Julias American Literature Reading List (11th Grade)
Explore Julia's 11th Grade American Literature Reading List featuring must-read classics and essential books for high school students. Discover top picks for your literary journey!
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
A quiet, sensitive girl searches for beauty in a small, but damned Southern town.
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The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair
The uncut version of Upton Sinclair's classic 1906 novel about the shocking working conditions endured by immigrants in early twentieth-century Chicago stockyards and packinghouses.
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My Ćntonia
by Willa Cather
The reminiscences of a New York lawyer, Jim Burden, about his boyhood in Nebraska, particularly a young Bohemian girl named Antonia Shimerda, are set against ā¦
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Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great Depression They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; ā¦
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The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanizedāand sometimes outragedāmillions of readers. One of The Atlanticās Great American Novels of the ā¦
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East of Eden
by John Steinbeck
A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of Americaās most enduring authors, in a deluxe Centennial edition In his journal, Nobel ā¦
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A Raisin in the Sun
by Lorraine Hansberry
"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of Black people's lives been seen on the stage," ā¦
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
by Ernest J. Gaines
āGrand, robust, a rich and big novel.āāAlice Walker, The New York Times Book Review āIn [Jane Pittman], Ernest Gaines has created a legendary figure. . ā¦
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The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
by Katherine Anne Porter
Porter's reputation as one of americanca's most distinguished writers rests chiefly on her superb short stories. This volume includes the collections Flowering Judas; Pale Horse, ā¦
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On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
Chronicles the way of life of the beat generation as Dean Moriarty speeds across America.
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The Crucible
by Arthur Miller
A haunting examination of groupthink and mass hysteria in a rural community A Penguin Classic "I believe that the reader will discover here the essential ā¦