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English 11: American Literature

Literary Biography CCA

Themes

Alienation

  • The Red Badge of Courage
  • Ender's Game
  • All the King's Men
  • Fahrenheit 451
  • Speak
  • The Catcher in Rye
  • Ordinary People
  • As I Lay Dying

American Dream

  • How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
  • My Antonia
  • The Great Gatsby
  • Wise Blood
  • Sister Carrie

Coming of Age

  • The Color Purple
  • The Red Badge of Courage
  • The Outsiders
  • How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
  • The Catcher in the Rye
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  • The Giver
  • Ellen Foster
  • The Secret Life of Bees
  • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian

Death

  • Dandelion Wine
  • Slaughterhouse-Five
  • The Giver
  • Ordinary People

Faith/Religion

  • A Prayer for Owen Meany
  • Ender's Game
  • Wise Blood
  • The Violent Bear it Away
  • Cat's Cradle

Friendship

  • Speak
  • The Killer Angels
  • The Outsiders
  • Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
  • Of Mice and Men
  • On the Road
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • Ellen Foster

Race Relations

  • The Outsiders
  • To Kill a Mockingbird
  • Ellen Foster
  • The Secret Life of Bees
  • The Color Purple
  • A Light in August

Science Fiction

  • Slaughterhouse-Five
  • Ender's Game
  • Something Wicked This Way Comes
  • Dune
  • Fahrenheit 451
  • Cat's Cradle

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Poetry

There are collections by these poets in our library.

  • Raymond Carver
  • Billy Collins
  • e.e. cummings
  • H.D.
  • T.S. Eliot
  • Allen Ginsberg
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Robert Lowell
  • Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Marianne Moore
  • Theodore Roethke

African American

  • Nikki Giovanni
  • Maya Angelou
  • Rita Dove

Death

  • Emily Dickinson
  • Edgar Allan Poe
  • Sylvia Plath

Nature

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Robert Frost

Short Stories (by author or theme)

These are some authors with story collections in our library.

  • Isaac Asimov 
  • Truman Capote
  • John Cheever
  • Kate Chopin
  • Sandra Cisneros
  • Ralph Ellison
  • William Faulkner
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Shirley Jackson
  • Stephen King
  • Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Jack London
  • Flannery O'Connor 

Death

  • Edgar Allan Poe
  • Ray Bradbury 
  • Mark Twain

Alienation

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Ernest Hemingway
  • Edith Wharton