Table of contents

Seq.	Author		Title	Pub.
1	Cooper	James Fenimore	The Prairie	1827
2	Hopkins	Pauline	Contending Forces	1900
3	Hayden	Robert	"Middle Passage"	1966
4	Larison	C. W.	Silvia Dubois, The Biografy of the Slav…	1883
5	Prince	Mary	The History of Mary Prince…	1831
6	Adams	Samuel Hopkins	Grandfather Stories	1959
7	Faulkner	William	Absalom! Absalom!	1936
8	Douglass	Frederick	Narrative of the Life…	1845
9	Thorpe	Thomas Bangs	"The Big Bear of Arkansas"	1841
10	Clemens	Samuel Langhorn	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	1885
11	Irving	Washington	Tales of the Alhambra	1832
12	Thoreau	Henry David	Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers	1849
13	Bryant	William Cullen	Poems	1849
14	Jacobs	Harriet	Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl	1861
15	Stowe	Harriet Beecher	Uncle Tom's Cabin	1852
16	Faulkner	William	"Red Leaves"	1930
17	Hawthorne	Nathaniel	Short stories	1837-50
18	Thoreau	Henry David	"Resistance to Civil Government"	1849
19	Poe	Edgar Allan	Short fiction	1832-49
20	Thoreau	Henry David	Walden	1854
21	Unknown		"Pat Works on the Railroad"	1844
22	Hawthorne	Nathaniel	The House of the Seven Gables	1851
23	Fuller	Margaret	"American Literature"	1846
24	Hawthorne	Nathaniel	The Blithedale Romance	1852
25	Thoreau	Henry David	Cape Cod	1852
26	Thoreau	Henry David	"Walking"	1862
27	Thoreau	Henry David	"Life Without Principle"	1863
28	Melville	Herman	Moby-Dick	1850
29	Melville	Herman	Short stories	1850s
30	Whitman	Walt	Leaves of Grass	1856-
31	Chesnutt	Charles	"The Passing of Grandison"	1899
32	Melville	Herman	The Confidence Man	1857
33	Clemens	Samuel Langhorn	Life on the Mississippi	1883
34	Davis	Rebecca Harding	"Life in the Iron Mills"	1861
35	Cather	Willa	Death Comes for the Archbishop	1927
36	Dickinson	Emily	Complete Poems	1863-
37	Reed	Ishmael	Flight to Canada	1976
38	Alger	Horatio	Ragged Dick	1867
39	Alger	Horatio	Mark, the Match Boy	1897
40	Wong	Shawn Hsu	"Each Year Grain"	1974
41	Kingston	Maxine Hong	China Men	1980
42	Grey	Zane	The U. P. Trail	1918
43	Clemens &	Warner, C.D.	The Gilded Age	1874
44	Brock	Darryl	If I Never Get Back	1990
45	Clemens	Samuel Langhorn	Short stories	1865-1916
46	James	Henry	The American	1876
47	Alcott	Louisa May	Little Women	1869
48	Ridge	John Rollin	"Atlantic Cable"	1868
49	Various	.	Ballads	.
50	Adams	Henry	The Education of Henry Adams	1918
51	Faulkner	William	"An Odor of Verbena"	1938
52	Washington	Booker T.	Up from Slavery	1901
53	Wister	Owen	The Virginian	1902
54	Rölvaag	O. E.	Giants in the Earth	1925
55	Wilder	Laura Ingalls	Little House in the Big Woods	1932
56	Wilder	Laura Ingalls	These Happy Golden Years	1932
57	Wilder	Laura Ingalls	The Long Winter	1940
58	Howells	William Dean	The Rise of Silas Lapham	1885
59	James	Henry	The Bostonians	1886
60	Wharton	Edith	The Age of Innocence	1920
61	Howells	William Dean	A Hazard of New Fortunes	1890
62	Cather	Willa	My Mortal Enemy	1926
63	Bellamy	Edward	Looking Backward: 2000-1887	1887
64	Freeman	Mary E. Wilkins	"On the Walpole Road"	1884
65	Zitkala-Sa	.	The School Days of an Indian Girl	1900
66	Garland	Hamlin	Main-Travelled Roads	1930
67	Faulkner	William	Go Down, Moses	1942
68	Hurston	Zora Neale	"John Henry" in Mules and Men	1935
69	Reed	Ishmael	"The Conjure Man"	1973
70	Dreiser	Theodore	Sister Carrie	1900
