Library of America

Nonprofit publisher of classic American literature and name of its book series

Parent company| Literary Classics of the United States, Inc. (d.b.a.)
Status| Active
Founded| 1979; 46 years ago (1979)
Founders|

* Edmund Wilson (idea)
* Jason Epstein
* Daniel Aaron
* Richard Poirier
* G. Thomas Tanselle

Country of origin| United States
Headquarters location| New York City
Distribution| Penguin Random House Publisher Services[1]
Key people|

* Daniel Aaron
* Cheryl Hurley
* Max Rudin
* Hanna M. Bercovitch
* Geoffrey O'Brien

Publication types| Books
Nonfiction topics| American documents, memoirs, criticism, and journalism
Fiction genres| Classic American literature
Revenue| $8.78 million (2022)[2]
No. of employees| 22 (staff, 2023)[3]
Official website| www.loa.org

The Library of America[4] (LOA) is a nonprofit publisher of classic American literature. Founded in 1979 with seed money from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Ford Foundation, the LOA has published more than 300 volumes by authors ranging from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Saul Bellow, Frederick Douglass to Ursula K. Le Guin, including selected writing of several U.S. presidents. Anthologies and works containing historical documents, criticism, and journalism are also published. Library of America volumes seek to print authoritative versions of works; include extensive notes, chronologies, and other back matter; and are known for their distinctive physical appearance and characteristics.

## Overview and history

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Entrance to the Library of America offices, 14 East 60th Street, New York

The Bibliothèque de la Pléiade ("La Pléiade") series published in France provided the model for the LOA, which was long a dream of critic and author Edmund Wilson.[5] During the 1960s and 1970s, there was a long saga of rival literary outfits attempting to assemble and finding funding for much the same thing.[6][7][8]

The founding of the Library of America took place in 1979,[9][10] with the creation of an entity known as Literary Classics of the United States, Inc.[11] (This remains the entity under which LOA notes, chronologies, and other auxiliary materials are copyrighted;[12] and, officially, employees work for Literary Classics of the United States, Inc.[6]) Publishers associated in some way with the creation include Lawrence Hughes, Helen Honig Meyer, and Roger W. Straus Jr.[13] The initial board of advisers included Robert Penn Warren, C. Vann Woodward, R. W. B. Lewis, Robert Coles, Irving Howe, and Eudora Welty.[13] Funding at the start came from two sources, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Ford Foundation, in the total amount of $1.8 million.[5]

The initial president of the new entity was the American academic Daniel Aaron,[9] who had been a friend of Wilson's since the 1950s.[14] The executive director was Cheryl Hurley,[11] who had worked at the Modern Language Association.[8] Other founding officers included the literary critic Richard Poirier, as vice president, and the publisher Jason Epstein, as treasurer.[6][13] Epstein, and later Aaron and Poirier, had all been involved in the long series of proposals and discussions that led up to the creation of the Library of America.[8] Another founder was the textual scholar G. Thomas Tanselle;[15] he too had been involved in the discussions prior to creation,[8] and after that he chaired the committee that was the arbiter of LOA textual policy.[6]

> "Its black dust jackets with an image of the author and a simple red, white, and blue stripe running below the author's name, rendered in a fountain-pen-like hand, help give the clothbound volumes a timeless feel"

—David Skinner, Humanities, 2015[8]

Aaron remained in his position until 1985,[10] and was responsible for navigating the shoals between the orthodoxies of literary criticism and a wider view of what the Library of America could publish.[14] He was followed as president by executive director Hurley. In 2017, she retired as president and was replaced by Max Rudin, who was already the entity's publisher.[16]

Hanna M. "Gila" Bercovitch served as founding editor, senior editor, and then editor-in-chief until her death in 1997.[17][18] Upon her passing, Henry Louis Gates said that "It is hard to find anyone who has been more central to institutionalizing the canon of American literature."[17] She was followed as editor-in-chief by the poet and critic Geoffrey O'Brien.[16] He retired in 2017,[16] and was followed in 2018 by John Kulka, who was given the title of editorial director.[19]

The first volumes were published in 1982,[5] ten years after Wilson's death.[7] They were priced moderately.[6] The launch was accompanied by considerable amounts of publicity.[20] Public response was in terms of sales positive from the beginning;[7] by 1986, the non-profit was breaking even, although it accepted special grants for specific projects, such as one from the Bradley Foundation to enable the two-volume The Debate on the Constitution set.[11] The response to the series continued to grow over time; between 1993 and 1996, the publisher's frontlist sales doubled.[21] By 1996, the Library of America was getting two-thirds of its sales via subscription programs and one-third through bookstores.[21] While for a long time the series only published the works of authors who had passed on, this changed in the late 1990s when Eudora Welty was published, soon to be followed by Philip Roth.[15][22] Similarly, the rule that authors had to be American-born was later relaxed when Vladimir Nabokov was added to the list.[15] While a nonprofit entity, the Library has not been immune to commercial considerations, often going further into genre works such as detective fiction and science fiction than some of its founders would have imagined.[20]

Library of America exhibit booth at MLA convention Chicago December 2007

Besides the works of many individual writers, the series includes anthologies such as (in a different format from the above illustration) Writing Los Angeles. The Library of America introduced coverage of American journalism with the 1995 two-volume set Reporting World War II, which not only garnered positive reviews,[23] but soon became one of the publisher's five best-selling offerings to that point, the others being volumes about Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, and Walt Whitman.[21] That those others all concerned the Civil War era was did not go unnoticed; one of the publisher's most ambitious later efforts, a multi-volume collection of first-person narratives, revolved around the same topic,[20][24] as did such volumes as a collection of letters that Grant wrote to his wife Julia.[25]

The publisher aims to keep classics and notable historical and genre works in print permanently to preserve America's literary and cultural heritage.[26] Previously, often only the best-known works of an author remained in print, as exemplified by Stephen Crane, whose novels and short stories were but whose poetry and journalism were not.[11] As LOA chief executive Cheryl Hurley stated in 2001, "We're not only a publisher, we're a cultural institution."[15] Although the LOA sells more than a quarter-million volumes annually,[27] with the original seed money having run out,[15] the publisher depends on individual contributions to help meet the costs of preparing, marketing, manufacturing, and maintaining its books.[21] In one large form of donation, as of 2001 a $50,000 contribution could sponsor a particular book being kept in print.[15] Some books published as additions to the series are not kept in print in perpetuity.[28]

## Research and scholarship

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Max Rudin, publisher of the Library of America, speaking at a 2015 Greenwich Village event that unveiled a plaque at a building where author James Baldwin lived

Library of America volumes are prepared and edited by recognized scholars on the subject.[11] Notes on the text are normally included and the source texts identified; these notes have been called "fascinating in themselves".[11] This is part of the extensive back matter typically included with each volume,[29] behind which large amounts of research and scholarship are conducted.[19]

Efforts are made to correct errors and omissions in previous editions and create a definitive version of the material.[5] For instance, under the guidance of Bercovitch, the LOA text of Richard Wright's Native Son restored a number of passages that had been previously cut to make the work more palatable to the Book-of-the-Month Club.[17] The LOA also commissioned a new translation of Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America by Arthur Goldhammer for their edition of the text. Library of America volumes of letters tend to be representative rather than exhaustive in terms of inclusion criteria.[30]

Unlike some other series such as the Norton Critical Editions, Library of America volumes provide no introductory essays or critical examinations of the work involved.[31] This is per Wilson's original design.[26] At times this omission can lead to frustration based on the inability to know the basis upon which material for a volume was selected.[29][20]

Each volume also includes a chronology of the author's career or significant incidents in the case of the anthology volumes. Indeed, Library of America volumes are noted for their chronologies;[32] The New York Times has called them "predictably superb".[33] The author and journalist Gloria Emerson's review of the Reporting World War II volumes notes that they include "an excellent chronology of the war".[29] The poet and literary critic Stephen Yenser, in reviewing of volume about the work of the poet Elizabeth Bishop, noted that the chronology was "so packed with pertinent details it amounts to a mini-biography".[34] The notes and chronologies are often put together by LOA staff members and in some cases have informed the perspective of the guest editors working on the volume in question.[35] LOA staff have also sometimes helped scholars working on related projects.[36]

## Critical reception

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> "The Library of America is well-known for its compact primary source collections with their minimalist black covers. These collections have long been a trusty resource for historians, writers, and anyone else interested in a variety of historical and literary eras, especially the American founding and early republic."

—Jeffrey J. Malanson, History: Reviews of New Books, 2017[30]

The Library of America has received considerable praise for its endeavors.[7] After the initial series were published, the critic Charles Champlin wrote that "The volumes in the series are in fact marvels of scholarship, unobtrusively displayed, and a prime effort has been to work from the text that reflects the author's final word."[18] The aforementioned poet and critic Stephen Yenser has called the Library of America "invaluable";[34] that same term has been used to describe Library of America by the Cox News Service,[37] by the Los Angeles Times,[38] and by a book prize committee.[39]

Newsweek magazine said in 2010 that "For three decades, the LOA has done a splendid job of making good on" its initial goals.[22] Writing for the New York Times Book Review, the essayist and teacher William Deresiewicz has referred to the Library of America as "our quasi-official national canon".[40] Indeed, whether an American writer has achieved a level of greatness is sometimes associated with whether they have the imprimatur of the Library of America.[33] Writing for The Sewanee Review, the academic Michael Gorra has said that "the Library has shaped and indeed expanded our sense of what counts as American literature ... what makes the Library of America so valuable is the risks it takes around the edges of what used to be American literature".[20]

The Library of America has attracted a number of criticisms as well, including accusations of selection biases in favor of literary and political trends[41] and the questionable inclusion of certain writers ostensibly non-canonical.[22] An offshoot series put out in 1989 by Vintage Books that was associated with the Library of America name was faulted as overly commercial and exploitative.[42] Even the marketing for the main series has been reproved as overbearing, in that it exaggerated the degree to which the preservation of American literature was in peril and the degree to which the Library of America was saving it.[7]

The LOA has been satirized by the essayist Arthur Krystal as "confer[ing] value on writers by encasing their work in handsome black-jacketed covers with a stripe of red, white, and blue on the spine."[43] The oft-perceived requirement that writers have passed from the scene led to one wry comment that "one sympathizes with the directors of a publishing venture increasingly dependent on the idea that great American writers just can't die fast enough."[22] The series even prompted a mocking poem that began:

> It's like heaven: you've got to die
> To get there. And you can't be sure.
> The publisher might go out of business.[44]

In an April Fools' Day swipe at the Library of America's selection standards, another satirical piece proclaimed that the LOA "would publish volumes of Paris Hilton's and William Shatner's memoirs, and possibly those of Jersey Shore's Snooki." Images of the faux volumes were included.[45]

In his 2001 book Book Business: Publishing Past, Present, and Future, LOA co-founder Jason Epstein, who by his own account had lost out in an internal power struggle and departed the venture, sharply criticized the Library of America's finances and what he saw as the publication of unnecessary anthologies and authors whose qualifications for the series were suspect. He concluded:

> The Library of America has now published substantially all the work for which it was created and for which rights are available. Its obligation hereafter is to husband its resources so that this work remains in print and accessible to readers, and to ensure that funds are on hand for the publication of twentieth-century writers as rights permit.[26]

