Periods:
1800 - 1860
Dickinson, Emily. Poems (1896)
Fuller, Margaret Sarah. Summer on the Lakes (1843) [on line]
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter.
Hawthrone, Nathaniel. The House of the Seven Gables.
Poe, Edgar Allan. "Fall of the House of Usher," "The Raven,"
"Anabelle Lee," and others.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
1860 - 1899
Alcott, Louisa M. Little Women (1867)
Chopin, Kate. The Awakening and Other Stories.(1899)
Crane, Stephen. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. (1893)
James, Henry. Portrait of a Lady. (1881)
Jewett, Sarah Orne. Country of the Pointed Firs. (1896)
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Evangeline. (1893)
Twain, Mark. The Tragedy of Puddn'head Wilson. (1894)
1900 - 1919
Cather, Willa. My Antonia. (1918)
Dreiser, Theodore. Sister Carrie. (1900)
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. "The Yellow Wallpaper." (1899)
Wharton, Edith. The House of Mirth. (1905)
Wharton, Edith. The Age of Innocence. (1920)
1920 - 1939
Parker, Dorothy. Laments for the Living. (1930)
Hurston, Zora Neal. Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Hellman, Lillian. The Children's Hour. (1934)
Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises.
1940 - 1959
Agee, James. A Death in the Family.
McCullers, Carson. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
O'Connor. A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories.
O'Connor. Wise Blood.
Parker, Dorothy. After Such Pleasures. (1933)
Welty, Eudora. Collected Stories.
1960 - 1979
Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mocking Bird.
Morrison, Toni. Sula. Song of Solomon. The Bluest Eye. (1970's)
Plath, Sylvia. The Bell Jar. (1963)
1980 - 1999
Oates, Joyce Carol. Them. (Many, many titles).
Smiley, Jane. A Thousand Acres.
Walker, Alice. The Color Purple.
