| American Authors > Novelists / Playwrights |
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| Maya Angelou | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, And Still I Rise, Phenomenal Woman, On the Pulse of Morning, Letter to My Daughter |
| James Agee | A Death in the Family, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, The Morning Watch |
| Isaac Asimov | The Gods Themselves, I Robot, Foundation, The Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, Nightfall, The End of Eternity, The Gods Themselves |
| John Barth | The Sot-Weed Factor, Lost in the Funhouse, The Floating Opera, |
| Louisa May Alcott | Little Women, Little Men, Eight Cousins, Jo's Boys, An Old Fashioned Girl, Rose in Bloom, Behind a Mask, Flower Fables |
| James Baldwin | Go Tell It on the Mountain, The Fire Next Time, Giovanni's Room, Nodes of a Native Son, Nobody Knows My Name, Another country |
| L. Frank Baum | The Wonderful Wizard of Ozm Ozma of Oz, The Lost Princess of Oz, Glinda of Oz, Tol-Tok of Oz The Patchwork Girl of Oz, |
| Saul Bellows, nee Solomon Bellows | The Adventures of Augie March , Henderson the Rain King , Herzog ,Ravelstein,Humboldt's Gift, Mr. Sammler's Planet , Seize the Day |
| Ray Bradbury | The Illustrated Man, Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, Dandelion Wine, The Halloween Tree, The Veldt, A Sound of Thunder |
| Pearl S. Buck | The Good Earth, Sons, The Big Wave, Peony, A House Divided, East Wind: West Wind, Imperial Woman, Dragon Seed, The Mother |
| Peter Benchley | Jaws, The Island, Beast, White Shark, Rummies, The Deep |
| Frances Hodgson Burnett | Little Lord Fauntleroy, A Secret Gasrden, A Little Princess, Sara Crewe, Emily Fox-Seton, One Day at Arle |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | Tarzan of the Apes, A Princess of Mars, The Gods of Mars, John Carter of Mars, At the Earth's Core |
| William S. Burroughs | Naked Lunch, Junkie, The Soft Machine, Queer, Cities of the Red Night, Nova Express, Interzone |
| James M. Cain | The Postman Always Rings Twice, Mildred Pierce, Double Indemnity, Past all dishonor, The Cocktail Waitress, The Root of His Evil |
| Erskine Caldwell | God's Little Acre, Tobacco Road, Place Called Estherville, Kneel To the Rising Sun, Georgia Boy, Poor Fool, Say, Is This the USA |
| Taylor Caldwell | Dynasty of Death, Captains and the Kings, Dear and Glorious Physician, Testimony of Two Men, Answer as a Man, The Listener Gloory and the Lighting |
| Ethan Canin | America America, Blue River, The Palace Thief, For Kings and Planets, American Beauty Stories |
| Truman Capote | 'Other Voices, Other Rooms' , |
| Tom Clancy | The Hunt for Red October, Command Authority, Rainbow Six, Red Storm Rising, Patriot Games, Without Remorse, Debt of Honor, The Teeth of the Tiger, Locked On, Executive Orders, The Cardinal of the Kremlin |
| Pat Conroy | The Prince of Tides. The Great Santini, The Lords of Disipline, Beach Music, The Water is Wide, South of Broad, My Losing Season, The Boo, Stolz und Ehre |
| John Cheever | The Wapshot Chronicle. The Swimmer, Bullet Park, The Enormous Radio, Falconer, The World of Apples |
| Michael Crichton | Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain, Timeline, The Lost World, State of Fear, Prey, Sphere,The Great Train Robbery, Rising Sun |
| Don DeLillo | White Noise, Underworld, Falling Man, Cosmopolis, Mao II, Libra, Point Omega, The Body Artist, |
| John Dos Passos | U.S.A., Three Soldiers, The 42nd Parallel, The big Money, 1919, Manhattan Transfer |
| Allen Stuart Drury | Advise and Consent, the Throne of Saturn, God Against Gods, Return to Thebes, Anna Hastings, The Roads of Earth, Pentagon |
| Walter D. Edmonds | Drums Along the Mohawk, |
| James T. Farrell | Young Lonigan, Studs Lonigan, My Days of Anger. Chicago Stories, The Face of Time, Dreaming Baseball |
| William Faulkner | Light in August, The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Absalom, Absalom!, Sanctuary, A Rose For Emily, The Reivers, Sartoris, The Hamlet, the Town |
| Edna Ferber | So Big, Showboat, Cimarron, Saratoga Trunk, Buttered Side Down, Fanny herself, Giant, American Beauty |
| Vardis Fisher | Children of God, Mountain Man, The Valley of Vision.,The Mother,s Peace Like a River |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald , nee Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald | The Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and the Dammned. The Curious case of Benjamin Button, The Crackup, The Last Tycoon. All the Sad Young Men |
| Paul Gallico | The Poseidon Adventure, The Snow Goose, Mrs. 'Aris goes to Paris, The Silent Miaow, Thomasina, The Abandoned, Jennie, Love of Seven Dolls |
| Erle Stanley Gardner | (The Case of the = ~) Velvet Claws, ~ Glamorous Ghost, ~Lucky Legs, ~Gilded Lily ~Horrifies Heirs, , ~Rolling Bones,~Grinning Gorilla ~Counterfeit Eye, ~Careless Cupid, ~ Lazy Lover, Perjured Parrot, ~Baited Hook, Caretaker's Cat |
| Ellen Gilchrist | "Rhoda, a Life in Stories",. The Anna Papers, Starcarbon, "
I, Rhoda Manning, Net of Jewels.
