American novel recommendation

[mehastings]

Ernest Hemingway's Farewell to Arms

Hemingway is one of my favourite authors. He can evoke so much with so few words. Brilliant stuff! If you have never tired him then I can really recommend him. If not Farewell to arms then you could try his short story/novella The Old Man and the Sea

I agree, Ernest Hemingway is great. I'd suggest A Farwell to Arms or For Whom the Bell Tolls.

 

[Infinity]

easy there cowboy, just trying to get a bit o'info. i recommend steinbeck, grapes of wrath is sad and wonderful, and east of eden is dark, but brilliant.

best of luck.

These books have been done in English last semester.

Thanks everyone.

 

[Rex]

Froggerz made an excellent suggestion - Mark Twain.

Witty, intelligent, and quintessentially American.

 

[abecedarian]

American Novels

How about To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee? It is one of my favorites and deals with so many issues. It would be under drama I suppose or general fiction.

 

[Slacker]

I like The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Going for really broad and general suggestion beyond that, I would choose from 20th century authors. Because when you get back further into the romanticism school of writing, it's tougher reading, even if you find that you do enjoy it.

JMHO.

ETA: I can't believe I didn't think of Catcher in the Rye.

It's never been on my "What book Changed your Life?" list, but it sure is a popular answer to that question. And its not too shabby a read.

 

[Infinity]

Thank you everyone. I picked A Farewell to Arms.