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 F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “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 F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “The Crack-Up” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “The Cruise of the Rolling Junk” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Love of the Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “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
Note: Some of the links below are Bookshop affiliate links. This means that if you click and make a purchase, we receive a small portion of the proceeds, which supports our non-profit mission.
