| A | B |
|---|
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | The American Scholar, Self-Relaince |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | The Scarlet Letter, The House of Seven Gables |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Song of Hiawatha, Evangeline, Paul Revere's Ride |
| Edgar Allan Poe | The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Pit and the Pendulum |
| Abraham Lincoln | The Gettysburg Address |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes | Poems |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Henry David Thoreau | Walden, Civil Disobedience |
| Fredrick Douglass | Life of an American Slave |
| Herman Melville | Moby Dick |
| Walt Whitman | Leaves of Grass, O Captain! My Captain! |
| Julia Ward Howe | The Battle Hymn of the Republic |
| Emily Dickinson | Poems |
| Louisa May Alcott | Little Women |
| Horatio Alger | Cash Boy, Ragged Dick |
| Samuel Clements (Mark Twain) | Huckleberry Finn, The Prince and the Pauper, |
