Can you please send me your book lists? (I have already gone through TIME magazines)?

Question

I am doing a project for my Sophmore AA English class and the cirteria is sooo specific!
American Author
Cannot be a movie
Cannot be Nonfiction
Must have a minimum of 300 pages
Cannot be a commonly assigned book

I greatly appreciate all of your help!

nope... Catcher in the Rye is much too popular to do. Thanks though!

Answer 1

well the only one i could think of is 'the catcher in the rye'....by far the best book i have read. and you will definitely like that book guaranteed.
just one problem for you...since the book is by j.d. Salinger i am guessing its a very popular book. ask your teacher...if he/she approves then u shouldn't look any where else....this is one book you gotta read.

Answer 2

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire. He's from Boston, the book is 369 pages, fiction, I doubt its commonly assigned but I have been out of school for quite a while so I am not positive, but it was published in 1999. Great book and lots of potential for insight. He also wrote Wicked which is now a musical so not sure if you can do it. Hope this helps. you should read him anyway he is a great author.

Answer 3

If you're looking for something a little different than the classics, try any book by Jodi Picoult. I also enjoyed The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards, I See You by Holly Lisle, and Good Grief by Lolly Winston. They look intimidating but are actually very easy reads. Once you start reading you just get sucked into the characters' lives. Beautiful books.

Answer 4

Wow. This one's right up my alley. I have published 2 books that fit the category perfectly. A) Red Bird Just Like This B) Blue Bird Into The Black by Earl Jesse Stevens. I will tell you there are some erotic scenarios, some raw medical maladies are exposed, and drug users, con men, gamblers, etc. are sprinkled through out the narrative. Not PG rated. Not even R Rated. Probably more towards X rated. The theme , however, is hope, inspiration, and goodness.Go to Amazon.com , Authorhouse.com, Barnes & Noble, etc.

Answer 5

Here are some great American authors with their great American, non-movie, fiction masterpieces:

The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

I certainly hope this helps, even just a bit. :) all are very good reads!

Answer 6

I don't know if you've ever read (or considered reading) ebooks, but there are several hundred thousand of them available free, online. You can download the Microsoft ebook Reader from their website, (I have the Pocket PC version on my handheld, and have about 700 books stored on it!). I read everyday, and it helps me to sleep reading at night.

If you decide to give the ebook reader a try, you may notice an advert for free ebooks, it's from a university (W. Virginia, I believe), and it is there you can find many titles to suite your needs. Of course there are also titles more modern & popular that will cost (though, not as much as a physical book (paper) would cost).

There's also lots of books on Limewire!

I hope you found this helpful!
Marcos

Answer 7

The Mango Sunset by Dorothea Benton Frank

Bitsy's Bait and BBQ by Pamela Morsi

The Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill

all are great books and very new on the shelf

Answer 8

This one follows all of your criteria and is a GREAT read: PATTERN RECOGNITION by William Gibson. Gibson writes mostly science fiction, but this one is modern fiction, though it is about the "near" future. It is the story of a girl who knows fashion and brand names real well. The book (Gibson in general) is very demanding of the reader and will require a lot of imagination to understand.

Another Gibson book which falls under your guidelines is IDORU which IS a science fiction story involving a girl who is a major fan/chronologist of a rock band whose leader falls in love with a hologram! Sounds weird, but it is another extremely interesting good read with a young female protagonist. I couldn't put IDORU down once I got started reading it. PATTERN RECOGNITION required breaks from it to make sure I understood what was going on! But BOTH of these books are on the top of my favorites list now.

Answer 9

Please visit the web site below, the 100 books as listed were voted by 100 writers from 54 countries in 2002. I think those books should give you some ideas on listing some on your tentative list.

Answer 10

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.