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.