71	Jewett	Sarah Orne	"The Courting of Sister Wisby"	1894
72	Cooper	Anna Julia	"Woman vs the Indian"	1892
73	DuBois	W. E. B.	The Souls of Black Folk	1903
74	Brown	Sterling	"Southern Road"	1932
75	Chopin	Kate	Short stories	1890-
76	Dunbar-Nelson	Alice	"Mr. Baptiste"	1899
77	Crane	Stephen	Short works	1893-1900
78	Anderson	Sherwood	Winesburg, Ohio	1919
79	Cather	Willa	O Pioneers!	1913
80	Wharton	Edith	Summer	1917
81	Norris	Frank	McTeague	1899
82	Norris	Frank	The Octopus	1901
83	Cather	Willa	"The Best Years"	1948
84	Marquand	John	The Late George Apley	1936
85	Steinbeck	John	East of Eden	1952
86	Sinclair	Upton	The Jungle	1906
87	Doctorow	E. L.	Ragtime	1975
88	London	Jack	Martin Eden	1909
89	Wharton	Edith	"The Other Two"	1904
90	Schwartz	Delmore	"In Dreams Begin Responsibilities"	1948
91	London	Jack	"South of the Slot"	1909
92	Cather	Willa	"Paul's Case"	1905
93	Cather	Willa	Collected Short Fiction	1892-
94	Carver	Raymond	"Errand"	1988
95	Morrison	Toni	Jazz	1992
96	Wharton	Edith	Ethan Frome	1911
97	Faulkner	William	The Hamlet	1940
98	Faulkner	William	The Reivers	1962
99	Wolfe	Thomas	Look Homeward, Angel	1929
100	Fitzgerald	F. Scott	"The Ice Palace"	1920
101	Lewis	Sinclair	Main Street	1920
102	Porter	Katherine Anne	"Old Mortality"	1936
103	Grey	Zane	The Desert of Wheat	1919
104	Frost	Robert	Selected poems	1955
105	Lardner	Ring	"Gullible's Travels"	1916
106	Cólon	Jesús	"Stowaway"	1961
107	Norris	Charles	Bread	1923
108	DosPassos	John	Manhattan Transfer	1925
109	Sandburg	Carl	"Chicago" and other poems	1916
110	Pound	Ezra	"In a Station of the Metro"	1916
111	Stratemeyer	Edward	Boys' and girls' books	1910-
112	Crane	Hart	"The Bridge"	1933
113	Tate	Allen	"The Subway"	1928
114	Aiken	Conrad	"Cloister"	1931
115	Lowell	Amy	"The Taxi"	.
116	Toomer	Jean	Cane	1923
117	Thurber	James	The Thurber Carnival	1931-45
118	cummings	e. e.	100 Selected Poems	1959
119	Fitzgerald	F. Scott	The Great Gatsby	1925
120	Lewis	Sinclair	Babbitt	1922
121	Lewis	Sinclair	"Travel is So Broadening"	1928
122	Dreiser	Theodore	An American Tragedy	1925
123	Cather	Willa	"Neighbor Rosicky"	1932
124	Jeffers	Robinson	"Roan Stallion"	1925
125	Faulkner	William	As I Lay Dying	1930
126	Wolfe	Thomas	"The Return of the Prodigal…"	1941
127	Brown	Sterling	Southern Road	1922
128	Hurston	Zora Neale	"The Way of a Man with a Train"	1927
129	Hurston	Zora Neale	"Sweat"	1926
130	Hughes	Langston	Selected Poems	1959
131	Morrison	Toni	"1920.htm"	1973
132	Hemingway	Ernest	The Sun Also Rises	1926
133	Cather	Willa	"The Old Beauty"	1936
134	Hemingway	Ernest	Short stories	1938
135	Porter	Katherine Anne	Ship of Fools	1962
136	Rey	H. A.	Curious George	1941
137	Wright	Richard	"The Man Who Was Almost a Man"	1941
138	Various	.	Blues songs	.
139	Hughes	Langston	"On the Road"	1952
140	Wolfe	Thomas	"The Far and the Near"	1935
141	MacLeish	Archibald	"Empire Builders"	1933
142	Hurston	Zora Neale	"The Gilded Six-Bits"	1933
143	Dove	Rita	Thomas and Beulah	1986
144	Welty	Eudora	Losing Battles	1970
145	Taylor	Peter	"What Do You Hear from 'em?"	1951
146	Welty	Eudora	"Death of a Traveling Salesman"	1941
147	Welty	Eudora	"The Hitch-Hikers"	1941
148	Maltz	Albert	"Man on a Road"	1936
149	Warren	Robert Penn	All the King's Men	1946
150	McCullers	Carson	Short stories	1954
151	West	Nathaniel	Miss Lonelyhearts	1933
152	Doctorow	E.L.	Billy Bathgate	1989
