| A | B |
| Edgar Allen Poe | The Raven |
| Walt Whitman | When I Heard the Learned Astronomer |
| Emily Dickinson | The Soul selects her own Society |
| Stephen Crane | The Red Badge of Courage |
| John Steinbeck | The Grapes of Wrath |
| Robert Frost | Mending Wall |
| Langston Hughes | Harlem |
| Maya Angelou | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
| Mary Rowlandson | A Narrative of her Captivity |
| Jonathon Edwards | Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God |
| Thomas Jefferson | The Declaration of Independence |
| Mark Twain | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| Virginia Woolf | A Room of One's Own |
| William Carlos Williams | The Red Wheelbarrow |
| Allen Ginsberg | Homework |
| Adrienne Rich | Power |
| Gwendolyn Brooks | Cemetary |
| Tennessee Williams | The Glass Menagerie |
| Ernest Hemingway | A Farewell to Arms |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | The Great Gatsby |