SUGGESTED READING LIST FOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE
| Alcott, Louisa May | Little Women |
| Clark, Walter Van Tilburg | Ox Bow Incident |
| Cooper, James Fenimore | The Last of the Mohicans, The Deerslayer |
| Crane, Stephen | The Red Badge of Courage |
| Dreiser, Theodore | Sister Carrie |
| Franklin, Benjamin | An Autobiography |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The Scarlet Letter |
| Irving, Washington | The Complete Works of Washington Irving |
| London, Jack | Call of the Wild |
| Melville, Herman | Moby Dick |
| Stowe, Harriet Beecher | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Thoreau, Henry David | Walden (essay) |
| Twain, Mark | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer |
| Wharton, Edith | The Age of Innocence |
| Wilder, Thortnon | Our Town (play) |
20th Century American Literature
| Agee, James | A Death in the Family |
| Anderson Sherwood | Winesburg, Ohio |
| Baldwin, James | Go Tell It on the Mountain |
| Bellow, Saul | Seize the Day |
| Bradbury, Ray | Fahrenheit 451 |
| Cather, Willa | My Antonia |
| Chopin, Kate | The Awakening |
| Cormier, Robert | Chocolate War |
| Dorris, Michael | Yellow Raft in Blue Water |
| Ellison, Ralph | Invisible Man |
| Faulkner, William | The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying |
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott | The Great Gatsby |
| Gaines, Ernest | Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, A Gathering of Old Men |
| Heller, Joseph | Catch-22 |
| Hemingway, Ernest | A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea |
| Hurston, Zora | Their Eyes Were Watching God |
| James, Henry | The Turn of the Screw, Portrait of a Lady |
| Kesey, Ken | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| Knowles, John | A Separate Peace |
| Lee, Harper | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Lewis, Sinclair | Babbit, Main Street |
| Morrison, Toni | Sula |
| Miller, Arthur | Death of a Salesman, The Crucible (plays) |
| Salinger, J.D. | The Catcher in the Rye |
| Sinclair, Upton | The Jungle |
| Steinbeck, John | The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, The Pearl |
| Vonnegut, Kurt | Slaughterhouse Five |
| Warren, Robert Penn | All the King's Men |
| Wells, H.G. | Time Machine |
| Wolfe, Thomas | Look Homeward, Angel |
| Wright, Richard | Black Boy, Native Son |
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