Classic List for American Author Ancillary Reading

Choose ONE from this list:

Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Sound and Fury by William Faulkner

Adventure of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Choose ONE or TWO from this list:

Puddin'head Wilson by Mark Twain

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Color of Purple by Alice Walker

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Owen Meany by Jonathan Irving

(Ten short stories from the anthology 50 Great American Short Stories may be

substituted for one of the two books in this second list.)

Choose ONE or TWO from this list:

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

The Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

A Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

A Raisin in the Sun by Loraine Hansbury

Our Town by Thornton Wilder

Fences by August Wilson

The Iceman Cometh, by Eugene O'Neill

Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill

You Can't Take It with You by Kaufman & Hart

Buried Child by Sam Sheppard

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Zoo Story by Edward Albee