Best American Essays of the Century.  Joyce Carol Oates, ed.

Best American Essays.  Robert Atwan, ed. (Annual collection of the year's best essays)

The Art of the Personal Essay.  Philip Lopate

In Short.  Kitchen & Jones, eds.

In Depth: Essayists for Our Time.  Karl Klaus, ed.

Judith Barrington.  Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art

Russell Baker, ed. Inventing the Truth: The Art & Craft of Memoir

The Fourth Genre. Root & Steinberg, eds.

T.A.R. Cheney. Writing Creative Nonfiction

Carol Bly. The Passionate Accurate Story

Lu Chi's Wen Fu: The Art of Writing. Translated by Sam Hammill

Joan Didion. The White Album, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

John McPhee.  (anything/everything) Oranges, The Control of Nature, The Survival of the Bark Canoe, The Pine Barrens

George Orwell.  Collected essays

Tracy Kidder.  House, The Soul of A New Machine, Hometown and others

Tom Wolfe. The Right Stuff, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, and others

Jon Krakauer. Into the Wild, Into Thin Air

Richard Nelson. The Inland Island, Heart & Blood, Make Prayers to the Raven

Nancy Lord.  Green Alaska

Peter Matthiessen.  The Snow Leopard, Indian Country, The Tree Where Man Was Born

John Haines.  The Stars, The Snow, The Fire

Annie Dillard.  Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Teaching a Stone to Talk, Holy the Firm, The Writing Life, An American Childhood

Barry Lopez.  Artcic Dreams, About This Life, (and everything else)

Henry David Thoreau.  The Maine Woods, Walden

Loren Eiseley.  The Star Thrower, The Immense Journey

Mary Oliver.  Blue Pastures, White Pine

Gretel Ehrlich.  Islands, The Universe, Home, The Solace of Open Spaces

Jane Brox.  Ten Thousand Days Like This One, Here and Nowhere Else, Clearing the Land

Henry Beston.  The Outermost House, Northern Farm

Sue Hubbell.  A Book of Bees, A Country Year, Waiting for Aphrodite

Rachel Carson. Silent Spring, The Edge of the Sea

Terry Tempest Williams.  Refuge

John Steinbeck.  The Log from the Sea Cortez    

Richard Rodriguez.  Days of Obligation, Hunger of Memory

Susan Sontag.  Illness as Metaphor, AIDS and Its Metaphors, Under the Sign of Saturn

Adrienne Rich.  On Lies, Secrets and Silence, Blood, Bread and Poetry

Nancy Mairs.  Carnal Acts

Audre Lorde.  Sister Outsider, The Cancer Journals

Alice Walker.  Living By the Word, Everything We Love Can be Saved

Howard Zinn.  You Can't Be Neautral on a Moving Train

Susan Griffin.  A Chorus of Stones, Woman and Nature, The Eros of Everyday Life

Dorothy Allison.  Skin, Two or Three Things I know for Sure

Tillie Olsen.  Silences

Ingo Muscia.  Cunt

Edward Hoagland.  The Courage of Turtles and others

Scott Russell Sanders.  Staying Put, A Paradise of Bombs

MFK Fisher.  How to Cook a Wolf, Long Ago in France (and everything else)

Thomas Lynch.  The Undertaking

Bernard Cooper. Maps to Anywhere, Truth Serum

Paul Monette.  Becoming a Man

Eva Hoffman.  Lost in Translation

Mary McCarthy.  Memoirs of a Catholic Girlhood

Denise Levertov.  Tesserae

Richard Wright.  Black Boy

Patricia Hampl.  A Romantic Education, Spillville, Virgin Time, I Could Tell You Stories

Vladmir Nabokov. Speak Memory

Michael Ondaatje. Running in the Family

Virginia Woolf.  Moments of Being, A Room of One=s Own, Collected letters and essays

Maxine Hong Kingston.  The Woman Warrior

Anchee Min.  Red Azalea

E.B. White.  Collected essays

Michelle Montaigne.  Collected essays

Henry James, The American, plus the essay "The Craft of Fiction."

Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist As A Young   Man

Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

George Eliot, Silas Marner, Middlemarch

Edgar Allen Poe's essay, "The Importance of the Single Effect in A Prose Tale"

The Bronte sisters, Wuthering Heights or Jane Eyre

Chekhov's short stories

Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Dostoevsky, Notes From Underground

Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Women in Love

Stories by Guy DeMaupassant

Eudora Welty, Why I Write

Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms

William Faulkner, Intruder In The Dust

Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio

Flannery O'Connor, The Collected Stories of Flannery O=Connor

Katherine Mansfield, The Short Stories of Katherine Mansfield

Katherine Anne Porter, Pale Horse, Pale Rider

John Gardner, The Art of Fiction

Jack Kerouac, On The Road

Ralph Ellison, The Invisible Man

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons

Tillie Olson, Tell Me A Riddle

Raymond Carver, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

James Baldwin, Go Tell It On The Mountain

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, No One Writes To The Colonel

Toni Morrison, Beloved, _Song of Solomon

Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres

Graham Greene, The Power And The Glory

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

John Updike, Rabbit At Rest

John Cheever, Collected Stories

Best American Short Stories

Alice Munro, Beggar Maid, Collected Stories

Brenda Ueland, If You Want to Write

Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine, Tracks

Margaret Atwood, Cat=s Eye, The Handmaid's Tale

David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

Zadie Smith, White Teeth

Tobias Wolff, In The Garden of the North American Martyrs

Sherman Alexie, The Toughest Indian in the World

Lorrie Moore, Birds of America

Jeannette Winterson, Written on the Body

Russell Banks, Continental Drift

Collected Poems:

T.S. Eliot

Robert Frost

Marianne Moore

 Walace Stevens

William Carlos Williams

William Butler Yeats

20^th Century/Contemporary

Collected (or Selected) Poems:

John Berryman

Elizabeth Bishop

Hayden Carruth

 Robert Creeley

Allen Ginsberg

Donald Justice

Denise Levertov

Philip Levine

Robert Lowell

Frank O'Hara

 Mary Oliver

Sylvia Plath

Adrienne Rich

Theodore Roethke

Charles Simic

James Wright 

Modern & Contemporary American Poetry

Addonizio, Kim — What is this thing Called Love, Tell Me

Ai — Vice: New and Selected

Aga Shahid Ali — The Country Without a Post Office

A.R. Ammons — The Selected Poems
John Ashberry—Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror

Elizabeth Bishop—The Collected Poems of Elizabeth Bishop

Adrian Blevins—The Brass Girl Bruhaha

Eavan Boland—In A Time of Violence, An Origin Like Water

Scott Cairns—Philokalia

Hayden Carruth — Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey

Anne Carson—Glass, Irony and God, The Beauty of the Husband

Hart Crane— The Complete Poems

Allison Hawthorne Deming—Science and Other Poems

H.D.—Selected Poems

Emily Dickinson—Selected Poems

Carl Dennis — Practical Gods

Stephen Dunn — Different Hours

Martin Espada — Alabanza

David Baker — Midwest Eclogue

Rita Dove — Thomas and Beulah, Grace Notes, American Smooth

Mark Doty—My Alexandria

Cornelieus Eady— Victims of the Latest Dance Craze

T.S. Eliot—“Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” “The Wasteland,” The Four Quartets

