Oklahoma Academic Team
American Books:  Titles and Authors

REV. RALPH ABERNATHY (1926-1990):
And the Walls Came Tumbling Down

DEAN ACHESON:
A Democrat Looks at His Party
Present at the Creation

HENRY ADAMS:
The Education of Henry Adams (autobiography)
The History of the United States During the Administrations of Jefferson and Madison
Democracy
Esther

RICHARD ADAMS:
Watership Down

JANE ADDAMS (1860-1935):
Twenty Years at Hull House
The Second Twenty Years At Hull House

JAMES AGEE:
A Death in the Family
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (nonfiction, with Walker Evans)

EDWARD ALBEE (1928-):
Zoo Story
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Tiny Alice
The Sandbox
Seascape
The Death of Bessie Smith
The American Dream
A Delicate Balance
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung
Seascape
Three Tall Women

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT (1832-1888):
Moods
Under the Lilacs
Rose in Bloom
An Old Fashioned Girl
An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving
Little Men
Jo's Boys
Little Women
Taming A Tartar
A Long Fatal Love Chase (posthumous)

HORATIO ALGER, JR. (1832-1899):
"Ragged Dick" series

NELSON ALGREN:
The Man with the Golden Arm
A Walk on the Wild Side

MAXWELL ANDERSEN (1888-1959):
White Desert
What Price, Glory?
Both Your Houses
Winterset
Key Largo
Barefoot in Athens
Valley Forge
Anne of the Thousand Days
High Tor
Lost in the Stars

SHERWOOD ANDERSON (1876-1941):
Windy McPherson's Son
Marching Men
Winesburg, Ohio
     "Respectability"
     "Hands"
     "Paper Pills"
     "Tandy"
The Triumph of the Egg
"The Egg and I"
Poor White
Beyond Desire
Dark Laughter

MAYA ANGELOU (1928-):
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
"On the Pulse of Morning" -- 1993 Inaugural Poem

ISAAC ASIMOV:
Fantastic Voyage
The Foundation Trilogy
I, Robot

JOHN JAMES AUDUBON:
The Birds of North America

RICHARD BACH:
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
The Bridge Across Forever
Illusions

ENID BAGNOLD:
National Velvet

RUSSELL BAKER:
Growing Up

JAMES BALDWIN (1924-1987):
Go, Tell It on the Mountain
Another Country
Tell Me How Long the Trains Been Gone
If Beale Street Could Talk
Notes of a Native Son
The Fire Next Time
Blues for Minister Charlie
The Amen Corner

JOHN BARTH:
Giles Goat-Boy
The Sot-Weed Factor

L. FRANK BAUM (1856-1919):
The Wizard of Oz

DAVID BELASCO:
Hearts of Oak (with James Hearne)
The Heart of Maryland
The Return of Peter Grimm
The Girl of the Golden West
Madame Butterfly

EDWARD BELLAMY:
Looking Backward 2000-1887

FRANCIS BELLAMY:
The Pledge of Allegiance

SAUL BELLOW (1915-):
It All Adds Up
Dangling Man
Seize the Day
The Victim
Henderson the Rain King
The Adventures of Augie March
Herzog
Mr. Sammler's Planet
Humboldt's Gift

PETER BENCHLEY (1940-):
Jaws
White Shark

ROBERT BENCHLEY (1889-1945):
From Bed to Worse
My Ten Years in a Quandary
The Treasurer's Report

STEPHEN VINCENT BENET (1898-1943):
The Beginning of Wisdom
Young People's Pride
Jean Huguenot
Tales Before Midnight
"John Brown's Body"

THOMAS BERGER (1924-):
Little Big Man

CARL BERNSTEIN AND BOB WOODWARD:
All the President's Men

JOHN BARRYMAN (1914-1972):
Homage to Mistress Bradstreet

AMBROSE BIERCE (1842-1914):
In the Midst of Life
"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
The Devil's Dictionary

EARL DERR BIGGERS:
Charlie Chan novels

ALLAN BLOOM:
The Closing of the American Mind

HAROLD BLOOM:
The Western Canon

DANIEL J. BOORSTIN:
The Discoverers

RAY BRADBURY (1920-):
Fahrenheit 451
Dandelion Wine
Something Wicked This Way Comes
The Martian Chronicles
When the Elephants Last in the Dooryard Bloomed
R is for Rocket
Death is a Lonely Business
I Sing the Body Electric
The Illustrated Man
"The Silver Locusts"
"Harrison Bergeron"

WILLIAM BRADFORD:
History of the Plymouth Plantation

ANNE BRADSTREET (1612-1672):
The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America
   --first American volume of poetry
Religious Experiences (autobiography)

GWENDOLYN BROOKS (1917-):
Bronzeville Boys and Girls
The Bean Eaters
Annie Allen
"We Real Cool"

DEE BROWN:
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT:
The Embargo
"To a Waterfowl"
"Thanatopsis"

PEARL BUCK (1892-1973):
The House of Earth Trilogy:
1) The Good Earth
2)  Sons
3)  A House Divided
East Wind, West Wind
The Christmas Ghost
The Beech Tree
The Young Revolutionist
Water Buffalo

FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT:
The Secret Garden
Little Lord Fauntleroy
A Little Princess

