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Posted on Mar 1, 2015

How Many Critically Acclaimed American Novels Have You Read?

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." So, how in shape are you?

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1. Check off all the books you've finished!

Answer Image "Charlotte Temple" by Susanna Rowson

Answer Image "Modern Chivalry" by Hugh Henry Brackenridge

"Modern Chivalry" by Hugh Henry Brackenridge

Answer Image "The Coquette" by Hannah W. Foster

Answer Image "Wieland" by Charles Brockden Brown

Answer Image "Hobomok" by Lydia Marie Child

Answer Image "The Prairie" by James Fenimore Cooper

Answer Image "Hope Leslie" by Catharine Maria Sedgewick

Answer Image "Swallow Barn" by John Pendleton Kennedy

Answer Image "Sheppard Lee" by Robert Montgomery Bird

Answer Image "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket" by Edgar Allan Poe

"The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket" by Edgar Allan Poe

Answer Image "Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs" by Johnson Jones Hooper

"Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs" by Johnson Jones Hooper

Answer Image "The Quaker City" by George Lippard

Answer Image "The Crater" by James Fenimore Cooper

Answer Image "Redburn" by Herman Melville

Answer Image "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Answer Image "Reveries of a Bachelor" by Donald G. Mitchell

"Reveries of a Bachelor" by Donald G. Mitchell

Answer Image "The Wide, Wide World" by Susan Warner

Answer Image "The House of the Seven Gables" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

"The House of the Seven Gables" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Answer Image "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville

Answer Image "The Blithedale Romance" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

"The Blithedale Romance" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Answer Image "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Answer Image "Ruth Hall" by Fanny Fern

Answer Image "The Confidence Man" by Herman Melville

Answer Image "Our Nig" by Harriet E. Wilson

Answer Image "Life in the Iron-Mills" by Rebecca Harding Davis

"Life in the Iron-Mills" by Rebecca Harding Davis

Answer Image "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" by Harriet Jacobs

"Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" by Harriet Jacobs

Answer Image "The Morgesons" by Elizabeth Drew Stoddard

Answer Image "Miss Ravenel's Conversion" by John W. De Forest

"Miss Ravenel's Conversion" by John W. De Forest

Answer Image "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

Answer Image "Work" by Louisa May Alcott

Answer Image "The Story of Avis" by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

"The Story of Avis" by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Answer Image "A Fool's Errand" by Albion Tourgee

Answer Image "The Grandissimes" by George Washington Cable

"The Grandissimes" by George Washington Cable

Answer Image "The Portrait of a Lady" by Henry James

Answer Image "A Modern Instance" by William Dean Howells

Answer Image "A Country Doctor" by Sarah Orne Jewett

Answer Image "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain

"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain

Answer Image "The Bostonians" by Henry James

Answer Image "The Princess Casamassima" by Henry James

Answer Image "Looking Backward: 2000-1887" by Edward Bellamy

"Looking Backward: 2000-1887" by Edward Bellamy

Answer Image "The Hidden Hand" by E. D. E. N. Southworth

Answer Image "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" by Mark Twain

"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" by Mark Twain

Answer Image "A Hazard of New Fortunes" by William Dean Howells

"A Hazard of New Fortunes" by William Dean Howells

Answer Image "Maggie, a Girl of the Street" by Stephen Crane

"Maggie, a Girl of the Street" by Stephen Crane

Answer Image "The Cliff-Dwellers" by Henry Blake Fuller

Answer Image "Pudd'nhead Wilson" by Mark Twain

Answer Image "The Red Badge of Courage" by Stephen Crane

Answer Image "The Damnation of Theron Ware" by Harold Frederic

"The Damnation of Theron Ware" by Harold Frederic

Answer Image "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

Answer Image "McTeague" by Frank Norris

Answer Image "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum

"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum

Answer Image "Sister Carrie" by Theodore Dreiser

Answer Image "The Octopus" by Frank Norris

Answer Image "The Wings of the Dove" by Henry James

Answer Image "The Virginian" by Owen Wister

Answer Image "The Ambassadors" by Henry James

Answer Image "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London

Answer Image "The House of Mirth" by Edith Wharton

Answer Image "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair

Answer Image "Three Lives" by Gertrude Stein

Answer Image "Ethan Frome" by Edith Wharton

Answer Image "A Woman of Genius" by Mary Austin

Answer Image "O Pioneers!" by Willa Cather

Answer Image "Herland" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Answer Image "Summer" by Edith Wharton

