I would like to recommend an American classic to my book club this Thursday. Any recommendations?
I would like to recommend an American classic to my book club this Thursday. Any recommendations?
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The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.
East of Eden.
House of the Seven Gables, Nathanial Hawthorne. Rich and gorgeous, it has the advantage of being deliciously creepy as we welcome Hallow’s Eve
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton; My Antonia by Willa Cather
The Great Gatsby
Of Mice and Men
To Kill a Mockingbird
Grapes of Wrath
Anything Hemingway
My book club really enjoyed Willa Cather’s Song of the Lark. She’s a true American classic.
Grapes of Wrath
To Kill a Mockingbird
huckleberry finn
Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton.
Gone With the Wind and The Call of the Wild
Of Mice and Men
A powerful book.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass; Native Son by Richard Wright; Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
I like where you are going. Some of what you are listing are more demanding reads. I’ll go to your Bookclub but we might lose some members who are not willing to give it the college try.
My book club just read Anatomy of a Murder a d everyone loved it.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Run with the horsemen, or any Books By Ferrol Sams
So Big or Giant, both by Edna Ferber and both wonderful.
Anything by Steinbeck!
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
The Grapes of Wrath; A Separate Peace
My Antonia.
Or Death Comes for the Archbishop. Willa Cather is an amazing writer.
The old man and the sea
Huckleberry Finn
“My Antonia” by Willa Cather.
It’s not very long, but Of Mice and Men is fabulous.
Giants in the Earth – Rolvaag; Rebecca – du Maurier; something by Hemmingway
My Antonia.
MY ANTONIA, by Willa Cather
Moby Dick!
As I lay dying by Faulkner
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Great Gatsby or O’ Pioneers
My Antonia
JUST ABOVE MY HEAD (novel) – James Baldwin
BURR (novel) – Gore Vidal
All The King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5527.All_the_King_s_Men
Wow! A great read.
Tennessee Williams’ As I Lay Dying
These are ALL great! Thanks everyone for your suggestions!
The heart is a lonely hunter – Carson McCullers
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier