American short story writers Essay

Dance, Dance, Dance by Haruki Marukami The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Marukami Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Life of Pi by Yann Martel On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom Facts about the Moon by Dorianne Laux Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann What is the What by Dave Eggers The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan The Love We Share Without Knowing by Christopher Barzak Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Milke White Oleander by Janet Fitch Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy The World Doesn’t End by Charles Simic North of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley The Fault in Our Stars by John Green Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez East of Eden by John Steinbeck The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept by Paulo Coelho Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Marukami Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald Jonathan Strange and Mister Norell by Suzanna Clarke. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer The History of Love by Nicole Krauss Brave New World by Aldous Huxley The Book Thief by Markus Zusak On The Road by Jack Kerouac Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut American Gods by Neil Gaiman The Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins The Collector by John Fowles Bel Canto by Ann Patchett Written on the Body by Jeannette Winterson 1984 by George Orwell The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray The Girl with Glass Feet by Ali Shaw Noah Barleywater Runs Away by John Boyne Wildwood by Colin Meloy Florence and Giles by John Harding Three Cave Mountain, Or: Granfather and the Wolves by Per Olov Enquist 44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith Sylvie and the Songman by Tim Binding From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg The Family from One End Street by Eve Garnett The Mitfords by Charlotte Mosley The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene du Bois Bird by Rita Murphy. The Man with The Dancing Eyes by Sophie Dahl The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen The Trick Is to Keep Breathing by Janice Galloway The Napolean of Crime by Ben MacIntyre Like You’d Understand, Anyway: Stories by Jim Shepard The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera The It-Doesn’t-Matter Suit by Sylvia Plath Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta V. by Thomas Pynchon Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon Silk by Alessandro Baricco Afternoon Tea by Frankie Magazine The Botanical Garden by Ellen Welcker The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett The Enchanted Places by Christopher Milne. The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters by Jeanne Birdsall Book of Longing by Leonard Cohen The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster We, the Drowned by Cartsen Jensen I Never Knew There Was a Word for It by Adam Jacot de Boinod The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico Burning Your Boats by Angela Carter One Hundred and Forty Five Stories in a Small Box by Sarah Manguso The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls by Emilie Autumn Like Bees to Honey by Caroline Smailes Waifs and Strays by Charles de Lint Two Hearts by Peter S. Beagle To See Every Bird on Earth by Dan Koeppel Jules et Jim by Henri-pierre Roche. The Boy Detective Fails by Joe Meno Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald The Moviegoer by Walker Percy Love Begins in Winter by Simon Van Booy From Old Notebooks by Evan Lavender Smith The Stories of Breece D’J Pancake by Breece D’J Pancake Grayson by Lynne Cox So the Wind Won’t Blow It All Away by Richard Brautigan Dandelion Wine by Rad Bradbury Valerie and Her Week of Wonders by Vitezslav Nezval. The Engineer of Human Souls by Josef Skvorecky Generation Me by Joan M. Twenge My Booky Wook by Russell Brand  Lysistrata by Aristophanes As I Lay Dying by Faulkner Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky Siddhartha by Herman Hesse Memory & Dream by Charles de Lint Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind A Million Little Pieces by James Frey A Burnt-Out Case by Graham Greene The Tenth Man by Graham Greene Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger  White Noise by Don DeLillo Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan Dry & Wolf at the Table by Augusten Burroughs Ham on Rye by Bukowski. I Was Told There’d Be Cake by Sloane crosley Bossypants by Tina Fey The Essential Rumi by Coleman Barks Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler Crush by Richard Silken Flatscreen by Adam Wilson Karnak Cafe by Nagib Mahfouz A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy The Road by Cormac McCarthy The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger The Little Prince by Antoine de St. Exupery B is for Bad Poetry.