Honors American Threads
American Authors
Book List
Choose one of the themes below…Read any book listed for the theme. Read one book per quarter, in any order. You must read the book(s) that is (are) starred
American Weirdness
(books that mess with your head)
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut*
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller*
Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Saur Foyer
I, Robot - Issac Asimov
American Enslaved
The Known World - Edward P. Jones*
Beloved - Toni Morrison*
Native Son - Richard Wright
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
Any plays by August
American Classics
Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
Moby Dick - Herman Melville*
Portrait of a Lady - Henry James*
Billy Budd Herman Melville
Asian American
Experience
The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan*
Woman Warrior - Maxine Hong Kingston
Snow Falling on Cedars - David Gutterson*
The Kitchen God's Wife - Amy Tan
The American
Frontier
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry* (one semester)
O ' Pioneers - Willa Cather
On The Road - Jack Kerouac*
The American South
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner*^ (with Ms. Moore's help in Study session tutorials.
The Glass Menagerie - Tennesee Williams
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
The Known World - Edward P.Jones*
Everything That Rises Must Converge - Flannery O'Connor
The American
Misanthrope/curiously, Bay Area Writers Club
Wonder Boys - Michael Chabon
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers*
Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon*
The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe
The American
Jewish Experience
The Human Stain - Phillip Roth
Any plays by Neil Simon (two minimum per quarter)
Herzog - Saul Bellow
Maus - Art Spiegelmen (I and II)
Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels
The Amazing Adventures of Kavallier and Clay - Michael Chabon
Ex-Patriates/America At War
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway*
Slaugherhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut*
Cold Mountain - Charles
Frazier
In a
The World According to Garp - John Irving
The American
Woman:
Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
Woman Warrior - Maxine Hong Kingston
My Antonia - Willa Cather
Beloved - Toni Morrison*
The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
I Am Charlotte Simmons Tom Wolfe*
Evaluations will come at the end of each quarter. They will be in the form of essays, presentations, creative responses, etc. YAY for American Authors.
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