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20TH CENTURY AMERICAN BOOKS OF FICTION

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Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio 1919

Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1970

James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953

Saul Bellow, Herzog 1964

Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky 1948

William Burroughs, Naked Lunch 1959

Douglas Coupland, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture 1991

Joan Didion, Play it as it Lays, A Novel 1970

John Dos Passos, U.S.A. 1930

Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy 1925; Sister Carrie 1900

Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho: A Novel 1991

Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man 1952

William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury 1926; As I Lay Dying 1930; Go Down, Moses 1940

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and the Damned 1922; The Great Gatsby 1925; Tender is the Night 1934; The Last Tycoon: An Unfinished Novel 1941

Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises 1926; A Farewell to Arms1929; The Short Stories 1938; For Whom the Bell Tolls 1941

Joseph Heller, Catch-22 1961

Michael Herr, Dispatches 1984

John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire 1981; The World According to Garp 1978

Jack Kerouac, On the Road 1957

Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1962; Sometimes a Great Notion 1964

Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird 1960

Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt 1922

Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead 1948

Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer 1934

Toni Morrison, Sula 1973; Song of Solomon 1977; Beloved 1987; Jazz 1992

Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita 1958

Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow 1973

Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint 1969

J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye 1951

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath 1937

John Updike, Rabbit, Run 1960

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five 1969

Alice Walker, The Color Purple 1982

Nathanael West, The Day of the Locust 1939

Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence 1920





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