Fiction:

 Ernest Hemingway:
1. The Snows of Kilimanjaro
2. The Old Man and the Sea
3. The Short Life of Francis Macomber

 Francis Scott Fitzgerald:

1. The Great Gatsby
2. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

 William Faulkner:
1. As I Lay Dying
2. A Rose for Emily

 John Steinbeck:
 Of Mice and Men

 Zora Neale Hurston:

 How If Feel to Be Colored Me

 Richard Wright:
 The Man Who Was Almost a Man

 Flannery O’Connor:
 Good Country People

 Vladimir Nabokov:
 Lolita

 John Barth:
 Lost in the Funhouse (“Life Story”)

 Thomas Pynchon:
 The Crying of Lot 49 (Chapters 1&2)

 Saul Bellow:
 Herzog

 John Updike:
 Separating
  Toni Morrison:
 Beloved

 Alice Walker:
 Everyday Use

 Ralph Ellison:
 Invisible Man (Prologue, Chapter 1)

Drama:

 Eugene O’Neill:
 Long Day’s Journey into Night

 Tennessee Williams:
 A Streetcar Named Desire

 Arthur Miller:
 Death of a Salesman

 Edward Albee:
 Who’s Afraid of a Virginia Woolf