B.H. Fairchild — The Art of the Lathe

Carolyn Forche —The Country Between Us, The Angel of History

Robert Frost—The Collected Poems of Robert Frost

Marilyn Hacker—Selected Poems

Robert Hass—Sun Under Wood, Praise, Human Wishes, Field Guide

Terrance Hayes—Muscular Music, Hip Logic, Wind in a Box

Jennifer Michael Hecht— The Next Ancient World

Joy Harjo — The Woman Who Fell from the Sky

Seamus Heaney—Selected Poems

Tony Hoagland—Donkey Gospel, What Narcissism Means to Me

Garret Hongo— The River of Heaven

Marie Howe — What the Living Do

Langston Hughs—Selected Poems

T.R. Hummer—Useless Virtues, The Infinity Sessions

June Jordan—Directed by Desire

Louise Gluck—Arrarat, The Triumph of Achilles, The Wild Iris

Albert Goldbarth—Heaven and Earth:  A Cosmology, Saving Lives

Jorie Graham — The Dream of the Unified Field

Major Jackson — Leaving Saturn, Hoops

Rodney Jones—Transparent Gestures, Elegy for the Southern Drawl

Brigit Pegeen Kelly —Song, The Orchard

Jane Kenyon — Collected Poems

Galway Kinnell — Selected Poems

Ted Kooser — Delights & Shadows

Yusef Komunyakaa— Neon Vernacular:  New and Selected Poems

Stanley Kunitz — The Collected Poems

Dorianne Laux — Awake, What We Carry, Facts About the Moon

Li-Young Lee—The City in Which I Love You, The Book of My Nights

Larry Levis—The Widening Spell of the Leaves, Elegy

Audre Lorde — The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

Campbell McGrath—Florida Poems, Pax Atomica

Wes McNair—The Book of No, My Brother Running

James Merrill — The Changing Light at Sandover

Marianne Moore— The Collected Poems

Paul Muldoon — Moy Sand and Gravel

Sharon Olds—The Dead and the Living, The Father

Mary Oliver—American Primitive

Penelope Pelizzon—Nostos

Robert Pinsky—The Want Bone

Sylvia Plath—The Collected Poems

Ezra Pound—Selected Cantos

Adreinne Rich—Atlas of the Difficult World

Sherod Santos—The City of Women, The Pilot Star Elegies

Steve Scafidi—Sparks from a Nine-Pound Hammer

Gerald Stern — Bread Without Sugar, Odd Mercy, This Time

Charles Simic — The World Doesn’t End

Sean Singer — Discography

Wallace Stevens—The Collected Poetry of Wallace Stevens

Ruth Stone—Ordinary Worlds, In the Next Galaxy

Mark Strand—Blizzard of One, Dark Harbor

James Tate — Selected Poems

Mona Van Duyn— Near Changes

Ellen Bryant Voight — Kyrie, The Lotus Flower, Shadow of Heaven

Karen Volkman—Crash’s Law

Derek Walcott—Selected Poems, Midsummer

Walt Whitman—Leaves of Grass

Richard Wilbur—New and Collected Poems

C.K. Williams — Tar

William Carlos Willams—Selected Poems

David Wojahn —Mystery Train

Baron Wormser—When, Subject Matter

Charles Wright — Black Zodiac, Chicamauga

Franz Wright — Walking to Martha’s Vineyard

Kevin Young—Jelly Roll

Dean Young—Design With X, Strike Anywhere, Elegy on a Toy Piano

The English Tradition

Beowulf—trans. Seamus Heaney

Geoffrey Chaucer—The Canterbury Tales

William Shakespeare — The Sonnets, Romeo & Juliet, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet,

John Donne— “For Whom The Bell Tolls,” “The Flea,” “Love's Usury,” 

George Herbert—The Temple

John Milton—Paradise Lost, “Lycidas” & “When I Consider How My Light is Spent”

William Blake—Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience

William Wordsworth— We are Seven,” “The Thorn,” “Lines composed a few miles

Samuel Taylor Coleridge— “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” “Christabel,” “Kubla Khan,”

Percy Bysshe Shelley—“Art thou Pale for Weariness,” “And Like a Dying Lady"

John Keats—“Bright Star, Would I were Steadfast as Thou Art,”

Gerard Manly Hopkins—“As Kingfishers Catch Fire…” “Carrion Comfort,”

W.B. Yeats—“Among School Children,” “Easter, 1916,” “Leda and the Swan,”