American Literature:Major Writers And
Their Famous Works
{Romantic Age}
1. Frederick Douglass:
- "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave" (1845)
- "My Bondage and My Freedom" (1855)
- "Life and Times of Frederick Douglass" (1881)
- "The Heroic Slave" (1853)
- "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, Written
by Himself" (1845)
- "The Frederick Douglass Papers" (1982)
- "Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings" (1999)
- "The Portable Frederick Douglass" (2003)
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2. Harriet Beecher Stowe:
- "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1852)
- "The Minister's Wooing" (1859)
- "Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp" (1856)
- "Oldtown Folks" (1869)
- "The Pearl of Orr's Island" (1862)
- "We and Our Neighbors" (1875)
- "My Wife and I" (1871)
- "Poganuc People" (1878)
3. Herman Melville:
- "Moby-Dick" (1851)
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- "Bartleby, the Scrivener" (1853)
- "Billy Budd, Sailor" (1924, posthumously)
- "Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life" (1846)
- "The Confidence-Man" (1857)
- "Pierre; or, The Ambiguities" (1852)
- "The Piazza Tales" (1856)
- "White-Jacket" (1850)
4. James Fenimore Cooper:
- "The Last of the Mohicans" (1826)
- "The Deerslayer" (1841)
- "The Pathfinder" (1840)
- "The Pioneers" (1823)
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- "The Prairie" (1827)
- "The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground" (1821)
- "The Red Rover" (1827)
- "The Pilot" (1823)
5. Louisa May Alcott:
- "Little Women" (1868-1869)
- "Little Men" (1871)
- "Jo's Boys" (1886)
- "An Old-Fashioned Girl" (1870)
- "Eight Cousins" (1875)
- "Under the Lilacs" (1878)
- "Jack and Jill" (1880)
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- "Rose in Bloom" (1876)
6. Nathaniel Hawthorne:
- "The Scarlet Letter" (1850)
- "The House of the Seven Gables" (1851)
- "The Blithedale Romance" (1852)
- "Twice-Told Tales" (1837)
- "The Marble Faun" (1860)
- "Mosses from an Old Manse" (1846)
- "The Birth-Mark" (1843)
- "Young Goodman Brown" (1835)
7. Edgar Allan Poe:
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- "The Raven and Other Poems" (1845)
- "The Tell-Tale Heart" (1843)
- "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839)
- "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841)
- "The Pit and the Pendulum" (1842)
- "The Masque of the Red Death" (1842)
- "The Cask of Amontillado" (1846)
- "The Gold-Bug" (1843)
8. Ralph Waldo Emerson:
- "Self-Reliance" (1841)
- "Nature" (1836)
- "The American Scholar" (1837)
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- "Essays: First Series" (1841)
- "Essays: Second Series" (1844)
- "Representative Men" (1850)
- "The Divinity School Address" (1838)
- "The Conduct of Life" (1860)
9. Henry David Thoreau:
- "Walden; or, Life in the Woods" (1854)
- "Civil Disobedience" (1849)
- "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" (1849)
- "The Maine Woods" (1864)
- "Walking" (1862)
- "A Yankee in Canada" (1866)
- "Excursions" (1863)
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- "The Journal of Henry David Thoreau" (1906)
10. Washington Irving:
- "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820)
- "Rip Van Winkle" (1819)
- "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent." (1819-1820)
- "A History of New York" (1809)
- "Bracebridge Hall" (1822)
- "Tales of the Alhambra" (1832)
- "The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus" (1828)
- "Astoria" (1836)
11. Emily Dickinson:
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- "The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson" (1890)
- "Poems by Emily Dickinson, Series One" (1890)
- "Poems by Emily Dickinson, Series Two" (1891)
- "Poems by Emily Dickinson, Series Three" (1896)
- "Poems by Emily Dickinson, Series Four" (1896)
- "The Gorgeous Nothings: Selected Poems and Letters" (2012)
- "Final Harvest: Emily Dickinson's Poems" (1962)
- "Emily Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries" (1992)
12. Walt Whitman:
- "Leaves of Grass" (1855)
- "Song of Myself" (1855)
- "I Sing the Body Electric" (1855)
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- "O Captain! My Captain!" (1865)
- "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" (1865)
