| A | B |
|---|
| William Byrd | History of the Dividing Line |
| Benjamin Franklin | Sayings of Poor Richard |
| Thomas Jefferson | The Declaration of Independence |
| Washington Irving | Rip Van Winkle |
| William Cullen Bryant | Thanatopsis |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The Cross of Snow |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes | Old Ironsides |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Self-Reliance |
| Henry David Thoreau | Walden |
| Edgar Allan Poe | The Masque of the Red Death |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | The Minister's Black Veil |
| Herman Melville | Moby Dick |
| Walt Whitman | Song of Myself |
| Emily Dickinson | Heart! We will forget him! |
| Frederick Douglass | The Battle with Mr. Covey |
| Mark Twain | The Story without an End |
| Ambrose Bierce | A Horseman in the Sky |
| Willa Cather | A Wagner Matinee |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | Winter Dreams |
| Ernest Hemingway | The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber |
| John Steinbeck | Of Mice and Men |
| James Thurber | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty |
| William Faulkner | A Rose for Emily |
| Edwin Arlington Robinson | Richard Cory |
| Edgar Lee Masters | Spoon River Anthology |
| Paul Laurence Dunbar | The Haunted Oak |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay | Dirge Without Music |
| Robert Frost | Mending Wall |
| John Crowe Ransom | Parting, Without a Sequel |
| Langston Hughes | A Dream Deferred |
| William Carlos Williams | The Red Wheelbarrow |
| Lorraine Hansberry | A Raisin in the Sun |
| Russell Baker | School vs. Education |
| Allen Ginsberg | Homework |
| Julia Alvarez | How I Learned to Sweep |
| Ray Bradbury | Fahrenheit 451 |
| Michael Crichton | Jurassic Park |
| Lora Vahlsing | Chinese Takeout |
| Tom Clancy | Rainbow Six |
| Stephen King | The Stand |