OLIVE ANN BURNS:
Cold Sassy Tree
Leaving Cold Sassy

EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS (1875-1950):
Tarzan of the Apes

WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS:
Junkie
Nova Express

GEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE:
Old Creole Days
The Grandissimes
Dr. Sevier

ERSKINE CALDWELL:
Tobacco Road
God's Little Acre
Journeyman
Trouble in July
The Sure Hand of God
Georgia Boy

TRUMAN CAPOTE (1924-1984):
Other Voices, Other Rooms
The Grass Harp
In Cold Blood (nonfiction novel)
Breakfast at Tiffany's
The Muses are Heard
"A Christmas Memory"
"The Thanksgiving Visitor"
"One Christmas"
"House of Flowers"
Answered Prayers (unfinished)

ANDREW CARNEGIE:
The Gospel of Wealth

DALE CARNEGIE:
How to Win Friends and Influence People

CALEB CARR:
The Alienist

RACHEL CARSON:
The Sea Around Us
The Silent Spring

WILLA CATHER (1876-1947):
O Pioneers!
The Song of the Lark
My Antonia
One of Ours
A Lost Lady
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Shadows on the Rock
The Professor's House
My Mortal Enemy
Lucy Gayheart
Youth and the Bright Media
Sapphira and the Slave Girl
The Troll Garden

RAYMOND CHANDLER (1888-1959):
--creator of the Philip Marlow series
The Big Sleep
Farewell My Lovely
The Long Goodbye

PADDY CHAYEFSKY:
The Americanization of Emily
Network
Altered States

JOHN CHEEVER (1912-1982):
The Wapshot Chronicle
The Way Some People Live
Some People, Places, and Things That Will Not Appear in My Next
     Novel
"Country Husband"

KATE CHOPIN (1851-1904):
The Awakening
The Ghost

WALTER VAN TILLBURG CLARK:
The Ox-Bow Incident

PAT CONROY (1945-):
The Lords of Discipline
The Prince of Tides
The Great Santini
The Water is Wide
Beach Music

JAMES FENIMORE COOPER (1789-1851):
The Spy
The Pioneers
The "Leatherstocking Tales"
The Prairie
The Deerslayer
The Last of the Mohicans
The Pilot
The Pathfinder
Red Rover
Satanstoe

HART CRANE (1899-1932):
"The Bridge"

STEPHEN CRANE (1871-1900):
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
The Red Badge of Courage
"The Open Boat"
"War is Kind"
The Black Rider and Other Lines

COUNTEE CULLEN (1903-1946):
"Heritage"
The Black Christ
"Caroling Dust"

e.e. cummings (1894-1962):
The Enormous Room (novel)
Him (play)
No Thanks
Tulips and Chimneys
"me up at does"
"buffalo bill"

RICHARD HENRY DANA:
Two Years Before the Mast

JAMES DICKEY:
Drowning with Others
Helmets
Buckdancer's Choice
Deliverance

EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886):
"I Heard a Fly Buzz -- When I Died"
"Because I Could Not Stop for Death"
"Success Is Counted Sweetest"

JOAN DIDION (1934-):
The White Album
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Salvador
Democracy
A Book of Common Prayer
Play It As It Lays

ANNIE DILLARD:
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Teaching a Stone to Talk
Holy the Firm
An American Childhood
The Living

E.L. DOCTOROW (1931-):
Billy Bathgate
The Book of Daniel
   --story of the Rosenbergs
Ragtime
Loonlake
World's Fair

MARY MAPES DODGE:
Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates

JOHN DOS PASSOS (1896-1970):
Manhattan Transfer
USA Trilogy:
1) The 42nd Parallel
2) The Big Money
3) 1919
District of Columbia Trilogy:
1) Adventures of a Young Man
2) Number One
3) The Grand Design
Midcentury

RITA DOVE:
Thomas and Beulah

THEODORE DREISER (1871-1945):
Hey Rub-a-Dub-Dub
A Book of the Mystery and Terror and Wonder of Life
A Book About Myself
Sister Carrie
Jennie Gerhardt
The Financier
Trilogy of Desire:
1)  The Titan
2)  The Stoic
3)  The Genius
An American Tragedy

ALLEN DRURY:
Advise and Consent

W.E.B. duBOIS (1868-1963):
The Souls of Black Folk
Black Reconstruction in America

DAPHNE duMAURIER:
Rebecca
Jamaica Inn
My Cousin Rachel
Don't Look Now

PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR (1872-1906):
"Lyrics of Lowly Life"

MARY BAKER EDDY:
Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures

JONATHAN EDWARDS:
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"

THOMAS STEARNS (T.S.) ELIOT (1888-1965):
"Preludes"
"Gerontion"
"Portrait of a Lady"
"The Hippopotamus"
The Metaphysical Poets
"The Waste Land"
"The Hollow Men"
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Murder in the Cathedral
The Family Reunion
The Cocktail Party
"Ash Wednesday"
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Four Quartets:
1)  "Burnt Norton"
2)  "East Coker"
3)  "The Dry Salvages"
4)  "Little Gidding"

HARLAN ELLISON:
Angry Candy
Deathbird Stories

RALPH ELLISON (1914-1994):
Invisible Man
Shadow and Act
Going into the Territory

RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882):
"Concord Hymn"
"Compensation"
"Self-Reliance"
"Nature"
"The Over-Soul"
"Brahma"
Representative Men

