Honors American Literature

Reading List (2008-2009)

Required Reading:

Daisy Miller                             Henry James

Trifles                                      Susan Glaspell

Suggested Readings:

James Fenimore Cooper                                   Last of the Mohicans

Nathaniel Hawthorne                                        The Scarlet Letter

                                                                        The House of the Seven Gables

Henry James                                                     Portrait of a Lady

William Faulkner                                               Light in August

                                                                        Go Down, Moses

                                                                        The Sound and the Fury

Ernest Hemingway                                            For Whom the Bell Tolls

                                                                        A Farewell to Arms

Sinclair Lewis                                                   Babbitt

                                                                        Main Street

Willa Cather                                                     My Antonia

John Steinbeck                                                 The Grapes of Wrath

                                                                        Of Mice and Men

Carson McCullers                                            A Member of the Wedding

                                                                        The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Edith Wharton                                                  House of Mirth

Thornton Wilder                                               The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Harriette Arnow                                               The Dollmaker

Herman Melville                                               Moby Dick

Jack London                                                    White Fang

Conrad Richter                                                 The Trees

                                                                        The Fields

                                                                        The Town

Frank Herbert                                                  Dune

Robert Penn Warren                                         All the King’s Men

McKinlay Kantor                                             Andersonville

James Agee                                                      A Death in the Family

F. Scott Fitzgerald                                            Tender is the Night

Amy Tan                                                          The Joy Luck Club

John Hersey                                                     A Bell for Adano

James Michener                                                Hawaii

Trifles is a very brief (only one act); therefore, instead of purchasing the drama, you may access it on the web (www.vcu.edu/engweb/eng384/trifles.htm).