Click on titles and read short summaries to see which books interest you.  Once you have narrowed down your list, I suggest that you find a little more information about each before deciding.

Only one AHS student per book for this project.  First come, first served.  I suggest submitting your proposal right away when you find a book on the list that you would like to analyze.

Books with authors in light grey are already taken.

Go Tell It on the Mountain - James Baldwin

The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros

The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane

The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway

Moby Dick - Herman Melville

Jazz - Toni Morrison

We Were the Mulvaneys - Joyce Carol Oates

Wise Blood - Flannery O’Conner

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain

Native Son - Richard Wright

A Raisin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansberry

A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams

The Andromeda Strain - Michael Crichton

Billy Budd - Herman Melville

The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison

The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder

Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan

Main Street - Sinclair Lewis

In the Lake of the Woods - Tim O’Brien

Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson

Yearling - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce

The Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper

Ceremony - Leslie Marmon Silko

The Color Purple - Alice Walker

The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

A Death in the Family - James Agee

My Antonia - Willa Cather

For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway

Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

Portrait of a Lady - Henry James

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey

Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton

Black Boy - Richard Wright

Our Town - Thornton Wilder

Delta Wedding - Eudora Welty

Absalom, Absalom - William Faulkner

The American - Henry James

All the King’s Men - Robert Penn Warren

The Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison

The Lovely Bones - Alice Selbold

Bel Canto - Ann Patchett

Bone - Fae Myenne Ng

Martin Dressler - Stephen Millhauser

Mr. Timothy - Louis Bayard

Eldest - Christopher Paolini

Baby - Joseph Monninger

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou

Serafina’s Stories - Rudolfo Anaya

In the Time of the Butterflies - Julia Alvarez

In Cold Blood - Truman Capote

Antelope Wife - Louise Erdich

Babylon Revisited - F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Natural - Bernard Malamud

In Country - Bobbie Ann Mason

Desirable Daughters - Bharati Mukherjee

The Optimist’s Daughter - Eudora Welty