",Go Hunting With My Daddy Acts of God, The Courts of Love |
| Zane Grey | Riders of the Purple Sage, The LOne Star Ranger, Spirit of the Border, The Rainbow Trail, The Border Legion, to the Last Man, Forlorn River, Last of the Duanes, Nevada, The Young Forester, The Day of the Beast, The Buffalo Hunter |
| John Grisham | The Firm, The Time to Kill, Sycamore Row, Gray Mountain, The Rainmaker, The Pelican Brief, The Client, The litigators, The Runaway Jury, The Chamber, The Testament, A painted House, The Confession, The Partner, The Street Lawyer, Calico Joe, Ford County, The Broker, The Associate, The Brethen |
| Winston Groom | Forrest Gump, Better Times Than These, A Storm in Flanders, Shrouds of Glory, 'Shiloh, 1862' , Patriotic Fire, Gone the Sun |
| Judith Guest | Ordinary People, The Tarnished Eye, Errands, Twin Cities Noir, The Silence of the Loons, ,Killing Time in St. Cloud, Ailede Olmek, Ice Walk, Second Heaven, |
| A. B. Guthrie, Jr. nee Alfred Bertram Guthrie |
The Big Sky, The Way West, 'Fair Land,Fair Land', Wild Pitch, Murders at Moon Dance, Playing Catch-up, Murder in the Cotswolds, No Second Wind, The Big It |
| Alex Haley | Roots, 'Queen: The Story if an American', Mama Flora's Family, Viva Mexico!, Coronado's Golden Quest |
| Dashiell Hammett | The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvest, The Glass Key, The Dain Curse, The Hunter and Other Stories, Arson Plus |
| Thomas Harris | The Silence of the Lambs, red Dragon, Hannibal, Black Sunday |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | The Scarlet Letter, The House of Seven Gables, Twice-Told tales, The Blithedale Romance, Young Goodman Brown, the Marble Faun |
| Joseph Heller | Catch-22, Someting Happened, Closing Tiem, Good as Gold, Gos Knows, Picture This, No Laughing Matter, Catch as Catch Can |
| Ernest Miller Hemingway | A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea, The Sun Also Rises, for Whom the Bell Tolls, A Moveable Feast, To Have and Have Not, Death in the Afternoon, In Our Time, The Garden of Eden, Green Hills of Africa, Island in the Stream |
| Aleksandar Hemon | Nowhere Man, The Book of My Lives, Love and Obstacles, The Lazarus Project, The Question of Bruno, Behind the Glass Wall |
| Frank Herbert | Dune, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Whipping Star, The White Plague, The Dragon in the Sea, The Lazarus Effect |
| John Richard Hersey | A Bell for Adano, Hiroshima, the Wall, The Algiers Motel Incident, Antonietta, Blues, KeyWest Tales, To Far to Walk, The Walnut Door |
| William Dean Howells | The Rise of Silas Lapham, A Hazard of New Fortunes, A Modern Instance, A Traveler from Altruria, Venetian Life, My Mark Twain, Through the Eye of the Needle, The Lady of the Aroostook |
| Evan Hunter, pen name of Ed McCain, nee Salvatore Albert Lombino | Blackboard Jungle, The Mugger, Cop Hater, Find the Feathered Serpent, Killer's Payoff, King's Ransom, Vespers. Shotgun, Fat Ollie Book |
| William Inge | Picnic, Bus Stop, Splendor in the Grass, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, A Loss of Roses |
| John Irving nee John Wallace Blunt, Jr. | The World According to Garp, The Cider House Rules, A Prayer for Owen Meany, A Widow for One Year, The Fourth Hand , In One Person |
| Rona Jaffe | Mazes and Monsters, The Best of Everything, Class Reunion, The Road Taken, Five Women, The Cousins, Away From Home, The Last Chance, An American Love Story, The Fame Game, Family Secrets |
| John William Jakes | North and South, The Kent Family Chronicles, Teh Bastard, Love and War, Heaven and Hell, California Gold, The Rebels, The Americans, The Furies, The Lawless |
