Hi! This summer i am assigned to read two book from this list because i have to write a eight page paper on the book. so i was wondering if you had any recommendations or comments on these books. I dont want to hard to understand/comprehend book and no confusing plot or storyline please! thanks so much!!!
Here's the list ( i can only read the books on this list):
Anderson, Sherwood Winesburg, Ohio
Baldwin, James Go Tell It on the Mountain
The Fire Next Time
Cather, Willa My Antonia #
O Pioneers
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Crane, Stephen The Red Badge of Courage #
Dreiser, Theodore Sister Carrie
An American Tragedy
Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man
Fitzgerald, F. Scott Tender is the Night
Faulkner, William Light in August*
As I Lay Dying*
Absalom, Absalom!*
Hemingway, Ernest A Farewell to Arms
The Sun Also Rises
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes Were Watching God #
Irving, John Cider House Rules
A Prayer for Owen Meany
James, Henry Portrait of a Lady
Daisy Miller
Kesey, Ken One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Sometimes a Great Notion
Kingsolver, Barbara The Poisonwood Bible
Kingston, Maxine Hong Woman Warrior*
LeGuin, Ursula Left Hand of Darkness
Lewis, Sinclair Arrowsmith
Babbit
McCarthy, Cormac All the Pretty Horses
The Crossing
Miller, Arthur All My Sons and Death of a Salesman
Morrison, Toni Beloved *
Song of Solomon
The Bluest Eye#
O’Brien, Tim Going After Cacciato and The Things They Carried
O’Neill, Eugene Long Day’s Journey into Night and
A Moon for the Misbegotten or Mourning Becomes Electra
Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye #
Sinclair, Upton The Jungle#
Smiley, Jane A Thousand Acres
Stegner, Wallace Angle of Repose*
Steinbeck, John The Grapes of Wrath
East of Eden
Styron, William Sophie’s Choice
Tan, Amy The Hundred Secret Senses
The Bonesetter’s Daughter
Updike, John Rabbit, Run
Vonnegut, Kurt Cat’s Cradle
Slaughterhouse Five
Walker, Alice The Color Purple#
Warren, Robert Penn All the King’s Men
Welch, James Fools Crow
Wharton, Edith The Age of Innocence
The House of Mirth
Williams, Tennessee The Glass Menagerie and
A Streetcar Named Desire or Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Wilson, August Fences and another play (not The Piano Lesson)
Wright, Richard Native Son
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