153	Schwartz	Delmore	"In the Naked Bed, in Plato's Cave"	1938
154	Gardner	Erle Stanley	The Case of the Curious Bride	1934
155	Ellison	Ralph	Invisible Man	1952
156	Wolfe	Thomas	"Only the Dead Know Brooklyn"	1935
157	Wright	Richard	Native Son	1940
158	Kennedy	William	Ironweed	1983
159	Saroyan	William	"Harry"	1941
160	Brautigan	Richard	"Greyhound Tragedy"	1971
161	Steinbeck	John	"The Chrysanthemums"	1938
162	Steinbeck	John	The Grapes of Wrath	1939
163	Guthrie	Woody	Bound for Glory	1943
164	Robinson	Marilynne	Housekeeping	1980
165	Agee	James	A Death in the Family	1957
166	West	Nathaniel	The Day of the Locust	1939
167	Fitzgerald	F. Scott	The Last Tycoon	1941
168	Doctorow	E. L.	World's Fair	1985
169	Stewart	George R.	Storm: A Novel	1941
170	Piper	Watty	The Little Engine That Could	1938
171	Thurber	James	"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"	1942
172	El-Shabazz	El-Hajj Malik	The Autobiography of Malcolm X	1965
173	Bissell	Richard	A Stretch on the River	1950
174	Faulkner	William	Two Soldiers	1942
175	Griffith	Beatrice	"In the Flow of Time"	1948
176	Shapiro	Karl	"Auto Wreck"	1942
177	Barth	John	"Lost in the Funhouse"	1967
178	Silko	Leslie Marmon	Ceremony	1977
179	Phillips	Jayne Anne	Machine Dreams	1984
180	Williams	Tennessee	A Streetcar Named Desire	1947
181	Moore	Merrill	"Old Men and Old Women Going Home …"
182	Capote	Truman	Other Voices, Other Rooms	1948
183	Capote	Truman	"Children on Their Birthdays"	1948
184	McCullers	Carson	The Member of the Wedding	1946
185	Ferré	Rosario	The Youngest Doll	1976
186	Erdrich	Louise	The Beet Queen	1986
187	Wilbur	Richard	"Grace"	1947
188	Gregory	Horace	"This is the Place to Wait"
189	Rukeyser	Muriel	"Ceiling Unlimited"
190	Baldwin	James	"Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone"	1968
191	Baldwin	James	"Sonny's Blues"	1941
192	Ellison	Ralph	"King of the Bingo Game"	1944
193	Bishop	Elizabeth	"The Man-Moth"	1948
194	Williams	William Carlos	"The Last Turn"	1944
195	Payne	Emmy	Katy No-Pocket	1944
196	White	E. B.	Stuart Little	1945
197	Jackson	Shirley	Come Along with Me	1965
198	Nabokov	Vladimir	"Signs and Symbols"	1948
199	Agee	James	"Rapid Transit"
200	Salinger	J. D.	Catcher in the Rye	1951
201	Salinger	J. D.	Nine Stories	1953
202	Miller	Arthur	Death of a Salesman	1949
203	Kerouac	Jack	On the Road	1957
204	Nabokov	Vladimir	Lolita	1955
205	Selby	Hubert	Last Exit to Brooklyn	1965
206	Hawkes	John	Second Skin	1964
207	O'Connor	Flannery	Wise Blood	1952
208	Roethke	Theodore	"Journey to the Interior"	1961
209	Stafford	William	"Traveling through the Dark"	1960
210	Warren	Robert Penn	"Dragon Country: To Jacob Boehme"	1957
211	Bellow	Saul	"Leaving the Yellow House"	1957
212	O'Connor	Flannery	"The Life You Save May Be Your Own"	1955
213	O'Connor	Flannery	"A Good Man is Hard to Find"	1955
214	Chase	James Hadley	No Orchids for Miss Blandish	1961
215	McMurtry	Larry	The Last Picture Show	1966
216	Stafford	William	"The Trip"	1961
217	Booth	Philip	"Maine"	1960
218	Albee	Edward	The Death of Bessie Smith	1960
219	Wilson	August	Fences	1986
220	Cushman	Dan	Stay Away, Joe	1953
221	Nabokov	Vladimir	Pnin	1964
222	Cheever	John	"The Country Husband"	1954
223	Nemerov	Howard	"Boom!"	1960
224	Lensky	Lois	We Live by the River	1956
225	Bissell	Richard	High Water	1954
226	Baldwin	James	"This Morning, This Evening, So Soon"	1961