| Henry James | Washington Square, The American, The Turn of the Screw, The Portait of a Lady, Daisy Miller, The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, The Golden Bowl |
| Elizabeth Janeway nee Elizabeth Ames Hall | Daisy Kenyon ,The Vikings, Leaving Home, Powers of the Weak, Child of the Wolves, The Passionate Land, Ivanov Seven |
| James Jones | From Here to Eternity, The Thin Red Line, Some Came Runnig, Whistle, Go to the Widow Maker, A Touch of Danger, WW II, The Pistol |
| Erica Jong | Fear of Flying, Parachutes and Kisses, Fanny, Fear of Fifty, Sappho's Leap, Fear of Dying, Shylock's Daughter, Witches |
| MacKinlay Kantor | Andersonville, Long Remember, The Voice of Bugle Ann, Spirit Lake, Lee and Grant at Appomattox, Gettysburg |
| Sue Kaufman | Diary of a Mad Housewife |
| Helen Keller | The Story of My Life, Out of the Dark, The Open Door, The Miracle Worker, The Song of the Stone Wall, |
| Jack Kerouac | On the Road |
| Sophie Kerr | Wife's Eye View, Girl Into Woman, As Tall As Pride, Jenny Devlin, Miss J. Looks On, In For a Penny, The See-Saw, |
| Ken Kesey | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| Stephen King | Carrie |
| Fletcher Knebel | Seven Days in May |
| Dean Koontz | Whispers |
| Louis L'Amour | Jubal Sackett |
| Margaret Landon | Anna and the King of Siam |
| Jane Langton | The Transcendental Murder |
| Ring Lardner | You Know Me Al |
| Jeanne Larsen | Silk Road |
| William Lederer | The Ugly American |
| Harper Lee | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Peter Lefcourt | The Dreyfus Affair |
| Elmore Leonard | Get Shorty |
| Ira Levin | Rosemary's Baby |
| Sinclair Lewis | Main Street |
| Ross Lockridge, Jr. | Raintree County |
| Jack London | The Call of the Wild |
| Anita Loos | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes |
| Robert Ludlum | The Bourne Identity |
| Norman Mailer | The Naked and the Dead |
| William March | The Bad Seed |
| John P. Marquand | The Late George Apley |
| George R. R. Martin | A Game of Thrones |
| Horace McCoy | They Shoot Horses, Don't They? |
| Richard McKenna | The Sand Pebbles |
| Terry McMillan | Waiting to Exhale |
| Larry McMurtry | Lonesome Dove |
| Herman Melville | Moby-Dick |
| Grace Metalious | Peyton Place |
| James A. Michener | Tales of the South Pacific |
| Henry Miller | Tropic of Cancer |
| Arthur Miller | The Crucible, Misfits |
| Margaret Mitchell | Gone with the Wind |
| Toni Morrison | Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Sula, God Help the Child, Home, A Mercy, Tar Baby, Love, Paradise, Playing in the Dark, Jazz, The Big Box, The Book of Mean People, Desdemona |
| Willard Motley | Knock on Any Door |
| Vladimir Nabokov | Lolita, Pale Fire, Pnin, The Gift, "Speak, Memory" , The Defense, Mary, Bend Sinister, Despair |
| John Nichols | The Milagro Beanfield War |
| Anaïs Nin | A Spy in the House of Love |
| Charles Nordhoff | Mutiny on the Bounty |
| Joyce Carol Oates | The Accursed, Black Water, The Gravedigger's Daughter, The Falls, Blonde, Wonderland, 'Lovely, Dark, Deep', American Appetites Big Mouth & Ugly Girl, Bellefleur, You Must remember This, On Boxing, |
| Edwin O'Connor | The Last Hurrah |
| John O'Hara | Appointment in Samarra |
| Cynthia Ozick. | The Shawl, Messiah of Stockholm, Quarrel & Quandrum, Fame & Folly, The Cannibal Galaxy, Foreign Bodies |
| Bernadette Pajer | Professor Bradshaw Mysteries |
| Sylvia Plath | The Bell Jar, Ariel, The Bed Book, Crossing theWater, Winter Trees, |
| George Plimpton | The Curious Case of Sidd Finch |
| Edgar Allan Poe | The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket |
| Katherine Anne Porter | Ship of Fools |
| Charles Portis | True Grit |
| Chaim Potok | The Chosen |
