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Great American Book?

I need to find a book that is considered "great American literature" for school. We get to choose, and it's getting to the end of the school year; I'd prefer to read something that is 350 pages or less. I've already read: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Great Gatsby, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tortilla Flat, The Crucible, The Scarlet Letter, The Lovely Bones and On The Beach. It also needs to be at a 11-12 grade level. Any suggestions? :)
Thanks for the help!

Public Comments

1. Brians Song, Brians Winte, and Hatchet are great books (survival of the fittest.) I highly recommend them but idk if they classify as American Literature
2. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, Slaughterhouse-5 by Kurt Vonnegut, Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee, American Pyscho by Breton Easton Ellis (although i wouldnt recomend writting a paper on it...) The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, and Johnny's Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo (my personal favorite)
3. Anything by Ernest Hemingway, Henry James, Sinclair Lewis, Upton Sinclair, Thedore Dreiser, Willa Cather, Carson McCullers, Truman Capote, Flannery O'Connor, John Steinbeck, James Agee.
   
   
   
   Hemingway's A Farewell To Arms, Lewis' Babbitt, and McCullers' The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter all go down pretty easily as do most of Capote and Steinbeck's works. I'm also a big fan of Agee's A Death in the Family but I'm not sure how others might feel about it. Some people really like Cather but I've never really warmed up to her.
   
   
   
   I hope this gives you something to go on. Good luck!