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Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)
	Esther	read the reviews	#	write a review
Nelson Algren (1909 -1981)
	The Man With the Golden Arm	read the reviews	#	write a review
Sherwood Anderson (1876 - 1941)
	Winesburg, Ohio	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Triumph of the Egg	read the reviews	#	write a review
Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
	The Complete Stories Vol. 1	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Complete Stories Vol. 2	read the reviews	#	write a review
Saul Bellow 1 (1915 - 2005) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1976
	Ravelstein	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Humboldt's Gift	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Editors	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Adventures of Augie March	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Mr. Sammler's Planet	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Henderson the Rain King	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Seize the Day	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories	read the reviews	#	write a review
	More Die of Heartbreak	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Dean's December	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Him With His Foot in His Mouth: And Other Stories	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Actual	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Victim	read the reviews	#	write a review
Paul Bowles (1910 - 1999)
	The Sheltering Sky	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Without Stopping: An Autobiography	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Spider's House	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Collected Stories, 1939-1976	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Hundred Camels in the Courtyard	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Let It Come Down	read the reviews	#	write a review
Ray Bradbury (1920)
	Fahrenheit 451	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Martian Chronicles	read the reviews	#	write a review
Joseph Brodsky 2 (1940 - 1996) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1987
	Watermark	read the reviews	#	write a review
	A Part of Speech	read the reviews	#	write a review
	So Forth	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Collected Poems in English	read the reviews	#	write a review
Pearl S. Buck (1892 - 1973) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1938
	The Good Earth	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Sons	read the reviews	#	write a review
	A House Divided	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The House of Earth	read the reviews	#	write a review
William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997)
	The Naked Lunch	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Junky	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Speed / Kentucky Ham : Two Novels	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Cities of the Red Night	read the reviews	#	write a review
Truman Capote (1924 - 1984)
	Other Voices, Other Rooms	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Muses Are Heard	read the reviews	#	write a review
	A Tree of Night	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Breakfast at Tiffany's	read the reviews	#	write a review
	In Cold Blood	read the reviews	#	write a review
	A Christmas Memory	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Thanksgiving Visitor	read the reviews	#	write a review
Stephen Crane (1871 - 1900)
	The Red Badge of Courage	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Maggie: A Girl of the Streets	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Open Boat	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Blue Hotel	read the reviews	#	write a review
Don DeLillo (1936)
	Players	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Running Dog	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Names	read the reviews	#	write a review
	White Noise	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Libra	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Mao II	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Underworld	read the reviews	#	write a review
Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
	Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson	read the reviews	#	write a review
Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) (1886 - 1961)
	HERmione	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Helen in Egypt	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Collected Poems	read the reviews	#	write a review
Theodore Dreiser (1871 - 1945)
	Sister Carrie	read the reviews	#	write a review
	An American Tragedy	read the reviews	#	write a review
Ralph Ellison (1914 - 1994)
	Invisible Man	read the reviews	#	write a review
William Faulkner (1897 - 1962) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1949
	Intruder in the Dust	read the reviews	#	write a review
	As I Lay Dying	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Absalom, Absalom!	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Sound and the Fury	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Collected Stories of William Faulkner	read the reviews	#	write a review
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)
	The Great Gatsby	read the reviews	#	write a review
	This Side of Paradise	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Beautiful and Damned	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Diamond as Big as the Ritz	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Flappers and Philosophers	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Jazz Age	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Tender is the Night	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Babylon Revisited	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Love of the Last Tycoon	read the reviews	#	write a review
Zelda Fitzgerald (1900 - 1948)
	The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald	read the reviews	#	write a review
Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
	Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged	read the reviews	#	write a review
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864)
	The Scarlet Letter	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The House of the Seven Gables	read the reviews	#	write a review
Joseph Heller (1923)
	Catch-22	read the reviews	#	write a review
Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1954
	Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	In Our Time (1925)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Torrents of Spring (1925 - 26)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Sun Also Rises (1926)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Men Without Women (1927)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	A Farewell to Arms (1929)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Death in the Afternoon (1932)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Winner Take Nothing (1933)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Green Hills of Africa (1935)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	To Have and Have Not (1937)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Fifth Column (1938)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	First 49 Stories (1938)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Men at War (edited by E. H.,1942)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Across the River and Into the Trees (1950)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Old Man and the Sea (1952)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	A Moveable Feast (ph. 1964)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	By-line: Ernest Hemingway (ph. 1967)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Islands in the Stream (ph. 1970)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	88 Poems (ph. 1979)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	E. H.: Selected Letters (ph. 1981)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Dangerous Summer (ph. 1985)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Garden of Eden (ph. 1986)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Complete Short Stories of E. H. (ph. 1987)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	True at First Light (ph. 1999)	read the reviews	#	write a review
O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) (1862 - 1910)
	Whirligigs	read the reviews	#	write a review
Patricia Highsmith (1921 - 1995)
	Strangers on a Train	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Those Who Walk Away	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Cry of the Owl	read the reviews	#	write a review
	This Sweet Sickness	read the reviews	#	write a review
John Irving (1942)
	The Cider House Rules	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The World According to Garp	read the reviews	#	write a review
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
	Rip Van Winkle	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Legend of Sleepy Hollow	read the reviews	#	write a review
Shirley Jackson (1919 - 1965)
	The Haunting of the Hill House	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Lottery and Other Stories	read the reviews	#	write a review
Henry James 3 (1843 - 1916)
