A Journey Through Literary America
Which are your favorite books from the 26 great American authors featured in A JOURNEY THROUGH LITERARY AMERICA?
Sherwood Anderson • Raymond Carver • Willa Cather • James Fenimore Cooper • Rita Dove • Ralph Waldo Emerson • William Faulkner • Richard Ford • Robert Frost • Nathaniel Hawthorne • Ernest Hemingway • Langston Hughes • Washington Irving • Robinson Jeffers • Sinclair Lewis • Herman Melville • Henry Miller • Toni Morrison • Flannery O Connor • E. Annie Proulx • Philip Roth • Wallace Stegner • John Steinbeck • Henry David Thoreau • John Updike • Thomas Wolfe
Sherwood Anderson • Raymond Carver • Willa Cather • James Fenimore Cooper • Rita Dove • Ralph Waldo Emerson • William Faulkner • Richard Ford • Robert Frost • Nathaniel Hawthorne • Ernest Hemingway • Langston Hughes • Washington Irving • Robinson Jeffers • Sinclair Lewis • Herman Melville • Henry Miller • Toni Morrison • Flannery O Connor • E. Annie Proulx • Philip Roth • Wallace Stegner • John Steinbeck • Henry David Thoreau • John Updike • Thomas Wolfe
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286 voters ·
list created December 7th, 2009
by Tamra Dempsey (votes) .
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I've removed NICU II and Victoria's Incestuous Romance, Exotic Neurotic, Angelica and Francesca and The Cadaver Factory, which are all books by Kenneth Jarrett Singleton. They turn up on a lot of lists where they don't belong, so STOP SPAMMING!!!
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And as not being part of the 26 American authors mentioned in the description, no matter how great the books might be, I've also removed
The Color Purple
The Cider House Rules
The Hotel New Hampshire
The Sot-Weed Factor
Song of Myself
Leaves of Grass
The Constitution of the United States of America
Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches
The Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories of the Four Million
Ironweed
The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
For the Love of Words: A Book of Poetry and Short Stories
A Sport and a Pastime
Thru the Eyes and Mind of a Poet: A Journey to Remember
A Year of Living Prayerfully: How a Curious Traveler Met the Pope, Walked on Coals, Danced with Rabbis, and Revived His Prayer Life
Gospel Prism
Of Plymouth Plantation: Sixteen Twenty to Sixteen Forty-Seven
The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
Cold Mountain
Burning Furiously Beautiful: The True Story of Jack Kerouac's On the Road
The 40s: The Story of a Decade
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Piers Plowman (Come on people, read! The author is not even American!
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
Grand Opening
And I've also removed the book A Journey Through Literary America itself, as it is not written by any of the 26 authors mentioned...
The Color Purple
The Cider House Rules
The Hotel New Hampshire
The Sot-Weed Factor
Song of Myself
Leaves of Grass
The Constitution of the United States of America
Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches
The Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories of the Four Million
Ironweed
The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
For the Love of Words: A Book of Poetry and Short Stories
A Sport and a Pastime
Thru the Eyes and Mind of a Poet: A Journey to Remember
A Year of Living Prayerfully: How a Curious Traveler Met the Pope, Walked on Coals, Danced with Rabbis, and Revived His Prayer Life
Gospel Prism
Of Plymouth Plantation: Sixteen Twenty to Sixteen Forty-Seven
The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
Cold Mountain
Burning Furiously Beautiful: The True Story of Jack Kerouac's On the Road
The 40s: The Story of a Decade
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Piers Plowman (Come on people, read! The author is not even American!
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
Grand Opening
And I've also removed the book A Journey Through Literary America itself, as it is not written by any of the 26 authors mentioned...
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