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Novels
The Adventures of Augie March
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A Hazard of New Fortunes
All the King's Men
The American
American Pastoral
An American Tragedy
Atlas Shrugged
The Awakening
Beloved
Call It Sleep
The Call of the Wild
The Catcher in the Rye
China Men
The Color Purple
The Corrections
Gilead
The Good Earth
Go Tell It on the Mountain
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Gatsby
The House of Mirth
The House on Mango Street
In Cold Blood
Infinite Jest
Invisible Man
Ironweed
The Jungle
The Known World
The Last of the Mohicans
Lolita
Main Street
McTeague
Moby Dick
My Ántonia
The Naked and the Dead
Native Son
On the Road
The Optimist's Daughter
Play It as It Lays
Rabbit, Run
The Red Badge of Courage
The Scarlet Letter
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Sound and the Fury
The Sun Also Rises
Their Eyes Were Watching God
To Kill a Mockingbird
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Underworld
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Authors
Sherwood Anderson
James Baldwin
Saul Bellow
Pearl S. Buck
Truman Capote
Willa Cather
Kate Chopin
Sandra Cisneros
James Fenimore Cooper
Stephen Crane
Don DeLillo
Joan Didion
Theodore Dreiser
Ralph Ellison
Louise Erdrich
William Faulkner
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jonathan Franzen
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ernest Hemingway
William Dean Howells
Zora Neale Hurston
Henry James
Gish Jen
Edward P. Jones
Erica Jong
William Kennedy
Jack Kerouac
Maxine Hong Kingston
Harper Lee
Sinclair Lewis
Jack London
Norman Mailer
Herman Melville
Toni Morrison
Vladimir Nabokov
Frank Norris
Joyce Carol Oates
Ayn Rand
Marilynne Robinson
Philip Roth
J.D. Salinger
Upton Sinclair
John Steinbeck
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Mark Twain
John Updike
Kurt Vonnegut
Alice Walker
David Foster Wallace
Robert Penn Warren
Eudora Welty
Edith Wharton
Richard Wright
Literary Movements
Beat Generation
Harlem Renaissance
Lost Generation
Modernism
Naturalism
Postmodernism
Realism
Romanticism
Transcendentalism
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