- "Calamus" (1860)
- "Drum-Taps" (1865)
- "Specimen Days" (1882)
13. William Cullen Bryant:
- "Thanatopsis" (1817)
- "To a Waterfowl" (1821)
- "The Death of the Flowers" (1821)
- "To Cole, the Painter, Departing for Europe" (1829)
- "The Ages" (1821)
- "The Prairies" (1832)
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- "The Yellow Violet" (1815)
- "To a Mosquito" (1815)
{Victorian Age}
1. Henry James:
- "The Portrait of a Lady" (1881)
- "The Turn of the Screw" (1898)
- "The Wings of the Dove" (1902)
- "The Ambassadors" (1903)
- "Daisy Miller" (1878)
- "The Bostonians" (1886)
- "Washington Square" (1880)
- "The Golden Bowl" (1904)
- "The Aspern Papers" (1888)
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- "The Beast in the Jungle" (1903)
2. Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens):
- "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1884)
- "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1876)
- "The Prince and the Pauper" (1881)
- "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" (1889)
- "Life on the Mississippi" (1883)
- "The Innocents Abroad" (1869)
- "The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today" (1873)
- "Roughing It" (1872)
- "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc" (1896)
- "Pudd'nhead Wilson" (1894)
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3. Jack London:
- "The Call of the Wild" (1903)
- "White Fang" (1906)
- "Martin Eden" (1909)
- "The Sea-Wolf" (1904)
- "To Build a Fire" (1908)
- "The Iron Heel" (1908)
- "The People of the Abyss" (1903)
- "The Road" (1907)
- "The Cruise of the Snark" (1911)
- "The Son of the Wolf" (1900)
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4. Stephen Crane:
- "The Red Badge of Courage" (1895)
- "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets" (1893)
- "The Open Boat" (1898)
- "George's Mother" (1896)
- "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" (1898)
- "The Blue Hotel" (1899)
- "The Monster" (1899)
- "Wounds in the Rain: War Stories" (1900)
- "The Little Regiment" (1896)
- "The Third Violet" (1897)
5. Charlotte Perkins Gilman:
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- "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892)
- "Herland" (1915)
- "Women and Economics" (1898)
- "The Home: Its Work and Influence" (1903)
- "The Man-Made World" (1911)
- "The Crux" (1911)
- "What Diantha Did" (1910)
- "In This Our World" (1893)
- "The Home" (1903)
- "The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography" (1935)
6. Theodore Dreiser:
- "Sister Carrie" (1900)
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- "An American Tragedy" (1925)
- "The Financier" (1912)
- "Jennie Gerhardt" (1911)
- "The Titan" (1914)
- "The "Genius"" (1915)
- "Trilogy of Desire" (1934)
- "The Bulwark" (1946)
- "Dreiser Looks at Russia" (1928)
- "Dawn" (1931)
7. Kate Chopin:
- "The Awakening" (1899)
- "Desiree's Baby" (1893)
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- "The Story of an Hour" (1894)
- "A Pair of Silk Stockings" (1897)
- "At the 'Cadian Ball" (1892)
- "The Storm" (1898)
- "Bayou Folk" (1894)
- "A Vocation and a Voice" (1895)
- "A Night in Acadie" (1897)
- "The Complete Works of Kate Chopin" (1969)
8. Edith Wharton:
- "The Age of Innocence" (1920)
- "The House of Mirth" (1905)
- "Ethan Frome" (1911)
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- "Summer" (1917)
- "The Custom of the Country" (1913)
- "The Buccaneers" (1938)
- "The Reef" (1912)
- "The Fruit of the Tree" (1907)
- "Old New York" (1924)
- "The Children" (1928)
{Modern Age}
1. William Faulkner:
- "The Sound and the Fury" (1929)
- "As I Lay Dying" (1930)
- "Light in August" (1932)
- "Absalom, Absalom!" (1936)
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- "Go Down, Moses" (1942)
- "The Reivers" (1962)
- "A Fable" (1954)
- "Intruder in the Dust" (1948)
- "Sanctuary" (1931)
- "Pylon" (1935)
2. Ernest Hemingway:
- "The Old Man and the Sea" (1952)
- "A Farewell to Arms" (1929)
- "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (1940)
- "The Sun Also Rises" (1926)
- "To Have and Have Not" (1937)
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- "Death in the Afternoon" (1932)
- "In Our Time" (1925)
- "Green Hills of Africa" (1935)
- "Islands in the Stream" (1970)
- "The Garden of Eden" (1986)
3. F. Scott Fitzgerald:
