🗽 American Classics: 99-Book Reading List Paginepagineapp.com Tick off each book as you read it. 19 of these 99 American classics are free to read online at pagineapp.com/classics/american , with author guides and links to the rest.
A new nation: early & Romantic classics (1790s–1860s) ☐ 1. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin — Benjamin Franklin (1791)
☐ 2. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow — Washington Irving (1820) · free on Pagine
☐ 3. The Last of the Mohicans — James Fenimore Cooper (1826)
☐ 4. Essays: First Series — Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841)
☐ 5. The Fall of the House of Usher — Edgar Allan Poe (1839)
☐ 6. The Raven and Other Poems — Edgar Allan Poe (1845)
☐ 7. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass — Frederick Douglass (1845) · free on Pagine
☐ 8. The Scarlet Letter — Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850) · free on Pagine
☐ 9. The House of the Seven Gables — Nathaniel Hawthorne (1851)
☐ 10. Moby-Dick — Herman Melville (1851) · free on Pagine
☐ 11. Uncle Tom’s Cabin — Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852) · free on Pagine
☐ 12. Bartleby, the Scrivener — Herman Melville (1853)
☐ 13. Walden — Henry David Thoreau (1854) · free on Pagine
☐ 14. Leaves of Grass — Walt Whitman (1855) · free on Pagine
☐ 15. The Song of Hiawatha — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1855) · free on Pagine
☐ 16. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl — Harriet Jacobs (1861)
☐ 17. Little Women — Louisa May Alcott (1868) · free on Pagine
Twain, James & American realism (1870s–1900s) ☐ 18. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer — Mark Twain (1876) · free on Pagine
☐ 19. Daisy Miller — Henry James (1878)
☐ 20. Washington Square — Henry James (1880)
☐ 21. Ben-Hur — Lew Wallace (1880)
☐ 22. The Prince and the Pauper — Mark Twain (1881) · free on Pagine
☐ 23. The Portrait of a Lady — Henry James (1881)
☐ 24. Life on the Mississippi — Mark Twain (1883)
☐ 25. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Mark Twain (1884) · free on Pagine
☐ 26. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court — Mark Twain (1889)
☐ 27. Poems by Emily Dickinson — Emily Dickinson (1890)
☐ 28. The Yellow Wallpaper — Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1892)
☐ 29. The Red Badge of Courage — Stephen Crane (1895) · free on Pagine
☐ 30. The Turn of the Screw — Henry James (1898)
☐ 31. The Awakening — Kate Chopin (1899) · free on Pagine
☐ 32. McTeague — Frank Norris (1899)
☐ 33. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz — L. Frank Baum (1900) · free on Pagine
☐ 34. Sister Carrie — Theodore Dreiser (1900)
☐ 35. Up from Slavery — Booker T. Washington (1901)
☐ 36. The Virginian — Owen Wister (1902)
☐ 37. The Souls of Black Folk — W. E. B. Du Bois (1903) · free on Pagine
☐ 38. The Call of the Wild — Jack London (1903) · free on Pagine
☐ 39. The Sea-Wolf — Jack London (1904)
The Progressive Era & the 1910s ☐ 40. The House of Mirth — Edith Wharton (1905)
☐ 41. White Fang — Jack London (1906)
☐ 42. The Jungle — Upton Sinclair (1906)
☐ 43. The Four Million — O. Henry (1906)
☐ 44. Ethan Frome — Edith Wharton (1911)
☐ 45. Tarzan of the Apes — Edgar Rice Burroughs (1912)
☐ 46. O Pioneers! — Willa Cather (1913)
☐ 47. Herland — Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1915)
☐ 48. Spoon River Anthology — Edgar Lee Masters (1915)
☐ 49. My Ántonia — Willa Cather (1918)
☐ 50. Winesburg, Ohio — Sherwood Anderson (1919)
The Jazz Age & the Harlem Renaissance (1920s) ☐ 51. The Age of Innocence — Edith Wharton (1920) · free on Pagine
☐ 52. This Side of Paradise — F. Scott Fitzgerald (1920)
☐ 53. Main Street — Sinclair Lewis (1920)
☐ 54. Babbitt — Sinclair Lewis (1922)
☐ 55. Cane — Jean Toomer (1923)
☐ 56. The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925) · free on Pagine
☐ 57. The Sun Also Rises — Ernest Hemingway (1926)
☐ 58. Death Comes for the Archbishop — Willa Cather (1927)
☐ 59. Quicksand — Nella Larsen (1928)
☐ 60. Passing — Nella Larsen (1929)
☐ 61. A Farewell to Arms — Ernest Hemingway (1929)
☐ 62. The Sound and the Fury — William Faulkner (1929)
☐ 63. Look Homeward, Angel — Thomas Wolfe (1929)
☐ 64. As I Lay Dying — William Faulkner (1930)
☐ 65. The Maltese Falcon — Dashiell Hammett (1930)
Depression, war & mid-century classics (1930s–1950s) ☐ 66. Their Eyes Were Watching God — Zora Neale Hurston (1937)
☐ 67. Of Mice and Men — John Steinbeck (1937)
☐ 68. Our Town — Thornton Wilder (1938)
☐ 69. The Grapes of Wrath — John Steinbeck (1939)
☐ 70. Native Son — Richard Wright (1940)
☐ 71. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter — Carson McCullers (1940)
☐ 72. For Whom the Bell Tolls — Ernest Hemingway (1940)
☐ 73. The Glass Menagerie — Tennessee Williams (1944)
☐ 74. A Streetcar Named Desire — Tennessee Williams (1947)
☐ 75. Death of a Salesman — Arthur Miller (1949)
☐ 76. The Catcher in the Rye — J. D. Salinger (1951)
☐ 77. Invisible Man — Ralph Ellison (1952)
☐ 78. The Old Man and the Sea — Ernest Hemingway (1952)
☐ 79. East of Eden — John Steinbeck (1952)
☐ 80. Fahrenheit 451 — Ray Bradbury (1953)
☐ 81. Go Tell It on the Mountain — James Baldwin (1953)
☐ 82. The Crucible — Arthur Miller (1953)
☐ 83. On the Road — Jack Kerouac (1957)
☐ 84. A Raisin in the Sun — Lorraine Hansberry (1959)
Modern American classics (1960–today) ☐ 85. To Kill a Mockingbird — Harper Lee (1960)
☐ 86. Catch-22 — Joseph Heller (1961)
☐ 87. The Bell Jar — Sylvia Plath (1963)
☐ 88. The Autobiography of Malcolm X — Malcolm X and Alex Haley (1965)
☐ 89. In Cold Blood — Truman Capote (1966)
☐ 90. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings — Maya Angelou (1969)
☐ 91. Slaughterhouse-Five — Kurt Vonnegut (1969)
☐ 92. The Bluest Eye — Toni Morrison (1970)
☐ 93. Song of Solomon — Toni Morrison (1977)
☐ 94. The Color Purple — Alice Walker (1982)
☐ 95. The House on Mango Street — Sandra Cisneros (1984)
☐ 96. Beloved — Toni Morrison (1987)
☐ 97. The Joy Luck Club — Amy Tan (1989)
☐ 98. The Things They Carried — Tim O’Brien (1990)
☐ 99. The Road — Cormac McCarthy (2006)
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