What Edmund Wilson would think of the series as it has evolved is unknowable, but writing for The Antioch Review  in 1986, the fellow Paul M. Wright ventures that "We might reasonably infer that he would be pleased but not, I think, entirely pleased."[7] Less reservedly, the editor and commentator Norman Podhoretz, writing for Commentary in 1992, said that "the Library of America is as close to the kind of thing [Wilson] envisaged as it could conceivably be."[46]

## Build and manufacture

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The designer of the appearance of Library of America books is Bruce Campbell.[6] When the first LOA volumes appeared in 1982, the "Book Design & Manufacturing" column of Publishers Weekly headlined that the series's physical appearance was "a triumph of the bookmaker's art".[6]

The LOA uses paper that meets guidelines for permanence originally set out by a committee of the Council on Library Resources[6] and subsequently by the American National Standards Institute.[47] Each volume is printed on thin but opaque acid-free paper,[11] allowing books ranging from 700 to 1,600 pages to remain fairly compact[5] (although not as small as those in La Pléiade).[7] The paper used means the books will last a very long time without crumbling or yellowing.[13][5] All volumes in the main series have the same trim size, 4+7/8 inches (120 mm) by 7+7/8 inches (200 mm), dimensions that are based on the golden section.[6] The weight of each volume is around 2 pounds (0.9 kg).[5]

For the hardcover editions, the binding cloth is woven rayon, and the books are Smyth-sewn.[6] Each includes a ribbon bookmark.[31] Pages in the books will lie flat when open.[11] The uniform typeface is Galliard.[6]

The LOA publishes selected titles in paperback, mainly for the college textbook market.[20]

### Main series

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# | Author | Title | Editor(s) | Year | ISBN

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1 | Herman Melville | Typee, Omoo, Mardi | G. Thomas Tanselle | 1982 | 978-0-940450-00-4
2 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Tales and Sketches | Roy Harvey Pearce | 1982 | 978-0-940450-03-5
3 | Walt Whitman | Poetry and Prose | Justin Kaplan | 1982 | 978-0-940450-02-8
4 | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Three Novels | Kathryn Kish Sklar | 1982 | 978-0-940450-01-1
5 | Mark Twain | Mississippi Writings | Guy Cardwell | 1982 | 978-0-940450-07-3
6 | Jack London | Novels and Stories | Donald Pizer | 1982 | 978-0-940450-05-9
7 | Jack London | Novels and Social Writings | Donald Pizer | 1982 | 978-0-940450-06-6
8 | William Dean Howells | Novels 1875–1886 | Edwin H. Cady | 1982 | 978-0-940450-04-2
9 | Herman Melville | Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick | G. Thomas Tanselle | 1983 | 978-0-940450-09-7
10 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Collected Novels | Millicent Bell | 1983 | 978-0-940450-08-0
11 | Francis Parkman | France and England in North America: Volume 1 | David Levin | 1983 | 978-0-940450-10-3
12 | Francis Parkman | France and England in North America: Volume 2 | David Levin | 1983 | 978-0-940450-11-0
13 | Henry James | Novels 1871–1880 | William T. Stafford | 1983 | 978-0-940450-13-4
14 | Henry Adams | Novels, Mont Saint Michel, The Education | Ernest Samuels & Jayne N. Samuels | 1983 | 978-0-940450-12-7
15 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Essays and Lectures | Joel Porte | 1983 | 978-0-940450-15-8
16 | Washington Irving | History, Tales and Sketches | James W. Tuttleton | 1983 | 978-0-940450-14-1
17 | Thomas Jefferson | Writings | Merrill D. Peterson | 1984 | 978-0-940450-16-5
18 | Stephen Crane | Prose and Poetry | J. C. Levenson | 1984 | 978-0-940450-17-2
19 | Edgar Allan Poe | Poetry and Tales | Patrick Quinn | 1984 | 978-0-940450-18-9
20 | Edgar Allan Poe | Essays and Reviews | G. R. Thompson | 1984 | 978-0-940450-19-6
21 | Mark Twain | The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It | Guy Cardwell | 1984 | 978-0-940450-25-7
22 | Henry James | Literary Criticism: Essays on Literature, American Writers, English Writers | Leon Edel & Mark Wilson | 1984 | 978-0-940450-22-6
23 | Henry James | Literary Criticism: French Writers, Other European Writers, Prefaces to the New York Edition | Leon Edel & Mark Wilson | 1984 | 978-0-940450-23-3
24 | Herman Melville | Pierre, Israel Potter, The Piazza Tales, The Confidence-Man, Billy Budd, Uncollected Prose | Harrison Hayford | 1985 | 978-0-940450-24-0
25 | William Faulkner | Novels 1930–1935 | Joseph Blotner & Noel Polk | 1985 | 978-0-940450-26-4
26 | James Fenimore Cooper | The Leatherstocking Tales: Volume 1 | Blake Nevius | 1985 | 978-0-940450-20-2
27 | James Fenimore Cooper | The Leatherstocking Tales: Volume 2 | Blake Nevius | 1985 | 978-0-940450-21-9
28 | Henry David Thoreau | A Week, Walden, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod | Robert F. Sayre | 1985 | 978-0-940450-27-1
29 | Henry James | Novels 1881–1886 | William T. Stafford | 1985 | 978-0-940450-30-1
30 | Edith Wharton | Novels | R. W. B. Lewis | 1986 | 978-0-940450-31-8
31 | Henry Adams | History of the United States during the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson (1801–1809) | Earl N. Harbert | 1986 | 978-0-940450-34-9
32 | Henry Adams | History of the United States during the Administrations of James Madison (1809–1817) | Earl N. Harbert | 1986 | 978-0-940450-35-6
33 | Frank Norris | Novels and Essays | Donald Pizer | 1986 | 978-0-940450-40-0
34 | W. E. B. Du Bois | Writings | Nathan Huggins | 1986 | 978-0-940450-33-2
35 | Willa Cather | Early Novels and Stories | Sharon O'Brien | 1987 | 978-0-940450-39-4
36 | Theodore Dreiser | Sister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt, Twelve Men | Richard Lehan | 1987 | 978-0-940450-41-7
37A | Benjamin Franklin | Silence Dogood, The Busy-Body, and Early Writings | J. A. Leo Lemay | 1987 | 978-1-931082-22-8
37B | Benjamin Franklin | Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings | J. A. Leo Lemay | 1987 | 978-1-883011-53-6
38 | William James | Writings 1902–1910 | Bruce Kuklick | 1987 | 978-0-940450-38-7
39 | Flannery O'Connor | Collected Works | Sally Fitzgerald | 1988 | 978-0-940450-37-0
40 | Eugene O'Neill | Complete Plays 1913–1920 | Travis Bogard | 1988 | 978-0-940450-48-6
41 | Eugene O'Neill | Complete Plays 1920–1931 | Travis Bogard | 1988 | 978-0-940450-49-3
42 | Eugene O'Neill | Complete Plays 1932–1943 | Travis Bogard | 1988 | 978-0-940450-50-9
43 | Henry James | Novels 1886–1890 | Daniel Mark Fogel | 1989 | 978-0-940450-56-1
44 | William Dean Howells | Novels 1886–1888 | Don L. Cook | 1989 | 978-0-940450-51-6
45 | Abraham Lincoln | Speeches and Writings 1832–1858 | Don E. Fehrenbacher | 1989 | 978-0-940450-43-1
46 | Abraham Lincoln | Speeches and Writings 1859–1865 | Don E. Fehrenbacher | 1989 | 978-0-940450-63-9
47 | Edith Wharton | Novellas and Other Writings | Cynthia Griffin Wolff | 1990 | 978-0-940450-53-0
48 | William Faulkner | Novels 1936–1940 | Joseph Blotner & Noel Polk | 1990 | 978-0-940450-55-4
49 | Willa Cather | Later Novels | Sharon O'Brien | 1990 | 978-0-940450-52-3
50 | Ulysses S. Grant | Memoirs and Selected Letters | Mary Drake McFeeley & William S. McFeeley | 1990 | 978-0-940450-58-5
51 | William Tecumseh Sherman | Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman | Charles Royster | 1990 | 978-0-940450-65-3
