Fiction

• "The Adventures of Augie March," by Saul Bellow
• "Adventures of Huck Finn," by Mark Twain
• "All the Pretty Horses," by Cormac McCarthy
• "Angle of Repose," by Wallace Stegner
• "The Antelope Wife," by Louise Erdrich
• "Bless Me, Ultima," by Rudolfo Anaya
• "Beloved," by Toni Morrison
• "The Brave Cowboy," by Edward Abbey
• "Ceremony," by Leslie Marmon Silko
• "Clear Pictures," by Reynolds Price
• "Cold Mountain," by Charles Frazier
• "The Color Purple," by Alice Walker
• "Coyote Stories," by Mourning Dove
• "The Day of the Locust," by Nathanael West
• "Death Comes for the Archbishop," by Willa Cather
• "Face of an Angel," by Denise Chavez
• "Fair and Tender Ladies," by Lee Smith
• "Farewell, My Lovely," by Raymond Chandler
• "The Feast of Love," by Charles Baxter
• "The Floatplane Notebooks," by Clyde Edgerton
• "A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories," by Flannery O'Connor
• "The Grapes of Wrath," by John Steinbeck
• "Honey in the Horn," by H.L. Davis
• "House Made of Dawn," by N. Scott Momoday
• "Housekeeping," by Marilynne Robinson
• "Ishi in Two Worlds," by Theodora Kroeber
• "Look Homeward, Angel," by Thomas Wolfe
• "Main Street," by Sinclair Lewis
• "The Man to Send Rain Clouds," by Leslie Marmon Silko
• "The Milagro Beanfield War," by John Nichols
• "Native Son," by Richard Wright
• "The Nick Adams Stories," by Ernest Hemingway
• "No-No Boy," by John Okada
• "The Octopus," by Frank Norris
• "Of Wolves and Men," by Barry Lopez
• "On the Road," by Jack Kerouac
• "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," by Ken Kesey
• "People of the Valley," by Frank Waters
• "Pocho," by Jose Antonio Villareal
• "Ramona," by Helen Hunt Jackson
• "Rich in Love," by Josephine Humphreys
• "A River Runs Through It," by Norman Maclean
• "Runaway," by Mary Clearman Blew
• "The Sense of Place in 20th Century American Fiction: Stories and Novels by Raymond Chandler, William Faulkner, Zora Neale Huston, Eudora Welty, and Nathaniel West"
• "The Surrounded," by D'Arcy McNickle
• "Them," by Joyce Carol Oates
• "Their Eyes Were Watching God," by Zora Neale Hurston
• "A Thousand Acres," by Jane Smiley
• "The Way West," by A. B. Guthrie, Jr.

Nonfiction

• "A Sand County Almanac," by Aldo Leopold
• "Ordeal by Hunger," by George R. Stewart
• "Owning It All," by William Kittredge
• "Living Stories of the Cherokee," edited by Barbara R. Duncan
• "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave," by Frederick Douglass
• "Slaves in the Family," by Edward Ball
• "Slouching Towards Bethlehem," by Joan Didion
• "Tales of the South," by William Gilmore Simms
• "This House of Sky," by Ivan Doig
• "Townships," edited by Michael Martone
• "Twilight - Los Angeles 1992," by Anna Deavere Smith
• "With a Pistol in His Hand," by Americo Paredes
• "The Woman Warrior," by Maxine Hong Kingston
• "The Writings of Presidents and Patriots from Paine, Washington, Hamilton and Madison to Patrick Henry and Frederick Douglass: Defining - and Protecting - a Common Cause"

Poetry

• "The Business of Fancydancing," by Sherman Alexie
• "Chicago Poems," by Carl Sandburg
• "From Sonnet to Song Lyric: The Forms of American Poetry from Longfellow, Whitman, and Dickinson to W.C. Handy and Woodie Guthrie"
• "In Mad Love and War," by Joy Harjo
• "Selected Poems," by Gwendolyn Brooks

Short Stories

• "A Nurse's Story," by Peter Baida
• "In the Gloaming: Stories," by Alice Elliott Dark