Answer Image "The Magnificent Ambersons" by Booth Tarkington

"The Magnificent Ambersons" by Booth Tarkington

Answer Image "My Antonia" by Willa Cather

Answer Image "Main Street" by Sinclair Lewis

Answer Image "The Age of Innocence" by Edith Wharton

Answer Image "The Enormous Room" by e. e. cummings

Answer Image "Cane" by Jean Toomer

Answer Image "The Great American Novel" by William Carlos Williams

"The Great American Novel" by William Carlos Williams

Answer Image "The Professor's House" by Willa Cather

Answer Image "An American Tragedy" by Theodore Dreiser

Answer Image "Barren Ground" by Ellen Glasgow

Answer Image "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Answer Image "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" by Anita Loos

Answer Image "Manhattan Transfer" by John Dos Passos

Answer Image "The Making of Americans" by Gertrude Stein

Answer Image "Bread Givers" by Anzia Yezierska

Answer Image "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

Answer Image "Show Boat" by Edna Ferber

Answer Image "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" by Thornton Wilder

"The Bridge of San Luis Rey" by Thornton Wilder

Answer Image "Quicksand" by Nella Larsen

Answer Image "Home to Harlem" by Claude McKay

Answer Image "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

"The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

Answer Image "A Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemingway

Answer Image "Look Homeward, Angel" by Thomas Wolfe

Answer Image "As I Lay Dying" by William Faulkner

Answer Image "The Maltese Falcon" by Dashiell Hammett

Answer Image "Shadows on the Rock" by Willa Cather

Answer Image "Light in August" by William Faulkner

Answer Image "The Sheltered Life" by Ellen Glasgow

Answer Image "Miss Lonelyhearts" by Nathanael West

Answer Image "Summer in Williamsburg" by Daniel Fuchs

Answer Image "Call It Sleep" by Henry Roth

Answer Image "Nightwood" by Djuna Barnes

Answer Image "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner

Answer Image "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell

Answer Image "U.S.A." by John Dos Passos

Answer Image "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston

"Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston

Answer Image "Christ in Concrete" by Pietro Di Donato

Answer Image "Pale Horse, Pale Ride" by Katherine Anne Porter

"Pale Horse, Pale Ride" by Katherine Anne Porter

Answer Image "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck

Answer Image "The Day of the Locust" by Nathanael West

Answer Image "Farewell, My Lovely" by Raymond Chandler

Answer Image "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway

"For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway

Answer Image "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

Answer Image "Native Son" by Richard Wright

Answer Image "Mildred Pierce" by James McCain

Answer Image "Two Serious Ladies" by Jane Bowles

Answer Image "The Human Comedy" by William Saroyan

Answer Image "The Red Right Hand" by Joel Townsley Rogers

"The Red Right Hand" by Joel Townsley Rogers

Answer Image "The Street" by Ann Petry

Answer Image "All the King's Men" by Robert Penn Warren

Answer Image "The Mountain Lion" by Jean Stafford

Answer Image "Other Voices, Other Rooms" by Truman Capote

"Other Voices, Other Rooms" by Truman Capote

Answer Image "The Naked and the Dead" by Norman Mailer

Answer Image "The Sheltering Sky" by Paul Bowles

Answer Image "The Ballad Of The Sad Cafe" by Carson McCullers

"The Ballad Of The Sad Cafe" by Carson McCullers

Answer Image "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger

Answer Image "Ushant" by Conrad Aiken

Answer Image "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

Answer Image "Wise Blood" by Flannery O'Connor

Answer Image "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White

Answer Image "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin

"Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin

Answer Image "The Adventures of Augie March" by Saul Bellow

"The Adventures of Augie March" by Saul Bellow

Answer Image "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury

Answer Image "Maud Martha" by Gwendolyn Brooks

Answer Image "The Long Goodbye" by Raymond Chandler

Answer Image "Pictures from an Institution" by Randall Jarrell

"Pictures from an Institution" by Randall Jarrell

Answer Image "The Recognitions" by William Gaddis

Answer Image "The Talented Mr. Ripley" by Patricia Highsmith

"The Talented Mr. Ripley" by Patricia Highsmith

Answer Image "Giovanni's Room" by James Baldwin

Answer Image "The Wapshot Chronicle" by John Cheever

Answer Image "The Dharma Bums" by Jack Kerouac

Answer Image "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov

Answer Image "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson

"The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson

Answer Image "Brown Girl, Brownstones" by Paule Marshall

Answer Image "Goodbye, Columbus" by Philip Roth

Answer Image "Bid Me to Live" by H.D.

Answer Image "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee

Answer Image "Rabbit, Run" by John Updike

Answer Image "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert A. Heinlein

"Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert A. Heinlein

Answer Image "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

Answer Image "Tell Me a Riddle" by Tillie Olsen

Answer Image "The Moviegoer" by Walker Percy

Answer Image "Revolutionary Road" by Richard Yates

Answer Image "The Reivers" by William Faulkner

Answer Image "Pale Fire" by Vladimir Nabokov

Answer Image "Ship of Fools" by Katherine Anne Porter

Answer Image "The Group" by Mary McCarthy

Answer Image "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

Answer Image "Dune" by Frank Herbert

Answer Image "At Play in the Fields of the Lord" by Peter Matthiessen

"At Play in the Fields of the Lord" by Peter Matthiessen

Answer Image "Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing" by May Sarton

"Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing" by May Sarton

Answer Image "Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me" by Richard Farina

"Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me" by Richard Farina

Answer Image "The Fixer" by Bernard Malamud

Answer Image "The Einstein Intersection" by Samuel R. Delany

"The Einstein Intersection" by Samuel R. Delany

Answer Image "The Confessions of Nat Turner" by William Styron

"The Confessions of Nat Turner" by William Styron

Answer Image "House Made of Dawn" by N. Scott Momaday

Answer Image "Portnoy's Complaint" by Philip Roth

Answer Image "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula Le Guin

"The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula Le Guin

Answer Image "Them" by Joyce Carol Oates

Answer Image "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

Answer Image "The Third Life of Grange Copeland" by Alice Walker

"The Third Life of Grange Copeland" by Alice Walker

Answer Image "Angle of Repose" by Wallace Stegner

Answer Image "Mumbo Jumbo" by Ishmael Reed

Answer Image "Enemies, A Love Story" by Isaac Bashevis Singer

"Enemies, A Love Story" by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Answer Image "The Optimist's Daughter" by Eudora Welty

Answer Image "Dance Hall of the Dead" by Tony Hillerman

Answer Image "Fear of Flying" by Erica Jong

Answer Image "Sula" by Toni Morrison

Answer Image "Gravity's Rainbow" by Thomas Pynchon

Answer Image "The Shadow Knows" by Diane Johnson

Answer Image "The War Between the Tates" by Alison Lurie

Answer Image "Ragtime" by E. L. Doctorow

Answer Image "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

Answer Image "Wife" by Bharati Mukherjee

Answer Image "The Female Man" by Joanna Russ

Answer Image "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

Answer Image "Ceremony" by Leslie Marmon Silko

Answer Image "The Girl" by Meridel Le Sueur

Answer Image "Umbertina" by Helen Barolini

Answer Image "Kindred" by Octavia Butler

Answer Image "The Salt Eaters" by Toni Cade Bambara

Answer Image "Housekeeping" by Marilynne Robinson

Answer Image "Paper Fish" by Tina De Rosa

Answer Image "A Bloodsmoor Romance" by Joyce Carol Oates

Answer Image "Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant" by Anne Tyler

"Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant" by Anne Tyler

Answer Image "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker

Answer Image "A Boy's Own Story" by Edmund White

Answer Image "The Cannibal Galaxy" by Cynthia Ozick

Answer Image "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros

"The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros

Answer Image "Love Medicine" by Louise Erdrich

Answer Image "Neuromancer" by William Gibson

Answer Image "White Noise" by Don DeLillo

Answer Image "Annie John" by Jamaica Kincaid

Answer Image "Blood Meridian" by Cormac McCarthy

Answer Image "Beloved" by Toni Morrison

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This list derives from two others: David Handlin's and Sandra Gilbert's, both published in The American Scholar.

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