Happy 4th of July everybody!! (And for all of you American readers, Happy Independence Day! But, the rest of you can still have a happy day, if you’d like!)
So, I am pretty well into 3 different books right now, but not quite finished them, and most likely I will do longer reviews on all of them, so I was trying to think of what to share today – since I don’t want to give you too much of a preview!!
So, I decided to give you a little quiz on American literature. I googled “The Great American Book,” and found a Wikipedia page that listed novels that have been termed “The Great American Novel”. So . . . readers, I want to see how many of the great American novels you have read. Leave a comment below to let me know how many!! Also, let me know if you think there are any missing from the list!!
- Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
- U.S.A. trilogy by John Dos Passo
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
- J R by William Gaddis
- Little, Big by John Crowley
- Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
- Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
- Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
- Underworld by Don DeLillo
- Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
I have actually only read 2 of these, and I haven’t heard of most of them!! I guess I need to get reading!! What about you?
k. liz barker 