What do you suggest is should read?

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I am taking AP Language and Composition, and I need to pick a couple books to read from a list. What do you suggest?
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
If Beale St. Could Talk or Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
My Antonia by Willa Cather
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories by Sandra Cisneros
Read a selection of poems by Emily Dickinson
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Edwards Jonathan
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
'Self Reliance' and 'The American Scholar' by Ralph Waldo Emerson
As I Lay Dying or The Sound and the Fury
The Great Gatsby by Scott F. Fittzgerald
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Sun Also Rises, selected short stories or A Movable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Moby Dick or Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville
Three by Flannery O'Connor
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Walden and Other Writing by Henry David Thoreau
Slaughterhouse 5 or Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Native Son by Richard Wright

Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

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I haven't read all of the books you listed, but I have read a good deal of them. That being said...

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a wonderful book. I think that's a book every person should read at least once in their life, at least in my opinion.

I also love As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner. It does have some dark themes and concepts, but it is excellently written and simply an excellent book.

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a short story. It is a very interesting story, and I found it somewhat thought-provoking, because it allows the reader to get into the head of a person who is not fully mentally stable. It's also a pretty quick read.

I don't know how many books/stories you're supposed to pick, but some others that I believe are worth reading include Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, anything by Kurt Vonnegut, The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne (I didn't really like this one, but I can't deny that it's a true classic), and numerous others on the list you gave. All in all, I can't say which books you might like, because I don't know your taste in books. So, perhaps pick some from the list, look them up, and see which ones you think you might like the best...

Best wishes!

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Thnx.x I liked how you added your opinion it, and just made my options smaller. Process of elimination!

Answer 2

To Kill a Mockingbird or Slaughterhouse-Five would be my choices. They're both really good books and there is alot to analyze in them (if you are required to do that).

Answer 3

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller