1. The Real World Robert Herrick
2. Growth Booth Tarkington
3. Ethan Frome Edith Wharton
4. They Stooped to Folly Ellen Glasgow
5. The American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser
6. Death Come to the Archbishop Willa Cather
7. Babbitt Sinclair Lewis
8. The Bridge of San Luis Rey Thornton Wilder
9. Of Time and the River Thomas Wolfe
10. The Pearl John Steinbeck
All of these are American authors that write about what they feel is the true American experience. They all have very different perspectives and ways of looking at what it means to be American and an individual.