The works listed will allow your students to further explore the theme of Society's Laws vs. Higher Moral Values and other themes related to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:


Fiction
Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye. New York: Little, Brown, 1951. A contemporary teenage boy goes on a journey through the New York of the 1940s, facing all the "phonies" in the real world. (average)

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin. Toronto: Bantam, 1981. If Huck Finn makes a strong indirect case for abolishing slavery, this book, published in 1851, makes a blunt and shocking case for abolition of slavery, and caused a sensation when it was published. (challenge)

Faulkner, William. Barn Burning. New York: Random House, 1954. The story of a boy whose poor, tyrannical father is reminiscent of Huck's.


Nonfiction
Budd, Louis J., ed. New Essays on Huckleberry Finn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Good, general essays on the importance of the book on its centennial. (challenge)

Graff, Gerald and James Phelan, eds. Mark Twain and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Case Study in Critical Controversy. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1995. A stimulating collection of essays touching upon the current critical issues regarding the novel. (challenge)

Raban, Johathan. Old Glory: An American Voyage. New York: HarperCollins, 1992. An Englishman travels down the Mississippi in the 20th century.