what are some books by great american authors?

[chiwawa626]

what are some books by great american authors? like mark twain...and stienbeck....u know...what are some good intresting ones a 16 year old would like ...any cool war ones? i like huck finn...is adventures tom sawyer any good?

 

[mithrandir2001]

Catcher on the Rye - Salinger

 

[datalink7]

Tom Sawyer is good.

A collection of short stories by Mark Twain are really good.

A Red Badge of Courage is good.

Into Sci Fi? The Illustrated Man is one of my favorite books of all time. By Ray Bradbury (not actually sure if he is American)

Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein (MUCH better than the movie. And only slightly similar. Really good book)

 

[Flat]

Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
V. - Thomas Pynchon
Vinelands - Thomas Pynchon...

 

[Atrail]

"The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

[Dedpuhl]

Of Mice and Men

 

[Zenmervolt]

Well, 'Catch-22' has been my favorite book since 9th grade. It's newer than the books you're probably thinking of, but its author, Joseph Heller is an American and I'd consider him a great author. 'Catch-22' is set in the Second World War and follows a bombardier in a squadron based on an island off the coast of Italy. I'm also partial to Dashiell Hammett's 'The Maltese Falcon'.

Zenmervolt

 

[chiwawa626]

i wanna read that book about band of brothers... 🙂 ill have to ask my teacher..

 

[Mork]

The Bean Trees, Kingsolver

 

[Tom]

I really liked Grapes of Wrath as a teenager.

 

[yellowperil]

Catch-22 is an excellent book. It's very funny and absurd, and telling about American reality at the same time. The only other war book by an American author I can remember right now is Stephen Crane's 'The Red Badge of Courage'.

 

[LoneWolf1]

Anything by Louis L'Amour.

 

[Atrail]

Hemingway's stuff too "For Whom the Bell Tolls" thats a good war novel
since no one else mentioned it yet

 

[beatniks3]

norman mailer's THE NAKED & THE DEAD is one of the best war novels ever written...a little long for a school project. In the terms of non-war stuff check out anything by William S. Burroughs...