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