stuff like the great gatsby and death of a salesman, classic american literature! i want to know what the greats are!
2007-02-23 19:06:50 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Walden
East of Eden
Old Man and the Sea
Ethan Frome
The Scarlett Letter
Moby Dick
Little Women
Narrative of the Life of an American Slave
The Red Badge of Courage
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
War and Peace
Anna Karinnena
Wuthering Heights
Night
Sense and Sensibility
Little House on the Prarie Series
Iliad
Odyssey
Promethus Bound
Oedipus Rex
Antigone
Aeneid
Troilus and Cressida
Canterbury Tales
All Shakespeare- The Riverside Shakespeare Second Edition is my favorite...
Tartuffe
School for WIves
GUllivers Travels
Candide
Pride and Predjudice
Emma
Federalist Papers
Voyage of the BEagle
Origin of Species
Civil Disobedience
Anything by DIckens...
Crime and Punishment
Doll's House
Pygmalion
A Rose for Emily
1984
Animal Farm
Not all of the above is American (Tolstoy and Austen and the Greek classics certianly aren't...) but they're all great books... true classics! I also threw in some plays but they read like books... Anyway there are more excellent books out there than any one person could refer you to. Do a search if you're looking for a certian genre... Happy reading fellow bibliophile!
2007-02-23 19:35:58 · answer #1 · answered by annathespian 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My favorite is David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. I also love The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (that's British Lit., not American like you wanted, but it's still excellent). For American classics, I love 1984 by George Orwell and The Catcher in the Rye by JD Sallinger.
2007-02-24 03:13:32 · answer #2 · answered by Elisabeth 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cry to heaven by Anne Rice....Spartacus by Howard Fast(outlawed during the Mccarthy era).....The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas, who also wrote the Three Musketeers & The man in the iron mask.....The Thornbirds by Colleen McCullough...brilliant book.....The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (An amazing classic) & The Good Earth by Pearl Buck, lastly A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by betty Smith.
There, many classics and page turners for you!!! I have read all of these and in some cases multiple times!!! I really hope that this helps you!!! Spartacus will blow your mind. It had to be released in England as the McCarthy era had Howard fast black balled when it was written.
I hope that you read Cry to heaven by Anne Rice...it is NOT about vampires, but about the Italian Castrati, thus it is truth intermixed with fiction, rather historical fiction....
Happy reading!!!!! I gave y usome of my top faves here!!
Thanks,
Lioncourt
2007-02-25 22:28:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I love: 100 years of solitude. The grapes of wrath. Things fall apart. The outsiders. Crime and punishment. The tell tale heart. Wuthering heights. Beowolf. Pride and prejudice. Hamlet. A street car named desire. Heart of darkness. Going to see the lighthouse. The dark tower series. good reading!
2007-02-24 03:15:14 · answer #4 · answered by Kat 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All Quiet on the Western Front.
For some strange reason, I've suddenly got this craving for Polish sausage.
2007-02-24 05:38:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
seriously do yourself a favor and read Bram Stoker's Dracula and Mary Shelly's Frankenstein. They are both amazing! And I am not a monster freak either!
2007-02-24 04:00:23 · answer #6 · answered by LanternPrime 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