladimirovich Nabokov 4 (1899 -1977)
[ ]The Defense
[ ]Despair
[ ]Invitation to a Beheading
[ ]Pnin
[x]Lolita
[ ]King, Queen, Knave
[ ]Ada
[ ]Pale Fire
[ ]Laughter in the Dark
Frank Norris (1870 - 1902)
[ ]McTeague: A Story of San Francisco
[ ]The Pit: A Story of Chicago
[ ]The Octopus: A Story of California
Joyce Carol Oates (1938)
Only a partial list of works of a very prolific Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938) :
[ ]We Were the Mulvaneys
[ ]Middle Age: A Romance
[ ]Billy Budd and Other Tales
[ ]Faithless : Tales of Transgression
[ ]Them
[ ]The Barrens: A Novel of Suspense
[ ]Blonde : A Novel
[ ]Foxfire : Confessions of a Girl Gang
[ ]Broke Heart Blues
[ ]Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart
[ ]Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? : Selected Early Stories
[ ]Heat and Other Stories
[ ]Beasts
[ ]You Must Remember This
[ ]Man Crazy : A Novel
[ ]Zombie
[ ]The Rise of Life on Earth
[ ]Haunted : Tales of the Grotesque
[ ]Will You Always Love Me? : And Other Stories
[ ]Marya : A Life
[ ]The Collector of Hearts : New Tales of the Grotesque
[ ]Starr Bright Will Be With You Soon
[ ]Tenderness: Poems
[ ]Black Water
[ ]Expensive People
[ ]Unholy Loves : A Novel
[ ]Mysteries of Winterthurn
[ ]Solstice
[ ]Nightwalks Angel of Light I Lock My Door upon Myself
[ ]The triumph of the spider monkey
[ ]Bellefleur
[ ]Assignation
[ ]Do With Me What You Will
[ ]What I Lived for
[ ]Goddess and Other Women
[ ]Wheel of Love
[ ]Night Walks : A Bedside Companion
[ ]Wonderland
[ ]Childwold
[ ]Marriages and Infidelities
[ ]Crossing the Border
[ ]Son of the Morning
[ ]Women Whose Lives Are Food, Men Whose Lives Are Money : Poems
[ ]A Garden of Earthly Delights
[ ]Seduction and Other Stories
[ ]The Assassins : A Book of Hours
[ ]Invisible Woman
[ ]Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Stories of Young America
[ ]The Perfectionist and Other Plays
[ ]Love Eclipsed
[ ]Cybele
[ ]Oates in Exile
[ ]First Love : A Gothic Tale
[ ]Love and Its Derangements; Poems
[ ]A Sentimental Education : Stories
[ ]Where Is Here? : Stories
[ ]Miracle play
[ ]Three Plays
[ ]All the good people I've left behind
[ ]Twelve Plays
[ ]A Bloodsmoor Romance
[ ]Last Days : Stories
[ ]Raven's Wings
[ ]My Heart Laid Bare
[ ]Upon the sweeping flood, and other stories
[ ]The Fabulous Beasts
[ ]Anonymous Sins and Other Poems
[ ]By the North Gate
[ ]Big Mouth and Ugly Girl
[ ]Wheel of Love and Other Stories
[ ]Crossing the Border : Fifteen Tales
[ ]Night-Side : 18 Tales
[ ]Angel Fire; Poems
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (1888 -1953) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1936
[ ]Long Day's Journey into Night
[ ]Desire Under the Elms
[ ]Strange Interlude
[ ]Mourning Becomes Electra
[ ]Beyond the Horizon
[ ]Anna Christie
[ ]The Hairy Ape
[ ]A Moon for the Misbegotten
[ ]The Iceman Cometh
[ ]The Emperor Jones
[ ]The Long Voyage Home
Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963)
[ ]The Collected Poems
[ ]The Bell Jar
Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)
[ ]Dead Brides (Vampire Tales)
[ ]The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings
[x]Best Known Works of Poe
Katherine Anne Porter (1890 - 1980)
[ ]The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
[ ]Pale Horse, Pale Rider
[ ]Ship of Fools
Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972)
[ ]Personae: The Shorter Poems of Ezra Pound
[ ]Exultations
[ ]ABC of Reading
[ ]Quia Pauper Amavi - Homage to Sextus Propertius
[ ]Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
[ ]The Cantos
Thomas Pynchon (1937)
[ ]Mason & Dixon
[ ]Gravity's Rainbow
[ ]The Crying of Lot 49
[ ]V
[ ]Call It Sleep by Henry Roth (1906 - 1995)
Philip Roth (1933)
[ ]Goodbye Columbus
[ ]Portnoy's Complaint
[ ]The Professor of Desire
[ ]The Ghost Writer
[ ]American Pastoral
[ ]The Human Stain
[ ]Sabbath's Theatre
[ ]I Married a Communist
[ ]Patrimony: A True Story
[ ]The Great American Novel
J. D. Salinger (1919)
[x]Catcher in the Rye
[ ]Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenter / Seymour: an Introduction
[ ]Nine Stories (including For Esmé - with Love and Squalor)
[ ]Franny and Zooey
Irwin Shaw (1913 - 1984)
[ ]Two Weeks in Another Town
[ ]Evening in Byzantium
[ ]Beggarman, Thief
Upton Sinclair (1878 - 1968)
[x]The Jungle
[ ]I, Candidate for Governor and How I Got Licked
[ ]Boston: A Documentary Novel of the Sacco-Vanzetti Case
[ ]Dragon Harvest
[ ]Mental Radio
[ ]Wide Is the Gate
[ ]Flivver King: A Story of Ford-America
[ ]Dragon's Teeth
[ ]Between Two Worlds
[ ]A World to Win
[ ]Presidential Mission
[ ]Affectionately Eve
John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1962
[ ]Cup of Gold (1929)
[ ]The Pastures of Heaven (1932)
[ ]To a God Unknown (1933)
[ ]The Long Valley (?)
