- F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby, (Penguin Classics).
- J.D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye, (Penguin).
- Toni Morrison: Sula, (Vintage/Plume).
- David Henry Hwang: M. Butterfly, (Plume).
Fra The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter Eighth Ed. (2 volumes):
- Jonathan Edwards, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
- Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography (part II)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance"
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Minister's Black Veil"
- Herman Melville, "Bartleby, the Scrivener"
- Walt Whitman, Live Oak, with Moss
- Emily Dickinson, no. 320 [258], 339 [241]
- Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper"
- Robert Frost, "Birches"
- Marianne Moore, “Poetry”
- William Carlos Williams, “The Red Wheelbarrow,” “The Young Housewife”
- Langston Hughes, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
- William Faulkner, "A Rose for Emily"
- Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
- Sylvia Plath, "Daddy"
- Elizabeth Bishop, “In the Waiting Room”
- Louise Erdrich, “Fleur”