| Edward Reynolds Price | Roxanna Slade, Kate Vaiden, The Good Priest's Son , A Long and Happy Life, The Promise of Rest, The Source of Light, Out on the Porch, The Surface of Earth |
| Olive Higgins Prouty | Stella Dallas |
| Mario Puzo | The Godfather |
| Thomas Ruggles Pynchon | The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, Inherent Vice, Mason and Dixson, Bleeding Edge, Vineland, Against the Day, The Secret Integration |
| Ellery Queen (Frederick Danna) |
The Greek Coffin Mystery |
| Ayn Rand | Atlas Shrugged |
| Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | The Yearling |
| Harold Robbins | The Carpetbaggers |
| Kenneth Roberts | Northwest Passage |
| Nora Roberts | Irish Thoroughbred |
| Judith Rossner | Looking for Mr. Goodbar |
| Leo Rosten | Captain Newman, M.D. |
| Philip Roth | Portnoy's Complaint |
| J. D. Salinger | The Catcher in the Rye |
| John Sandford | Rules of Prey |
| William Saroyan | The Human Comedy |
| Erich Segal | Love Story |
| Anya Seton | Green Darkness |
| Anna Sewell | Black Beauty., Fekete Szépség, Azabache |
| Irwin Shaw | Rich Man, Poor Man |
| Anita Shreve | Testimony , The Pilot's Wife, A Change In Altitude, The Weight Of Water. |
| Betty Smith | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
| Susan Sontag | In America |
| Terry Southern | The Magic Christian |
| Mickey Spillane | I, the Jury |
| Adela RogersSt. John | Tell No Man, Final Verdict, The Honeycomg, Some are Born Great |
| Danielle Steel | Family Album |
| Gertrude Stein | The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas |
| John Steinbeck | The Grapes of Wrath |
| Irving Stone | The Agony and the Ecstasy |
| Robert Stone | Dog Soldiers |
| Rex Stout | Fer-de-Lance |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Preston Sturges, nee Edmund Preston Biden | Hail the Conquering Hero, The Great McGinty, The :Lady Eve, Christmas in July, |
| William Styron | The Confessions of Nat Turner |
| Jacqueline Susann | Valley of the Dolls |
| Amy Tan | The Joy Luck Club, The Valley of Amazement, The Kitchen God’s Wife, The Bonesetter’s Daughter, |
| Booth Tarkington | The Magnificent Ambersons |
| James Thurber | The 13 Clocks, The White Deer |
| Trevanian | The Eiger Sanction |
| Scott Turow | Presumed Innocent |
| Mark Twain | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| Anne Tyler | The Accidental Tourist |
| John Updike | Rabbit, Run |
| Leon Uris | Exodus |
| Jack Vance | The Killing Machine |
| Louis Joseph Vance | The Lone Wolf |
| Gore Vidal | Burr |
| Kurt Vonnegut | Slaughterhouse-Five |
| Alice Walker | The Color Purple |
| Irving Wallace | The Fan Club |
| Lew Wallace | Ben-Hur |
| Robert James Waller | The Bridges of Madison County |
| Joseph Wambaugh | The Choirboys |
| Robert Penn Warren | All the King's Men |
| Charles Webb | The Graduate |
| Rebecca Wells | Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood |
| Nathaneal West, nee Nathan Weinstein |
The Day of the Locust ; The Dream Life of Balso Snell ; Miss Lonelyhearts , A Cool Million |
| E. B. White | Charlotte's Web |
| Elie Wiesel | Twilight |
| Thornton Wilder | The Bridge of San Luis Rey |
| Tennessee Williams | The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone |
| Thomas Wolfe | Look Homeward Angel, The Web and the Rock, The Far And The Near, The Face of a Nation, From Death to Morning |
| Tom Wolfe | The Bonfire of the Vanities, The Right Stuff, I am Charlotte Simmons, the Painted Word, A Man In Full, Back To Blood |
| Herman Wouk | The Caine Mutiny, The Winds of War, War and Remembrace. This is My God, Don't Stop the Carnival, The Hope, The Lawgiver, The Glory |
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