Delaware Dream: Recommended Reading

The American dream : a short history of an idea that shaped a nation by Cullen, Jim

The American dream in the 21st century by Hanson, Sandra L.

Back to the land : the enduring dream of self-sufficiency in modern America by Brown, Dona

The betrayal of the American dream by Barlett, Donald L.

Emerson and the dream of America : finding our way to a new and exceptional age by Geldard, Richard G.

Engines of change : a history of the American dream in fifteen cars by Ingrassia, Paul

The idea that is America : keeping faith with our values in a dangerous world by Slaughter, Anne-Marie

In search of America by Jennings, Peter

A man and his ship : America's greatest naval architect and his quest to build the S.S. United States by Ujifusa, Steven

On paradise drive : how we live now (and always have) in the future tense by Brooks, David

That used to be us : how America fell behind in the world it invented and how we can come back by Friedman, Thomas L.

The time of our lives : a conversation about America; who we are, where we've been, and where we need to go now, to recapture the American dream by Brokaw, Tom

All we ever wanted was everything : a novel by Brown, Janelle

American gods : a novel by Gaiman, Neil

American subversive : a novel by Goodwillie, David

An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser; Richard Lingeman (Introduction by); Margaret E. Mitchell (Afterword by)

América's dream by Santiago, Esmeralda

The art of racing in the rain : a novel by Stein, Garth

The Ask by Sam Lipsyte

The book of Jonas by Dau, Stephen

The Buddha in the attic by Otsuka, Julie

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

The descendants : a novel by Hemmings, Kaui Hart

Dream a little dream by Phillips, Susan Elizabeth

Dream house : a novel by Laken, Valerie

A free life by Jin, Ha

Girl in translation by Kwok, Jean

The grace that keeps this world : a novel by Bailey, Tom

The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald, F. Scott

The hole we're in : a novel by Zevin, Gabrielle

House of sand and fog by Dubus, Andre

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

How I became a famous novelist by Hely, Steve

How to be an American housewife by Dilloway, Margaret

Immigrants by Howard Fast

Julie of the wolves by George, Jean Craighead

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Look homeward, angel : a story of the buried life by Wolfe, Thomas

Martin Dressler : the tale of an American dreamer by Millhauser, Steven

Model home : a novel by Puchner, Eric

Netherland by Joseph O'Neill

Petropolis by Ulinich, Anya

Push : a novel by Sapphire

Ragged Dick ; and, Struggling upward by Alger, Horatio

Roll of thunder, hear my cry by Taylor, Mildred D.

Smitten by Evanovich, Janet

Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell; Lewis Nordan (Foreword by)

An untamed land by Snelling, Lauraine

When the emperor was divine : a novel by Otsuka, Julie

Winesburg, Ohio by Anderson, Sherwood

A woman of substance by Bradford, Barbara Taylor

Ask me why I hurt : the kids nobody wants and the doctor who heals them by Christensen, Randy, Dr.

Becoming Dr. Q : my journey from migrant farm worker to brain surgeon by Quiñones-Hinojosa, Alfredo

The glass castle : a memoir by Walls, Jeannette

I beat the odds : from homelessness, to the blind side, and beyond by Oher, Michael

Into the wild by Krakauer, Jon

Strength in what remains by Kidder, Tracy