I just love American literature - it was written in the US and it's colonies.
What kind of American literature do you like best, history, romance, something else?
I like the fictional stories, mostly around the 18th and 19th centuries when the first novels were published.
What is one of your favorite fiction books that I could read?
Well, one example would be The Power of Sympathy by William HIll Brown.
Okay, I will remember that.  Do you like female authors too?
American literature
American literature is literature written or produced in the United States of America and its preceding colonies (for specific discussions of poetry and theater, see Poetry of the United States and Theater in the United States). Before the founding of the United States, the British colonies on the eastern coast of the present-day United States were heavily influenced by English literature. The American literary tradition thus began as part of the broader tradition of English literature. 
The revolutionary period is notable for the political writings of Benjamin
." He told Italians there was "a lot about your history you have yet to come to grips with. This film is our interpretation, and I stand behind it." McBride, the novel's author, stated: "As a black American, I understand what it's like for someone to tell your history... unfortunately, the history of World War Two here in Italy is ours as well, and this was the best I could do... it is, after all, a work of fiction.”