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American Lit
Quizbowl Training
| Work | Author |
|---|---|
| The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America | Anne Bradstreet |
| Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God | Jonathan Edwards |
| Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral | Phillis Wheatley |
| To His Excellency, George Washington | Phillis Wheatley |
| On Being Brought from Africa to America | Phillis Wheatley |
| To My Dear and Loving Husband | Anne Bradstreet |
| Verses Upon the Burning of My House | Anne Bradstreet |
| The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | Washington Irving |
| The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon | Washington Irving |
| Tales of the Alhambra | Washington Irving |
| Thanatopsis | William Cullen Bryant |
| To a Waterfowl | William Cullen Bryant |
| Leatherstocking Tales | James Fenimore Cooper |
| Last of the Mohicans | James Fenimore Cooper |
| The Tell-Tale Heart | Edgar Allan Poe |
| The Raven | Edgar Allan Poe |
| The Cask of Amontillado | Edgar Allan Poe |
| The Fall of the House of Usher | Edgar Allan Poe |
| The Pit and the Pendulum | Edgar Allan Poe |
| Murders in the Rue Morgue | Edgar Allan Poe |
| Annabel Lee | Edgar Allan Poe |
| The Song of Hiawatha | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Paul Revere’s Ride | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Evangeline | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Self-Reliance | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| The Over-Soul | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Walden | Henry David Thoreau |
| Civil Disobedience | Henry David Thoreau |
| Twice-Told Tales | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| The House of the Seven Gables | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Dr. Heidegger‘s Experiment | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| The Minister’s Black Veil | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Moby-Dick | Herman Melville |
| Billy Budd | Herman Melville |
| Bartleby the Scrivener | Herman Melville |
| Leaves of Grass | Walt Whitman |
| Song of Myself | Walt Whitman |
| When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d | Walt Whitman |
| O Captain! My Captain! | Walt Whitman |
| When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer | Walt Whitman |
| Crossing Brooklyn Ferry | Walt Whitman |
| Little Women | Louisa May Alcott |
| The Awakening | Kate Chopin |
| Desiree’s Baby | Kate Chopin |
| The Story of an Hour | Kate Chopin |
| The Luck of Roaring Camp | Bret Harte |
| The Outcasts of Poker Flat | Bret Harte |
| Because I could not stop for death | Emily Dickenson |
| I heard a fly buzz when I died | Emily Dickenson |
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain |
| The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County | Mark Twain |
| A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court | Mark Twain |
| The Prince and the Pauper | Mark Twain |
| The Red Badge of Courage | Stephen Crane |
| Maggie, a Girl of the Streets | Stephen Crane |
| The Open Boat | Stephen Crane |
| An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge | Ambrose Bierce |
| The Devil’s Dictionary | Ambrose Bierce |
| Call of the Wild | Jack London |
| White Fang | Jack London |
| The Sea Wolf | Jack London |
| The Jungle | Upton Sinclair |
| An American Tragedy | Theodore Dreiser |
| Sister Carrie | Theodore Dreiser |
| The Turn of the Screw | Henry James |
| The Portrait of a Lady | Henry James |
| Daisy Miller | Henry James |
| The Ambassadors | Henry James |
| Washington Square | Henry James |
| The Souls of Black Folk | W.E.B. Du Bois |
| Ethan Frome | Edith Wharton |
| The Age of Innocence | Edith Wharton |
| The House of Mirth | Edith Wharton |
| My Antonia | Willa Cather |
| O Pioneers! | Willa Cather |
| Winesburg, Ohio | Sherwood Anderson |
| Main Street | Sinclair Lewis |
| Babbitt | Sinclair Lewis |
| It Can’t Happen Here | Sinclair Lewis |
| The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway |
| A Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemingway |
| The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway |
