1. William Bradford : Of Plymouth plantation / Norman S. Grabo

2. Benjamin Franklin : autobiography / Ralph L. Ketcham

3. Michel Guillaume st. Jean de Crevecoeur : Letters from an American Farmer / Russel B. Nye

4. The Federalist / Melvin K. Whiteleather

5. Washington Irving : The sketch book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. / William L. Hedges

6. James Fenimore cooper / The prairie / William H. Goetzmann

7. Francis Parkman : The Origon trail / David Levin

8. Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglas / Benjamin Quarles

9. Edgar Allan Poe : Tales of the grotesque and arabesque / John Seelye

10. Nathaniel Hawthorne : The House of the Seven Gables / Richard Harter Fogle

11. Herman Melville : The Confidence-Man / Warner Berthoff

12. Henry David Thoreau : Walden ; or life in the woods / Walter Harding

13. Walt Whitman : Song of myself / James E. Miller Jr.

14. Mark Twain : the adventures of Tom Sawyer / Louis D. Rubin, Jr.

15. Stephen Crane : A girl of the streets / Edwin H. Cady

16. Henry James : The Ambassadors / Leo Edel

17. John Wesley Powell : Exploration of the Colorado River / Murray J. Murphey

18. Edward Bellamy : Looking backward, 2000-1887 / Arthur P. Dudden

19. Thorstein Veblen : The theory of the leissure class / Stow Persons

20. W. E. B. Du Bois : The souls of the black folk / Everett S. lee

21. William James : Pragmatism a new name for some old ways of thinking / Gay Wilson Allen

22. The Education of Henry Adams / Allen Guttmann

23. H. L. Mencken : The American Kanguage / Raven I MacDavid Jr.

24. Charles Ives : Essays before a sonata / Alfred V. Frankenstein

25. Louis Sullivan : The autobiography of an idea / Wayne Andrews

26. E. E. Cummings : the enormous room / James P. Dougherty

27. Ernest Hemingway : The sun also rises / Earl H. Rovit

28. Sinclair Lewis : Babbitt / Mark Schorer

29. James Agee : Let us now praise famous men / Samuel Hynes

30. Willian Faulkner : The bear / Daniel Hoffman

31. Eugene O'neil : The Iceman Cometh / Gerald Weales

32. John F. Kennedy : Profiles in courage / John William Ward

33. The American as involved and dropout : An afterward / Henning Cohen