The Great American Novel

Still on the theme of literature, I have come to realise how few of 'the greats' I have actually read. I've hardly touched Dickens or Austen and I can't really stomach Bronte. Why? Because I just don't get on well with the English greats. However, I do very much enjoy a good American read. So here, for personal use, is my to-read list of American classic novels, to add-to and cross-off in the, hopefully, near future.

• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller


• Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger


• Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell


• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov


• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath


• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald


• The Sun Also Rises by Earnest Hemingway


• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee