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This list is designed to help you to find an appropriate book. Most of them are great representatives of the late 20th and early 21st century trends and tendencies in literatures in English with an American focus. I also added some remarkable titles from other centuries (18^th and 19^th) to offer a wider range of suggestions. I hope you will appreciate my effort ....:)

 Some of the titles are accompanied by a link to watch a part of the film based on the book. So you can watch the film and read the book or do it in the other way, it is up to you.

Read any item (one is enough) if you like, or choose any other based on your decision.

British:

George Orwell: Animal Farm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksnwIUyspps

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1951793_1951936_1952083,00.html

                        1984

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1951793_1951943_1952576,00.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4rBDUJTnNU

William Golding: Lord of the Flies     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUmkiX7qlGg&feature=related

Graham Green: The Quiet American  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyjmKeL0ER0

a special perspective of war

E. M. Foster: A Passage to India: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1951793_1951944_1952611,00.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yJvteS8uEA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SzpXKLhEqs

J.R.R. Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings            http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1951793_1951943_1952550,00.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtKuUPK2BfQ

Canadian:

Michael Ondaatje: The English Patient           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuP0ZeatjE8

                                   (received several prizes!)

American:

J.D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye  - easily readable, story of a young man (teenager) and something else...

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1951793_1951939_1952246,00.html

Joseph Heller: Catch 22      war novel            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgSSaENMuGA&feature=related

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1951793_1951939_1952244,00.html

Ken Kessey: One Flew Over the Cockoo’s Nest                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jReNeEHH2lQ

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1951793_1951944_1952606,00.html

Truman Capote: In Cold Blood          (non-fiction: based on real murders) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061809/

Margaret Mitchell: Gone with the Wind                 http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1951793_1951941_1952371,00.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mM8iNarcRc

Alice Walker: The Color Purple                     http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088939/

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ZtHkbYQmN6UJ:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Color_Purple+colour+purple&cd=1&hl=hu&ct=clnk&gl=hu&source=www.google.hu

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2190868761/

Moral – Jewish, ethnic fiction:

Lorraine Hansberry: A Raisin in the Sun                    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorraine_Hansberry

                                                                                  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hip2vqM7Wdg

Bernard Malamud: The Assistant

Toni Morrison: The Bluest Eye                      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQfLPKR2uVA

Song of Solomon

                                   http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1993/morrison-bio.html

An outstanding one from New Zealand:

Jane Campion: The Piano :     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3jUcEOWJO0

                                               http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi653787417/

Drama:

Arthur Miller: The Crucible    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbaExSafCOg

John Osborne: Look Back in Anger (British) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOKPDR-zS04

Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire

            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Williams

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsVxmk9pq2Y

Most of these books are really great representatives of the literature in English, even you can check it:

             http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1951793,00.html

If you lost the way and the hope, do not worry: some well-known and enjoyable works:

Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:v6noqkFECLIJ:www.libri.hu/konyv/pride-and-prejudice-2.html+jane+austen+pride+and+prejudice&cd=2&hl=hu&ct=clnk&gl=hu&source=www.google.hu

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:AS5VdhiHHb0J:www.austen.com/pride/+jane+austen+pride+and+prejudice&cd=7&hl=hu&ct=clnk&gl=hu&source=www.google.hu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARWfCBr0ZDM

Charlotte Brone: Jane Eyre

http://brontec.thefreelibrary.com/Jane-Eyre/1-1

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1229822/

J.K.Rowling: Harry Potter                   http://www.jkrowling.com/accessible/en/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EXn5Yoa_nU&feature=fvst