The Big Read Sonoma 2010

Great American Literature of the 19th Century

Other Books for Folks Participating in Sonoma County Library’s The Big Read

19th Century American Fiction

• History, Tales, and Sketches Irving, Washington (1820s)
• The Last of the Mohicans Cooper, James Fenimore (1826)
• The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe Poe, Edgar Allan (1820-40)
• The Deerslayer Cooper, James Fenimore (1841)
• The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1850)
• Moby Dick Melville, Herman (1851)
• The House of the Seven Gables Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1851)
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1852)
• Little Women Alcott, Louisa May (1868-69)
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain, Mark (1884)
• The Portrait of a Lady James, Henry (1881)
• The Rise of Silas Lapham Howells, William Dean (1885)
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Twain, Mark (1889)
• The Red Badge of Courage Crane, Stephen (1895)
• The Awakening Chopin, Kate (1899)
• The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce Bierce, Ambrose (1890s)
• The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories James, Henry (1898)

19th Century American Non-fiction

• The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy James, William
• Essays & Lectures Emerson, Ralph Waldo
• The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table Holmes, Sr., Oliver Wendell
• Walden and Other Writings Thoreau, Henry David
  
• The Innocents Abroad Twain, Mark
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Douglass, Frederick
• Roughing It Twain, Mark

19th Century American Poetry

• The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Dickinson, Emily
• The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Poe, Edgar Allan
• Leaves of Grass Whitman, Walt
• Poems and Other Writings Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Adapted with permission from the Orem Public Library.