WALTER FARLEY:
The Black Stallion

JAMES FARRELL (1904-1979):
Studs Lonigan

WILLIAM FAULKNER (1897-1962):
--1949 Nobel Prize
Soldier's Pay
Sartoris (also called Flags in the Dust)
The Sound and the Fury
As I Lay Dying
Sanctuary
Light in August
Absalom, Absalom!
The Wild Palms
The Hamlet
Go Down, Moses
Intruder in the Dust
Requiem for a Nun
A Fable
The Town
The Mansion
The Reivers
"A Rose for Emily"

EDNA FERBER:
The Girls
Cimmaron
Giant
Show Boat
So Big
Ice Palace

LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI:
A Coney Island of the Mind
Constantly Risking Absurdity
One Thousand Words for Castro

EUGENE FIELD:
"The Duel"
"Little Boy Blue"

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD (Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald) (1896-1940):
Tales of the Jazz Age
"Babylon Revisited"
Taps at Reveille
All the Sad Young Men
This Side of Paradise
The Beautiful and the Damned
The Great Gatsby
Tender is the Night
The Last Tycoon (unfinished)
"Bernice Bobs Her Hair"

HORTON FOOTE:
The Young Man from Atlanta

FREDERICK FORSYTH:
The Day of the Jackal
The Odessa File

JOHN FOWLES:
The French Lieutenant's Woman
The Collector
The Aristos
Daniel Martin

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN:
Poor Richard's Almanack (as Richard Saunders)
Autobiography

DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN:
R. E. Lee
Lee's Lieutenants

MARILYN FRENCH (1929-):
The Women's Room
The War Against Women

PHILIP FRENEAU:
--the "Poet of the American Revolution"
The British Prison-Ship
The Indian Burying Ground

BETTY FRIEDAN:
The Feminine Mystique

ROBERT FROST (1874-1963):
--only poet to win four Pulitzers
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
"The Road Not Taken"
"Fire and Ice"
"Birches"
"Death of the Hired Man"
"Mending Wall"
"The Gift Outright"

R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER:
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
Cosmography

 ERNEST J. GAINES:
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
A Lesson Before Dying
Bloodline
A Gathering of Old Men
In My Father's House

JOHN C. GARDNER:
Grendel

ERLE STANLEY GARDNER:
The "Perry Mason" series

WILLIAM GIBSON:
The Miracle Worker

ALAN GINSBERG:
"Howl"
"A Supermarket in California"

ELLEN GLASGOW:
Barren Ground
Vein of Iron
In This Our Life

DAN GOGGIN:
Nunsense

FRANCES GOODRICH AND ALBERT HACKETT:
"The Diary of Anne Frank" (play)

ZANE GREY:
The Last of the Plainsmen
Riders of the Purple Sage
The Tales of Fishing

JOHN GUARE (1938-):
The House of Blue Leaves
Six Degrees of Separation

JUDITH GUEST:
Ordinary People

JOHN GUNTHER:
Death Be Not Proud

DAVID HALBERSTAM:
Summer of '49
The Fifties

ALEX HALEY (1921-1992):
Roots
Queen
The Autobiography of Malcolm X

DASHIELL HAMMETT:
--creator of Sam Spade and Nick & Nora Charles
The Maltese Falcon
The Thin Man

MARTIN HANDFORD:
Where's Waldo?

LORRAINE HANSBERRY (1930-1965):
A Raisin in the Sun
To Be Young, Gifted, and Black
The Sign in Sydney Brustein's Window

JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS:
Uncle Remus:  His Songs and Sayings
Tar Baby

THOMAS HARRIS:
The Silence of the Lambs
Red Dragon

MOSS HART:
Once in a Lifetime
You Can't Take It With You
The Man Who Came to Dinner
George Washington Slept Here
Act One

BRET HARTE:
"The Luck of Roaring Camp"
"The Outcasts of Poker Flat"
"Plain Language from Truthful Jones"
"Tennessee's Partner"
"Miggles"

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE:
The House of the Seven Gables
The Blithedale Romance
Twice-Told Tales
The Marble Faun
"Rappaccini's Daughter"
Fanshave (first novel)
The Scarlet Letter
Ethan Brand
The Celestial Railroad
My Kinsman, Major Molineaux
"The Artist of the Beautiful"
"Dr. Heidegger's Experiment"
"The Ambitious Guest"

ROBERT HEINLEIN:
Stranger in a Strange Land

JOSEPH HELLER (1923-):
Catch-22
Closing Time
Picture This
No Laughing Matter
Good as Gold

 LILLIAN HELMANN:
"The Children's Hour"
"Little Foxes"
"Watch on the Rhine"
"Another Part of the Forest"
An Unfinished Woman
Pentimento

ERNEST HEMINGWAY:
In Our Time
A Farewell to Arms
The Torrents of Spring
Men Without Women
The Sun Also Rises
Death in the Afternoon
The Fifth Column
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
The Green Hills of Africa
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Across the River and Into the Trees
The Old Man and the Sea
A Moveable Feast
Islands in the Stream
To Have and to Have Not
Winner Takes Nothing
The Garden of Eden
"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"

