American Literature

Book List for Month 4 (1915-1950)

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J D Salinger – Catcher in the Rye

Jack Shaefer - Shane

John Steinbeck – The Pearl

Langston Hughes – Selected Poems

Pearl S. Buck – The Good Earth

Richard Wright – Native Son


T S Eliot – Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats

Tennessee Williams – The Glass Menagerie

Thomas Wolfe – You Can’t Go Home Again

Thornton Wilder – Our Town


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William Faulkner – The Unvanquished

Zora Neale Hurston – Their Eyes Were Watching God


Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.

— Laurie Anderson