American Fiction

Fiction with an American setting.

The Rest of Our Lives
Beartooth
Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
The Netanyahus
The Horse
Kick the Latch
Groundskeeping
Zorrie
Lazarus Man
The Uncharted Flight of Olivia West
Tremor
Martita, I Remember You/Martita, te recuerdo
Hangman
Mecca
American Spirits
The Great Gatsby
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Catcher in the Rye
Of Mice and Men
The Old Man and the Sea
The Grapes of Wrath
The Road
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
East of Eden
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
On the Road
The Sun Also Rises
The Scarlet Letter
Where the Crawdads Sing
Beebo Brinker by Ann BannonOdd Girl Out by Ann BannonI Am a Woman by Ann BannonLesbian Pulp Fiction by Katherine V. ForrestWomen's Barracks by Tereska Torrès
Lesbian pulp fiction
63 books — 21 voters

Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann BurnsAt Home in Mitford by Jan KaronThe All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie FlaggThe Blue Castle by L.M. MontgomeryThe House of a Thousand Lanterns by Victoria Holt
Vintage Fiction
39 books — 10 voters


Dawn Powell
I used to think old age was a kind of feather bed you gradually sank down into, but it’s not. It’s a goddam stone wall you butt your head into till it cracks.
Dawn Powell, The Locusts Have No King

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
You can’t even read American fiction to get a sense of how actual life is lived these days. You read American fiction to learn about dysfunctional white folk doing things that are weird to normal white folks.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

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