| John Winthrop | A model of Christian charity |
| Roger Williams | A key to the language of America |
| Michael Wigglesworth | The day of doom |
| Edward Tylor | Preparatory meditations |
| Edward Tylor | God's determinations |
| Samuel Sewall | The diary |
| Cotton Mather | The wonders of the invisible world |
| Jonathan Edwards | Sinners in the hands of an angry God |
| B. Franklin | The Autobiography |
| John Woolman | Some considerations on the keeping of negroes |
| Samuel Occom | Sermon preached at the execution of Moses Paul |
| J.H.St.J. de Crevecoeur | Letters from an American farmer |
| Thomas Paine | Of the theology of the Christians and the true theology |
| Thomas Jefferson | The Declaration of Independence |
| Rayall Tyler | The contrast |
| W. Irving | Rip van winkle |
| W. Irving | The legend of the sleepy hollow |
| William Apess | An Indian looking-glass for the White Man |
| James Fenimore Cooper | The Pioneers |
| Edgar Allan Poe | The Cask of Amontillado |
| Edgar Allan Poe | The tell-tale heart |
| Edgar Allan Poe | Ligeia |
| Edgar Allan Poe | The raven |
| Edgar Allan Poe | The fall of the house of usher |
| Edgar Allan Poe | The purloined letter |
| Edgar Allan Poe | The philosophy of composition |
| Nawthaniel Hawthorne | The scarlet letter |
| Nawthaniel Hawthorne | The house of the seven gables |
| Herman Melville | Moby Dick |
| Ralph Waldo Emmerson | Nature |
| Ralph Waldo Emmerson | Self-reliance |
| Henry David Thoreau | Walden |
| Henry David Thoreau | Resistance to civil government |
| Henry David Thoreau | Life without principle |
| Margaret Fuller | The great lawsuit |
| Walt Whitman | The leaves of grass |
| Walt Whitman | Song of myself |
| Mark Twain | The adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| Mark Twain | Letters from the earth |
| William Dean Howells | Novel-writing and novel-reading |
| Henry James | Daisy Miller |
| Henry James | The art of fiction |
| Kate Chopin | The awakening |
| Kate Chopin | Emancipation : a life fable |
| Stephen Crane | Maggie, girl of the streets |
| Stephen Crane | The red badge of courage |
| Stephen Crane | The open boat |
| Theodore Dreiser | Sister Carrie |
| Eugene o'Neill | Long day's journey into night |
| Ernest Hemingway | The sun also rises |
| John Steinbeck | Of mice and men |
| John Steinbeck | The grapes of wrath |
| Francis Scott Fitzgerald | The Great Gatsby |
| William Faulkner | The sound and the fury |
| T.S. Elliot | The waste land |
| T.S. Elliot | The love song of J.Alfred Prufrock |
| Tennessee Williams | Streetcar named desire |
| Allen Ginsberg | Howl |
| Saul Bellow | Seize the day |
| Joseph Heller | Catch 22 |
| John Barth | Lost in the funhouse |
| Alice Walker | The color purple |
| Toni Morrison | Jazz |
| Bernard Malamud | The magic barrel |
| Leslie Marmon Silko | The ceremony |
| John Gardner | Grendel |
