American Literature: Three Books Project

Thematic Study

These themes have been approved for the Three Books Project. If you have an idea for another title or theme, please come and talk to me about it. The same title may appear in more than one theme.

|Growing Up| |Deception| |Ethnic Identity| |Traveling Through America| | |War| |Women|

Note: If you have an idea for a book you'd like to see added to this list, please suggest it to me.

Theme: Traveling Through America

Choose three of the following by different authors:

  • Life on the Mississippi or Roughing It by Mark Twain
  • Travels with Charly by John Steinbeck
  • On the Road by Jack Kerouac
  • Blue Highways by William Least Heat Moon
  • The Lost Continent, I’m a Stranger Here Myself, or A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Updated January 10, 2009.