[ ]The Tortilla Flat (1935)
[ ]The Dubious Battle (1936)
[x]Of Mice and Men (1937)
[ ]Blood is Strong (1938)
[ ]The Red Pony (1938)
[x]The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
[ ]Forgotten Village (1941)
[ ]The Moon is Down (1942)
[ ]The Cannery Row (1945)
[ ]The Pearl (1947)
[ ]The Wayward Bus (1947)
[ ]Burning Bright (1950)
[ ]Viva Zapata! (1952)
[ ]East of Eden (1952)
[ ]Sweet Thursday (1954)
[ ]The Short Reign of Pippin IV (1957)
[ ]Once There Was a War (1958)
[ ]Winter of Our Discontent (1961)
[ ]Travels With Charley (1962)
[ ]America and Americans (1966)
[ ]The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (ph. 1976)
Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)
[ ]Harmonium
[ ]Stevens' Ideas of Order
[ ]The Man with the Blue Guitar
[ ]Parts of a World
[ ]Transport to Summer
[ ]Esthétique du mal {Aesthetic of Evil}
[ ]The Auroras of Autumn
[ ]Collected Poems
[ ]Opus Posthumous (edited by Samuel French Morse)
[ ]Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896)
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
[x]The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
[x]The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Gore Vidal 5 (1925)
[ ]Myra Breckenridge / Myron
[ ]Duluth
[ ]Live From Golgotha
[ ]Kalki
[ ]Visit to a Small Planet
[ ]The Best Man
[ ]Julian
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922)
[x]Slaughterhouse Five
[ ]Cat's Cradle
[ ]Breakfast of Champions
[ ]Slapstick
[ ]Hocus Pocus
[ ]The Sirens of Titan
[ ]Welcome to the Monkey House
[ ]Galapagos
[ ]Mother Night
[ ]God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
[ ]Timequake
[ ]Bluebeard
[ ]The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1944)
David Foster Wallace (1962)
[ ]The Broom of the System
[ ]Girl with Curious Hair
[ ]Infinite Jest
[ ]Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
[ ]Oblivion: Stories
Robert Penn Warren (1905 - 1989)
[ ]All the King's Men
[ ]World Enough and Time
Nathanael West (1903 - 1940)
[ ]The Day of the Locust
[ ]The Dream Life of Balso Snell
Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
[ ]Sanctuary (1903)
[ ]The House of Mirth (1905)
[ ]Ethan Frome (1911)
[ ]Reef (1912)
[ ]The Custom of the Country (1913)
[ ]Summer (1917)
[ ]The Age of Innocence (1920)
[ ]The Old New York Tetralogy (1924)
[ ]Twilight Sleep (1927)
[ ]Hudson River Bracketed (1929)
[ ]The Gods Arrive (1932)
[ ]The Buccaneers (1938)
[ ]Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983)
[ ]A Streetcar Named Desire
[ ]Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
[ ]The Glass Menagerie
[ ]The Night of the Iguana
[ ]Suddenly Last Summer
[ ]Sweet Bird of Youth
[ ]The Collected Stories of Tennessee Williams
[ ]Native Son by Richard Wright (1908 - 1960)
Others: (Ones that I think should be in the list as well.)
George Orwell
[x]Animal Farm
[x]1984
[x]Lord of the Flies by William Golden