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William Faulkner. A novel that chronicles the decline of the Compson family through a series of stream-of-conscious narratives.

Richard Wright. A young African American man's life in Chicago's South Side and the inevitability of his demise due to societal forces.

Sylvia Plath. Details the descent of a young woman into madness and her struggles with the suffocating norms of society.

Zora Neale Hurston. Janie Crawford's journey through three marriages and her quest for personal independence and spiritual fulfillment.

Nelson Algren. Narrates the life of a drug addict and card dealer in post-war Chicago and his struggles with addiction.

James Weldon Johnson. The life story of a biracial man who chooses to 'pass' as white to gain social and economic advantages.

Harper Lee. A story of racial injustice and the destruction of innocence as told by a young girl named Scout in the Deep South.

J.D. Salinger. A coming-of-age story that depicts a few days in the life of a troubled teenager named Holden Caulfield.

William Faulkner. The journey of the Bundren family as they attempt to transport their mother's body to her requested burial place.

Joseph Heller. A satirical novel about the absurdity of war and bureaucracy through the experiences of Captain John Yossarian.

Arthur Miller. Willy Loman's fall from grace in the face of the American Dream and the harsh reality of his life as a traveling salesman.

Ken Kesey. The power struggles within a mental institution between a rebellious patient and the oppressive Nurse Ratched.

Don DeLillo. Explores themes of media saturation, technology, and the complexity of family life in a postmodern world.

F. Scott Fitzgerald. A novel about the mysterious Jay Gatsby and his obsession with the beautiful Daisy Buchanan during the Roaring Twenties.

Tennessee Williams. Examines the tragic life of Blanche DuBois and her clash with her brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski.

Saul Bellow. A picaresque novel about a young man's wide-ranging adventures in 20th century America.

Richard Yates. The story of a young couple living in the suburbs in the 1950s who become disillusioned with their lives and society.

John Steinbeck. Follows the Joad family's difficult journey west from Dust Bowl Oklahoma to California in search of a better life.

Ralph Ellison. Explores the theme of identity in a racially segregated society through the experiences of an unnamed African American protagonist.

Ernest Hemingway. Chronicles the travels and romances of American expatriates in Europe during the 1920s.

Ernest Hemingway. A story of an aging fisherman's struggle with a giant marlin and his quest for redemption.

Truman Capote. The story of the young and charming Holly Golightly living in New York and her unnamed narrator friend.

Carson McCullers. Focuses on the lives of a deaf-mute and the people he encounters in a 1930s mill town in Georgia.

Ray Bradbury. A dystopian novel where books are banned and 'firemen' burn any that are found.

John Steinbeck. A multi-generational epic that retells the biblical story of Cain and Abel through two families in California.

Toni Morrison. Depicts the life of a former slave haunted by the horrors of her past and the ghost of her dead child.

Ernest Hemingway. The saga of an American dynamiter fighting in the Spanish Civil War and his love affair with a partisan girl.

James Baldwin. Chronicles a day in the life of a fourteen-year-old boy and the impact of religion and family history on his life.

James McBride. A memoir addressing the author's quest to understand his biracial identity and his white Jewish mother's life.

Michael Chabon. Chronicles the lives of two Jewish cousins before, during, and after World War II as they create a popular comic book hero.

Kurt Vonnegut. Follows the story of Billy Pilgrim as he experiences World War II and time travels to various moments of his life.

Alice Walker. A series of letters that illustrate the protagonist's struggle for identity and self-respect in the early 20th century South.

Philip Roth. Tells the story of Seymour 'Swede' Levov and his ideal life falling apart during the turbulent 1960s.

Jack London. The transformation of a domesticated dog named Buck into a wild animal during the Klondike Gold Rush.

Jack Kerouac. The tale of two friends' cross-country road trips as they seek freedom and meaning in postwar America.

Ernest Hemingway. The love story between an American ambulance driver and a British nurse during World War I.

Margaret Mitchell. Set during the Civil War and Reconstruction era, it tells the romantic story of Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler.

E.L. Doctorow. Weaves together the lives of historical figures and fictional characters in early 20th-century America.

John Steinbeck. Chronicles the friendship between George and Lennie, two migrant workers with dreams of owning their own land.