| Year |
Title | Author |
|---|
| 1918 |
The Education of Henry Adams |
Henry Adams |
| 1941 |
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men |
James Agee and Walker Evans |
| 1992 |
Bastard out of Carolina |
Dorothy Allison |
| 1972 |
Bless Me Ultima |
Rudolfo Anaya |
| 1919 |
Winesburg, Ohio |
Sherwood Anderson |
| 1970 |
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
Maya Angelou |
| 1987 |
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza |
Gloria Anzaldua |
| 1953 |
Go Tell It on the Mountain |
James Baldwin |
| 1985 |
The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction |
James Baldwin |
| 1998 |
Slaves in the Family |
Edward Ball |
| 1964 |
Herzog |
Saul Bellow |
| 1948 |
The Sheltering Sky |
Paul Bowles |
| 1959 |
Naked Lunch |
William Burroughs |
| 1966 |
In Cold Blood |
Truman Capote |
| 1983 |
Cathedral |
Raymond Carver |
| 1913 |
O Pioneers! |
Willa Cather |
| 1927 |
Death Comes for the Archbishop |
Willa Cather |
| 1978 |
Collected Stories |
John Cheever |
| 1984 |
House on Mango Street |
Sandra Cisneros |
| 1985 |
White Noise |
Don DeLillo |
| 1968 |
Slouching Towards Bethlehem |
Joan Didion |
| 1983 |
Custer Died for Your Sins |
Vine Deloria Jr. |
| 1930 |
U.S.A. |
John Dos Passos |
| 1925 |
An American Tragedy |
Theodore Dreiser |
| 1903 |
The Souls of Black Folk |
W.E.B. DuBois |
| 1952 |
Invisible Man |
Ralph Ellison |
| 1984 |
Love Medicine |
Louise Erdrich |
| 1926 |
The Sound and the Fury |
William Faulkner |
| 1930 |
As I Lay Dying |
William Faulkner |
| 1940 |
Go Down, Moses |
William Faulkner |
| 1925 |
The Great Gatsby |
F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| 1954 |
The Art of Eating |
M.F.K. Fisher |
| 1997 |
The Ordinary Seaman |
Francisco Goldman |
| 1976 |
Roots |
Alex Haley |
| 1961 |
Catch-22 |
Joseph Heller |
| 1926 |
The Sun Also Rises |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 1938 |
The Short Stories |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 1984 |
Dispatches |
Michael Herr |
| 1976 |
My Life of Absurdity: The Autobiography |
Chester Himes |
| 1990 |
Mean Spirit |
Linda Hogan |
| 1982 |
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism |
Bell Hooks |
| 1937 |
Their Eyes Were Watching God |
Zora Neale Hurston |
| 1902 |
The Wings of the Dove |
Henry James |
| 1963 |
Blues People: Negro Music in White America |
LeRoi Jones (Amira Baraka) |
| 1957 |
On the Road |
Jack Kerouac |
| 1962 |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
Ken Kesey |
| 1983 |
Annie John |
Jamaica Kincaid |
| 1976 |
Woman Warrior |
Maxine Hong Kingston |
| 1976 |
The Painted Bird |
Jerzy Kosinski |
| 1960 |
To Kill a Mockingbird |
Harper Lee |
| 1995 |
The Winged Seed |
Li-Young Lee |
| 1922 |
Babbitt |
Sinclair Lewis |
| 1994 |
The Crossing |
Cormac McCarthy |
| 1940 |
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter |
Carson McCullers |
| 1948 |
The Naked and the Dead |
Norman Mailer |
| 1958 |
The Magic Barrel |
Bernard Malamud |
| 1965 |
The Autobiography of Malcolm X |
Malcolm X and Alex Haley |
| 1969 |
Love and Will |
Rollo May |
| 1948 |
The Seven Storey Mountain |
Thomas Merton |
| 1934 |
Tropic of Cancer |
Henry Miller |
| 1968 |
House Made of Dawn |
N. Scott Momaday |
| 1956 |
Field of Vision |
Wright Morris |
| 1973 |
Sula |
Toni Morrison |
| 1977 |
Song of Solomon |
Toni Morrison |
| 1987 |
Beloved |
Toni Morrison |
| 1992 |
Jazz |
Toni Morrison |
| 1958 |
Lolita |
Vladimir Nabokov |
| 1932 |
Black Elk Speaks |
John G. Neihardt |
| 1955 |
A Good Man is Hard to Find |
Flannery O'Connor |
| 1947 |
Call Me Ishmael |
Charles Olson |
| 1961 |
Tell Me a Riddle |
Tillie Olson |
| 1977 |
No-No Boy |
Jon Okada |
| 1994 |
Collected Stories |
Grace Paley |
| 1961 |
The Moviegoer |
Walker Percy |
| 1930 |
Flowering Judas and Other Stories |
Katherine Anne Porter |
| 1973 |
Gravity's Rainbow |
Thomas Pynchon |
| 1979 |
On Lies, Secrets and Silence |
Adrienne Rich |
| 1969 |
Portnoy's Complaint |
Philip Roth |
| 1951 |
The Catcher in the Rye |
J.D. Salinger |
| 1984 |
At Seventy |
May Sarton |
| 1977 |
Ceremony |
Leslie Marmon Silko |
| 1982 |
The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer |
Isaac B. Singer |
| 1993 |
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas |
Gertrude Stein |
| 1937 |
The Grapes of Wrath |
John Steinbeck |
| 1979 |
Sophie's Choice |
William Styron |
| 1945 |
A Thurber Carnival |
James Thurber |
| 1923 |
Cane |
Jean Toomer |
| 1962 |
Letters from the Earth |
Mark Twain |
| 1960 |
Rabbit, Run |
John Updike |
| 1952-1992 |
The United States: Essays |
Gore Vidal |
| 1969 |
Slaughterhouse Five |
Kurt Vonnegut |
| 1982 |
The Color Purple |
Alice Walker |
| 1946 |
All the Kings Men |
Robert Penn Warren |
| 1939 |
The Day of the Locust |
Nathanael West |
| 1990 |
Philadelphia Fire |
John Edgar Wideman |
| 1925 |
In the American Grain |
William Carlos Williams |
| 1940 |
To the Finland Station |
Edmund Wilson |
| 1941 |
You Can't Go Home Again |
Thomas Wolfe |
| 1940 |
Native Son |
Richard Wright |
| 1994 |
Songs My Mother Taught Me |
Wakako Yamauchi |
