Vocabulary.com features hundreds of literature lists made by our curriculum development team, and we're adding new ones all the time. Check out this latest batch of lists for American literature.
Novels/Memoir
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (1876): Chapters 1-5, 6-12, 13-21, 22-30, and 31-36
- The Awakening by Kate Chopin (1899): Chapters 1-5, 6-10, 11-15, 16-20, 21-25, 26-30, 31-35, and 36-39
- The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (1895): Chapters 1-5, 6-11, 12-18, and 19-24
- Sula by Toni Morrison (1973): pages 1-29, 30-48, 49-85, 89-137, and 138-174
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960): Chapters 1-6, 7-11, 12-15, 16-19, 20-25, and 26-31
- The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston (1975: No Name Woman, White Tigers, Shaman, At the Western Palace, and A Song for a Barbarian Reed Pipe
Plays
- "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller (1953) Act 1, Act 2. Act 3, and Act 4
- “Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller (1949) Act I, and Act II
- "A Raisin in the Sun" by Lorraine Hansberry (1959) Act I, Act II, and Act III
Poetry
- "The Death of the Hired Man" by Robert Frost (1914)
- "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot(1920)
- "A Noiselss Patient Spider" by Walt Whitman (1871)
- "Thanatopsis" by William Cullen Bryant (1817)
- "Upon the Burning of our House, July 10th, 1666" by Anne Bradstreet (1666)