English Language Arts / 11th Grade / Unit 2: The Dream that Recedes Before Us: The Past and The American Dream in The Great Gatsby / Independent Reading Suggested Books

Independent Reading Suggested Books for The Dream that Recedes Before Us: The Past and The American Dream in The Great Gatsby

Texts by the Same Authors

“A Life in Letters: A New Collection” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Flappers and Philosophers” by
“Tales of the Jazz Age” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“The Basil and Josephine Stories” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and the Damned by
“The Crack-Up” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“The Cruise of the Rolling Junk” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” by
The Love of the Last Tycoon by
“The Pat Hobby Stories” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Texts with Aligned Themes and Topics

Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
Cane by Jane Toomer
Home to Harlem by Claude Mckay
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Passing by Nella Larsen
So We Read On: How the Great Gatsby Came To Be and Why It Endures by Maureen Corrigan
The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo
The Great Gatsby: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

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