- "The Great Gatsby" (1925)
- "Tender Is the Night" (1934)
- "This Side of Paradise" (1920)
- "The Beautiful and Damned" (1922)
- "The Last Tycoon" (1941)
- "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" (1922)
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- "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (1922)
- "Babylon Revisited" (1931)
- "The Crack-Up" (1945)
- "Taps at Reveille" (1935)
4. Gertrude Stein:
- "Three Lives" (1909)
- "Tender Buttons" (1914)
- "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" (1933)
- "The Making of Americans" (1925)
- "Everybody's Autobiography" (1937)
- "Four Saints in Three Acts" (1934)
- "Geography and Plays" (1922)
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- "Ida: A Novel" (1941)
- "Paris France" (1940)
- "Wars I Have Seen" (1945)
5. Sinclair Lewis:
- "Main Street" (1920)
- "Babbitt" (1922)
- "Arrowsmith" (1925)
- "Elmer Gantry" (1927)
- "Dodsworth" (1929)
- "It Can't Happen Here" (1935)
- "Kingsblood Royal" (1947)
- "Ann Vickers" (1933)
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- "Cass Timberlane" (1945)
- "Gideon Planish" (1943)
6. Tennessee Williams:
- "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1947)
- "The Glass Menagerie" (1944)
- "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (1955)
- "The Night of the Iguana" (1961)
- "Sweet Bird of Youth" (1959)
- "Summer and Smoke" (1948)
- "Suddenly, Last Summer" (1958)
- "The Rose Tattoo" (1951)
- "Orpheus Descending" (1957)
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- "The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore" (1964)
7. Arthur Miller:
- "Death of a Salesman" (1949)
- "The Crucible" (1953)
- "All My Sons" (1947)
- "A View from the Bridge" (1955)
- "The Price" (1968)
- "After the Fall" (1964)
- "The Man Who Had All the Luck" (1944)
- "Incident at Vichy" (1964)
- "The Misfits" (1961)
- "The American Clock" (1980)
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8. Eugene O'Neill:
- "Long Day's Journey into Night" (1956)
- "The Iceman Cometh" (1946)
- "Desire Under the Elms" (1924)
- "A Moon for the Misbegotten" (1947)
- "Mourning Becomes Electra" (1931)
- "Anna Christie" (1920)
- "Beyond the Horizon" (1920)
- "Ah, Wilderness!" (1933)
- "Strange Interlude" (1928)
- "The Hairy Ape" (1922)
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9. Susan Glaspell:
- "Trifles" (1916)
- "Alison's House" (1930)
- "Inheritors" (1921)
- "The Verge" (1921)
- "The Outside" (1917)
- "Chains of Dew" (1922)
- "Bernice" (1919)
- "The Comic Artist" (1917)
- "The People" (1918)
- "Lifted Masks" (1912)
10. Robert Frost:
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- "A Boy's Will" (1913)
- "North of Boston" (1914)
- "Mountain Interval" (1916)
- "New Hampshire" (1923)
- "West-Running Brook" (1928)
- "Collected Poems" (1930)
- "A Further Range" (1936)
- "A Witness Tree" (1942)
- "Come In, and Other Poems" (1943)
- "In the Clearing" (1962)
11. Wallace Stevens:
- "Harmonium" (1923)
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- "Ideas of Order" (1936)
- "The Man with the Blue Guitar" (1937)
- "Parts of a World" (1942)
- "Transport to Summer" (1947)
- "The Auroras of Autumn" (1950)
- "The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens" (1954)
- "The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination" (1951)
- "Opus Posthumous" (1957)
- "Letters of Wallace Stevens" (1966)
12. Ezra Pound:
- "Cantos" (1917-1969)
- "The Waste Land" (1922)
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- "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley" (1920)
- "A Draft of XXX Cantos" (1930)
- "ABC of Reading" (1934)
- "Personae" (1909)
- "The Pisan Cantos" (194
13. William Carlos Williams:
- "Spring and All" (1923)
- "Paterson" (1946–1958)
- "Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems" (1962)
- "The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, 1909-1939" (1939)
- "Kora in Hell: Improvisations" (1920)
- "The Doctor Stories" (1984)
- "Selected Poems" (1949)
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- "White Mule" (1937)
- "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" (1955)
- "The Desert Music and Other Poems" (1954)
14. E.E. Cummings:
- "The Enormous Room" (1922)
- "Tulips and Chimneys" (1923)
- "XLI Poems" (1925)
- "No Thanks" (1935)
- "The Kidnapped" (1920)
- "Eimi" (1933)