JOHN HERSEY (1914-):
Into the Valley
A Bell for Adano
Hiroshima
The Wall
The Call

S.E. HINTON (1948-):
The Outsiders
That Was Then, This is Now
Tex
Rumblefish

DOUGLAS HOFSTADTER:
Godel, Escher, Bach

RICHARD HOFSTADTER:
The Age of Reform

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES:
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
"Old Ironsides"
"The Chambered Nautilus"
"The Last Leaf"
"The Deacon's Masterpiece"
"The Wonderful One-Horse Shay"

WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS:
Their Wedding Journey
A Foregone Conclusion
The Lady of the Aroostook
The Undiscovered Country
A Modern Instance
The Rise of Silas Lapham
Indian Summer
A Hazard of New Fortunes

W.H. HUDSON:
Green Mansions
Far Away and Long Ago (autobiography)

LANGSTON HUGHES (1902-1967):
The Weary Blues
Not Without Laughter
The Ways of White Folks
One-Way Ticket
Shakespeare in Harlem
Freedom Train
Johannesburg Mines
The Dream Keeper
The Panther and the Lash
A New Song
Jim Crow's Last Stand
Lament for Black Peoples
Montage of a Dream Deferred
Silhouette
Refugee in America
Vagabonds
Democracy
"Simple Speaks His Mind"
"The Best of Simple"
"Simple's Uncle Sam"
"Brass Spittoons"
"Theme for English B"

ZORA NEALE HURSTON (1903-1960):
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Mules and Men
Seraph on the Swanee
Dust Tracks on a Road (autobiography)
Jonah's Gourd Vine
Tell My Horse
I Love Myself when I Am Laughing

DAVID HENRY HWANG:
M. Butterfly

WILLIAM INGE:
Farther Off From Heaven
Come Back, Little Sheba
The Dark at the Top of the Stair
Picnic

JOHN IRVING (1942-):
A Prayer for Owen Meany
The World According to Garp

WASHINGTON IRVING:
Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gentleman
Salmagundi Papers
The Legends of Alhambra
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
"Rip vanWinkle"

HELEN HUNT JACKSON:
A Century of Dishonor

SHIRLEY JACKSON:
"The Lottery"
The Witchcraft of Salem Village

HENRY JAMES:
Roderick Hudson
The American
The Europeans
Daisy Miller
The Portrait of a Lady
The Bostonians
The Princess Casamassina
The Tragic Muse
What Maisie Knew
The Turn of the Screw
The Awkward Age
The Wings of the Dove
The Ambassadors
The Golden Bowl
Washington Square
The Beast in the Jungle
The Madonna of the Future

RANDALL JARRELL:
"The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner"
"Little Friend, Little Friend"
"Losses"
The Woman at the Washington Zoo

ROBINSON JEFFERS:
"Tamar"
Medea

SARAH ORNE JEWETT (1849-1909):
Country of the Pointed Firs
"A Country Doctor"

JAMES WELDON JOHNSON:
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

JAMES JONES:
From Here to Eternity
The Thin Red Line

MacKINLAY KANTOR:
Andersonville
The Best Years of our Lives

GEORGE S. KAUFMAN:
Someone in the House
The Man Who Came to Dinner
You Can't Take It With You
Stage Door

TERRY KAY:
To Dance with the White Dog

HELEN KELLER:
The Story of My Life
The World I Live In

JOHN F. KENNEDY:
Profiles in Courage
Why England Slept

WILLIAM KENNEDY:
Legs
Billy Phelan's Greatest Game
Very Old Bones
Ironweed

JACK KEROUAC:
The Town and the City
On the Road
The Dharma Bums
Doctor Sax
Big Sur
Desolation Angels

KEN KESEY:
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Sometimes a Great Notion
The Further Inquiry

DANIEL KEYNES:
Flowers for Algernon

(ALFRED) JOYCE KILMER:
"Trees"

JAMAICA KINKAID:
At the Bottom of the River
Lucy

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. (1929-1968):
The Trumpet of Conscience
Strength to Love
Where Do We Go from Here?
Chaos or Community?
Stride Toward Freedom
Why We Can't Wait

MAXINE HONG KINGSTON (1940-):
China Men
Tripmaster Monkey
The Woman Warrior

JOHN KNOWLES (1926-):
A Separate Peace
Peace Breaks Out

ARTHUR KOESTLER:
Darkness at Noon

PETER KRAMER:
Listening to Prozac

TONY KUSHNER:
Angels in America:  Millenium Approaches
Angels in America:  Perestroika

JEROME LAWRENCE AND ROBERT E. LEE:
Inherit the Wind
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail

EMMA LAZARUS:
"The New Colossus"

HARPER LEE:
To Kill a Mockingbird

MADELEINE L'ENGLE (1918-):
A Wrinkle in Time
A Wind in the Door
A Swiftly Tilting Planet

IRA LEVIN:
Rosemary's Baby

SINCLAIR LEWIS:
--1930 Nobel Prize
Main Street
Babbitt
Arrowsmith
Elmer Gantry
Dodsworth
It Can't Happen Here
The God Seeker
Ann Vickers
Cass Timberlane
Kingsblood Royal
The Man Who Knew Coolidge

ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH:
Gift From the Sea

CHARLES LINDBERGH:
We
Of Flight and Life
The Spirit of St. Louis (autobiography)

VACHEL LINDSAY:
"General William Booth Enters Into Heaven"
"The Congo"
"Santa Fe Trail"
"Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight"
"The Ghost of the Buffaloes"

RICHARD LLEWELYN:
How Green Was My Valley

JACK LONDON:
White Fang
The Call of the Wild
The Sea-Wolf
Son of the Wolf
The People of the Abyss
Tales of the Fish Patrols
The Iron Heel
The Road
Martin Eden
The Star Rover
The Valley of the Moon
Burning Daylight
"To Build a Fire"

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW:
Hyperion
"Evangeline"
"The Song of Hiawatha"
"The Courtship of Miles Standish"
"The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere"
"Excelsior"
"The Wreck of the Hesperus"
"The Building of the Ship"
A Psalm of Life
Tales from a Wayside Inn

AMY LOWELL:
"A Dome of Many-Colored Glass"
Men, Women, and Ghosts
"Patterns"
"Lilacs"
"Madonna of the Evening Flowers"
A Critical Fable
"Sword Blades and Poppy Seeds"
"What's O'Clock"

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL:
The Bigelow Papers
A Fable for Critics
"The Vision of Sir Launfal"

ROBERT LOWELL:
"Lord Weary's Castle"
"For the Union Dead"
The Dolphin
Day by Day

NORMAN MACLEAN:
A River Runs through It
Young Men and Fire

ALFRED THAYER MAHAN:
The Influence of Sea Power upon History

NORMAN MAILER (1923-):
The Naked and the Dead
Tough Guys Don't Dance
Barbary Shore
The Deer Park
Marilyn
Ancient Evenings
An American Dream
The Armies of the Night
The Executioner's Song
Harlot's Ghost
Oswald's Tale:  An American Mystery

BERNARD MALAMUD:
The Natural
The Assistant
A New Life
The Fixer
The Tenants
Dubin's Lives
"The Magic Barrel"

DAVID MAMET (1947-):
American Buffalo
The Woods
Oleanna
House of Games
Glengarry Glen Ross
The Village
Sexual Perversity in Chicago

EDGAR LEE MASTERS:
Spoon River Anthology
The New Spoon River
Across Spoon River
Mitch Miller
The Domesday Book
Poems of the People
Illinois Poems

HORACE McCOY:
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

CARSON McCULLERS:
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Reflections in a Golden Eye
The Member of the Wedding
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
The Square Root of Wonderful
Clock Without Hands
The Mortgaged Heart (posthumous)

ARCHIBALD McLEISH:
"The Pot of Earth"
"The Conquistador"
"The End of the World"
J.B.

LARRY McMURTRY (1936-):
Lonesome Dove
Terms of Endearment
The Evening Star
Buffalo Girls
Streets of Laredo

TERENCE McNALLY:
Love! Valour! Compassion!
Master Class

ROBERT S. McNAMARA:
Blundering into Disaster
In Retrospect

MARGARET MEAD:
Coming of Age in Samoa
Growing Up in New Guinea

MARK MEDOFF:
Children of a Lesser God

HERMAN MELVILLE:
Moby Dick
Typee
Omoo
Billy Budd, Foretopman
Bartleby the Scrivener
The Confidence Man
Mardi
Redburn
Pierre
White Jacket
Piazza Tales
Israel Potter

H.L. MENCKEN:
Prejudices
The American Language

GRACE METALIOUS:
Peyton Place

JAMES MICHENER (1907-):
Chesapeake
Hawaii
Space
Texas
The Drifters
The Source
Bridges at Toko-Ri
Centennial
Tales of the South Pacific
Iberia
Poland
Alaska
The Caribbean

EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY:
"The Harp Weaver"
A Few Figs from Thistles

ARTHUR MILLER (1915-):
The Grass Still Grows
The Man Who Had All the Luck
All My Sons
The Death of a Salesman
The Crucible
A View from the Bridge
After the Fall
All Fall Down
Incident at Vichy
The Price
The Creation of the World and Other Business
Danger: Memory
Clara
Timebends (autobiography)
The Last Yankee
Broken Glass

HENRY MILLER:
The Tropic of Cancer
The Tropic of Capricorn

MARGARET MITCHELL:
Gone With the Wind

N. SCOTT MOMADAY:
House Made of Dawn

CLEMENT C. MOORE:
"A Visit from Saint Nicholas"

DESMOND MORRIS:
The Naked Ape

TONI MORRISON (1931-):
--1993 Nobel Prize Winner
Sula
Song of Solomon
Jazz
Tar Baby
The Bluest Eye

OGDEN NASH:
Hard Lines
I'm a Stranger Here Myself
The Private Dining Room

MARSHA NORMAN:
'night, Mother

FRANK NORRIS:
Blix
McTeague
The Octopus
The Epic of the Wheat
The Pit
Moran of the Lady Letty

NORDOFF AND HALL:
Mutiny on the Bounty

FLANNERY O'CONNOR:
"The Geranium"
Wise Blood
"The Life You Save May Be Your Own"
The Violent Bear it Away
"Everything that Rises Must Converge"
"Revelation"
"A Good Man is Hard to Find"
"Good Country People"
"Displaced Persons"
"The Artificial Nigger"

