2006-07-13 11:42:39 · 9 answers · asked by slowly951 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
Jarhead - Anthony Swofford
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
Walden - Henry David Thoreau
2006-07-13 11:47:54 · answer #1 · answered by Julia L. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to whom?
Time has the 100 best all time novels, and the Modern Library has one as well, but neither are only American Lit.
Sam Tanenhaus did a poll and the following were the 5 from the poll.
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Underworld by Don DeLillo
John Updike's Rabbit Angstrom novels
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
If you're asking for personal oppinion, however, I am not sure how much help I can be (not a huge American lit. person -- prefer Brishish). I think I'd pick:
Portrait of a Lady: Henry James
Our Town: Thornton Wilder
The Awakening: Kate Chopin
The Blithedale Romance : Narthaniel Hawthorn
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Benjamin Franklin
(oh, after looking at some of the other lists I want to include Farwell to Arms by Hemingway (that may be my favorite) and Great Gatsby also)
(I've also added a listing of American authors that might help you)
2006-07-13 19:31:07 · answer #2 · answered by PrincessBritty 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell.
Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Tom Sawyer by Samuel Langhorne Clemens or Mark Twain
From Here to Eternity by James Jones
2006-07-13 20:27:47 · answer #3 · answered by Gail M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where the wild things are- Maurice Sendak
Old Man and the Sea- Ernest Hemmingway
Notes of a dirty old Man- Charlie Bukowski
The Hawkline Monster- Richard Brautigan
A diamond as big as the ritz and other stories- F. Scott Fitzgerald
2006-07-13 18:48:09 · answer #4 · answered by clampnugget 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
(in no particular order)
The Scarlet Letter- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Uncle Tom's Cabin-Harriet Beecher Stowe
To Kill a Mockingbird-Harper Lee
The Great Gatsby-F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Farewell to Arms-Ernest Hemingway
2006-07-13 18:56:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Separate Peace
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Great Gatsby
Of Mice and Men
Green Eggs and Ham
2006-07-13 22:52:02 · answer #6 · answered by boxturtle_21 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Sun also Rises -- Hemingway
Huckleberry Finn -- Twain
The Great Gatsby--Fitzgerald
The Sound and the Fury -- Faulkner
To Kill a Mockingbird -- Lee
2006-07-13 18:59:12 · answer #7 · answered by keats27 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To Kill a Mockingbird
Follow the River
Camelot
Where the Red Fern Grows
Tom Sawyer
2006-07-13 18:53:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nabokov-Lolita
Pynchon-Gravity's Rainbow
Twain-Adventures of H. Finn
Hemmingway-The Sun also Rises or Old Man and the Sea
Steinbeck-Grapes of Wrath
2006-07-13 21:01:42 · answer #9 · answered by johngrobmyer 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