Library of America
Books in the Library of America series, published by Penguin Putnam, showcase American Literature at its finest. The library has a complete collection that it adds to as new books are published.

2000

• Slave narratives.
• F. Scott Fitzgerald. Novels and stories, 1920-1922: This side of paradise; Flappers and philosophers; The beautiful and the damned; Tales of the jazz age.
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Poems and other writings.
• American poetry. The twentieth century. V.1 Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker.
• V.2 E.E. Cummings to May Swenson.

1999

• Henry James. Complete stories, 1874-1884.
• Henry James. Complete stories, 1884-1891.
• American sermons: the pilgrims to Martin Luther King, Jr.
• James Madison. Writings.
• Dashiell Hammett. Complete novels: Red harvest; The Dain curse; The Maltese
• falcon; The glass key; The thin man.
• Henry James. Complete stories, 1864-1874.
• William Faulkner. Novels, 1957-1962: The town; The mansion; The reivers.
• John Audubon. Writings and drawings.

1998

• James Baldwin. Collected essays. .
• James Baldwin. Early novels and stories: Go tell it on the mountain; Giovanni's room;
• Another country; Going to meet the man.
• Gertrude Stein. Writings, 1903-1932.
• Gertrude Stein. Writings, 1932-1946.
• Charles Brown. Three Gothic novels: Wieland; Arthur Mervyn; Edgar Huntly.
• Eudora Welty. Stories, essays and memoir.
• Eudora Welty. Complete novels: The robber bridegroom, Delta Wedding; The Ponderheart;
• Losing battles; The optimist's daughter.
• Reporting Vietnam.

1997

• George Washington. Writings.
• Nathanael West. Novels and other writings.
• John Muir. Nature writings: The story of my boyhood and youth, My first summer in the Sierra,
• The mountains of California, Stickeen, selected essays
• Wallace Stevens. Collected poetry and prose.
• Crime novels: American noir of the 1930s and 40s.
• Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s.

1996

• William Bartram. Travels and other writings.
• Henry James. Complete stories, 1898-1910.
• John Steinbeck. The grapes of wrath and other writings, 1936-1941.
• Henry James. Complete stories, 1892-1898.
• James Thurber. Writings and drawings.
• Vladimir Nabokov. Novels, 1969-1974: Ada or ardor a family chronicle, Transparent things,
• Look at the harlequins.
• Vladimir Nabokov. Novels and memoirs, 1941-1951: The real life of Sebastian knight, Bend
• sinister, Speak memory an autobiography revisited.
• Vladimir Nabokov. Novels, 1955-1962; Lolita, Pnin, Palefire, Lolita a screenplay.

1995

• Zora Neale Hurston. Folklore, memoirs and other writings.
• Zora Neale Hurston. Novels and stories.
• Reporting World War II.
• Thomas Paine. Collected writings.
• Raymond Chandler. Stories and novels, 1933-1942.
• Raymond Chandler. Later novels and other writings.
• Robert Frost. Collected poems, prose and plays.

1994

• Frederick Douglass. Autobiographies.
• Sarah Orne Jewett. Novels and stories.
• Mark Twain. Historical romances: The prince and the pauper, A Connecticut Yankee in King
• Arthur's Court, Personal recollections of Joan of Arc.
• John Steinbeck. Novels and stories, 1932-1937: The pastures of heaven; To a God unknown;
• Tortilla Flat; In dubious battle; Of mice and men.
• Ralph Waldo Emerson. Collected poems and translations.
• William Faulkner. Novels, 1942-1954.

1993

• The Debate on the Constitution: Federalist and Antifederalist speeches, articles, and letters during the struggle over ratification.
• Henry James. Collected travel writings: The continent.
• Henry James. Collected travel writings: Great Britain and America.
• American poetry: The nineteenth century.

1992

• Willa Cather. Stories, poems and other writings.
• William James. Writings, 1878-1899.
• Sinclair Lewis. Main Street and Babbitt.

1991

• Washington Irving. Bracebridge Hall; Tales of a traveler; The Alhambra.
• James Fenimore Cooper. Sea tales: The pilot; Red rover
• Francis Parkman. The Oregon trail; The conspiracy of Pontiac.

1990

• Willa Cather. Later novels: A lost lady; The professor's house; Death comes for the archbishop;
• Shadows on the rock; Lucy Gayheart; Sapphira and the slave girl.
• William Faulkner. Novels, 1936-1940: Absalom, Absalom! The unvanquished; If I forget thee,
• Jerusalem; The hamlet.
• Ulysses S. Grant. Memoirs and selected letters.
• Edith Wharton. Novellas and other writings.

1989

• William Dean Howells. Novels, 1886-1888: The minister's charge; April hopes; Annie Kilburn
• Henry James. Novels, 1886-1890: The Princess Casa massima; The reverberator; The tragic
• muse.

1988

• Flannery O'Connor. Collected works.
• Eugene O'Neill. Complete plays.

1987

• Willa Cather. Early novels and stories.
• William James. Writings, 1902-1910.
• Theodore Dreiser. Sister Carrie; Jennie Gerhardt; Twelve men.
• Benjamin Franklin. Writings.

1986

• Henry Adams. History of the United States of America during the administrations of Thomas
• Jefferson.
• W.E.B. Du Bois. Writings
• Frank Norris. Novels and essays.

1985

• James Fenimore Cooper. The leatherstocking tales.
• Henry James. Novels, 1881-1886; Washington Square; The portrait of a lady; The Bostonians.
• William Faulkner. Novels, 1930-1935: As I lay dying; Sanctuary; Light in August; Pylon.
• Henry David Thoreau. A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers; Walden, or, Life in the
• woods; The Maine woods; Cape cod.

1984

• Henry James. Literary criticism.
• Thomas Jefferson. Writings.
• Stephen Crane. Prose and poetry.
• Herman Melville. Pierre, or, The ambiguities; Israel Potter: his fifty years of exile; The piazza
• tales; The confidence-man: his masquerade; Uncollected prose; Billy Budd, sailor.
• Edgar Allan Poe. Essays and reviews.
• Edgar Allan Poe. Poetry and tales.

1983

• Henry Adams. Novels: Mont Saint Michel and Chartres; Democracy; Esther; The education of
• Henry Adams.
• Washington Irving. History, tales and sketches.
• Henry James. Novels, 1871-1888: Watch and ward; Roderick Hudson; The American; The
• Europeans; Confidence.
• Ralph Waldo Emerson. Essays and lectures.
• Herman Melville, Redburn, his first voyage; Whitejacket, or, The world in a man-of-war; Moby-
• Dick, or, The whale.
• Francis Parkman. France and England in North America.
• Nathaniel Hawthorne. Collected novels: Fanshawe; The scarlet letter; The house of the green
• gables; The Blithedale romance; The marble faun.

1982

• Nathaniel Hawthorne. Tales and sketches.
• William Dean Howells. Novels, 1875-886: A foregone conclusion; A modern instance; Indian
• summer; The rise of Silas Lapham.
• Jack London. Novels and social writings: The people of the abyss; The road; The iron heel;
• Martin Eden; John Barleycorn; Essays.
• Herman Melville. Typee: a peep at Polynesian life; Omoo: a narrative of adventures in the South
• Seas; Mardi: and a voyage thither.
• Mark Twain. Mississippi writings: The adventures of Tom Sawyer; Life on the Mississippi;
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Pudd'nhead Wilson.
• Walt Whitman. Complete poetry and collected prose.
• Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin, or, life among the lowly; The minister's wooing;
• Old town folks.