American Literature?

Question

Can you organize a personal list of your top 10 picks for the best "classic" American Literature? By classic I mean novels such as "Tom Sawyer", "The Scarlett Letter", "Old Man and the Sea", "Call of the Wild" etc.

Answer 1

I do not know about classic... but here's my top ten.

Twilight series

Romeo and Julliet

Pigman

Old Man and the Sea

Into the Wild

Midsummer's Night Dream

Gone, But Not Forgotten

Fire Within

Hamlet

Death Note, the Los Angeles BB Murder Cases

Answer 2

From the 19th century:

1. The Scarlet Letter - Hawthorne

2. Moby d**k - Melville

3. Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain

4. Washington Square - Henry James

From the 20th:

5. Long Day's Journey Into Night - Eugen O'Neill

6. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Hemingway

7. Gone With th Wind - Margaret Mitchell

8. The Little Foxes - Lillian Hellman

9. A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams

10. The Crucible - Arthur Miller

Answer 3

Twilight :D Alright sorry not classic....

I don't read much Tom Sawyer, but i like Wuthering Heights :D

Answer 4

The Fall of the House of Usher

The Catcher in the Rye

Call of the Wild

The Sun Also Rises

The Scarlett Letter

The Red Badge of Courage

The Great Gatsby

A Farewell to Arms

To Kill a Mockingbird

Moby d**k

Answer 5

My picks, in no specific order.

All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren

Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Walden by Henry David Thoreau (not a novel, but def a classic)

The Wings of the Dove by Henry James

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

Answer 6

1.) Uncle Tom's Cabin

2.) To Kill A Mockingbird

3.) The Color Purple

4.) Tom Sawyer

5.) Huckleberry Finn

6.) Moby d**k

7.) The Grapes of Wrath

8.) Call of the Wild

9.) Old Man and the Sea

10.) Native Son (not sure if its classic, but its old hehe)

Hope I was of some help!

Answer 7

1.)  Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

2.)  The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne

3.)  A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway

4.)  Of Mice & Men - John Steinbeck

5.)  Beloved - Toni Morrison

6.)  To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

7.)  Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson

8.)  The Sound & The Fury - William Faulkner

9)  Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (technically born in England)

10.)  FFahrenheit451 - Ray Bradbury

Answer 8

2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

4. The Great Gatsby

5. The Scarlet Letter

1. The Grapes of Wrath

8. Call of the Wild

7. The Old Man and the Sea

9. Little Women

10. The Awakening

3. To Kill a Mockingbird

6. The Sun Also Rises