Novel/Author Choices for Self Selected Novel Project

NOVEL/AUTHOR CHOICES FOR  Joseph Heller SELF SELECTED NOVEL o Catch-22 PROJECT  Ernest Hemingway THE CLASSICS o A Farewell to Arms  James Fenimore Cooper o For Whom the Bell Tolls o Last of the Mohicans o The Sun Also Rises  Nathaniel Hawthorne  Margaret Mitchell o The Scarlet Letter o Gone With The Wind o The House of Seven  Henry Roth Gables o Call it Sleep  Herman Melville  Ralph Ellison o Moby Dick o The Invisible Man o Billy Budd  John Steinbeck  Mark Twain o East of Eden o The Adventures of o Tortilla Flat Huckleberry Finn o The Grapes of Wrath  Kate Chopin  Ayn Rand The Awakening o o Anthem  Stephen Crane o Atlas Shrugged The Red Badge of o o The Fountainhead Courage  William Faulkner o Maggie: A Girl of the o As I Lay Dying Streets o Light in August  Louisa May Alcott o Absalom! Absalom! o Little Women o The Sound and the Fury  Jack London  Zora Neale Hurston o Call of the Wild o Their Eyes Were o The Sea Wolf Watching God THE MODERNS  E.L. Doctorow Ragtime  Edith Wharton o John Dos Passos o Ethan Frome  42nd Parallel o The Age of Innocence o Manhattan Transfer  Sylvia Plath o o The Bell Jar THE DRAMAS  Willa Cather  Eugene O’Neill o O Pioneers! o Desire Under the Elms o My Antonia o Mourning Becomes  F. Scott Fitzgerald Electra Tender is the Night o o Long Day’s Journey into o This Side of Paradise Night  Theodore Dreiser  Tennessee Williams An American Tragedy o o A Streetcar Named o Sister Carrie Desire o Cat on a Hot Tin Roof o The Corrections o The Glass Menagerie  Melissa Bank o The Girl’s Guide to Hunting and Fishing  Arthur Miller o Death of a Salesman o All My Sons  Elizabeth Berg o After the Fall o Joy School o Durable Goods THE CONTEMPORARIES o What We Keep  Toni Morrison  Michael Chabon o Sula o The Amazing Adventures o The Bluest Eye of Kavalier and Clay o Beloved  Phillip Roth  Barbara Kingsolver o American Pastoral o The Poisonwood Bible  Dan Brown o Bean Trees o The DaVinci Code  Leslie Marmon Silko o Angels and Demons o Ceremony o Inferno  Kurt Vonnegut  Pat Conroy o Cat’s Cradle o The Prince of Tides o Slaughterhouse 5 o Lords of Discipline  Carson McCullers o The Great Santini o The Heart is a Lonely o Beach Music Hunter  Jeffrey Eugenides  John Irving o The Virgin Suicides o A Prayer for Owen o Middlesex Meany  Tony Hillerman o The World According to o The Wailing Wall Garp o The Dark Wind  Jack Kerouac  Alice Hoffman o On the Road o Practical Magic  William S. Burroughs o Aquamarine o Naked Lunch o Turtle Moon o Fear and Loathing in Las  Wally Lamb Vegas o She’s Come Undone  Ken Kesey o I Know This Much Is o One Flew Over the True Cuckoo’s Nest  Walter Dean Myers o The Electric Kool-Aid o Fallen Angels Acid Test o Scorpion  Anita Diamant  Larry McMurtry o The Red Tent o Lonesome Dove  Jonathon Franzen  Mario Puzo o The Godfather  Alex Haley  Joyce Carol Oates o Roots o We Were the Mulvaneys  Alice Walker  Anne Packer o The Color Purple o The Dive from Clausen’s  Stephen King Pier o It  Kathryn Stockett o The Talisman o The Help o The Stand  Raymond Chandler o 11/22/63 o The Big Sleep  Christopher Moore  Anthony Doerr o Lamb: The Gospel o All the Light We Cannot According to Biff, See Christ’s Childhood Pal  Harper Lee  Justin Cronin o Go Set a Watchman o The Passage  Sharon Draper  Cormac McCarthy o Copper Sun o The Road o Out of My Mind  Donna Tartt o The Battle of Jericho o The Goldfinch o November Blues  Alice Sebold  Richard Russo o The Lovely Bones o Empire Falls  George R.R. Martin  Julius Lester o Song of Fire and Ice: o Day of Tears Game of Thrones  Jodi Picoult  Jonathon Safron o My Sister’s Keeper o Extremely Loud and o The Pact Incredibly Close  Tom Robbins o Everything is Illuminated o Still Life With  Chuck Palahniuk Woodpecker o Invisible Monsters o Even Cowgirls Get the o Fight Club Blues o Survivor o Skinny Legs and All o Lullaby  Tim O’Brien  Bret Easton Ellis o The Things They Carried o American Psycho o In the Lake of the Woods  Don DeLillo  Janet Tashjian o Underworld o The Gospel According to  John Updike Larry o Rabbit, Run  Rebecca Wells  Jennifer Egan o Divine Secrets of the Ya- o A Visit From the Goon Ya Sisterhood Squad  Lauren Weisberger  John Green o The Devil Wears Prada o Papertowns o An Abundance of Katherines o Looking for Alaska o The Fault in our Stars It is your job to look over this list and make an informed choice. I recommend that you talk to people you know (who actually read books), look up summaries of the novels online, read a couple pages of the book at Borders or Amazon.com before you buy, etc. I would prefer you choose a novel from this list— if you have something else in mind, you must speak with me before ….