| A | B |
|---|
| Rudolfo Anay | Bless Me, Ultima |
| May Angelou | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
| James Baldwin | If Beale Street Could Talk |
| John Barth | Giles Goat Boy |
| Peter Beagle | The Last Unicorn |
| Saul Bellow | Herzog and Humbolt's Gift |
| Robert Olen Butler | A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain |
| Truman Capote | In Cold Blood |
| Raymond Carver | What We Talk About When We Talk About Love |
| John Cheever | Bullet Park |
| Evan Connell | Mr. Bridge |
| Harry Crews | The Knockout Artist |
| Victor H. Cruz | Red Beans |
| Don DeLillo | White Noise |
| James Dickey | Buckdancer's Choice |
| Joan Didion | The Book of Common Prayer |
| E.L. Doctrow | Ragtime and The Book of Daniel |
| Louise Erdrich | The Beet Queen |
| William Faulkner | The Reivers |
| R. Ford | Independence Day |
| J.R. Gaddis | JR and A Frolic of His Own |
| Allen Ginsberg | Reality Sandwiches |
| Shirley Ann Grau | The Keepers of the House |
| Judith Guest | Ordinary People |
| Allan Gurganus | The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All |
| Arthur Haley | Roots |
| John Hawkes | Blood Oranges |
| Joseph Heller | Catch 22 |
| Ernest Hemingway | A Moveable Feast and Islands in the Stream |
| Oscar Hijuelos | The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love |
| John Irving | The World Accoring the Garp and The Cidar House Rules |
| Randall Jarrell | The Woman at the Washington Zoo |
| Erica Jong | Fear of Flying |
| William Kennedy | Iron Weed |
| Harper Lee | To Kill a Mocking Bird |
| Allison Lune | Foreign Affairs |
| Bernard Malmud | The Fixer |
| James A. McPherson | Elbow Room |
| N. Scott Momaday | House Made of Dawn |
| Toni Morrison | Beloved and Song of Solomon |
| Edwin O'Conner | The Edge of Sadness |
| Flannery O'Conner | The Violent Bear It Away and Everything That Rises Must Converge |
| Chaim Potok | The Chosen |
| Katherine Ann Porter | Ship of Fools |
| E. Anne Proulx | The Shipping News and Wyoming Tales |
| Reynolds Price | The Source of Light |
| Theodore Roethke | The Far Field |
| Phillip Roth | Portnoy's Complaint and The World According to Garp |
| J.P. Salinger | Cather in the Rye |
| Michael Shaara | The Killer Angels |
| Jane Smiley | A Thousand Acres |
| Wallace E. Stegner | The Spectator Bird and Angel of REpose |
| John Steinbeck | The Winter of Our Discontent |
| Robert Stone | Dog Soldiers |
| William Styron | The Confessions of Nat Turner |
| Amy Tan | The Joy Luck Club |
| Peter Taylor | A Summons to Memphis |
| John K. Toole | A Confederacy of Dunces |
| Anne Tyler | The Accidental Tourist and Breathing Lessons |
| John Updike | Rabbit is Rich |
| Kurt Vonnegut | Slapstick |
| James Welch | Riding the Earthboy Forty |
| Eudora Welty | The Optimist's Daughter |
| Richard Wright | Native Son |
| Rudolf Wurlitzer | Slow Fade |
| Alice Walker | The Color Purple |
| Jhumpa Lahiri | Interpreter of Maladies |
| Norman Mailer | The Executioner's Song |
| Larry McMurtry | Lonesome Dove |
| Katherine Anne Porter | Stories of Katherine Anne Porter |
| Phillip Roth | American Pastoral |
| Carol Shields | Stone Diaries |
| William E. Stafford | Collected Stories |
| John Updike | Rabbit at Rest |
