ENG 246 Assignment Playbook

For this assignment, you will be asked to choose a novel to read and research. You will use what you find in a research paper project. For more information, such as assignment details, please consult Dr. Wert.

1865-1917

• Henry James: Portrait of a Lady
• Mark Twain: The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
• Edith Wharton
  • The Age of Innocence
  • Summer
• Stephen Crane: The Red Badge of Courage
• Frank Norris: McTeague
• Jack London: The Sea Wolf
• Willa Cather: My Antonia

1917-1945

• F. Scott Fitzgerald: Tender Is the Night
• Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises
• John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath
• William Faulkner:
  • Light in August
  • As I Lay Dying
  • The Sound and the Fury
• Richard Wright: Native Son
• Zora Neale Hurston:
  • Jonah's Gourd Vine
  • Moses Man of the Mountain

1945-2000

• Eudora Welty:  The Optimist’s Daughter
• Ralph Ellison:  Invisible Man
• Charles Johnson:  Middle Passage
• Alice Walker:  The Color Purple
• Jack Kerouac: 
  • On the Road
  • The Dharma Bums
• Toni Morrison: 
  • The Bluest Eye
  • Song of Solomon
  • Sula
  • Beloved
• Kurt Vonnegut: 
  • Cat’s Cradle
  • Bluebeard
• Erskine Caldwell: 
  • Tobacco Road
  • God’s Little Acre
• Cormac McCarthy: 
  • Suttree
  • Blood Meridian
• Carson McCullers:  The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
• John Kennedy Toole:  A Confederacy of Dunces
• Wallace Stegner:  Angle of Repose
• Norman Maclean:  A River Runs Through It
• Tayari Jones:  An American Marriage
• Jesmyn Ward:  Sing, Unburied, Sing
• Dawnie Walton:  The Final Revival of Opal and Nev
• Tommy Orange:  There There
• Imbolo Mbue:  Behold the Dreamers