Which american author would you say is the best for a teenager to read?

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This is for an AP english comp paper . i have to read several books by each author and write a paper on the univeral theme.
i want a book that will be interesting to me. I am aethiest, so it would be preferable to have a book thats main focus is not religious. thank you.

Edward Albee
Sherman Alexie
Sherwood Anderson
James Baldwin
Saul Bellow
Stephen V, Benet
Abrose Pierce
Ray Bradbury
Gwendolyn Brooks
Charles B. Brown
William Cullen Bryant
Pearl S. Buck
Raymond Carver
Willa Cather
Kate Chopin
Sanda Cisneros
Walter Clarke
James F. Cooper
Stephen Crane
James Dickey
John Dos Passos
Theodore Dreiser
T.S. Elliot
Ralph Elison
William Faulkner
F. Scott Fitzergerald
Charlotte P. Gillman
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Joseph Heller
Ernest Hemingway
William Dean Howells
Langston Hughes
Zora N. Hurston
John Irving
Shirley Jackson
Henry James
Randall Jerrel
Sarah Orne Jewett
Sinclair Lewis
Jack London
Henry W. Longfellow
Cormac Mcarthy
Carson Mccullers
Norman Mailer
Bernard Malamud
Herman Melville
Arthur Miller
N. Scott Momaday
Roni Morrison
Frank Norris
Tim o'Brian
Flannery O' Conner
Eugene O'Neill
Dorothy Parker
Katherine A. Porter
Edwin A. Robinson
Richard Russo
J.D Salinger
Upton Sinclair
Gertrude Stein
John Stienbeck
Amy Tan
James Thurber
Mark Twain
John Updike
Gore Vidal
Alice Walker
Eudora Welty
Tennesee Williams
Austust Willison
Thomas WOlf
RIchard Wright.

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Bradbury, Farenheit 451

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