| A | B |
|---|
| Maya Angelou | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; The Heart of a Woman; Gather Together in My Name; On the Pulse of Morning |
| Herman Melville | Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life; The Confidence Man; Billy Budd, Foretopman; The Encantadas (Enchanted Isles); Omoo: A Narrative of the South Seas; Moby Dick; Bartleby, the Scrivener |
| John Steinbeck | Travels with Charlie; Of Mice and Men; The Red Pony; The Grapes of Wrath; East of Eden |
| Saul Bellow | Herzog; Humboldt's Gift; The Adventures of Augie March |
| Rodgers and Hammerstein | Oklahoma; The Sound of Music; The King and I |
| Orson Scott Card | Xenocide; Lost Boys; Ender's Game |
| Ernest Hemingway | The Sun Also Rises; For Whom the Bell Tolls; The Snows of Kilimanjaro; A Farewell to Arms; The Old Man and the Sea |
| Sinclair Lewis | Babbitt; Main Street; Elmer Gantry; Arrowsmith |
| T.S. Eliot | The Wasteland |
| Edward Albe | The American Dream; The Zoo Story; The Sandbox |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | The Last Tycoon; Tender is the Night; The Great Gatsby |
| Upton Sinclair | Dragon's Teeth; Roman Holiday; Manassas; The Jungle |
| James F. Cooper | The Eclipse; The Pathfinder; The Last of the Mohicans |
| Thornton Wilder | The Trumpet Shall Sound; Our Town; The Skin of Our Teeth |
| Frank Herbert | The Green Brain; The Lazarus Effect; Dune |
| Sherwood Anderson | Winesburg, Ohio; Many Marriages; Poor White |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | The Scarlet Letter; Fanshawe; House of Seven Gables; The Marble Faun; Twice-Told Tales; Rappaccini's Daughter |
| Eugene O'Neill | Anna Christie; A Moon for the Misbegotten; Ah, Wilderness!; Strange Interlude; Beyond the Horizon; The Iceman Cometh; Mourning Becomes Electra; Long Day's Journey Into Night (Tyrone Family) |
| Willa Cather | Death Comes for the Archbishop; My Antonia; O Pioneers! |
| Ray Bradbury | The Martian Chronicles; Fahrenheit 451; Something Wicked this Way Comes; Dandelion Wine; The Illustrated Man (Short Stories) |
| Edgar Allen Poe | Telltale Heart; Masque of Red Death; Fall of the House of Usher; The Pit and the Pendulum |
| Arthur Miller | The Crucible; After the Fall; Death of a Salesman; All My Sons; The Man Who Had All the Luck |
| Carl Sandburg | Abraham Lincoln, Chicago; The Family of Man |
| Marjorie Rawlings | Golden Apples; The Yearling; The Sojourner |
| William Faulkner | Absalom! Absalom!; As I Lay Dying; The Sound and the Fury; Yoknapatawpha County (Lafayette County, MS); The Reivers; Light in August; Sanctuary |
| Washington Irving | The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; Rip Van Winkle; The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. |