52 | Washington Irving | Bracebridge Hall, Tales of a Traveller, The Alhambra | Andrew B. Myers | 1991 | 978-0-940450-59-2
53 | Francis Parkman | The Oregon Trail, The Conspiracy of Pontiac | William R. Taylor | 1991 | 978-0-940450-54-7
54 | James Fenimore Cooper | Sea Tales | Kay Seymour House & Thomas Philbrick | 1991 | 978-0-940450-70-7
55 | Richard Wright | Early Works | Arnold Rampersad | 1991 | 978-0-94045066-0
56 | Richard Wright | Later Works | Arnold Rampersad | 1991 | 978-0-940450-67-7
57 | Willa Cather | Stories, Poems, and Other Writings | Sharon O'Brien | 1991 | 978-0-940450-71-4
58 | William James | Writings 1878–1899 | Gerald E. Myers | 1992 | 978-0-940450-72-1
59 | Sinclair Lewis | Main Street and Babbitt | John Hersey | 1992 | 978-0-940450-61-5
60 | Mark Twain | Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches and Essays 1852–1890 | Louis J. Budd | 1992 | 978-0-940450-36-3
61 | Mark Twain | Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches and Essays 1891–1910 | Louis J. Budd | 1992 | 978-0-940450-73-8
62 |  various | The Debate on the Constitution: Part One: September 1787 to February 1788 | Bernard Bailyn | 1993 | 978-0-940450-42-4
63 |  various | The Debate on the Constitution: Part Two: January to August 1788 | Bernard Bailyn | 1993 | 978-0-940450-64-6
64 | Henry James | Collected Travel Writings: Great Britain and America | Richard Howard | 1993 | 978-0-940450-76-9
65 | Henry James | Collected Travel Writings: The Continent | Richard Howard | 1993 | 978-0-940450-77-6
66 |  various | American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Volume 1: Freneau to Whitman | John Hollander | 1993 | 978-0-940450-60-8
67 |  various | American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Volume 2: Melville to Stickney, American Indian Poetry, Folk Songs and Spirituals | John Hollander | 1993 | 978-0-940450-78-3
68 | Frederick Douglass | Autobiographies | Henry Louis Gates Jr. | 1994 | 978-0-940450-79-0
69 | Sarah Orne Jewett | Novels and Stories | Michael Davitt Bell | 1994 | 978-0-940450-74-5
70 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Collected Poems and Translations | Harold Bloom & Paul Kane | 1994 | 978-0-940450-28-8
71 | Mark Twain | Historical Romances | Susan K. Harris | 1994 | 978-0-940450-82-0
72 | John Steinbeck | Novels and Stories 1932–1937 | Robert DeMott & Elaine A. Steinbeck | 1994 | 978-1-883011-01-7
73 | William Faulkner | Novels 1942–1954 | Joseph Blotner & Noel Polk | 1994 | 978-0-940450-85-1
74 | Zora Neale Hurston | Novels and Stories | Cheryl A. Wall | 1995 | 978-0-940450-83-7
75 | Zora Neale Hurston | Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings | Cheryl A. Wall | 1995 | 978-0-940450-84-4
76 | Thomas Paine | Collected Writings | Eric Foner | 1995 | 978-1-883011-03-1
77 |  various | Reporting World War II: American Journalism 1938–1944 | Samuel Hynes, Anne Matthews, et al. | 1995 | 978-1-883011-04-8
78 |  various | Reporting World War II: American Journalism 1944–1946 | Samuel Hynes, Anne Matthews, et al. | 1995 | 978-1-883011-05-5
79 | Raymond Chandler | Stories and Early Novels | Frank MacShane | 1995 | 978-1-883011-07-9
80 | Raymond Chandler | Later Novels and Other Writings | Frank MacShane | 1995 | 978-1-883011-08-6
81 | Robert Frost | Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays | Richard Poirier & Mark Richardson | 1995 | 978-1-883011-06-2
82 | Henry James | Complete Stories 1892–1898 | John Hollander & David Bromwich | 1996 | 978-1-883011-09-3
83 | Henry James | Complete Stories 1898–1910 | Denis Donoghue | 1996 | 978-1-883011-10-9
84 | William Bartram | Travels and Other Writings | Thomas Slaughter | 1996 | 978-1-883011-11-6
85 | John Dos Passos | U.S.A. | Townsend Ludington & Daniel Aaron | 1996 | 978-1-883011-14-7
86 | John Steinbeck | The Grapes of Wrath and Other Writings 1936–1941 | Robert DeMott & Elaine A. Steinbeck | 1996 | 978-1-883011-15-4
87 | Vladimir Nabokov | Novels and Memoirs 1941–1953 | Brian Boyd | 1996 | 978-1-883011-18-5
88 | Vladimir Nabokov | Novels 1955–1962 | Brian Boyd | 1996 | 978-1-883011-19-2
89 | Vladimir Nabokov | Novels 1969–1974 | Brian Boyd | 1996 | 978-1-883011-20-8
90 | James Thurber | Writings and Drawings | Garrison Keillor | 1996 | 978-1-883011-22-2
91 | George Washington | Writings | John Rhodehamel | 1997 | 978-1-883011-23-9
92 | John Muir | Nature Writings | William Cronon | 1997 | 978-1-883011-24-6
93 | Nathanael West | Novels and Other Writings | Sacvan Bercovitch | 1997 | 978-1-883011-28-4
94 |  various | Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 40s | Robert Polito | 1997 | 978-1-883011-46-8
95 |  various | Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s | Robert Polito | 1997 | 978-1-883011-49-9
96 | Wallace Stevens | Collected Poetry and Prose | Frank Kermode & Joan Richardson | 1997 | 978-1-883011-45-1
97 | James Baldwin | Early Novels and Stories | Toni Morrison | 1998 | 978-1-883011-51-2
98 | James Baldwin | Collected Essays | Toni Morrison | 1998 | 978-1-883011-52-9
99 | Gertrude Stein | Writings 1903–1932 | Catharine R. Stimpson & Harriet Chessman | 1998 | 978-1-883011-40-6
100 | Gertrude Stein | Writings 1932–1946 | Catharine R. Stimpson & Harriet Chessman | 1998 | 978-1-883011-41-3
101 | Eudora Welty | Complete Novels | Richard Ford & Michael Kreyling | 1998 | 978-1-883011-54-3
102 | Eudora Welty | Stories, Essays, and Memoir | Richard Ford & Michael Kreyling | 1998 | 978-1-883011-55-0
103 | Charles Brockden Brown | Three Gothic Novels | Sydney J. Krause | 1998 | 978-1-883011-57-4
104 |  various | Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism 1959–1969 | Milton J. Bates, Lawrence Lichty, et al. | 1998 | 978-1-883011-58-1
105 |  various | Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism 1969–1975 | Milton J. Bates, Lawrence Lichty, et al. | 1998 | 978-1-883011-59-8
106 | Henry James | Complete Stories 1874–1884 | William L. Vance | 1999 | 978-1-883011-63-5
107 | Henry James | Complete Stories 1884–1891 | Edward Said | 1999 | 978-1-883011-64-2
108 |  various | American Sermons: The Pilgrims to Martin Luther King Jr. | Michael Warner | 1999 | 978-1-883011-65-9
109 | James Madison | Writings | Jack N. Rakove | 1999 | 978-1-883011-66-6
110 | Dashiell Hammett | Complete Novels | Steven Marcus | 1999 | 978-1-883011-67-3
111 | Henry James | Complete Stories 1864–1874 | Jean Strouse | 1999 | 978-1-883011-70-3
112 | William Faulkner | Novels 1957–1962 | Noel Polk & Joseph Blotner | 1999 | 978-1-883011-69-7
113 | John James Audubon | Writings and Drawings | Christoph Irmscher | 1999 | 978-1-883011-68-0
114 |  various | Slave Narratives | William L. Andrews & Henry Louis Gates Jr. | 2000 | 978-1-883011-76-5
115 |  various | American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume 1: Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker | Robert Hass, John Hollander, et al. | 2000 | 978-1-883011-77-2
116 |  various | American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume 2: E. E. Cummings to May Swenson | Robert Hass, John Hollander, et al. | 2000 | 978-1-883011-78-9
117 | F. Scott Fitzgerald | Novels and Stories 1920–1922 | Jackson R. Bryer | 2000 | 978-1-883011-84-0
118 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Poems and Other Writings | J. D. McClatchy | 2000 | 978-1-883011-85-7
119 | Tennessee Williams | Plays 1937–1955 | Mel Gussow & Kenneth Holditch | 2000 | 978-1-883011-86-4
120 | Tennessee Williams | Plays 1957–1980 | Mel Gussow & Kenneth Holditch | 2000 | 978-1-883011-87-1
121 | Edith Wharton | Collected Stories 1891–1910 | Maureen Howard | 2001 | 978-1-883011-93-2
122 | Edith Wharton | Collected Stories 1911–1937 | Maureen Howard | 2001 | 978-1-883011-94-9
123 |  various | The American Revolution: Writings from the War of Independence 1775–1783 | John Rhodehamel | 2001 | 978-1-883011-91-8
124 | Henry David Thoreau | Collected Essays and Poems | Elizabeth Hall Witherell | 2001 | 978-1-883011-95-6
125 | Dashiell Hammett | Crime Stories and Other Writings | Steven Marcus | 2001 | 978-1-931082-00-6
126 | Dawn Powell | Novels 1930–1942 | Tim Page | 2001 | 978-1-931082-01-3
127 | Dawn Powell | Novels 1944–1962 | Tim Page | 2001 | 978-1-931082-02-0
128 | Carson McCullers | Complete Novels | Carlos L. Dews | 2001 | 978-1-931082-03-7
129 | Alexander Hamilton | Writings | Joanne B. Freeman | 2001 | 978-1-931082-04-4
130 | Mark Twain | The Gilded Age and Later Novels | Hamlin L. Hill | 2002 | 978-1-931082-10-5
131 | Charles W. Chesnutt | Stories, Novels, and Essays | Werner Sollors | 2002 | 978-1-931082-06-8
132 | John Steinbeck | Novels 1942–1952 | Robert DeMott | 2002 | 978-1-931082-07-5
133 | Sinclair Lewis | Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, Dodsworth | Richard Lingeman | 2002 | 978-1-931082-08-2
134 | Paul Bowles | The Sheltering Sky, Let It Come Down, The Spider's House | Daniel Halpern | 2002 | 978-1-931082-19-8
135 | Paul Bowles | Complete Stories and Later Writings | Daniel Halpern | 2002 | 978-1-931082-20-4
136 | Kate Chopin | Complete Novels and Stories | Sandra M. Gilbert | 2002 | 978-1-931082-21-1
137 |  various | Reporting Civil Rights: American Journalism 1941–1963 | Clayborne Carson, David J. Garrow, et al. | 2003 | 978-1-931082-28-0
138 |  various | Reporting Civil Rights: American Journalism 1963–1973 | Clayborne Carson, David J. Garrow, et al. | 2003 | 978-1-931082-29-7
139 | Henry James | Novels 1896–1899 | Myra Jehlen | 2003 | 978-1-931082-30-3
140 | Theodore Dreiser | An American Tragedy | Thomas P. Riggio | 2003 | 978-1-931082-31-0
141 | Saul Bellow | Novels 1944–1953 | James Wood | 2003 | 978-1-931082-38-9
142 | John Dos Passos | Novels 1920–1925 | Townsend Ludington | 2003 | 978-1-931082-39-6
143 | John Dos Passos | Travel Books and Other Writings 1916–1941 | Townsend Ludington | 2003 | 978-1-931082-40-2
144 | Ezra Pound | Poems and Translations | Richard Sieburth | 2003 | 978-1-931082-41-9
145 | James Weldon Johnson | Writings | William L. Andrews | 2004 | 978-1-931082-52-5
146 | Washington Irving | Three Western Narratives | James P. Ronda | 2004 | 978-1-931082-53-2
147 | Alexis de Tocqueville | Democracy in America | Olivier Zunz | 2004 | 978-1-931082-54-9
148 | James T. Farrell | Studs Lonigan: A Trilogy | Pete Hamill | 2004 | 978-1-931082-55-6
149 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | Collected Stories: Gimpel the Fool to The Letter Writer | Ilan Stavans | 2004 | 978-1-931082-61-7
150 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | Collected Stories: A Friend of Kafka to Passions | Ilan Stavans | 2004 | 978-1-931082-62-4
151 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | Collected Stories: One Night in Brazil to The Death of Methuselah | Ilan Stavans | 2004 | 978-1-931082-63-1
152 | George S. Kaufman & Co. | Broadway Comedies | Laurence Maslon | 2004 | 978-1-931082-67-9
153 | Theodore Roosevelt | The Rough Riders, An Autobiography | Louis Auchincloss | 2004 | 978-1-931082-65-5
154 | Theodore Roosevelt | Letters and Speeches | Louis Auchincloss | 2004 | 978-1-931082-66-2
155 | H. P. Lovecraft | Tales | Peter Straub | 2005 | 978-1-931082-72-3
156 | Louisa May Alcott | Little Women, Little Men, Jo's Boys | Elaine Showalter | 2005 | 978-1-931082-73-0
157 | Philip Roth | Novels and Stories 1959–1962 | Ross Miller | 2005 | 978-1-931082-79-2
158 | Philip Roth | Novels 1967–1972 | Ross Miller | 2005 | 978-1-931082-80-8
159 | James Agee | Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, A Death in the Family, and Shorter Fiction | Michael Sragow | 2005 | 978-1-931082-81-5
160 | James Agee | Film Writing and Selected Journalism | Michael Sragow | 2005 | 978-1-931082-82-2
161 | Richard Henry Dana Jr. | Two Years Before the Mast and Other Voyages | Thomas L. Philbrick | 2005 | 978-1-931082-83-9
162 | Henry James | Novels 1901–1902 | Leo Bersani | 2006 | 978-1-931082-88-4
163 | Arthur Miller | Collected Plays 1944–1961 | Tony Kushner | 2006 | 978-1-931082-91-4
164 | William Faulkner | Novels 1926–1929 | Joseph Blotner & Noel Polk | 2006 | 978-1-931082-89-1
165 | Philip Roth | Novels 1973–1977 | Ross Miller | 2006 | 978-1-931082-96-9
166 |  various | American Speeches: Political Oratory from the Revolution to the Civil War | Ted Widmer | 2006 | 978-1-931082-97-6
167 |  various | American Speeches: Political Oratory from Abraham Lincoln to Bill Clinton | Ted Widmer | 2006 | 978-1-931082-98-3
168 | Hart Crane | Complete Poems and Selected Letters | Langdon Hammer | 2006 | 978-1-931082-99-0
169 | Saul Bellow | Novels 1956–1964 | James Wood | 2007 | 978-1-59853-002-5
170 | John Steinbeck | Travels with Charley and Later Novels 1947–1962 | Robert DeMott & Brian Railsback | 2007 | 978-1-59853-004-9
171 | Capt. John Smith | Writings, with Other Narratives of Roanoke, Jamestown, and the First English Settlement of America | James Horn | 2007 | 978-1-59853-001-8
172 | Thornton Wilder | Collected Plays and Writings on Theater | J. D. McClatchy | 2007 | 978-1-59853-003-2
173 | Philip K. Dick | Four Novels of the 1960s | Jonathan Lethem | 2007 | 978-1-59853-009-4
174 | Jack Kerouac | Road Novels 1957–1960 | Douglas Brinkley | 2007 | 978-1-59853-012-4
175 | Philip Roth | Zuckerman Bound: A Trilogy and Epilogue 1979–1985 | Ross Miller | 2007 | 978-1-59853-011-7
176 | Edmund Wilson | Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s and 30s | Lewis M. Dabney | 2007 | 978-1-59853-013-1
177 | Edmund Wilson | Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s and 40s | Lewis M. Dabney | 2007 | 978-1-59853-014-8
178 |  various | American Poetry: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries | David S. Shields | 2007 | 978-1-931082-90-7
179 | William Maxwell | Early Novels and Stories | Christopher Carduff | 2008 | 978-1-59853-026-1
180 | Elizabeth Bishop | Poems, Prose, and Letters | Robert Giroux & Lloyd Schwartz | 2008 | 978-1-59853-017-9
181 | A. J. Liebling | World War II Writings | Pete Hamill | 2008 | 978-1-59853-040-7
182 |  various | American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau | Bill McKibben | 2008 | 978-1-59853-020-9
183 | Philip K. Dick | Five Novels of the 1960s and 70s | Jonathan Lethem | 2008 | 978-1-59853-025-4
184 | William Maxwell | Later Novels and Stories | Christopher Carduff | 2008 | 978-1-59853-026-1
185 | Philip Roth | Novels and Other Narratives 1986–1991 | Ross Miller | 2008 | 978-1-59853-030-8
186 | Katherine Anne Porter | Collected Stories and Other Writings | Darlene Harbour Unrue | 2008 | 978-1-59853-029-2
187 | John Ashbery | Collected Poems 1956–1987 | Mark Ford | 2008 | 978-1-59853-028-5
188 | John Cheever | Collected Stories and Other Writings | Blake Bailey | 2009 | 978-1-59853-034-6
189 | John Cheever | Complete Novels | Blake Bailey | 2009 | 978-1-59853-035-3
190 | Lafcadio Hearn | American Writings | Christopher Benfey | 2009 | 978-1-59853-039-1
191 | A. J. Liebling | The Sweet Science and Other Writings | Pete Hamill | 2009 | 978-1-59853-040-7
192 |  various | The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now | Harold Holzer | 2009 | 978-1-59853-033-9
193 | Philip K. Dick | VALIS and Later Novels | Jonathan Lethem | 2009 | 978-1-59853-044-5
194 | Thornton Wilder | The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels 1926–1948 | J. D. McClatchy | 2009 | 978-1-59853-045-2
195 | Raymond Carver | Collected Stories | William L. Stull & Maureen P. Carroll | 2009 | 978-1-59853-046-9
196 |  various | American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps | Peter Straub | 2009 | 978-1-59853-047-6
197 |  various | American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now | Peter Straub | 2009 | 978-1-59853-048-3
198 | John Marshall | Writings | Charles F. Hobson | 2010 | 978-1-59853-064-3
199 |  various | The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Works | Shelley Fisher Fishkin | 2010 | 978-1-59853-065-0
200 | Mark Twain | A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator, Other Travels | Roy Blount Jr. | 2010 | 978-1-59853-066-7
201 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Selected Journals 1820–1842 | Lawrence Rosenwald | 2010 | 978-1-59853-067-4
202 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Selected Journals 1841–1877 | Lawrence Rosenwald | 2010 | 978-1-59853-068-1
203 |  various | The American Stage: Writing on Theater from Washington Irving to Tony Kushner | Laurence Senelick | 2010 | 978-1-59853-069-8
204 | Shirley Jackson | Novels and Stories | Joyce Carol Oates | 2010 | 978-1-59853-072-8
205 | Philip Roth | Novels 1993–1995 | Ross Miller | 2010 | 978-1-59853-078-0