- "1 x 1" (1944)
- "Is 5" (1926)
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- "95 Poems" (1958)
- "73 Poems" (1963)
{Post Modern Age}
1. John Updike:
- "Rabbit, Run" (1960)
- "The Centaur" (1963)
- "Couples" (1968)
- "Rabbit Redux" (1971)
- "The Witches of Eastwick" (1984)
- "Roger's Version" (1986)
- "Rabbit Is Rich" (1981)
- "Rabbit at Rest" (1990)
- "In the Beauty of the Lilies" (1996)
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- "Toward the End of Time" (1997)
2. Harper Lee:
- "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1960)
- "Go Set a Watchman" (2015)
3. Truman Capote:
- "In Cold Blood" (1966)
- "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (1958)
- "Other Voices, Other Rooms" (1948)
- "The Grass Harp" (1951)
- "Music for Chameleons" (1980)
- "Answered Prayers" (1986, posthumously)
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4. J.D. Salinger:
- "The Catcher in the Rye" (1951)
- "Nine Stories" (1953)
- "Franny and Zooey" (1961)
- "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction"
(1963)
- "The Catcher in the Rye" (1951)
- "Bananafish" (1948)
5. John O'Hara:
- "Appointment in Samarra" (1934)
- "Butterfield 8" (1935)
- "Pal Joey" (1940)
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- "Ten North Frederick" (1955)
- "From the Terrace" (1958)
- "A Rage to Live" (1949)
- "BUtterfield 8" (1935)
6. John Steinbeck:
- "The Grapes of Wrath" (1939)
- "Of Mice and Men" (1937)
- "East of Eden" (1952)
- "Cannery Row" (1945)
- "Tortilla Flat" (1935)
- "Travels with Charley: In Search of America" (1962)
- "The Pearl" (1947)
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- "The Winter of Our Discontent" (1961)
- "The Red Pony" (1937)
- "The Long Valley" (1938)
7. Joseph Heller:
- "Catch-22" (1961)
- "Something Happened" (1974)
- "Good as Gold" (1979)
- "God Knows" (1984)
- "Closing Time" (1994)
- "Picture This" (1988)
- "Now and Then" (1998)
- "Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man" (2000)
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- "Catch-22" (1961)
8. William S. Burroughs:
- "Naked Lunch" (1959)
- "Junky" (1953)
- "The Soft Machine" (1961)
- "Nova Express" (1964)
- "The Ticket That Exploded" (1962)
- "The Western Lands" (1987)
- "Cities of the Red Night" (1981)
- "The Place of Dead Roads" (1983)
- "Queer" (1985)
- "Interzone" (1989)
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9. Jack Kerouac:
- "On the Road" (1957)
- "The Dharma Bums" (1958)
- "Big Sur" (1962)
- "Visions of Cody" (1972)
- "The Subterraneans" (1958)
- "Desolation Angels" (1965)
- "The Town and the City" (1950)
- "Maggie Cassidy" (1959)
- "Book of Dreams" (1961)
- "Tristessa" (1960)
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10. Edward Albee:
- "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1962)
- "The Zoo Story" (1958)
- "A Delicate Balance" (1966)
- "Three Tall Women" (1991)
- "Seascape" (1975)
- "The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?" (2002)
- "The American Dream" (1961)
- "The Sandbox" (1959)
- "Tiny Alice" (1964)
- "Occupant" (2001)
11. Saul Bellow:
- "The Adventures of Augie March" (1953)
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- "Herzog" (1964)
- "Henderson the Rain King" (1959)
- "Seize the Day" (1956)
- "Mr. Sammler's Planet" (1970)
- "Ravelstein" (2000)
- "Humboldt's Gift" (1975)
- "The Dean's December" (1982)
- "Dangling Man" (1944)
- "More Die of Heartbreak" (1987)
12. Ray Bradbury:
- "Fahrenheit 451" (1953)
- "The Martian Chronicles" (1950)
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- "Something Wicked This Way Comes" (1962)
- "Dandelion Wine" (1957)
- "The Illustrated Man" (1951)
- "The Halloween Tree" (1972)
- "The Golden Apples of the Sun" (1953)
- "I Sing the Body Electric!" (1969)
- "The October Country" (1955)
- "Green Shadows, White Whale" (1992)
13. Allen Ginsberg:
- "Howl and Other Poems" (1956)
- "Kaddish and Other Poems" (1961)
- "Reality Sandwiches" (1963)
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- "Planet News" (1968)
- "The Fall of America: Poems of These States" (1973)
- "Collected Poems: 1947–1980" (1984)
- "Cosmopolitan Greetings: Poems 1986–1992" (1994)
- "White Shroud: Poems 1980–1985" (1986)
- "Deliberate Prose: Selected Essays, 1952–1995" (2000)
- "Mind Breaths: Poems 1972–1977" (1978)
14. Anne Sexton:
- "To Bedlam and Part Way Back" (1960)
