American Literature

[tbach24]

I am reading One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest right now and am really enjoying it.

I need one more American literature book to read for school.

I'm taking standard English but in the packet they have books for AP students. They are:

Grapes of Wrath- Steinbeck
Age of Innocence- Edith Wharton
Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang- Joyce Carol Oates
Great Gatsby- Fitzgerald
All the Pretty Horses- Cormac McCarthy
Shipping News- Annie Proulx

Any other suggestions welcome

I want short and entertaining as I'm pretty impatient. Not too short where it's apparant I only read it for length though. I'll be a junior.

[bisonbison]

Read Catch-22.

[hoopsie44]

Too Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

[istewart]

These aren't all AP English books, but:

Reefer Madness - Eric Schlosser
The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
Cobb - Al Stump (you'll like this one)

AND

Matilda - Roald Dahl (you'll like this one too - pwned tbach)

[tbach24]

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Too Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

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I love this book but unfortunately it's freshman reading.

[Thythe]

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Read Catch-22.

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This is a very good choice. I'd also recommend 1984.

[thatpfunk]

Catch 22 is a good choice also The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway. I'm not sure if these count since they are by American writers but not based in the US?

Huck Finn is always a good choice. I doubt you will be dissapointed with Great Gatsby.

[Los Feliz Slim]

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Read Catch-22.

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Correct.

Gatsby is an easy read and you shouldn't become an adult w/out having read it.

"The Old Man and the Sea" is a long story/short book by Hemingway that kicks so much ass it's scary.

[spamuell]

I'd also recommend 1984.

It's excellent but Orwell was British.

[shadow29]

Here's a short but easy one:

Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow.

Nobel winner, too.