STEPHEN B. OATES:
Let the Trumpet Sound: The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.
With Malice Toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln

CLIFFORD ODETS:
Waiting for Lefty
Awake and Sing!
Golden Boy
The Country Girl
Paradise Lost
Rocket to the Moon

JOHN O'HARA:
From the Terrace
Appointment in Samarra
Pal Joey
Butterfield 8

EUGENE O'NEILL:
--1936 Nobel Prize
Bound East for Cardiff
The Hairy Ape
The Emperor Jones
Desire Under the Elms
The Great God Brown
Strange Interlude
Morning Becomes Electra
Ah! Wilderness
A Moon for the Misbegotten
The Iceman Cometh
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Anna Christie

THOMAS PAINE:
Common Sense
"The Age of Reason"
"The American Crisis, 1776-1783"
"The Rights of Man"
"The Age of Man"

DOROTHY PARKER:
--associated with the Algonquin Round Table literary movement
Enough Rope
Laments for the Living
Sunset Gun
"A Telephone Call"
"News Item"

WALKER PERCY (?-1990):
The Moviegoer
Love in the Ruins
Lancelot
The Last Gentleman

SYLVIA PLATH:
The Bell Jar
Ariel
The Colossus
Winter Trees
"Daddy"

EDGAR ALLAN POE:
"The Raven"
"Annabel Lee"
"The Masque of the Red Death"
"The Cask of Amontillado"
"The Black Cat"
"The Purloined Letter"
"The Gold Bug"
"Ulalume"
"El Dorado"
"The Pit and the Pendulum"
"The Tell-Tale Heart"
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Mystery of Marie Roget
The Fall of the House of Usher

BERNARD POMERANTZ:
The Elephant Man

KATHERINE ANNE PORTER:
The Leaning Tower (short stories and a novella)
Ship of Fools
Flowering Judas
Noon Wine
Pale Horse, Pale Rider
Old Mortality

WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER (O. HENRY):
"The Gift of the Magi"
"The Gentle Grafter"
"Whistling Dick's Christmas Story"
"The Four Million"
"The Last Leaf"
"The Voice of the City"
"Ransom of Red Chief"
Cabbages and Kings
"A Retrieved Reformation"

EZRA POUND:
Pisan Cantos
Hugh Selwyn Mauberly
Personae
"Sestina Altaforte"

E. ANNIE PROULX:
The Shipping News

MARIO PUZO:
The Godfather
The Silician
The Last Don

THOMAS PYNCHON:
V
Gravity's Rainbow
The Crying of Lot 49
Slow Learner
Vineland

AYN RAND:
We, The Living
Anthem
The Fountainhead
Atlas Shrugged
For the New Intellectual
The Virtue of Selfishness
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
The Romantic Manifesto
Night of January 16th

JOHN CROWE RANSOM:
God Without Thunder
The World's Body

MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS:
The Yearling

WILSON RAWLS:
Where the Red Fern Grows
The Incredible Journey
Old Yeller

JOHN REED:
Ten Days that Shook the World

ROBERT REICH:
The Work of Nations

ELMER RICE:
On Trial
The Adding Machine
Street Scene

JACOB A. RIIS:
How the Other Half Lives

JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY:
"Little Orphant Annie"
"The Raggedy Man"

TOM ROBBINS:
Jitterbug Perfume
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Another Roadside Attraction

EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON:
"Miniver Cheevy"
"Richard Cory"

THEODORE ROETHKE:
Open House
The Waking
The Far Field
"My Papa's Waltz"

O.E. ROLVAAG:
Giants in the Earth

PHILIP ROTH:
Goodbye, Columbus
Letting Go
When She Was Good
Portnoy's Complaint
The Breast
The Facts
Patrimony
The Professor of Desire
"The Conversion of the Jews"
My Life as a Man
The Great American Novel
Sabbath's Theater

DAMON RUNYON (1880-1946):
Guys and Dolls
Blue Plate Special

CARL SAGAN (?-1996):
Cosmos
The Dragons of Eden

J.D. SALINGER:
Catcher in the Rye
Franny and Zooey
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters
Seymour: An Introduction
"A Perfect Day for Bananafish"

CARL SANDBURG (1878-1967):
Cornhuskers
Chicago Poems
The People, Yes!
Smoke and Steel
Harvest Poems
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years
Abraham Lincoln: The War Years
Good Morning, America

WILLIAM SAROYAN (1908-1981):
The Hungeres
The Time of Your Life
The Human Comedy
My Name is Aram
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze

JACK SCHAEFER:
Shane

ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER, JR.:
The Imperial Presidency
Robert Kennedy and His Times
A Thousand Days

ROBERT W. SERVICE:
"Songs of a Sourdough"
"The Shooting of Dan McGrew"

DR. SEUSS (Theodore Geisel) (1904-1991):
The Cat in the Hat
Green Eggs and Ham
The Lorax
Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Horton Hears a Who
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
You're Only Old Once
The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
Daisyhead Mayzie

MICHAEL SHAARA:
The Killer Angels -- source for the movie "Gettysburg"

PETER SHAFFER:
Equus
Amadeus
Black Comedy
White Lies

SAM SHEPARD (1943-):
True West
Fool for Love
Buried Child
Operation Sidewinder
Suicide in B-Flat
The Unseen Hand

