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?
Some of them, American lit began as part of the broader English Lit, and there are more current novels now, such as To Kill a Mockingbird.
Do you like historical fiction too?
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. Instantly successful, widely read in high schools and middle schools in the United States, it has become a classic of modern American literature, winning the Pulitzer Prize. The plot and characters are loosely based on Lee's observations of her family, her neighbors and an event that occurred near her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, in 1936, when she was 10 years old.
The novel is renowned for its warmth and
." 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.”