William Bryant High School, American History 1 Reading List

These books were selected by Barbara J. Tutino, from the Social Studies Department at William Bryant High School in New York. OBJECTIVE: to provide students with essential independent reading to supplement the state-mandated history course.

Intended for use with Windows PCs and recent Macs (OS X), this CD contains the full text of about dozens of books, in plain text format, organized for easy access.

Table of Contents

Alcott, Louisa May

• Little Women

Bronte, Charlotte

• Jane Eyre

Cather, Willa

• My Antonia
• O Pioneers!

Conrad, Joseph

• The Heart of Darkness

Cooper, James Fenimore

• The Deerslayer
• The Last of the Mohicans

Crane, Stephen

• The Red Badge of Courage

Dickens, Charles

• David Coopperfield
• Great Expectations
• A Tale of Two Cities

Dostoyevsky, Fydor

• Crime and Punishment

Douglass, Frederick

• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

Franklin, Benjamin

• Autobiography

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

• The House of the Seven Gables
• The Scarlet Letter

Irving, Washington

• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
• "Rip Van Winkle" (story) from The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon

Keller, Helen

• The Story of My Life

Lincoln, Abraham

• The Gettysburg Address

London, Jack

• The Call of the Wild

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

• "Paul Revere's Ride" (poem), in The Complete Poetical Works of Longfellow

Shakespeare, William

• The Tempest

Shelley, Mary

• Frankenstein

Sinclair, Upton

• The Jungle

Stevenson, Robert Louis

• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Treasure Island

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

Swift, Jonathan

• Gulliver's Travels

Thoreau, Henry David

• Walden

Twain, Mark

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Wharton, Edith

• Ethan Frome

Whittier, John Greenleaf

• "Barbara Frietchie" (poem), in Narrative and Legendary Poems

Whitman, Walt

• "O Captain! My Captain!" (poem), in The Leaves of Grass

Wister, Owen

• The Virginian