| A | B |
| Norman Mailer | American Bream |
| Norman Mailer | The Executioner's Song |
| Bernard Malmud | The Fixer |
| David Mamet | Glengary Glen Rose |
| Bobbie Ann Mason | In Country |
| Jill McCorkle | Tending to Virginia |
| Phyllis McGinley | Times Three: Selected Verse frome Three Decades |
| James A. McPherson | Elbow Room |
| Larry McMurtry | The Desert Rose |
| Larry McMurtry | Lonesome Dove |
| William Meredith | Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems |
| James Merrill | Scripts for the Pageant |
| James Merrill | The Changing Light and Sandover |
| James Merrill | Divine Comedies: Poems |
| W.S. Merwin | The Moving Target |
| W.S. Merwin | The Lice |
| W.S. Merwin | The Carrier of Ladders |
| W.S. Merwin | The Rain in the Trees |
| Jason Miller | The Championship Season |
| N. Scott Momaday | House Made of Dawn |
| Robert Morgan | At the Edge of the Orchard Country |
| Robert Morgan | Sigodlin |
| Robert Morgan | Green River |
| Toni Morrison | Song of Solomon |
| Toni Morrison | Beloved |
| Tad Mosel | All the Way Home |
| Vladmir Nabokov | Pale Fire |
| Vladmir Nabokov | Ada |
| Howard Nemerov | The Collected Poems |
| John F. Nims | Selected Poems |
| John F. Nims | The Kiss: a Jambalaya |
| Marsha Norman | Night Mother |
| Tom O'Brian | Going After Cacciato |
| Edwin O'Conner | The Edge of Sadness |
| Flannery O'Conner | The Violent Bear It Away |
| Flannery O'Conner | The Habit of Being |
| Flannery O'Conner | Everything That Rises Must Converge |
| Frank O'Hara | Lunch Poems |
| Eugene O'Neill | More Stately Mansions |
| Mary Oliver | American Primitive |
| George Oppen | Of Being Numerous |
| Cynthia Ozick | The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories |
| Cynthia Ozick | The Messiah of Stockholm |
| Cynthia Ozick | Shawl |
| Sylvia Plath | Ariel |
| Sylvia Plath | Collected Poems |
| Chaim Potok | The Chosen |
| Katherine Ann Porter | Ship of Fools |
| Katherine Ann Porter | Collected Stories of Katherine Ann Porter |
| E. Annie Proulx | The Shipping News |
| Ezra Pound | Drafts and Fragments |
| Ezra Pound | Thrones |
| Renoylds Price | The Source of Light |
| Thomas Pynchon | The Crying of Lot 49 |
| Thomas Pynchon | Gravity's Rainbow |
| Thomas Pynchon | Slow Learner |
| Thomas Pynchon | Vineland |
| Ishmael Reed | The Freelance Palbearers |
| Reynolds Price | Kate Vaiden |
| Adrienne Rich | Driving into the Wreck: Poems |
| Theodore Roethke | The Far Field |
| Judith Rossner | Looking for Mr. Goodbar |
| Henry Roth | Mercy of a Rude Stream |
| Phillip Roth | Portnoy's Complaint |
| Howard Sackler | The Great White Hope |
| J.P. Salinger | Franny and Zooey |
| J.P. Salinger | Raise High the Rook Beam |
| J.P. Salinger | Carpenters |
| J.P. Salinger | Catcher in the Rye |
| Anne Sexton | Live or Die |
| Carol Shields | Stone Diaries |
| Robert Schenkkan | The Kentucky Cycle |
| James Schuyler | The Cyrstal Lithium |
| James Schuyler | The Morning of the Poem |
| Anne Sexton | 45 Mercy Street |
| Susan F. Schaeffer | The Madness of a Seduced Woman |
| Susan F. Schaeffer | The Injured Party |
| Karl Shapiro | The Bourgeois Poet |
| Sam Shepard | Buried Child |
| Leslie M. Silko | Ceremony |
| Charles Simic | Unending Blues |
| Charles Simic | The World Doesn't End |
| Neil Simon | Lost In Yonkers |
| Louis Simpson | At the End of the Open Road |
| I.B. Singer | Enemies: A Love Story |
| I.B. Singer | Shosha |
| Jane Smiley | A Thousand Acres |
| W.D. Snodgrass | Heart's Needle |
| Gary Snyder | The Back Country |
| Gary Snyder | Regarding Wave |
| Gary Snyder | Turtle Island |
| Stephen Sondheim and James Lapin | Sunday in the Park With George |
| Cathy Song | Picture Bride |
| Jean Stafford | Collected Stories |
| Wallace E. Stegner | The Spectator Bird |
| Wallace E. Stegner | Angle of Repose |
| George Starbuck | The Argot Merchant Disaster |
| John Steinbeck | The Winter of Our Discontent |
| Robert Stone | Dog Soldiers |
| Robert Stone | A Flag for Sunrise |
| William Styron | The Confessions of Nat Turner |
| Amy Tan | The Joy Luck Club |
| James Tate | The Lost Pilot |
| James Tate | Selected Poems |
| Henry Taylor | The Flying Change |
| Peter Taylor | A Summons to Memphis |
| Piri Thomas | Down These Mean Streets |
| John K. Toole | A Confederacy of Dunces |
| Anne Tyler | Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant |
| Anne Tyler | The Accidental Tourist |
| Anne Tyler | Breathing Lessons |
| John Updike | Rabbit Redux |
| John Updike | The Coup |
| John Updike | Rabbit is Rich |
| John Updike | Rabbit at Rest |
| Alfred Uhry | Driving Miss Daisy |
| Kur Vonnegut | Slapstick |
| Alice Walker | Meridian |
| Alice Walker | The Color Purple |
| Robert Penn Warren | Meet Me in the Green Glen |
| Robert Penn Warren | A Place to Come To |
| Robert Penn Warren | Now and Then: Poems 1976-1978 |
| Wendy Wasserstein | The Heidi Chronicles |
| James Welch | Riding the Earthboy Forty |
| Eudora Welty | Losing Battles |
| Eudora Welty | The Optimist's Daughter |
| Richard Wilbur | Advice to a Prophet |
| Richard Wilbur | New and Collected Poems |
| Thornton Wilder | The Eighth Day |
| Thornton Wilder | Theophilus North |
| Tennessee Williams | Night of the Iguana |
| W.C. Williams | Pictures from Burghel |
| August Wilson | Joe Turner's Come and Gone |
| August Wilson | Fences |
| Lanford Wilson | Talley's Folley |
| Thomas Wolfe | The Bonfire of the Vanities |
| James Wright | Collected Poems |
| Richard Wright | Shall We Gather at the River |
| Richard Wright | This Journey |
| Richard Wright | The Brance Will Not Break |
| Richard Wright | Native Son |
| Rudolf Wurlitzer | Slow Fade |
| Paul Zindel | The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds |