Author Study
These authors have been approved for the Three Books Project. (If you have a suggestion for another author, please come and talk to me.) Click on an author's name for a list of titles that have been approved. The list of titles is not complete, so if you know of another one for a certain author, please come and talk to me about it.Sherman Alexie
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (required as one of the three), Reservation Blues, The Toughest Indian in the World, Indian Killer, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time IndianJames Baldwin
Go Tell it on the Mountain, Nobody Knows my Name, The Fire Next Time, Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone, If Beale Street Could TalkWilla Cather
O Pioneers!, My Antonia, The Song of the Lark, One of Ours, Lucy Gayheart, Death Comes for the Archbishop, othersKate Chopin
The Awakening, Bayou Folk, A Night in Acadie, othersStephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, The Open Boat and Other Tales of AdventureLouise Erdrich
Love Medicine, Tracks, Four Souls, The Bingo Palace, The Antelope Wife, The Master Butcher's Singing Club, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, The Painted Drum, othersF. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby (required as one of the three), This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and the Damned, Tender is the Night, short stories, other titlesErnest J. Gaines
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, A Gathering of Old Men, A Lesson Before DyingNathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter (required for this writer), Twice-Told Tales, The House of the Seven Gables, Mosses from an Old Manse, The Marble FaunErnest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Men Without Women, A Moveable Feast, collected short stories, other titlesZora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God (required for this author), Moses: Man of the Mountain, Jonah's Gourd Wine, Dust Tracks on a Road (autobiography)Barbara Kingsolver
The Bean Trees, Pigs in Heaven (sequel to Bean Trees), Animal Dreams, The Poisonwood Bible, The Prodigal Summer, othersJack London
The Call of the Wild, White Fang, The Sea-Wolf, short storiesBernard Malamud
The Natural, The Assistant, The Magic Barrel, short storiesCormac McCarthy
All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain, The Road, No Country for Old MenCarson McCullers
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The Member of the Wedding, Reflections in a Golden Eye, Clock Without Hands, The Ballad of the Sad CafeN. Scott Momaday
House Made of Dawn, The Ancient Child, The Way to Rainy Mountain (must be third one)Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Beloved, Paradise, Love, Jazz, othersTim O'Brien
The Things They Carried (required as one of the three), In the Lake of the Woods, Going After Cacciato, July, July, Northern LightsEdgar Allan Poe
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (novel), selected short storiesKatherine Anne Porter
Flowering Judas, Pale Horse, Pale Rider, Noon Wine, Old Mortality, Ship of FoolsJohn Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath (required), The Winter of our Discontent, In Dubious Battle, novellas and short stories can be combined to total 200 pagesAmy Tan
The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Sense,The Bonesetter's Daughter, othersHenry David Thoreau
Walden (required), A Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers, other essaysMark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (required), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Roughing It, Puddn'head Wilson, The Autobiography of Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth, Innocents Abroad, short stories and essays (200 pages' worth),Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse-Five (required), Player Piano, Cat's Cradle, Breakfast of Champions, Mother Night, othersEudora Welty
The Optimist's Daughter, The Robber Bridegroom, Delta Wedding, The Ponder Heart, Losing BattlesEdith Wharton
Ethan Frome, The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country, collected short storiesUpdated January 10, 2009.