227	Ferlinghetti	Lawrence	"In Goya's Greatest Scenes"	1958
228	Lowell	Robert	"For the Union Dead"	1960
229	O'Connor	Flannery	"The Artificial Nigger"	1955
230	Stafford	William	"West of the City"	1960
231	Wright	Richard	The Long Dream	1958
232	Cheever	John	"The Five-Forty-Eight"	1954
233	Carver	Raymond	"The Train"	1983
234	Bellow	Saul	"A Father-to-Be"	1955
235	Dylan	Bob	"Highway 61 Revisited"	1965
236	Munro	Alice	"Miles City, Montana"	1986
237	Saroyan	William	Short Drive, Sweet Chariot	1966
238	Erdrich	Louise	Love Medicine	1984
239	Jong	Erica	Fear of Flying	1974
240	Roethke	Theodore	"All Morning"	1964
241	Roethke	Thoedore	"The Far Field"	1964
242	Hollander	John	"Helicon"	1962
243	Jones	LeRoy	Black Magic: Collected Poetry	1961-67
244	Bambara	Toni Cade	"The Lesson"	1972
245	Cisneros	Sandra	The House on Mango Street	1984
246	Dickey	James	"Cherrylog Road"	1963
247	Crews	Harry	Car	1972
248	Wolfe	Tom	The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Baby	1965
249	Segal	Erich	Love Story	1970
250	Jarrell	Randall	"Next Day"	1960
251	Oates	Joyce Carol	"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been"	1970
252	Updike	John	Rabbit Redux	1971
253	Cheever	John	"The Swimmer"	1964
254	O'Connor	Flannery	"Everything that Rises Must Converge"	1965
255	Serling	Robert	Stewardess	1982
256	Wilson	August	Two Trains Running	1990
257	Plath	Sylvia	"Getting There"	1965
258	Brautigan	Richard	"The World War I Los Angeles Airplane"	1971
259	Warner	Gertrude Chandler	Caboose Mystery	1966
260	Wolfe	Tom	The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test	1968
261	Pirsig	Robert M.	Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance	1974
262	Robbins	Tom	Even Cowgirls Get the Blues	1976
263	Tyler	Anne	Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant	1982
264	Apple	Max	The Oranging of America and Other Stories	1976
265	Oates	Joyce Carol	"Stalking"	1972
266	Thompson	Hunter	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas	1971
267	Cervantes	Lorna Dee	Emplumada	1981
268	Forché	Carolyn	The Country Between Us	1981
269	Carver	Raymond	"Tell the Women We're Going"	1982
270	Wolff	Tobias	"Hunters in the Snow"	1981
271	Irving	John	The World According to Garp	1978
272	King	Stephen	Christine	1983
273	Williams	Joy	"The Yard Boy"	1982
274	Phillips	Jayne Anne	"Fast Lanes"	1987
275	Mason	Bobbie Ann	"Shiloh"	1982
276	King	Stephen	Cujo	1981
277	Albee	Edward	Seascape	1975
278	Hoban	Russell	Riddley Walker	1980
279	Blume	Judy	Blubber	1974
280	Paley	Grace	"Samuel"	1974
281	Reed	Ishmael	The Last Days of Louisiana Red	1974
282	Springsteen	Bruce	Songs	1975-80s
283	Mukherjee	Bharati	"Orbiting"	1988
284	Hogan	Linda	"Making Do"	1986
285	Glancy	Diane	"Without Title"	.
286	Tillman	Lynne	Motion Sickness	1991
287	Butler	Octavia E.	Clay's Ark	1984
288	Marshall	Paule	Praisesong for the Widow	1984
289	Wolfe	Tom	The Bonfire of the Vanities	1988
290	Brown	Larry	"Boy and Dog"	1984
291	Mooney	Ted	Easy Travel to Other Planets	1980
292	DeLillo	Don	White Noise	1985
293	Vonnegut	Kurt	Hocus Pocus	1990
294	Mason	Bobbie Ann	Spence + Lila	1988
295	Clark	Mary Higgins	A Cry in the Night	1982
296	Cooper	Susan Rogers	The Man in the Green Chevy	1988
297	Dorris, M. &	Erdrich, L.	The Crown of Columbus	1991

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