Wood--English+II

SUGGESTED READING LIST Wood English II The following list is a compilation of some of the important writings in American literature. None of these works are required reading, In some of them, there may be some language, some characters, and some incidents that are offensive. If you or your parents object to any of these, please feel free to exclude these works from your reading.

Anderson-__My Lord, What a Morning__ Angelou-__All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes__ __I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings__ Baldwin-__Go Tell It on the Mountain__ Benedict-__Patterns of Culture__ Brooks-__You May Plow Here__ Brown, __C.-Manchild in the Promised Land__ Brown, __D.-Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee__ Buck-__The Good Earth__ __My Several Worlds__ Burdick & Lederer-__The Ugly American__ Carson—__The Sea around Us__ Cather-__Death Comes for the Archbishop__ __My Antonia__ Cooper-Leatherstocking Tales Crane-__The Red Badge of Courage__ Dreiser—__An American Tragedy__ Ellison-__Invisible Man__ Emerson—essays Fautkner-__As I Lay Dying__ __The Sound & the Fury__ Franklin—__Autobiography__ Hansberry—__A Raisin in the Sun__ __To Be Young. Gifted, and Black__ Hemingway-short stones Hersey-__Hiroshima__ Kennedy-__Profiles in Courage__ Lewis, S.-__Arrowsmith__ __Main Street__ Lindbergh-__Hour of Gold. Hour of Lead__ Melville-__Moby Dick__ Mythology—Bulfinch, Hamilton, etc. Nordhoff & Hall-__Mutiny on the Bounty__ O'Neill-__Emperor Jones__ Parkman-__Oregon Trail__ Poe—tales Roberts-__Northwest Passage__ Rolvaag-__Giants in the Earth__ Sandburg—Lincoln Saroyan-__The Human Comedy__ Sinclair-__The Jungle__ Stowe-__Uncle Tom's Cabin__ Thoreau-__Walden__ Twain-__Life on the Mississippi__ Walker-__The Color Purple__ Warren-__All the King's Men__ Washington-__Up from Slavery__ Welty-__Delta Wedding__ __The Ponder Heart__ Wharton—__Ethan Frome__ Whitman—__Leaves of Grass__ Wilder-__The Bridge of San Luis Rey__ Williams—__The Glass Menagerie__ Wister-__The Virginian__ Wolfe—__Look Homeward Angel__ Wright-__Black Boy__ __Native Son__