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).