Mandatory American Lit Books

Mandatory American literature books – alphabetical order. Edition specifications are generally also mandatory.

• Adams: The Education of Henry Adams (Massachusetts Historical Society edition)
• Bierce: The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce (Bison Books)
• Cooper: Leatherstocking Saga” (Nevins editor)
• Cummings: Selected Poems:  1923-1958 (Faber)
• Cummings: The Enormous Room (Modern Library)
• Dana: Two Years Before the Mast and Other Voyages (Library of America)
• Dewey: Democracy and Education
• Dewey: How We Think
• Dewey: Quest for Certainty
• Dewey: Studies in Logical Theory (Philosophy in America)
• Eliot: Selected Essays (Harcourt Revised Edition)
• Eliot: Selected Poems
• Faulkner: Essays, Speeches, and Public Letters (Modern Library)
• Faulkner: Selected Short Stories (Modern Library)
• Faulkner: The Reivers
• Faulkner: Three Famous Short Novels: Spotted Horses, Old Man, The Bear (Modern Library)
• Fitzgerald: The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Scribner)
• Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays (Library of America)
• Irving: The Complete Tales of Washington Irving (Neider editor)
• Lockridge: Raintree County (edition with Herman Wouk forward)
• Longfellow (trans.): The Divine Comedy
• Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings (Library of America)
• Lovell and Kluger: Lost Moon:  The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13
• McCullers: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter/Reflections in a Golden Eye/The Ballad of the Sad Cafe/The Member of the Wedding/The Clock Without Hands (Library of America)
• Melville: Typee, Omoo, Mardi (Library of America)
• Mencken: Days (Happy, Newspaper, Heathen) (Dorset Press)
• Millay:  Selected Poems (American Poets Project edition)
• Moore: The Poems of Marianne Moore (Grace Schulman, ed.)
• Robinson: The Poetry of E. A. Robinson (Modern Library)
• Steinbeck: In Dubious Battle
• Tarkington: Penrod, His Complete Story (Doubleday)
• Twain: The Library of America set of Mark Twain
• Veblen: The Theory of the Leisure Class (Modern Library)
• Watkins and Haise: Apollo Moon Missions:  the Unsung Heroes
• Whitman: Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass (OUP 150th anniversary edition)
• Wolfe: The Right Stuff