| A | B |
| The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | Washington Irving |
| The Deerslayer | James Fenimore Cooper |
| The History of New England | John Smith |
| The Plymouth Plantation | William Bradford |
| Autobiography | Benjamin Franklin |
| Poor Richard's Almanac | Benjamin Franklin |
| Declaration of Independence | Thomas Jefferson |
| Upon the Burning of Our House | Anne Bradstreet |
| Thanatopsis | William Cullen Bryant |
| The Black Cat | Edgar Allan Poe |
| The Wreck of the Hesperus | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| The Birthmark | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Leaves of Grass | Walt Whitman |
| The Open Boat | Stephen Crane |
| Because I Could Not Stop for Death | Emily Dickinson |
| An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge | Ambrose Bierce |
| The Devil and Tom Walker | Washington Irving |
| The Chambered Nautilus | Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| The Gettysburg Address | Abraham Lincoln |