Books
Arthur Miller's novel based on the Salem Witch Trials.
The Crucible
Mark Twain's tale of a boy's adventure down the Mississippi.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
William Faulkner's novel that traces a young man’s development in the context of an annual hunting trip, as well as his later attempts to reckon with his family’s fraught history of racial and other abuses.
"The Bear"
James Weldon Johnson's story a mixed-race man that lives out his adult years as a white man.
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
William Faulkner traces the rise and fall of antebellum Southern culture
Absalom, Absalom
Thomas Paine attempts to use eloquent, emotional language to persuade the American people to support their states’ new union and contribute to the revolutionary cause.
"The Crisis"
Herman Melville's story of a young sailor who seems perfect, other than his flaw when he becomes emotional
Billy Budd
Harold Pinter's play on a study of how power, allegiance and corrupted innocence affect a lonely tramp and two brothers who he meets.
The Caretaker
The J.D. Salinger novel details two days in the life of 16-year-old Holden Caulfield after he has been expelled from prep school.
The Cather in the Rye
William Faulkner's novel that follows the Bundren family as they bring their mother’s corpse to Jefferson, the town she wished to be buried.
As I Lay Dying
Theodore Dreiser's novel about the life of Clyde Griffiths from late childhood to his infamous death.
An American Tragedy
Kate Chopin's Novel is about a women how is unhappy in her marriage
The Awakening
Toni Morrison's story of a runaway enslaved African American who was forced to make a horrible decision for her daughter
Beloved
The story of a man who plans to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker, an old woman who stores money and valuable objects in her apartment to fund his good deeds.
Crime and Punishment
The explanation of how and why Thoreau spent a night in jail for refusing to pay his poll tax as a protest against the Mexican-American war and the institution of slavery.
"Civil Disobedience" by Henry David Thoreau
Three-act play follows an afternoon in the life of the dysfunctional Pollitt family as they celebrate their patriarch’s sixty-fifth birthday.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
The Margaret Atwood story follows a controversial artist and her remembrances of her childhood
Cat's Eye
Alice Walker traces the gradual liberation of Celie, a poor, Black woman who must overcome abuse and separation from her beloved sister Nettie.
The Color Purple
The Joseph Heller novel is set during World War II and portrays the absurd experiences of a group of Army pilots stationed in Italy.
Catch-22
The Charles Dickens narrative covers the first-person account of the life of Esther Summerson and an ongoing court case concerning a large inheritance thrown into chaos by the existence of contradictory wills.
Bleak House