ROBERT SHERWOOD:
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
The Petrified Forest
There Shall Be No Night
Idiot's Delight
Waterloo Bridge

RANDY SHILTS:
And the Band Played On
Conduct Unbecoming:  Gays and Lesbians in the U.S. Military

WILLIAM L. SHIRER:
The Rise and Fall of Adolph Hitler
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Gandhi: A Memoir

SHEL SILVERSTEIN:
Where the Sidewalk Ends
A Light in the Attic

NEIL SIMON:
The Odd Couple
Brighton Beach Memoirs
Biloxi Blues
Broadway Bound
Lost in Yonkers
The Goodbye Girl
The Sunshine Boys
London Suite

UPTON SINCLAIR (1878-1968):
The Jungle
The Gnomemobile
Oil!
Dragon's Teeth
King Coal!
Boston

ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER:
Shosha
The Family Moskat
The Magician of Lublin
The Manor
The Estate

B.F. SKINNER:
Walden Two

BETTY SMITH:
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

HUSTON SMITH:
The Religions of Man
The World's Religions

ART SPIEGELMAN:
Maus I:  My Father Bleeds History
Maus II:  A Survivor's Tale, and Here My Troubles Begin

MICKEY SPILLANE:
--creator of Mike Hammer
I, The Jury
Kiss Me Deadly

LINCOLN STEFFENS:
The Shame of the Cities

GERTRUDE STEIN:
Three Lives
The Making of Americans
Four in America
Tender Buttons
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

JOHN STEINBECK:
--1962 Nobel Prize winner
Cup of Gold
The Pastures of Heaven
To a God Unknown
Tortilla Flat
Cannery Row
The Wayward Bus
Sweet Thursday
In Dubious Battle
Of Mice and Men
The Pearl
The Grapes of Wrath
The Moon is Down
Bombs Away
East of Eden
The Winter of Our Discontent
Travels with Charley in Search of America
Burning Bright
The Long Valley
The Red Pony
The Sea of Cortez

WALLACE STEVENS:
Harmonium
The Man with a Blue Guitar
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction
"The Emperor of Ice Cream"
"The Idea of Order at Key West"
"Peter Quince at the Clavier"

IRVING STONE:
--famous biographer
Lust for Life (Vincent vanGogh)
Sailor on Horseback
Immortal Wife
Adversary in the House
The Passionate Journey
The President's Lady
Love is Eternal
The Agony and the Ecstasy (Michelangelo)
Those Who Live
The Passions of the Mind (Sigmund Freud)
The Greek Treasure
The Origin (Charles Darwin)

REX STOUT:
Nero Wolfe series of books

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE:
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Minister's Wooing
The Pearl of Orr's Island
Dred:  A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp

JESSE STUART:
Trees of Heaven
Taps for Private Tussie
Foretaste of Glory
The Thread that Runs So True
The Land Beyond the River

WILLIAM STYRON:
The Confessions of Nat Turner
Sophie's Choice

AMY TAN:
The Joy-Luck Club
The Kitchen God's Wife

IDA TARBELL:
A History of the Standard Oil Company

BOOTH TARKINGTON:
Alice Adams
The Magnificent Ambersons
Penrod
Seventeen

JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE:
Ode to the Confederate Dead
The Mediterranean

SARA TEASDALE:
"Helen of Troy"
Rivers to the Sea
Flame and Shadow

STUDS TERKEL:
Hard Times
The Good War
Working

ERNEST LAWRENCE THAYER:
"Casey at the Bat"

PAUL THEROUX:
The Great Railway Bazaar
The Old Patagonian Express
Riding the Iron Rooster
The Kingdom by the Sea
The Mosquito Coast

HUNTER S. THOMPSON:
--associated with "gonzo journalism"
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

HENRY DAVID THOREAU:
Civil Disobedience
Walden
"A Week on the Concourse and Merrimack Rivers"

JAMES THURBER:
"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"
My Life and Hard Times
"The Unicorn in the Garden"
"The Thirteen Clocks"
"Is Sex Necessary?"
"The Middle Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze"
My Years with Ross
Fables for Our Time
Lanterns and Lances

ALVIN TOFFLER:
Powershift
Future Shock
The Third Wave

JOHN KENNEDY TOOLE:
The Neon Bible
A Confederacy of Dunces

MARK TWAIN (SAMUEL LONGHORNE CLEMENS):
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Roughing It
Pudd'n Head Wilson
Life on the Mississippi
The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg
The Mysterious Stranger
The Innocents Abroad:  The New Pilgrim's Progress
The Gilded Age (with Charles Dudley Warner)
The Prince and the Pauper
The Literary Offenses of James Fenimore Cooper
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"

ALFRED UHRY:
Driving Miss Daisy

JOHN UPDIKE:
The Poorhouse Fair
The Centaur
Rabbit, Run
Rabbit Redux
Rabbit is Rich
Rabbit at Rest
The Witches of Eastwick
Of the Farm
The Beloved
In the Beauty of the Lilies

LEON URIS:
Trinity
Battle Cry
Exodus
Mila 18
Topaz
QB VII
The Angry Hills
Mitla Pass

