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20TH CENTURY AMERICAN BOOKS OF FICTION
Chose a novel from the following list for your paper or you may make alternative suggestions SUBJECT TO MY APPROVAL.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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