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This poet wrote "The Road Not Taken" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," often exploring rural New England themes.
- Walt Whitman
- Emily Dickinson
- Robert Frost
- Carl Sandburg
This 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald features the mysterious Jay Gatsby and his lavish parties on Long Island.
- The Great Gatsby
- Tender Is the Night
- This Side of Paradise
- The Beautiful and Damned
This reclusive poet from Amherst, Massachusetts wrote nearly 1,800 poems, most discovered after her death, including "Because I could not stop for Death."
- Sylvia Plath
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Anne Bradstreet
- Emily Dickinson
This novel by Harper Lee, published in 1960, features lawyer Atticus Finch defending a Black man accused of rape in 1930s Alabama.
- The Color Purple
- Beloved
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Go Set a Watchman
This collection of essays by Henry David Thoreau describes his two years living in a cabin near a pond in Massachusetts.
- Walden
- Nature
- Self-Reliance
- Civil Disobedience
This poet's collection "Leaves of Grass" celebrated democracy and the human body, and he revised it throughout his lifetime.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- John Greenleaf Whittier
- Walt Whitman
This Steinbeck novel follows the Joad family as they travel from Oklahoma to California during the Dust Bowl era.
- East of Eden
- The Grapes of Wrath
- Of Mice and Men
- Cannery Row
This short novel by Steinbeck tells of two displaced migrant ranch workers, George and Lennie, in Depression-era California.
- Of Mice and Men
- The Pearl
- Tortilla Flat
- The Red Pony
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