American literature suggested readings

All these books are copyright-free so you can download them on PDF. However, if you wish to read an adapted version, you'll have to buy it  (for the price of a few hamburgers). Other works could have been selected (by lady writers, for example), but I chose among the top rated ones which are also available as graded readers.

1. Selected tales, by Edgar Allan Poe. Horror (1757) - Oxford Bookworms stage 3
2. The scarlet letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Tragedy (1850) - Oxford Bookworms stage 4
3. Moby Dick, by Herman Melville. Adventures (1851) - Penguin readers level 2
4. The call of the wild, by Jack London. Adventures (1903) - Oxford Bookworms stage 3
5. The pearl, by John Steinbeck. Tragedy (1939) - Macmillan graded reader stage 5
6. The catcher in the rye, by JD Sallinger. Teenage  (1951) - no graded reader available
7. The old man and the sea, by E. Hemingway. Adventures (1952) - no graded reader available
8. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury. Dystopia (1953) Oxford - no graded reader available
9. To kill a mockingbird, by Harper Lee. Racism (1960) - no graded reader available
10. The road, by Cormac Mc Carthy. Tragedy (2006) - no graded reader available

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