US Literature

Suggested Titles for Choice-Novel Assignment:

The following is a list of suggested American Literature titles for the choice novel
assignment we are doing Spring Semester (probably May/June). You can choose a book
that’s not on the list, but it should be of literary merit (as you will be writing a literary
analysis) and must be approved by Ms. Syrstad. You need to physically have the book in
class as you will be given reading time. (can be on an e-reader)

American Literature (I’d prefer you choose first from this list)

Available in CAT book room:

1. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn- Mark Twain
2. A Raisin in the Sun- Lorraine Hansberry
3. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemmingway

4. Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury

5. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn* - Betty Smith
6. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close* - Jonathon Safran Foer
7. The Things They Carried* - Tim O'Brien
8. Little Women* – Louisa May Alcott
9. The Kite Runner* – Khaled Hosseini
10. The Bell Jar* - Silvia Plath
11. The Bean Trees* - Barbara Kingsolver
12. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemmingway
13. Moby Dick* - Herman Melville
14. The Secret Life of Bees* – Sue Monk Kidd
15. The Joy Luck Club* – Amy Tan
16. The Color Purple* – Alice Walker
17. Ethan Frome*-Edith Wharton
18. My Antonia* - Willa Cather
19. The Awakening* – Kate Chopin
20. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
21. Sula (or anything by) Toni Morrison
22. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
23. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
24. A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams (or The Glass Menagerie)
25. Native Son - Richard Wright
26. Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card
27. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
28. The Chocolate War – Robert Cormier
29. Grapes of Wrath (or anything Steinbeck, aside from 'Mice and Men')
30. The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
31. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
32. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
33. Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller
34. Our Town – Thornton Wilder
35. A Separate Peace – John Knowles
36. Farewell to Manzanar – Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
37. Main Street – Sinclair Lewis
38. As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner
* = Available in CAT library * = Ms. Syrstad has a copy
US Literature

World Literature Titles

1. Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe

2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
4. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
5. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
6. Night, Elie Weisel
7. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Mark Haddon
8. The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
9. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
10. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
11. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
12. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
13. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
14. Dracula, Bram Stoker
15. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
16. Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens (anything by Dickens, really)
18. Life of Pi, Yann Martel
19. Animal Farm, George Orwell
20. Slaugherhouse 5, Kurt Vonnegut
21. All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maira Remarque
22. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
23. The Invisilbe Man, H.G. Wells
24. The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis
25. A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen