| A | B |
|---|
| Last of the Mohicans | James F. Cooper |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte |
| Ethan Frome/ Age of Innocence | Edith Wharton |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge | Ambrose Bierce |
| This Side of Paradise/ Tender is the Night | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| The Virginian | Owen Wister |
| The Ambassadors | Henry James |
| The Awakening | Kate Chopin |
| Babbitt/ Arrowsmith | Sinclair Lewis |
| Blithedale Romance | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Call of the Wild/ White Fang | Jack London |
| Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | Mark Twain |
| The Country of the Pointed Firs | Sarah Orne Jewitt |
| Daisy Miller/ Portrait of a Lady | Henry James |
| Sister Carrie/ An American Tragedy | Theodore Dreiser |
| Gift of the Magi | O. Henry |
| The House of the Seven Gables | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte |
| The Jungle | Upton Sinclair |
| Legend of Sleepy Hollow/ Rip Van Winkle | Washington Irving |
| Red Badge of Courage/ The Open Boat | Stephen Crane |
| Moby Dick/ Bartleby | Herman Melville |
| My Antonia/ O Pioneers | Willa Cather |
| Winesburg, Ohio | Sherwood Anderson |
| Humboldt's Gift | Saul Bellow |
| The Sheltering Sky | Paul Bowles |
| Naked Lunch | William S. Burroughs |
| In Cold Blood/ Breakfast at Tiffany's | Truman Capote |
| The Sound & the Fury/As I Lay Dying | William Faulkner |
| Catch 22 | Joseph Heller |
| The Cider House Rules/ The World According to Garp | John Irving |
| From Here to Eternity | James Jones |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee |
| Spoon River Anthology | Edgar Lee Masters |
| All the Pretty Horses | Cormac McCarthy |
