Book Club

Anyone up for an American Literature virtual book club? I chose this reading list as a basic guide...it seems to be a nice mix, although I did have to laugh at a few of the choices. The dilemma comes when I want to re-read some really great ones that are on this list (like Winesburg, Ohio), but should probably read ones I haven't read first. Argg. The first few I will be reading are Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros, As I Lay Dying by Faulkner, The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, and hopefully I will finally get The Red Badge of Courage read (never can quite get into that one).

THE LIST (I know, the formatting is horrible)

Adams, Henry, The Education of Henry Adams in Novels

Ambrose, Stephen, Band of Brothers

Anderson, Sherwood, Winesburg, Ohio
Baldwin, James, Go Tell It on the Mountain,
Baldwin, James, If Beale Street Could Talk,
Bellamy, Edward, Looking Backward: 2000-1887,
Bellow, Saul, The Rain King,
Brown, Dee, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee,
Cather, Willa, Death Comes for the Archbishop,
Cather, Willa, My Antonia,
Cather, Willa, O Pioneers!,
Cisneros, Sandra, Caramelo,

Clark, Walter Van T., The Ox-Bow Incident,
Conroy, Pat, Lords of Discipline,
Conroy, Pat, My Losing Season,

Cooper, James Fenimore, The Deerslayer,
Cooper, James Fenimore, The Last of the Mohicans,
Crane, Stephen, The Red Badge of Courage,
Doctorow, E.L., Ragtime,
Dorris, Michael, Yellow Raft in Blue Water,
Douglass, Frederick, Narrative of the Life of an American Slave,
Dreiser, Theodore, An American Tragedy,
Dreiser, Theodore, Sister Carrie,
DuBois, W.E.B., The Souls of Black Folk,
Ellison, Ralph, Invisible Man,
Faulkner, William, Absalom, Absalom!,
Faulkner, William, As I Lay Dying,

Faulkner, William, Intruder in the Dust,
Faulkner, William, The Sound and the Fury,
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, The Great Gatsby,
Frazier, Charles, Cold Mountain,
Franklin, Benjamin, Autobiography,
Gaines, Ernest, Gathering of Old Men,
Grisham, John, A Painted House,
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, The Scarlet Letter,

Heller, Joseph, Catch 22,

Hemingway, Ernest, A Farewell to Arms,
Hemingway, Ernest, The Sun Also Rises,
Hemingway, Ernest, For Whom the Bell Tolls,
James, Henry, Portrait of a Lady,
James, Henry, The Turn of the Screw,
Kerouac, Jack, On the Road,

Kesey, Ken, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,

Kidd, Sue Monk, The Secret Life of Bees,

Kingsolver, Barbara, The Poisonwood Bible,
Kingston, Maxine Hong, The Woman Warrior,

Krakauer, Jon, Into Thin Air,

Krakauer, Jon, Into the Wild

Lewis, Sinclair, Arrowsmith,
Lewis, Sinclair, Babbitt

Lewis, Sinclair, Main Street,

Malamud, Bernard, The Assistant,

Malamud, Bernard, The Fixer,

Malamud, Bernard, The Natural,

Mason, Bobbie Anne, In Country,

McCarthy, Cormac, Crossing,

Melville, Herman, Moby-Dick,
Miller, Arthur, Death of a Salesman,
Mitchell, Margaret, Gone With the Wind,
Morrison, Toni, Sula,
Morrison, Toni, Beloved,
Morrison, Toni, Song of Solomon,

Neihardt, John G., Black Elk Speaks,
Nordhoff and Hall, Bounty Trilogy,

Norris, Frank, The Octopus,
O'Brien, Tim, Going After Cacciato: A Novel,
O'Brien, Tim, Things They Carried
O'Connor, Flannery, Three (Everything That Rises Must Converge),
O'Connor, Flannery, Collected Works (A Good Man is Hard to Find),

O'Neill, Eugene, Long Day's Journey Into Night,

Picoult, Jodi, Salem Falls,
Rand, Ayn, The Fountainhead,

Rees, Celia, Witch Child,
Robinson, Marilynne, Gilead,
Rolvaag, O.E., Giants in the Earth,
Russo, Empire Falls,
Salinger, J.D., The Catcher in the Rye,

Schlosser, Eric, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All American Meal,

Shaara, Michael, Killer Angels,

Sinclair, Upton, The Jungle,

Smiley, Jane, A Thousand Acres,

Steinbeck, John, East of Eden,
Steinbeck, John, The Grapes of Wrath,

Steinbeck, John, In Dubious Battle,

Steinbeck, John, Sweet Thursday,

Steinbeck, John, To a God Unknown,

Steinbeck, John, The Winter of Our Discontent,

Stone, Irving, Love is Eternal
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Uncle Tom's Cabin,

Tan, Amy, Joy Luck Club,
Thoreau, Henry, Walden,

Thoreau, Henry, Civil Disobedience,
Twain, Mark, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
Tyler, Anne, Accidental Tourist,
Uhry, Alfred, Driving Miss Daisy,
Updike, John, Rabbit, Run,

Vonnegut, Kurt, Cat's Cradle,

Vonnegut, Kurt, Slaughterhouse Five,

Walker, Alice, The Color Purple,

Walls, Jeannette, The Glass Castle: a memoir,

Warren, Robert, All the King's Men,
Welch, James, Fools Crow,
West, Nathaniel, Miss Lonelyhearts,

Wharton, Edith, The Age of Innocence,

Wharton, Edith, Ethan Frome,

Wideman, John Edgar, Philadelphia Fire,
Williams, Tennessee, The Glass Menagerie

Wolfe, Thomas, Look Homeward Angel,

Wolfe, Thomas, You Can't Go Home Again,
Wright, Richard, Black Boy
Wright, Richard, Native Son,