- "All My Pretty Ones" (1962)
- "Live or Die" (1966)
- "Love Poems" (1969)
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- "Transformations" (1971)
- "The Book of Folly" (1972)
- "The Death Notebooks" (1974)
- "45 Mercy Street" (1976)
- "The Awful Rowing Toward God" (1975)
- "Words for Dr. Y." (1978)
15. Sylvia Plath:
- "The Colossus and Other Poems" (1960)
- "Ariel" (1965)
- "The Bell Jar" (1963)
- "Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams" (1979)
- "Letters Home: Correspondence 1950–1963" (1975)
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- "Winter Trees" (1971)
- "Crossing the Water" (1971)
- "Collected Poems" (1981)
- "The Journals of Sylvia Plath" (1982)
- "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath" (2000)
16. Robert Lowell:
- "Lord Weary's Castle" (1946)
- "Life Studies" (1959)
- "For the Union Dead" (1964)
- "Near the Ocean" (1967)
- "The Dolphin" (1973)
- "Day by Day" (1977)
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- "History" (1973)
- "Selected Poems" (1976)
- "The Mills of the Kavanaughs" (1951)
- "Imitations" (1961)
17. Elizabeth Bishop:
- "North & South" (1946)
- "Questions of Travel" (1965)
- "Geography III" (1976)
- "The Complete Poems: 1927-1979" (1983)
- "Poems: North & South / A Cold Spring" (1955)
- "The Complete Poems" (1969)
- "A Cold Spring" (1955)
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- "Poems, Prose, and Letters" (2011)
- "The Ballad of the Burglar of Babylon" (1968)
- "Collected Poems" (2008)
18. Thomas Pynchon:
- "Gravity's Rainbow" (1973)
- "The Crying of Lot 49" (1966)
- "V." (1963)
- "Mason & Dixon" (1997)
- "Against the Day" (2006)
- "Inherent Vice" (2009)
- "Bleeding Edge" (2013)
- "Vineland" (1990)
- "Slow Learner" (1984)
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- "The Bleeding Edge" (2013)
19. Don DeLillo:
- "White Noise" (1985)
- "Underworld" (1997)
- "Libra" (1988)
- "Cosmopolis" (2003)
- "The Names" (1982)
- "Mao II" (1991)
- "Point Omega" (2010)
- "Americana" (1971)
- "Great Jones Street" (1973)
- "Zero K" (2016)
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20. David Foster Wallace:
- "Infinite Jest" (1996)
- "The Pale King" (2011)
- "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men" (1999)
- "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" (1997)
- "Consider the Lobster and Other Essays" (2005)
- "The Broom of the System" (1987)
- "Girl with Curious Hair" (1989)
- "Oblivion: Stories" (2004)
- "This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion,
about Living a Compassionate Life" (2009)
- "Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will" (2010)
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21. Kurt Vonnegut:
- "Slaughterhouse-Five" (1969)
- "Cat's Cradle" (1963)
- "Breakfast of Champions" (1973)
- "Mother Night" (1961)
- "Player Piano" (1952)
- "The Sirens of Titan" (1959)
- "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" (1965)
- "Galápagos" (1985)
- "Jailbird" (1979)
- "Bluebeard" (1987)
22. Toni Morrison:
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- "Beloved" (1987)
- "Song of Solomon" (1977)
- "The Bluest Eye" (1970)
- "Sula" (1973)
- "Jazz" (1992)
- "Paradise" (1997)
- "A Mercy" (2008)
- "Tar Baby" (1981)
- "Home" (2012)
- "God Help the Child" (2015)
23. Cormac McCarthy:
- "Blood Meridian" (1985)
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- "The Road" (2006)
- "No Country for Old Men" (2005)
- "All the Pretty Horses" (1992)
- "Child of God" (1973)
- "Suttree" (1979)
- "The Orchard Keeper" (1965)
- "Outer Dark" (1968)
- "The Border Trilogy" (1992-1998)
- "Cities of the Plain" (1998)
24. Joyce Carol Oates:
- "We Were the Mulvaneys" (1996)
- "Blonde" (2000)
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- "The Gravedigger's Daughter" (2007)
- "You Must Remember This" (1987)
- "Zombie" (1995)
- "Bellefleur" (1980)
- "The Accursed" (2013)
- "The Falls" (2004)
- "My Heart Laid Bare" (1998)
- "The Tattooed Girl" (2003)
25. Philip Roth:
- "American Pastoral" (1997)
- "Portnoy's Complaint" (1969)
- "The Human Stain" (2000)
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- "Goodbye, Columbus" (1959)
- "Sabbath's Theater" (1995)
- "The Plot Against America" (2004)
- "Everyman" (2006)
- "The Ghost Writer" (1979)
- "The Counterlife" (1986)
- "Indignation" (2008)
Yogesh Tiwari
