English 300 Reading List
Arthur Miller, The Crucible
Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Young Goodman Brown"
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography [excerpts]
Washington Irving, "Rip Van Winkle"
James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans [excerpts]
Ralph Waldo Emerson, essays
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Edgar Allen Poe, "The Raven"
Margaret Fuller, essays
Herman Melville, "Bartleby The Scrivener"
Abraham Lincoln, "The Gettysburg Address" and commentary by Garry Wills
Emily Dickinson, poetry
Walt Whitman, poetry
Louise Erdrich, Tracks
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Kate Chopin, The Awakening
Robert Frost, poetry
T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Ernest Hemingway, short stories
J.D. Salinger, The Catcher In The Rye
Allen Ginsberg, "Howl"
Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
John Irving, A Prayer For Owen Meany