| Alexander Hamilton | The Federalist Papers | |
|---|---|---|
| Anne Bradstreet | The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America | |
| Anne Bradstreet | Upon the Burning of Our House | |
| Anne Bradstreet | To My dear and Loving Husband | |
| Benjamin Franklin | Poor Richard's Almanack | |
| Benjamin Franklin | Autobiography | |
| Captain John Smith | The General History of Virginia | |
| Captain John Smith | New England and the Summer Isles | |
| Captain John Smith | A True Relation of …Virginia | |
| Edgar Allan Poe | The Fall of the House of Usher | |
| Edgar Allan Poe | The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket | |
| Edgar Allan Poe | The Murders in the Rue Morgue | |
| Edgar Allan Poe | The Philosophy of Composition | |
| Edgar Allan Poe | The Raven | |
| Edgar Allan Poe | Ulalume | |
| Edgar Allan Poe | The Bells | |
| Edward Johnson | Wonder-Working Providence | |
| Edward Taylor | The Poetical Works of Edward Taylor (1939) | |
| Edward Taylor | God's determinations | |
| Edward Taylor | Upon a Spider Catching a Fly | |
| Edward Taylor | Housewifery | |
| Hariet Beecher Stowe | Uncle Tom's Cabin | |
| Herman Melville | Moby-Dick; or, The Whale | |
| Herman Melville | Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life | |
| Herman Melville | Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas | |
| Herman Melville | Mardi: And a Voyage Thither | |
| Herman Melville | Pierre | |
| Herman Melville | The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade | |
| Herman Melville | Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative) | |
| James Cooper | The Spy | |
| James Cooper | Precaution | |
| James Cooper | The Pilot | |
| James Cooper | The Leatherstocking Tales | |
| James Cooper | The Pioneers | |
| James Cooper | The Last of the Mohicans | |
| James Cooper | The Prairie | |
| James Cooper | The Pathfinder | |
| James Cooper | The Deerslay | |
| James Cooper | The Red Rover | |
| James Cooper | A Letter to His Countrymen | |
| James Cooper | The American Democrat | |
| James Cooper | History of the Navy | |
| John Winthrop | A Model of Christian Charity | |
| Jonathan Edwards | Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God | |
| Jonathan Edwards | Notes on the Apocalypse | |
| Michael Wigglesworth | The Day of Doom | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | The Scarlet Letter | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | Twice-Told Tales | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | Mosses from an Old Manse | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | Tanglewood Tales | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | The Minister's Black Veil | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | The House of the Seven Gables | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | The Blithedale Romance | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | Young Goodman Brown | |
| Philip Freneau | The Indian Burying Ground | |
| Philip Freneau | The Wild Honeysuckle | |
| Richard Hakluyt | Diverse Voyages Touching the Discoverie of America | |
| Richard Hakluyt | The Principal Navigations | |
| Richard Hakluyt | Voyages | |
| Richard Hakluyt | Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation | |
| Samuel Sewaall | The diary | |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | The Discovery of Guiana | |
| Thomas Jefferson | Declaration of Independence | |
| Thomas Jefferson | A Summary View of the Rights of British America | |
| Thomas Jefferson | Notes on the State of Virginia | |
| Thomas Paine | Common Sense | |
| Thomas Paine | The Rights of Man | |
| Thomas Paine | The American Crisis | |
| Thomas Paine | The Age of Reason | |
| Washington Irving | The Sketch Book | |
| Washington Irving | Tales of a Traveller | |
| Washington Irving | The Alhambra | |
| Washington Irving | Rip van Winkle | |
| Washington Irving | The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | |
| William Bradford | Of Plymouth Plantation | |
| William Bryant | Thanatopsis | |
| William Bryant | The Prairies |
| Sinclair Lewis | "Main Street"/ Carol Kennicott | |
|---|---|---|
| Sinclair Lewis | "Babbitt" | |
| Sinclair Lewis | "Arrowsmith" | |
| Sinclair Lewis | "Elmer Gantry" | |
| Sinclair Lewis | "Dodsworth" | |
| John Steinbeck | "Tortilla Flat" / Danny | |
| John Steinbeck | "Dubious Battle" /migrant apple-pickers | |
| John Steinbeck | "Of Mice and Men" /farm workers | |
| John Steinbeck | "The Grapes of Wrath" /Joad family | |
| John Steinbeck | "East of Eden" | |
| John Steinbeck | "The Pearl" | |
| Pauline Hopkins | "Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest" | |
| Pauline Hopkins | "Of One Blood: Or, the Hidden Self" | |
| Pauline Hopkins | "Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste" | |
| Pauline Hopkins | "Contending Forces" | |
| Louisa M. Alcott | "Flower Babies" | |