	The Portrait of a Lady	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Ambassadors	read the reviews	#	write a review
Robinson Jeffers (1887 - 1962)
	Tamar and Other Poems	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Cawdor	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Thurso's Landing	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Be Angry at the Sun	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Euripides' Medea (an adaptation by R. Jeffers)	read the reviews	#	write a review
James Jones (1921 - 1977)
	From Here To Eternity	read the reviews	#	write a review
Barbara Kingsolver (1955)
	Homeland and Other Stories	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Bean Trees	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Prodigal Summer	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Poisonwood Bible	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Animal Dreams	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Pigs in Heaven	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Another America	read the reviews	#	write a review
Jack London (1876 - 1916)
	White Fang	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Call of the Wild	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Collected Short Stories	read the reviews	#	write a review
Harper Lee (1926)
	To Kill a Mockingbird	read the reviews	#	write a review
Jeffrey Lent
	In the Fall	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Lost Nation	read the reviews	#	write a review
Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1930
	Main Street	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Babbitt	read the reviews	#	write a review
Edgar Lee (E.L.) Masters (1868 - 1950)
	Spoon River Anthology	read the reviews	#	write a review
Cormac McCarthy (1933)
	The Orchard Keeper	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Outer Dark	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Child of God	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Suttree	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Blood Meridian	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Border Trilogy:		#
	All the Pretty Horses	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Crossing	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Cities of the Plain	read the reviews	#	write a review
Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)
	Moby Dick	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Billy Budd	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Benito Cereno	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Bartleby the Scrivener	read the reviews	#	write a review
Arthur Miller (1915)
	Death of a Salesman	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Crucible	read the reviews	#	write a review
Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
	Tropic of Cancer	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Tropic of Capricorn	read the reviews	#	write a review
Toni Morrison (1931) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1993
	The Bluest Eye	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Sula	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Song of Solomon	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Tar Baby	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Beloved	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Jazz	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Paradise	read the reviews	#	write a review
Vladimir (Dmitri) Vladimirovich Nabokov 4 (1899 -1977)
	The Defense	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Despair	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Invitation to a Beheading	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Pnin	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Lolita	read the reviews	#	write a review
	King, Queen, Knave	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Ada	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Pale Fire	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Laughter in the Dark	read the reviews	#	write a review
Frank Norris (1870 - 1902)
	McTeague: A Story of San Francisco	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Pit: A Story of Chicago	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Octopus: A Story of California	read the reviews	#	write a review
Joyce Carol Oates (1938)
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Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (1888 -1953) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1936
	Long Day's Journey into Night	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Desire Under the Elms	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Strange Interlude	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Mourning Becomes Electra	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Beyond the Horizon	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Anna Christie	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Hairy Ape	read the reviews	#	write a review
	A Moon for the Misbegotten	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Iceman Cometh	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Emperor Jones	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Long Voyage Home	read the reviews	#	write a review
Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963)
	The Collected Poems	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Bell Jar	read the reviews	#	write a review
Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)
	Dead Brides (Vampire Tales)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Best Known Works of Poe	read the reviews	#	write a review
Katherine Anne Porter (1890 - 1980)
	The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Pale Horse, Pale Rider	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Ship of Fools	read the reviews	#	write a review
Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972)
	Personae: The Shorter Poems of Ezra Pound	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Exultations	read the reviews	#	write a review
	ABC of Reading	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Quia Pauper Amavi - Homage to Sextus Propertius	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Hugh Selwyn Mauberley	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Cantos	read the reviews	#	write a review
Thomas Pynchon (1937)
	Mason & Dixon	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Gravity's Rainbow	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Crying of Lot 49	read the reviews	#	write a review
	V	read the reviews	#	write a review
Henry Roth (1906 - 1995)
	Call It Sleep	read the reviews	#	write a review
Philip Roth (1933)
	Goodbye Columbus	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Portnoy's Complaint	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Professor of Desire	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Ghost Writer	read the reviews	#	write a review
	American Pastoral	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Human Stain	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Sabbath's Theatre	read the reviews	#	write a review
	I Married a Communist	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Patrimony: A True Story	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Great American Novel	read the reviews	#	write a review
J. D. Salinger (1919)
	Catcher in the Rye	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenter / Seymour: an Introduction	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Nine Stories (including For Esmé - with Love and Squalor)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Franny and Zooey	read the reviews	#	write a review
Irwin Shaw (1913 - 1984)
	Two Weeks in Another Town	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Evening in Byzantium	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Beggarman, Thief	read the reviews	#	write a review
Upton Sinclair (1878 - 1968)
	The Jungle	read the reviews	#	write a review
	I, Candidate for Governor and How I Got Licked	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Boston: A Documentary Novel of the Sacco-Vanzetti Case	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Dragon Harvest	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Mental Radio	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Wide Is the Gate	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Flivver King: A Story of Ford-America	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Dragon's Teeth	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Between Two Worlds	read the reviews	#	write a review
	A World to Win	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Presidential Mission	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Affectionately Eve	read the reviews	#	write a review
John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1962
	Cup of Gold (1929)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Pastures of Heaven (1932)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	To a God Unknown (1933)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Long Valley (?)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Tortilla Flat (1935)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	The Dubious Battle (1936)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Of Mice and Men (1937)	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Blood is Strong (1938)	read the reviews	#

