| 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" |