| For Whom the Bell Tolls | Ernest Hemingway |
| The Beautiful and the Damned | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| The Diamond as Big as the Ritz | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Bernice Bobs Her Hair | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck |
| East of Eden | John Steinbeck |
| Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck |
| The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner |
| As I Lay Dying | William Faulkner |
| Absalom, Absalom! | William Faulkner |
| A Rose for Emily | William Faulkner |
| anyone lived in a pretty how town | e.e. cummings |
| maggie and milly and molly and may | e.e. cummings |
| The Executioner’s Song | Norman Mailer |
| The Naked and the Dead | Norman Mailer |
| Catch-22 | Joseph Heller |
| The Gift of the Magi | O. Henry |
| Ransom of Red Chief | O. Henry |
| Richard Cory | Edwin Arlington Robinson |
| Miniver Cheevy | Edwin Arlington Robinson |
| The Road Not Taken | Robert Frost |
| Mending Wall | Robert Frost |
| Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening | Robert Frost |
| The Death of the Hired Man | Robert Frost |
| Fire and Ice | Robert Frost |
| The Red Wheelbarrow | William Carlos Williams |
| This is Just to Say | William Carlos Williams |
| Go Tell it on the Mountain | James Baldwin |
| A Raisin in the Sun | Lorraine Hansberry |
| The Negro Speaks of Rivers | Langston Hughes |
| Montage of a Dream Deferred | Langston Hughes |
| Harlem | Langston Hughes |
| Native Son | Richard Wright |
| Black Boy | Richard Wright |
| Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison |
| Juneteenth | Ralph Ellison |
| Breakfast at Tiffany’s | Truman Capote |
| In Cold Blood | Truman Capote |
| A Good Man is Hard to Find | Flannery O’Connor |
| The Life You Save May be Your Own | Flannery O’Connor |
| Spoon River Anthology | Edgar Lee Masters |
| On the Road | Jack Kerouac |
| Howl | Allen Ginsberg |
| A Supermarket in California | Allen Ginsberg |
| Naked Lunch | William S. Burroughs |
| Junky | William S. Burroughs |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee |
| Go Set a Watchman | Harper Lee |
| Long Day’s Journey into Night | Eugene O’Neill |
| The Iceman Cometh | Eugene O’Neill |
| Mourning Becomes Electra | Eugene O’Neill |
| A Streetcar Named Desire | Tennessee Williams |
| Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Tennessee Williams |
| Night of the Iguana | Tennessee Williams |
| Our Town | Thornton Wilder |
| The Bridge of San Luis Rey | Thornton Wilder |
| The Lottery | Shirley Jackson |
| Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov |
| The Good Earth trilogy: The Good Earth, Sons, A House Divided | Pearl S. Buck |
| The Heart is a Lonely Hunter | Carson McCullers |
| The Ballad of the Sad Cafe | Carson McCullers |
| Pale Horse | Katherine Anne Porter |
| Pale Rider | Katherine Anne Porter |
| The Fountainhead | Ayn Rand |
| Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand |
| Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston |
| The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath |
| Gravity’s Rainbow | Thomas Pynchon |
| The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger |
| Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut |
| Breakfast of Champions | Kurt Vonnegut |
| Cat’s Cradle | Kurt Vonnegut |
| The Sirens of Titan | Kurt Vonnegut |
| The Rabbit series | John Updike |
| Rabbit, Run | John Updike |
| Humboldt’s Gift | Saul Bellow |
| Herzog | Saul Bellow |
| The Adventures of Augie March | Saul Bellow |
| Henderson the Rain King | Saul Bellow |
| The Optimist’s Daughter | Eudora Welty |
| Why I Live at the P.O. | Eudora Welty |
| Death of a Salesman | Arthur Miller |
| The Crucible | Arthur Miller |
| A Separate Peace | John Knowles |
| The Color Purple | Alice Walker |
| Beloved | Toni Morrison |
| Song of Solomon | Toni Morrison |
| Tar Baby | Toni Morrison |
| The Bluest Eye | Toni Morrison |
| I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou |
| On the Pulse of Morning | Maya Angelou |
| Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf | Edward Albee |
| The Zoo Story | Edward Albee |
| Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury |
| The Martian | Ray Bradbury |