Fifteen American Poems

John Ashbery, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
W.H. Auden, Epitaph on a Tyrant (Collected Poems)
Frank Bidart, Ellen West (Collected Poems)
Elizabeth Bishop, The Fish (Collected Poems)
T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
Robert Frost, The Death of the Hired Man (Collected Poems)
Louise Gluck, The Drowned Children (The First Four)
Andrew Hudgins, Praying Drunk (The Never-Ending)
Mark Jarman, Questions for Ecclesiastes
Rodney Jones, Elegy for the Southern Drawl
Marianne Moore, The Fish (Collected Poems)
Sharon Olds, The Glass (The Father)
Molly Peacock, Why I Am Not a Buddhist (Collected Poems)
Wallace Stevens, The Emperor of Ice-Cream (Collected Poems)
Joe Wenderoth, Letters to Wendy's

James Wright, At the Executed Murderer's Grave

Twenty-Five American Stories

Donald Barthelme, The Emerald (60 Stories)
Edwidge Danticat, Seven (The Dew Breaker)
Alice Elliott Dark, In the Gloaming
Andre Dubus, Killings (Collected Stories)
William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily (Collected Stories)
F. Scott Fitzgerald, A Diamond as Big as the Ritz (Collected Stories)
Barry Hannah, A Creature from the Bay St. Louis (High Lonesome)
Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants (Collected Stories)
William Gay, The Paperhanger (I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down)
Denis Johnson, Emergency Room (Jesus' Son)
Thom Jones, I Want to Live! (The Pugilist at Rest)
Kyle Minor, goodbye Hills, hello night (In the Devil's Territory)
Lorrie Moore, People Like That Are the Only People Here (Birds of America)
Flannery O'Connor, The Artifical Nigger (Collected Stories)
Donald Ray Pollock, Dynamite Hole (Knockemstiff)
Cynthia Ozick, The Shawl
Katherine Anne Porter, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall (Collected Stories)
George Saunders, Sea Oak (Pastoralia)
Irwin Shaw, The Girls in their Summer Dresses
Melanie Rae Thon, Girls in the Grass
Toure, A Hot Time at the Church of Kentucky Fried Souls and the Spectacular Final Sunday Sermon of the Right Revren Daddy Love (The Portable Promised Land)
John Updike, Natural Color (Licks of Love)
Robert Penn Warren, Blackberry Winter (Selected Stories)
Tobias Wolff, Powder (Back in the World)

Twenty-Five American Novellas

Lee K. Abbott, The Talk Talked Between Worms (All Things, All at Once)
James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues (Going to Meet the Man)
Matt Bell, The Collectors
Edwidge Danticat, The Dew Breaker
William Faulkner, The Bear
Barry Hannah, Hey, Do You Have the Time, The News, My Cigs, My Face? (Bats Out of Hell)
Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
Michelle Herman, Auslander (A New and Glorious Life)
Edward P. Jones, Old Boys, Old Girls (All Aunt Hagar's Children)
Shane Jones, Light Boxes
Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy
Kyle Minor, A Day Meant to Do Less (In the Devil's Territory)
Cynthia Ozick, Rosa (The Shawl)
Katherine Anne Porter, Pale Horse, Pale Rider (Collected Stories)
Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain (Close Range)
Philip Roth, Goodbye, Columbus
Richard Russo, The Whore's Child
Christine Schutt, Florida
Jane Smiley, Good Will (Ordinary Love & Good Will)
Peter Taylor, The Old Forest
John Updike, Rabbit Remembered (Licks of Love)
David Foster Wallace, Good Old Neon (Oblivion)
Eudora Welty, Summer Wedding
Tobias Wolff, The Barracks Thief
Richard Yates, The Easter Parade

Fifty American Novels

Saul Bellow, Herzog
Pinckney Benedict, Dogs of God
Larry Brown, Fay
Blake Butler, Ever
James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice
Willa Cather, My Antonia
Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
James Dickey, Deliverance
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes
Edward Falco, St. John of the Five Boroughs
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
William Faulkner, Absalom! Absalom!
Richard Ford, The Sportswriter
William Gay, The Long Home
Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
Denis Johnson, Fiskadoro
Edward P. Jones, The Known World
Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn
Tao Lin, Eee Eee Eeeee
Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
Cynthia Ozick, Trust
Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
Katherine Anne Porter, Ship of Fools
Charles Portis, True Grit
J.F. Powers, Morte D'Urban
Reynolds Price, Kate Vaiden
Richard Price, The Wanderers
Annie Proulx, The Shipping News
Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
Ron Rash, Serena
Henry Roth, Call It Sleep
Philip Roth, Sabbath's Theater
Norman Rush, Mating
J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
Jane Smiley, Good Faith
Peter Taylor, A Summons to Memphis
Brady Udall, The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint
John Updike, Rabbit, Run
William T. Vollman, Europe Central
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men
Eudora Welty, The Optimist's Daughter
John Edgar Wideman, Philadelphia Fire
Daniel Woodrell, Winter's Bone
Steve Yarbrough, The Oxygen Man
Edra Ziesk, The Trespasser