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Anonymous Fri Oct 12 23:22:51 2018 No.11924157 [DELETED]

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What are some essential works of American literature?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 12 23:24:48 2018 No.11924164 MobY Dick

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 12 23:30:03 2018 No.11924182 Unironically, the book of Mormon. Not because it's good but because it perfectly illustrates how Americans see themselves in relation to the rest of human history and it's the most American thing ever written.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 12 23:32:04 2018 No.11924190 >>11924157 Thanatopsis

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 12 23:34:43 2018 No.11924206 Faulkner.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 12 23:40:31 2018 No.11924220 >>11924182 It Came To Pass that it Came To Pass, and so It Came To Pass.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 12 23:47:31 2018 No.11924248 >>11924157 The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, Walden, Emerson's essays, Whitman's Leaves of Grass, anything by William James, sprinkle in a little Dewey. I would mention Melville but that's been covered already.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 12 23:50:02 2018 No.11924260 >>11924182 Go to bed Harold.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 12 23:50:52 2018 No.11924263 Selected Poems by Daniel Dumile Aphorisms by Paulie Walnuts Culture of Critique by Ronald Macdonalds The Art of The Deal Selected Lyrics by Johnny Rebel Beloved by Toni Morrison

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 12 23:53:10 2018 No.11924271 >>11924248 To add onto this, McCarthy, particularly Blood Meridian and Suttree

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 12 23:53:21 2018 No.11924272 Tropic of cancer

Anonymous Fri Oct 12 23:55:05 2018 No.11924278
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>>11924157
John steinbeck
Mark twain
edgar allan poe
Melville
walt whitman
Anything written by the founding fathers (essays, the bill of rights, the declaration of independence, etc.)
salinger

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 12 23:56:05 2018 No.11924284 Unironically Infinite Jest

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 12 23:56:40 2018 No.11924285 File: 34 KB, 500x372, Mt0STyA.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11924248 >Dewey

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 12 23:59:58 2018 No.11924294 File: 38 KB, 600x600, 4a3de6a.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11924272 Miller is basically french

Anonymous Sat Oct 13 00:07:12 2018 No.11924308
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Babbit
>inb4 Main Street was better
A Farewell to Arms
Invisible Man, if you like the civil rights stuff
The Grapes of Wrath
any Faulkner
moby dick
J. Cooper
to kill a mockingbird
the jungle
F451
death of a salesman is good
vonnegut
oh, and this one guy called Mark Twain, who had the most amazing children's books! Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc is unironically his best work, fight me irl.

Anonymous Sat Oct 13 00:10:19 2018 No.11924314

Here are some works that haven't been mentioned yet

Henry James- The Turn of the Screw
William James- Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking & Varieties of Religious Experience
Emily Dickinson - The Complete Poems
Wallace Stevens- Collected Poems
William Faulkner- The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 13 01:10:37 2018 No.11924475 >>11924157 Melville Faulkner Gaddis Twain Pynchon

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 13 01:17:15 2018 No.11924498 Scarlet Letter Moby Dick Sound & the Fury Violent Bear It Away Miss Lonelyhearts Blood Meridian Last Exit to Brooklyn Fellowship of the Rings Stoner Native Son

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 13 01:34:38 2018 No.11924549 >>11924157 Do you said northamerican? Reading the responses i think yes... Bah.. Dont care... Haha Twain faulkner d. Of independency and dylan

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 13 01:56:52 2018 No.11924595 File: 30 KB, 400x430, 9780321872630.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11924157 Unironically has a decent collection of American authors. Pick and choose the authors you like delve deeper into their works.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 13 02:06:29 2018 No.11924614 Complete works of Flannery O'Connor Cantos of Ezra Pound

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 13 02:11:03 2018 No.11924628 File: 56 KB, 645x773, 1486627099042.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11924278 >the bill of rights >declaration of independence lol nice recommendations Here read this legal mumbo jumbo How very high brow of you to recommend that

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 13 02:23:05 2018 No.11924652 >Ctrl+F "Longfellow" 0 results >Ctrl+F "Hiawatha" 0 results You disappoint me, /lit/.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 13 02:27:02 2018 No.11924660 >>11924248 >>11924271 >>11924278 These plus the Federalist Papers. The FPs show the ideological underpinnings and arguments surrounding the early US well.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 13 03:13:30 2018 No.11924774 >>11924157 >amerimutt >books Their art of expression is hippity hop.

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