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