Smith, John. Auszug aus: The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles.
Bradford, William. Auszug aus: Of Plymouth Plantation.
Taylor, Edward. "Meditation 22" oder "Meditation 42" (First Series).
Bradstreet, Ann. "A Letter to her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment".
Mather, Cotton. Auszug aus: Magnalia Christi Americana.
Rowlandson, Mary. Auszug aus: A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson.
Edwards, Jonathan. "Personal Narrative"; "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God".
Vassa, Gustavus. Auszug aus: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus
Vassa, the African, Written by Himself.
Crèvecoeur, Jean de. "Letter IX" aus: Letters from an American Farmer; [Letter III: "What is an
American?"].
Franklin, Benjamin. Auszug aus: The Autobiography.
Paine, Thomas. Auszug aus: Common Sense.
Jefferson, Thomas. Auszug aus: Notes on the State of Virginia.
Freneau, Philipp. "On the Emigration to America and Peopling the Western Country"; "On the Religion of Nature"; "On Mr. Paine's Rights of Man".
Irving, Washington. "Rip van Winkle".
Rowson, Susanna. Charlotte Temple
Tyler, Royall. The Algerine Captive, oder The Contrast
Brown, Charles Brockden. Wieland
19. Jahrhundert ("American Renaissance")
Cooper, James Fenimore. The Last of the Mohicans oder The Pioneers oder The Deerslayer.
Child, Lydia Maria. Hobomok.
Sedgewick, Catherine Maria. Hope Leslie.
Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"; "The Fall of the House of Usher"; "The Tell-Tale
Heart"; Rezension zu Hawthornes Twice-Told Tales; "Philosophy of Composition"; oder "The Raven".
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Nature"; "The American Scholar" oder "Self-Reliance" oder "The Poet".
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. "Young Goodman Brown"; "The Birthmark"; The Scarlet Letter oder The Blithedale Romance; "Preface" zu: The House of the Seven Gables.
Fuller, Margaret. Auszug aus: Woman in the Nineteenth-Century: "The Great Lawsuit".
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Thoreau, Henry David. Auszug aus: Walden, or Life in the Woods; "Resistance to Civil Government".
Douglass, Frederick. Auszug aus: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave oder Harriet Jacobs. Auszug aus: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
Whitman, Walt. Cantos 1, 5, 6, 24, 49-52 aus: "Song of Myself"; "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"; "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"; Preface to Leaves of Grass.
Melville, Herman. "Bartleby, the Scrivener"; Billy Budd, Sailor oder Moby Dick.
Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County".
Chesnutt, Charles. "The Wife of His Youth"; "The Goophered Grapevine"; The Conjure Woman.
Dunbar, Paul Lawrence. "We Wear the Mask"; ["The Ordeal at Mt. Hope". Folks from Dixie; andere Gedichte].
Howells, William Dean. A Modern Instance oder A Hazard of New Fortunes; Auszüge aus: Criticism and Fiction.
Bierce, Ambrose. "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge".
Page, Thomas Nelson. "Marse Chan"; Ole Virginia, or Marse Chan and Other Stories.
James, Henry. "The Turn of the Screw"; "The Beast in the Jungle"; "The Real Thing"; "The Art of Fiction"; Daisy Miller oder Washington Square oder The Americans.
Chopin, Kate. The Awakening; "The Story of an Hour".
Crane, Stephen. "The Blue Hotel"; Maggie, A Girl of the Street oder Frank Norris. Mc Teague.
London, Jack. Martin Eden oder Upton Sinclair. The Jungle.
Dreiser, Theodore. Sister Carrie oder An American Tragedy.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. "The Yellow Wallpaper".
Du Bois, W. E. B. Auszüge aus: The Souls of Black Folk, chap. I, III.
Adams, Henry. Auszug aus The Education of Henry Adams: "The Dynamo and the Virgin".
Cahan, Abraham. "Yekl" aus: Yekl and the Imported Bridgeroom and Others Stories of the New York Ghetto.
Antin, Mary. The Promised Land.
Wharton, Edith."The Other Two"; The House of Mirth oder The Age of Innocence.
Zwischen den Weltkriegen
Anderson, Sherwood. "I Want to Know Why"; Auszüge aus: Winesburg, Ohio.
Williams, William Carlos. "This is Just to Say"; "The Red Wheelbarrow"; "Spring and All" oder andere Gedichte.
Stevens, Wallace. "Sunday Morning"; "The Idea of Order at Key West"; "Of Modern Poetry".
Stein, Gertrude. "The Gentle Lena" oder "Melanctha"; Three Lives; [The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas].
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), "Helen"; "Oread".
Eliot, T.S. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"; "The Waste Land".
Bogan, Louise. "Women".
O'Neill, Eugene. The Emporer Jones oder Long Day's Journey into Night.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "Winter Dreams" oder "Babylon Revisited"; The Great Gatsby.
Hemingway, Ernest. "Soldier's Home" oder "The Killers"; "Hills Like White Elephants"; The Sun Also Rises oder A Farewell to Arms.
Faulkner, William. "A Rose for Emily"; The Sound and the Fury oder Light in August.
Crane, Hart. "To Brooklyn Bridge".
McKay, Claude. "America"; "If We Must Die", "The Harlem Dancer".
Toomer, Jean. Cane.
Hughes, Langston. "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"; "Harlem"; "The Weary Blues"; "Ballad of the Landlord"; "Mother to Son".
Brown, Sterling. "Ma Rainey"; "Cabaret".
Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes were Watching God; " Characteristics of Negro Expression".
Odets, Clifford. Waiting for Lefty.
Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath oder In Dubious Battle.
Dos Passos, John. Manhattan Transfer oder einen Roman aus der Trilogie U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. "Long Black Song"; Auszug aus Uncle Tom's Children; "The Man Who Was Almost a Man"; "Blueprint for Negro Writing"; Native Son oder Black Boy.
Welty, Eudorah. "Death of a Traveling Salesman".
Von 1945 bis 1965
Olsen, Tillie. "Tell Me a Riddle" oder "I Stand Here Ironing" aus Women and Fiction, ed. Susan Cahill; ["One Out Of Twelve: Writers Who Are Women in Our Century", Silences].
Ellison, Ralph. "The Shadow and Act" oder "Richard Wright’s Blues"; Invisible Man.
Bellow, Saul. Dangling Man oder The Victim.
Malamud, Bernard. The Magic Barrel (complete collection of stories) oder The Assistant
oder Philip Roth. Goodbye, Columbus.
Paley. Grace. "Two Sad Short Stories from a Long and Happy Life"; The Little Disturbances of Man; ["A Conversation with my Father"].
Mailer, Norman. "The White Negro"; The Naked and the Dead.
Baldwin, James. "Notes of a Native Son" aus: Notes of a Native Son; Go Tell It on the Mountain oder Giovannis's Room.
Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye.
Kerouac, Jack. On the Road.
Wolfe, Thomas. Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
Capote, Truman. In Cold Blood. oder Norman Mailer. The Armies of the Night.
McCullers, Carson. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.
Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman.
Williams, Tennessee. A Streetcar Named Desire.
Albee, Edward. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? oder The American Dream oder The Zoo Story.