Any ideas of a good novel by an American author to read?

Answer 1

Classics:
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Modern:
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Sarah Dessen is great (any book by her)
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Looking for Alaska by John Green

Answer 2

while you're searching for for some thing it somewhat is robust for an era, yet no longer a slog so a methods as analyzing, Jack London is excellent for a number of his works. i'm speaking approximately some thing different than call of the Wild or White Fang. Truman Capote In chilly Blood is an superb era piece a pair of unfavourable crime that occurs in rural Kansas interior the Fifties. Stephen Crane has a e book or 2, jointly along with his one suitable to a highway female (Maggie, a girl of the Streets?), which may be good for the duration of the Eighteen Eighties-1890s.

Answer 3

I like anything by William Faulkner, F Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, Flannery O'Connor, Edgar Allan Poe, John Steinbeck, Jack London, Christopher Moore, Anne Tyler, Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen King, Carl Sandberg, Nathaniel Hawthorne, TS Eliot, or Tennessee Williams. To name a few.

That should get you started. =)

Answer 4

The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne

Answer 5

Travels With Charlie---John Steinbeck
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings-Toni Morrison
The Color Purple-Alice Walker

Answer 6

Illusions: The Tale of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach

Answer 7

Anything by John Steinbeck-try East Of Eden or The Grapes Of Wrath.

Answer 8

I've always thought THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL is
"All the King's Men" by Robert Penn Warren

Answer 9

That depends on your taste. I recommend Centennial by James A. Michener.

However if that gets to be too much, I recommend something lighter. Like any of the Dana Fuller Ross books.

Answer 10

Short stories by Edgar Allan Poe