Authored by Harper Lee and published in 1960, To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel that achieved instant success by winning the honorable Pulitzer Prize and is recognized as a modern day classic in American literature. The plot of the book is based on the observations of the author in regards of her neighbors and family. Also, the characterization has been influenced by her neighborhood and an event that had taken place near the town where she lived when she was 10 years old.

Authored by an American writer, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby is a novel which was published in the year 1925. The book is set around New York City and North Shore in Long Inlands during the time of summer 1922. The book is a critique of the American Dream. The timeline of the novel is just after World War One. The novel has taken the place of a standard text in university and high school courses based in American literature in different countries all over the world.

Authored by John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath is a novel which was awarded the honorable Nobel Prize in the year 1962 and it also received the Pulitzer Prize in 1940. The novel is set at the time of the Great Depression and circles around Joads, poor families of sharecroppers. Joads were driven by the economic hardships they had to face, droughts and the changes in agriculture out from their house in Oklahoma.