| A | B |
| The Crucible | Arthur Miller |
| Biography | Benjamin Franklin |
| Poor Richard's Almanac | Benjamin Franklin |
| Fried Green Tomatoes | Fannie Flagg |
| Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck |
| The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Moby Dick | Herman Melville |
| "The Devil and Tom Walker" | Washington Irving |
| "Rip Van Winkle" | Washington Irving |
| "Thanatopsis" | William Cullen Bryant |
| "The Ropewalk" | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| "Snow Bound: A Winter Idyll" | John Greenleaf Whittier |
| "The Chambered Nautilus" | Oliver Wenndell Holmes |
| "Nature" | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Self Reliance" | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Walden | Henry David Thoreau |
| "The Raven" | Edgar Allen Poe |
| "The Fall of the House of Usher" | Edgar Allen Poe |
| "Some keep the Sabbath going to Church" | Emily Dickinson |
| "Because I could not stop for Death" | Emily Dickinson |
| "An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge" | Amrose Bierce |
| "To Build a Fire" | Jack London |
| "Hills Like White Elephants" | Ernest Hemingway |
| "The Death of the Hired Man" | Robert Frost |
| "The Road Less Traveled" | Robert Frost |
| "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" | Robert Frost |
| "Minver Cheevy" | Edwin Arlington Robinson |
| "Richard Cory" | Edwin Arlington Robinson |
| "Richard Bone" | Edgar Lee Masters |
| "Lucinda Matlock" | Edgar Lee Masters |
| "A Rose for Emily" | William Faulkner |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| The Color Purple | Alice Walker |
| The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck |
| The Pearl | John Steinbeck |
| The Last of the Mohicans | James Fennimore Cooper |
| "Young Goodman Brown" | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| "First Fig" | Edna St. Vincent Millay |