GORE VIDAL:
Williwaw
In a Yellow Wood
Burr
Lincoln
Myra Breckenridge
1876: A Novel
Empire
Live from Golgotha

KURT VONNEGUT, JR. (1922-):
Mother Night
Cat's Cradle
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Slaughterhouse Five
Breakfast of Champions
The Sirens of Titan
Welcome to the Monkey House
Player Piano
Deadeye Dick
Bluebeard
Happy Birthday, Wanda June -- only play

ALICE WALKER (1944-):
The Color Purple
The Third Life of Grange Copeland
Possessing the Secret of Joy
You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down
Once
In Search Of Our Mother's Gardens

LEW WALLACE:
Ben-Hur:  A Tale of the Christ

ROBERT WALLER:
The Bridges of Madison County
Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend
Border Music

ROBERT PENN WARREN:
--only person with Pulizters for poetry and fiction
All the King's Men
Promises
Now and Then

BOOKER T. WASHINGTON (1856-1915):
Up From Slavery

WENDY WASSERSTEIN:
The Heidi Chronicles
The Sisters Rosensweig

EUDORA WELTY:
The Robber Bridegroom
Delta Wedding
The Wide Net
The Golden Apples
The Bride of Innisfallen
The Optimist's Daughter
Losing Battles
The Eye of the Story
"A Worn Path"
"A Curtain of Green"
"The Death of the Travelling Salesman"

MORRIS L. WEST:
Shoes of the Fisherman

NATHANAEL WEST:
The Dream Life of Balso Snell
Miss Lonelyhearts
The Day of the Locust
A Cool Million

EDITH WHARTON:
The Touchstone
The Valley of Decision
Sanctuary
The House of Mirth
Ethan Frome
The Age of Innocence
The Reef
Summer
Old New York
Hudson River Bracketed
The Gods Arrive
The Custom of the Country
The Old Maid
The Buccaneers (unfinished)

PHYLLIS WHEATLEY:
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral

E.B. WHITE:
Charlotte's Web
Here is New York
Stuart Little
The Trumpeter Swan

WALT WHITMAN:
Leaves of Grass
"Song of Myself"
"Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"
"There Was a Child Went Forth"
"Song of the Open Road"
"Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"
"O Captain, My Captain"
"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed"
"When I First Heard the Learn'd Astronomer"

JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER:
Legend of New England in Prose and Verse
"Ichabod"
"Maud Miller"
"The Barefoot Boy"
"Telling the Bees"
"Barbara Fritchie"
"Snowbound"
"Moll Pitcher"
"Marguerite"
Songs of Labor

LEONARD WIBBERLY:
The Mouse that Roared

NORBERT WIENER:
Cybernetics

ELIE WIESEL:
--1986 Nobel PEACE Prize
The Fifth Son
Souls on Fire
A Beggar in Jerusalem
The Town Beyond the Wall
Night
Dawn
The Accident
The Jews of Silence

LAURA INGALLS WILDER:
Little House on the Prairie
Farmer Boy
Little House in the Big Woods

THORNTON WILDER:
The Trumpet Shall Sound
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Our Town
The Cabala
The Skin of our Teeth
The Matchmaker
Theophilus North
The Ides of March

THOMAS LANIER "TENNESSEE" WILLIAMS:
The Glass Menagerie
A Streetcar Named Desire
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Night of the Iguana
Summer and Smoke
Period of Adjustment
Suddenly Last Summer
Orpheus Descending
The Rose Tattoo
Sweet Bird of Youth
Camino Real
27 Wagons Full of Cotton
The Two-Character Play

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS:
Al Que Quiere!
"Paterson"
The Tempers
The White Mule
"Pictures from Breughel"
In the American Grain
"Love Song"
"Queen Anne's Lace"

AUGUST WILSON (1945-):
The Piano Lesson
Fences
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Two Trains Running

EDMUND WILSON (1895-1972):
Axel's Castle
To the Finland Station

OWEN WISTER:
The Virginian

P.G. WODEHOUSE (1881-1975):
"Jeeves" series of novels
Anything Goes

NAOMI WOLF:
The Beauty Myth

THOMAS WOLFE (1900-1938):
Look Homeward, Angel
Of Time and the River
The Web and the Rock
You Can't Go Home Again
The Hills Beyond
From Death to Morning

TOM WOLFE:
The Right Stuff
The Bonfire of the Vanities
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
The Pump House Gang

HERMAN WOUK:
The Caine Mutiny
Marjorie Morningstar
War and Remembrance
The Winds of War
The Hope
The Glory

RICHARD WRIGHT:
Black Boy
Uncle Tom's Children
The Fire Next Time
The Outsider
The Long Dream
Native Son

FRANK YEARBY:
--first African-American best-selling author
Vixen
The Foxes of Harrow

PAUL ZINDEL:
The Pigman
The Pigman Returns
The Pigman's Legacy
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

CAVEAT:
     This list is by no means intended to list all the works of said authors, only the major ones and the favorite academic bowl question topics.  This list reflects the biases of its creator, Eric Bell, and his inspirations for doing so, Mrs. Pat Sherbert, Mrs. Jane Palmer, and Mr. William Coyle.  Any additions or corrections should be directed to Eric Bell, University of Oklahoma Academic Team.