American Literature

Book List for Month 6 (1991-2020)

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Alan Brennert - Molokai

Ann Tyler – Digging to America

Cristina Henriquez – Book of Unknown Americans

David Wroblewski – The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

Frank Peretti – Monster

Jhumpa Lahiri – The Interpreter of Maladies


John Grisham – The Testament

Homer Hickam – Rocket Boys

Homer Hickam – October Sky

Jon Krakauer – Into the Wild

Kim Edwards – Memory Keepers Daughter

Lisa Wingate – The Book of Lost Friends


Matthew Kaopio - Written in the Sky

Michael Crichton – Timeline

Milton Murayama – Five Years on a Rock

Nicholas Sparks – A Walk to Remember

Paula Gunn Allen – Pocahontas: Medicine Woman, Spy, Entrepreneur, Diplomat

Philip Roth – Nemesis


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Richard Paul Evans – A Perfect Day

Tim O’Brian – The Things They Carried

Wally Lamb – I Know This Much Is True


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