Novels & Popular Period Non-Fiction:

Adams, Henry. Democracy: An American Novel. 1880.

Alcott, Louisa May. Eight Cousins. 1875.

            Independence. 1876.

            Jo’s Boys. 1886

            Rose in Bloom. 1876

            Silver Pitchers. 1876

            Work. 1873.

Alger, Horatio.

            Adrift in the City: or, Oliver Conrad’s Plucky Fight

            Mabel Parker, or, The Hidden Treasure: A Tale of Frontier Settlements

            Struggling Upward, or, Luke Larkin’s Luck.

Baum, L. Frank. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. {1900} William R. Leach, ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1991.

Bellamy, Edward. Looking Backward. 1888

Bierce, Ambrose. Can Such Things Be? 1893

            The Devil’s Dictionary. 1881-1906

            Fantastic Fables. 1899

            An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. 1891

            Tales of Soldiers and Civilians. 1892

Cable, George Washington. Old Creole Days. 1880.

Carnegie, Andrew. Wealth. 1889

Chesnutt, Charles Waddell. The Bouquet. 1899

            The Conjure Woman. 1899

            The Goophered Grapevine. 1887

            The House Behind the Cedars. 1900

            Dave’s Neckliss. 1889

            Hot-Foot Hannibal. 1899

            Po’ Sandy. 1888

            The Wife of His Youth. 1898

Chopin, Kate. At Fault. 1890

            The Awakening. 1899

            Bayou Folk. 1894

            A Night in Acadie. 1897

            Ozeme’s Holiday. 1896

            Regret. 1895

Collins, Wilkie. Little Novels. 1887

            The Moonstone. 1867

            The New Magdalen. 1873

Cooper, Susan Fenimore. Rural Hours. 1887

Crane, Stephen. The Black Riders and Other Lines. 1895

            George’s Mother. 1896

            Maggie, A Girl of the Streets. 1893

            Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War. 1895

            The Third Violet. 1897

            Was is Kind. 1900

Custer, Elizabeth Bacon. “Boots and Saddles”; or, Life in Dakota with General Custer. 1885.

            Following the Guidon. 1890

            Tenting on the Plains: General Custer in Kansas and texas. 1887

Custer, George Armstrong. My Life on the Plains; or, Personal Experiences with Indians. 1874.

Davis, Rebecca Harding. Bits of Gossip. 1904.

            Doctor Warrick’s Daughters: A Novel. 1896.

            Life in the Iron Mills. 1861

            The Princess Aline. 1895

            Soldiers of Fortune. 1897

Davis, Richard Harding. Cuba in War Time. 1898.

De Burton, Maria Amparo Ruiz. The Squatter and the Don. 1885

De Leon, Daniel. Reform or Revolution? 1896

            What Means This Strike? 1898

Dickinson, Emily. Poems. 1890+

Donnelly, Ignatius. Atlantis: The Antediluvian World. 1882.

            Caesar’s Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century. 1890.

            The American People’s Money. 1895.

Dreiser, Theodore. Sister Carrie. 1900

Du Bois, W.E.B. The Freedman’s Bureau. 1901

Dunne, Finley Peter. Mr. Dooley in the Hearts of his Countrymen. 1899

            Mr. Dooley in Peace and War. 1898

            Mr. Dooley’s Philosophy. 1900

Eggleston, Edward. The Hoosier Schoolmaster. 1871.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. The Conduct of Life. 1870

Garland, Hamlin. Boy Life on the Prairie. 1899

            Crumbling Idols. 1894

            Jason Edwards. 1892

            A Little Norsk. 1892

            Main-Travelled Roads. 1891

            Rose of Dutcher’s Cooly. 1895

            A Spoil of Office. 1892

            Ulysses S. Grant: His Life and Character . 1898

George, Henry. Our Land and Land Policy. 1900

            Progress and Poverty. 1879

            Protection or Free Trade. 1886

            Social Problems. 1883

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. Women and Economics. 1898

            The Yellow Wallpaper. 1892

Grahame, Kenneth. The Golden Age. 1895

Gregory, Eliot. The Ways of Men. 1897

Guiney, Louise Imogen. A Roadside Harp: A Book of Verses. 1893

Hale, Edward Everett. The Brick Moon: And Other Stories. 1899

            His Level Best: And Other Stories. 1872

            The Man Without a Country: And Other Tales. 1868

            Sybaris and Other Homes. 1869

Hale, Lucretia P. The Peterkin Papers. 1886

Harper, Francis Ellen Watkins. Atlanta Offering. 1895

Harris, Joel Chandler. Uncle Remus. 1881

Harte, Bret. The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches. 1870

            Tales of the Argonauts. 1875.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. The Common Law. 1881

            “The Path of the Law.” 1897

Howe, E.W. The Story of a Country Town. 1883

Howells, William Dean. Annie Kilburn. 1889

            A Chance Acquaintance. 1873.

            A Foregone Conclusion. 1875.

            The Hazard of New Fortunes. 1890

            Indian Summer. 1886

            Lady of the Aroostock. 1880

            A Modern Instance. 1882

            The Rise of Silas Lapham. 1885

            Their Wedding Journey. 1871

            A Traveler from Altruia.

Jackson, Helen Hunt. Ramona. 1884

James, Henry. The American. 1877.

            Aspern Papers. 1888

            Confidence. 1879

            Daisy Miller. 1879

            The Europeans. 1878

            Portrait of a Lady. 1881

            The Princess Casamassima. 1886

            Roderick Hudson. 1876

            The Tragic Muse. 1890

            Washington Square. 1880

            Watch and Ward. 1878.

Jewett, Sarah Orne. A Country Doctor. 1884

            The Country of the Pointed Firs. 1896

            Deephaven. 1877

            Tales of New England. 1890

Lanier, Sidney. Poems. 1885

Murfree, Mary N. (writing as “Charles Egbert Craddock”) In the Tennessee Mountains. 1884.

Norris, Frank. Blix. 1899

            McTeague: A Story of San Francisco. 1899

            The Octopus: A Story of California. 1901

Page, Thomas Nelson. In Ole Virginia. 1887

Riis, Jacob. How the Other Half Lives. 1890

Roosevelt, Theodore. Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail. 1888.

            The Rough Riders. 1899

            The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses. 1900

            The Winning of the West. 1889

Steffens, Lincoln. The Shame of the Cities 1904

            The Struggle for Self-Government. 1906

Tourgee, Albion W. Bricks without Straw: A Novel. 1881.

            A Fool’s Errand: A Novel of the South during Reconstruction.

Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. 1884

            The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. 1876.

            A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. 1889

            The Gilded Age. (with Charles Dudley Warner) 1873

            Life on the Mississippi. 1883

            The Prince and the Pauper. 1881

            Pudd’nhead Wilson. 1894

            Roughing It. 1872

            A Tramp Abroad. 1880

Veblen, Thorstein. The Barbarian Status of Women. 1898-9

            The Beginnings of Ownership. 1898

            The Theory of the Leisure Class. 1899

Washington, Booker T. Up from Slavery: An Autobiography. 1901

Whitman, Walt. Democratic Vistas. 1871

            Leaves of Grass. 1876.

            November Boughs. 1888

            A Passage to India. 1871.

            Specimen Days. 1882

Wilder, Laura Ingalls. Little House on the Prairie. 1935

Wilkins, Mary Eleanor. A Humble Romance and Other Stories. 1887

            A New England Nun and Other Stories. 1891

            The People of Our Neighborhood. 1898

            Silence and Other Stories. 1894

            Young Lucretia, and Other Stories. 1892

Young, John Russell. Around the World with General Grant. 1879.