Periods:
1800 - 1860
Poe, Edgar Allan. Short stories. (Read 10 or more).
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of the Seven Gables. (1851).
Irving, Washington. The Sketch Book (1819-20)
Melville, Herman. Bartleby, the Scrivner. (1853)
Thoreau, Henry David. Life in the Woods (Walden). (1854).
1860 - 1899
Bierce, Ambrose. Black Beetles in Amber (1892)
Bierce, Ambrose. Can Such Things Be? (1893)
Davis, Rebecca Harding. Life in the Iron Mills.
Dickinson, Emily. Poems (1896 - Posthumous)
Jacobs, Harriet. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. ((1861)
Twain, Mark. The Tragedy of Puddn'head Wilson. (1894)
1900 - 1919
London, Jack. Sea Wolf. (1904)
Pound, Ezra. "Hugh Selwyn Mauberly." (1920)
1920 - 1939
Drieser, Theodore. An American Tragedy. (1925)
Faulkner, William. Light in August. (1932)
Faulkner, William. The Sound and The Fury. (1929)
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Tender is the Night. (1934)
Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. (1939)
Steinbeck, John. Tortilla Flat. (1935)
1940 - 1959
Ellison, Ralph W. Invisible Man. (1952)
Faulkner, William. The Hamlet. (1940)
Faulkner, William. The Town (1957)
Kerouac, Jack. On the Road. (1957)
Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman. (1949)
O'Connor, Flannery. Wise Blood. (1952)
O'Connor, Flannery. A Good Man is Hard to Find, and Other Stories.
(1955)
O'Neill, Eugene. Long Day's Journey Into Night. (1941)
Salinger, J. D. The Catcher in the Rye. (1951)
Steinbeck, John. Cannery Row. (1945).
Williams, Tennessee. The Glass Menagerie. (1945)
Wright, Richard. Native Son. (1940)
1960 - 1979
Bowles, Paul. The Sheltering Sky. (1959)
McCullers, Carson. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
Plath, Sylvia. The Bell Jar. (1963)
Porter, Katherine Anne. Ship of Fools. (1962)
1980 - 1999
O'Brien, Tim. In the Lake of the Woods.
Shephard, Sam. True West. (1981)
Wilson, August. King Hedley II. (1999)