| Louisa M. Alcott | "Little women: or Joe, Meg and Amy" | |
| Louisa M. Alcott | "Work: A Story of Experience" | |
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman | "Women and ecomomics" | |
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman | "Concerning Children" | |
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman | "The Home" | |
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman | "The Yellow Wallpaper" | |
| Gertrude Stein | "Three Lives" | |
| Gertrude Stein | "The Making of Americans" | |
| Gertrude Stein | "Tender Buttons" | |
| Gertrude Stein | The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas | |
| Ernest Hemingway | "The Sun Also Rises" | |
| Ernest Hemingway | "A Farewell to Arms" | |
| Ernest Hemingway | "For Whom The Bell Tolls" | |
| Ernest Hemingway | "Death in the Afternoon" | |
| Ernest Hemingway | "The Old Man and the Sea" | |
| John Dos Passos | "One Man's Initiation" | |
| John Dos Passos | "Three Soldiers" | |
| John Dos Passos | "Manhattan Transfer" | |
| John Dos Passos | "U.S.A." | |
| Francis Scott Fitzgerald | "This Side of Paradise" | |
| Francis Scott Fitzgerald | "Three Comrades" | |
| Francis Scott Fitzgerald | "Tender is the Night" | |
| Francis Scott Fitzgerald | "The Love of the Last Tycoon" | |
| Francis Scott Fitzgerald | "The Great Gatsby" | |
| Sidney Lanier | "Tiger-Lilies" | |
| Sidney Lanier | "The Science of English Verse" | |
| Kate Chopin | "Bayou Folk" | |
| Kate Chopin | "A Night in Acadie" | |
| Kate Chopin | "The Awakening" | |
| William Dean Howells | "The Rise of Silas Lapham" | |
| William Dean Howells | "Criticism and Fiction" | |
| Hamlin Garland | "Crumbling Idols" | |
| Hamlin Garland | "Main-Travelled Roads" | |
| Henry James | "A Passionate Pilgrim" | |
| Henry James | "Daisy Miller" | |
| Henry James | "The Portrait of a Lady" /Isabel Archer,Gilbert Osmond | |
| Henry James | "The Bostonians " | |
| Henry James | "The Princess Casamassima " | |
| Henry James | "The Turn of the Screw" | |
| Henry James | "The Wings of the Dove" | |
| Henry James | "The Ambassadors" | |
| Henry James | "The Golden Bowl" | |
| Henry James | "The Art of Fiction " | |
| Mark Twain | "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County " | |
| Mark Twain | "Innocents Abroad " | |
| Mark Twain | "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer " | |
| Mark Twain | "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn " | |
| Mark Twain | "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court " | |
| Mark Twain | "A Mysterious Stranger " | |
| Ralph W. Emerson | "Nature" | |
| Ralph W. Emerson | "Self- Reliance" | |
| Walt Whitman | "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" | |
| Walt Whitman | "Song of Myself" | |
| Stephen Crane | "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets" /Maggie Johnson | |
| Stephen Crane | "The Red Badge of Courage" | |
| Stephen Crane | "The Open Boat" | |
| Jack London | "The Call of the Wild"/ dog Buck | |
| Jack London | "The Sea Wolf" | |
| Jack London | "White Fang" | |
| Frank Norris | "McTeague" | |
| Frank Norris | "The Octopus" | |
| Theodore Dreiser | "Sister Carrie" | |
| Theodore Dreiser | "Jennie Gerhardt" | |
| Theodore Dreiser | "Trilogy of desire" | |
| Theodore Dreiser | "An American Tragedy" | |
| Sherwood Anderson | "Windy McPherson's Son" | |
| Sherwood Anderson | "Marching Men" | |
| Sherwood Anderson | "Winesburg, Ohio" | |
| Henry Miller | "Topic of Cancer" | |
| Henry Miller | "Black Spring" | |
| Henry Miller | "Topic of Capricorn" | |
| Thomas Wolfe | "Look Homeward, Angel" | |
| Thomas Wolfe | "You can't go home again" | |
| Nathaniel West | "Miss Lonely Hearts" | |
| Nathaniel West | "The Day of the Locust" | |
| William Faulkner | "Soldiers' Pay" | |
| William Faulkner | "Mosquitoes" | |
| William Faulkner | "Sartoris" | |
| William Faulkner | "The Sound and the Fury" | |
| William Faulkner | "As I Lay Dying" | |
| William Faulkner | "Light in August" | |
| William Faulkner | "Absalom, Absalom" | |
| William Faulkner | "The Hamlet" | |
| William Faulkner | "The Town" | |
| William Faulkner | "The Mansion" | |
| Robert Frost | "A Boy's Will" | |
| Robert Frost | "North of Boston" | |
| Robert Frost | "Mountain Interval" | |
| Robert Frost | "Collected Poems" | |
| Ezra Pound | "The Cantos" | |
| Thomas Elliot | "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" | |
| Thomas Elliot | "The Waste Land" | |
| Thomas Elliot | "The Hollow Men" | |
| Thomas Elliot | "Ash Wenesday" | |
| Thomas Elliot | "Four Quartets" | |
| Langston Hughes | "The Weary Blues" | |
| Countee Cullen | "Copper Sun" | |
| Claude McKay | "Home to Harlem" | |
| Jean Toomer | "Cane" | |
| Jean Toomer | "The New Negro" | |
| Eugene O'Neill | "Anna Christie" | |
| Eugene O'Neill | "Desire under the Elms" | |
| Eugene O'Neill | "Emperor Jones" | |
| Eugene O'Neill | "Mourning Becomes Electra" |