Johnson Highspot of American Literature

In 1929, Merle Johnson defined "high spots" as being "those literary landmarks that rise above mediocrity." Ahearn

1925
An American Tragedy
1924
A Story Teller's Story
1923
The Presbyterian Child
1922
A Pioneer Mother
1922
The Covered Wagon
1922
Babbitt
1921
The Story of Mankind
1921
The Triumph of the Egg
1921
Three Soldiers
1920
The Rose Dawn
1920-10
Main Street
1920
Smoke and Steel
1919
Winesburg, Ohio
1919
Jurgen
1918
My Antonia
1918
Jungle Peace
1917
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
1917
Renascence and Other Poems
1917
The Three Black Pennys
1916
Men, Women and Ghosts
1916
Poems
1916-03-10
Seventeen
1916
Casuals of the Sea: The Voyage of A Soul
1915
Spoon River Anthology
1915
When a Man Comes to Himself
1915
The Gray Dawn
1914
Trees and Other Poems
1914
North of Boston
1914
Penrod
1914
The Single Hound Poems for a Lifetime
1913
Gold
1913
John Barleycorn
1913
Bunker Bean
1911
Ethan Frome
1911
Jennie Gerhardt
1908
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
1907
Before Adam
1906-02-28
The Jungle
1906
The Way of An Indian
1906
In Our Town
1906
Are You A Bromide?
1906
The Four Million
1905
Pigs Is Pigs
1904
The Golden Bowl
1904
The Watchers of the Trails
1903
The Call of the Wild
1903
The Pit
1902
The Virginian
1901
The Ruling Passion
1901
The Octopus
1900
To Have and To Hold
1900
Fables in Slang
1900
Monsieur Beaucaire
1900-11-08
Sister Carrie
1899
McTeague
1899
Old Chester Tales
1899
War Is Kind
1899
Where Angels Fear To Tread
1899
The Court of Boyville
1899
The Gentleman from Indiana
1898
Mr. Dooley in Peace And War
1898
A Message to Garcia
1898
Wild Animals I Have Known
1898
David Harum: A Story of American Life
1897
Wolfville
1897
Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker
1897
The First Christmas-tree
1896
The Damnation of Theron Ware
1896
Aftermath
1895
A Kentucky Cardinal
1895
The Purple Cow
1895
The Red Badge of Courage
1894
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
1894
The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought Of Him
1892
Men of Iron
1891-03-13
The Man With the Hoe
1891
Tales of Soldiers and Civilians
1891
Flute and Violin and Other Kentucky Tales
1891
Short Sixes
1891
Colonel Carter of Cartersville
1891
Main-Travelled Roads
1890
Two Years in The French West Indies
1890
A Boy's Town
1890
The Aztec Treasure-house
1890
In The Valley
1889
A Little Book of Profitable Tales
1889
A Little Book of Western Verse
1888
The Dusantes
1888
Looking Backward 2000-1887
1887
Some Chinese Ghosts
1887
In Ole Virginia
1886
The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine
1886
Little Lord Fauntleroy
1885
The Rise of Silas Lapham
1884-12-10
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1884
The Lady, Or the Tiger?
1884
Ramona: A Story
1883
The Old Swimmin'-hole
1883
The Hoosier School-boy
1881
Uncle Remus
1880
Ben-Hur
1879
Old Creole Days
1879
Daisy Miller
1876
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
1873
Farm Ballads
1873
The Fair God
1871
Songs of the Sierras
1871
Wake-robin
1871
Hans Breitmann's Party
1871
Jim Bludso of The Prairie Bell, And Little Breeches
1871
Poems
1871
Little Women
1871
The Hoosier School-master
1870
The Luck of Roaring Camp
1870
The Story of a Bad Boy
1868
Little Men
1866
Hans Brinker; or, The Silver Skates
1866
Snow-bound
1865
The Man Without a Country
1861
Elsie Venner: A Romance of Destiny
1858
The Autocrat of The Breakfast-table
1857
Nothing to Wear: An Episode of City Life
1856
Prue and I
1855
The Song of Hiawatha
1855-05-15
Leaves of Grass
1854
Walden
1852-03-20
Uncle Tom's Cabin
1851-10-18
Moby-Dick
1850
The Scarlet Letter
1850
Reveries of A Bachelor: or A Book of The Heart
1849
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
1848-11-10
The Biglow Papers
1847-11-08
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
1845
The Raven and Other Poems
1845
Tales
1844
Poems
1841
Essays
1840
Two Years Before The Mast
1837
Twice-told Tales
1826-02-04
The Last of the Mohicans
1821
Poems
1819
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.