How many of these have you read?
From Jess’s Reading Nook. Copy and paste this list onto a post and highlight the books you have read in a different color. Post in the comments below a link to your post so I can see your list.
26/50
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
My Antonia by Willa Cather
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, an American Slave by Frederick Douglas
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Call of the Wild by Jack London
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Anthem by Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Native Son by Richard Wright
Impressive! I’ve read five… Then again, American lit isn’t that big in Europe.
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I went through it and you can see which ones I’ve read at the link (http://mylibrarycardworeout.com/2016/01/27/american-classic-checklist/). I really need to get my act together and start reading more of these. So sad Pride and Prejudice wasn’t on that list 😦
But these were great books!
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Thank you for participating! 25 is pretty impressive in my book. 🙂
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I’ve read 8 of these, but there’s one that’s on my list to read at some point! Well, there are a few on there that are on my to read list.
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Cool list. Only read a couple but I intend to read some more of those that are also on your list! thanks for sharing 🙂
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