American Literature

Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)

Nelson Algren (1909 -1981)

Sherwood Anderson (1876 - 1941)

Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)

Saul Bellow 1 (1915 - 2005) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1976

Paul Bowles (1910 - 1999)

Ray Bradbury (1920)

Joseph Brodsky 2 (1940 - 1996) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1987

Pearl S. Buck (1892 - 1973) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1938

William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997)

Truman Capote (1924 - 1984)

Stephen Crane (1871 - 1900)

Don DeLillo (1936)

Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) (1886 - 1961)

Theodore Dreiser (1871 - 1945)

Ralph Ellison (1914 - 1994)

William Faulkner (1897 - 1962) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1949

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)

Zelda Fitzgerald (1900 - 1948)

Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864)

Joseph Heller (1923)

Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1954

O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) (1862 - 1910)

Patricia Highsmith (1921 - 1995)

John Irving (1942)

Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)

Shirley Jackson (1919 - 1965)

Henry James 3 (1843 - 1916)

Robinson Jeffers (1887 - 1962)

James Jones (1921 - 1977)

Barbara Kingsolver (1955)

Jack London (1876 - 1916)

Harper Lee (1926)

Jeffrey Lent

Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1930

Edgar Lee (E.L.) Masters (1868 - 1950)

Cormac McCarthy (1933)

Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)

Arthur Miller (1915)

Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)

Toni Morrison (1931) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1993

Vladimir (Dmitri) Vladimirovich Nabokov 4 (1899 -1977)

Frank Norris (1870 - 1902)

Joyce Carol Oates (1938)

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (1888 -1953) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1936

Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963)

Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)

Katherine Anne Porter (1890 - 1980)

Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972)

Thomas Pynchon (1937)

Henry Roth (1906 - 1995)

Philip Roth (1933)

J. D. Salinger (1919)

Irwin Shaw (1913 - 1984)

Upton Sinclair (1878 - 1968)

John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1962