American Authors Book List

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We will go through this list together.  Please listen and take notes about the descriptions of the books.  After we get through the list, you will be free to choose any author/theme you find interesting.  The book listed is the one you will read for first quarter.  For second quarter, I will post a list for your next book.

AUTHOR                                                      First Quarter Book

Toni Morrison                                              Beloved

Larry McMurtry                                           Lonesome Dove (first sem.)

John Irving                                                           The World According

                                                                     to Garp

Amy Tan                                                               The Joy Luck Club

John Steinbeck*                                         Grapes of Wrath(first sem)

Kurt Vonnugut                                           Slaughterhouse Five

Tennessee Williams                                    The Glass Menagerie

J.D. Salinger**                                             Franny and Zooey

Michael Chabon/Dave Eggers                 Wonder Boys

Ernest Hemingway                                     The Sun Also Rises

Barbara Kingsolver***                                 The Bean Trees

Willa Cather                                               O Pioneers!

Ray Bradbury                                             Farenheit 451

Anne Patchett                                          Bel Canto

Tim O'Brian                                                 Things They Carried

THEME                                               FIRST QUARTER BOOK/AUTHOR

America Enslaved                                     The Color Purple (Alice Walker)

1960's Theme                                              On the Road (Jack Kerouac)

American Nonfiction                                 In Cold Blood (Truman Capote)

American Jewish Experience                    Fugitive Pieces (Anne Michaels)

Rich and Poor                                            Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)

America At War                                        Cold Mountain (Charles Fraizier)

American Frontier                                      Lonesome Dove (Larry McMurtry) first semester

Asian American Experience                      Snow Falling on Cedars (David Gutterson)