Recommended Reading – American Literature “Must Reads” are in Bold

¨ Sherwood Anderson Winesburg, Ohio

¨ James Baldwin Go Tell It on the Mountain

¨ Willa Cather Death Comes for the Archbishop

¨ Kate Chopin The Awakening

¨ Stephen Crane The Red Badge of Courage

¨ Emily Dickinson Collected Poems

¨ John Dos Passos USA Trilogy

¨ Theodore Dreiser An American Tragedy / The Financier

¨ Ralph Ellison Invisible Man

¨ Ralph Waldo Emerson Representative Men

¨ William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury / The Bear

¨ F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

¨ Robert Frost Collected Poems

¨ Hamlin Garland Main-Travelled Roads

¨ Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter / The Blithedale Romance

¨ Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms / The Old Man and the Sea

The Sun Also Rises / For Whom the Bell Tolls

¨ William Dean Howells The Rise of Silas Lapham

A Traveler from Altruria

¨ Henry James The American / The Turn of the Screw

Daisy Miller

¨ Sarah Orne Jewett The Country of the Pointed Firs

¨ Sinclair Lewis Babbitt / Main Street

¨ Bernard Malamud The Assistant / The Fixer

¨ Carson McCullers The Member of the Wedding

¨ Herman Melville Billy Budd / Moby Dick

¨ H. L. Mencken Prejudices / The American Language

¨ Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman / The Crucible

¨ Flannery O’Connor Collected Stories

¨ Eugene O’Neill Long Day’s Journey Into Night

¨ Katherine Anne Porter Ship of Fools

¨ Philip Roth Goodbye, Columbus

¨ J.D. Salinger Nine Stories / Catcher in the Rye

¨ John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath / Of Mice and Men

The Pearl / The Red Pony / Cannery Row

Travels with Charley

¨ Henry David Thoreau Walden

¨ James Thurber My Life and Hard Times / The Thurber Carnival

¨ Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn / Pudd’nhead Wilson

¨ Anne Tyler Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

¨ Edith Wharton Ethan Frome / The Age of Innocence

Old New York

¨ Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass

¨ Thomas Wolfe Look Homeward, Angel / The Lost Boy

¨ Richard Wright Native Son