206 | H. L. Mencken | Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series | Marion Elizabeth Rodgers | 2010 | 978-1-59853-074-2
207 | H. L. Mencken | Prejudices: Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Series | Marion Elizabeth Rodgers | 2010 | 978-1-59853-075-9
208 | John Kenneth Galbraith | The Affluent Society and Other Writings 1952–1967 | James K. Galbraith | 2010 | 978-1-59853-077-3
209 | Saul Bellow | Novels 1970–1982 | James Wood | 2010 | 978-1-59853-079-7
210 | Lynd Ward | Gods' Man, Madman's Drum, Wild Pilgrimage | Art Spiegelman | 2010 | 978-1-59853-080-3
211 | Lynd Ward | Prelude to a Million Years, Song Without Words, Vertigo | Art Spiegelman | 2010 | 978-1-59853-081-0
212 |  various | The Civil War: The First Year Told by Those Who Lived It | Brooks D. Simpson, Stephen W. Sears, et al. | 2011 | 978-1-59853-088-9
213 | John Adams | Revolutionary Writings 1755–1775 | Gordon S. Wood | 2011 | 978-1-59853-089-6
214 | John Adams | Revolutionary Writings 1775–1783 | Gordon S. Wood | 2011 | 978-1-59853-090-2
215 | Henry James | Novels 1903–1911 | Ross Posnock | 2011 | 978-1-59853-091-9
216 | Kurt Vonnegut | Novels and Stories 1963–1973 | Sidney Offit | 2011 | 978-1-59853-098-8
217 |  various | Harlem Renaissance: Five Novels of the 1920s | Rafia Zafar | 2011 | 978-1-59853-099-5
218 |  various | Harlem Renaissance: Five Novels of the 1930s | Rafia Zafar | 2011 | 978-1-59853-101-5
219 | Ambrose Bierce | The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs | S. T. Joshi | 2011 | 978-1-59853-102-2
220 | Philip Roth | The American Trilogy 1997–2000 | Ross Miller | 2011 | 978-1-59853-103-9
221 |  various | The Civil War: The Second Year Told by Those Who Lived It | Stephen W. Sears | 2012 | 978-1-59853-144-2
222 | Barbara W. Tuchman | The Guns of August, The Proud Tower | Margaret MacMillan | 2012 | 978-1-59853-145-9
223 | Arthur Miller | Collected Plays 1964–1982 | Tony Kushner | 2012 | 978-1-59853-147-3
224 | Thornton Wilder | The Eighth Day, Theophilus North, Autobiographical Writings | J. D. McClatchy | 2012 | 978-1-59853-146-6
225 | David Goodis | Five Noir Novels of the 1940s and 50s | Robert Polito | 2012 | 978-1-59853-148-0
226 | Kurt Vonnegut | Novels and Stories 1950–1962 | Sidney Offit | 2012 | 978-1-59853-150-3
227 |  various | American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1953–1956 | Gary K. Wolfe | 2012 | 978-1-59853-158-9
228 |  various | American Science Fiction: Five Classic Novels 1956–1958 | Gary K. Wolfe | 2012 | 978-1-59853-159-6
229 | Laura Ingalls Wilder | The Little House Books, Volume 1 | Caroline Fraser | 2012 | 978-1-59853-160-2
230 | Laura Ingalls Wilder | The Little House Books, Volume 2 | Caroline Fraser | 2012 | 978-1-59853-161-9
231 | Jack Kerouac | Collected Poems | Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell | 2012 | 978-1-59853-193-0
232 |  various | The War of 1812: Writings from America's Second War of Independence | Donald R. Hickey | 2012 | 978-1-59853-195-4
233 |  various | American Antislavery Writings: Colonial Beginnings to Emancipation | James G. Basker | 2012 | 978-1-59853-196-1
234 |  various | The Civil War: The Third Year Told by Those Who Lived It | Brooks D. Simpson | 2013 | 978-1-59853-197-8
235 | Sherwood Anderson | Collected Stories | Charles Baxter | 2013 | 978-1-59853-204-3
236 | Philip Roth | Novels 2001–2007 | Ross Miller | 2013 | 978-1-59853-198-5
237 | Philip Roth | Nemeses | Ross Miller | 2013 | 978-1-59853-199-2
238 | Aldo Leopold | A Sand County Almanac and Other Writings on Ecology and Conservation | Curt Meine | 2013 | 978-1-59853-206-7
239 | May Swenson | Collected Poems | Langdon Hammer | 2013 | 978-1-59853-210-4
240 | W. S. Merwin | Collected Poems 1952–1993 | J. D. McClatchy | 2013 | 978-1-59853-208-1
241 | W. S. Merwin | Collected Poems 1996–2011 | J. D. McClatchy | 2013 | 978-1-59853-209-8
242 | John Updike | Collected Early Stories | Christopher Carduff | 2013 | 978-1-59853-251-7
243 | John Updike | Collected Later Stories | Christopher Carduff | 2013 | 978-1-59853-252-4
244 | Ring Lardner | Stories and Other Writings | Ian Frazier | 2013 | 978-1-59853-253-1
245 | Jonathan Edwards | Writings from the Great Awakening | Philip F. Gura | 2013 | 978-1-59853-254-8
246 | Susan Sontag | Essays of the 1960s and 70s | David Rieff | 2013 | 978-1-59853-255-5
247 | William Wells Brown | Clotel and Other Writings | Ezra Greenspan | 2014 | 978-1-59853-291-3
248 | Bernard Malamud | Novels and Stories of the 1940s and 50s | Philip Davis | 2014 | 978-1-59853-292-0
249 | Bernard Malamud | Novels and Stories of the 1960s | Philip Davis | 2014 | 978-1-59853-293-7
250 |  various | The Civil War: The Final Year Told by Those Who Lived It | Aaron Sheehan-Dean | 2014 | 978-1-59853-294-4
251 |  various | Shakespeare in America: An Anthology from the Revolution to Now | James Shapiro | 2014 | 978-1-59853-295-1
252 | Kurt Vonnegut | Novels 1976–1985 | Sidney Offit | 2014 | 978-1-59853-304-0
253 |  various | American Musicals 1927–1949: The Complete Books and Lyrics of Eight Broadway Classics | Laurence Maslon | 2014 | 978-1-59853-258-6
254 |  various | American Musicals 1950–1969: The Complete Books and Lyrics of Eight Broadway Classics | Laurence Maslon | 2014 | 978-1-59853-259-3
255 | Elmore Leonard | Four Novels of the 1970s | Gregg Sutter | 2014 | 978-1-59853-305-7
256 | Louisa May Alcott | Work, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Stories and Other Writings | Susan Cheever | 2014 | 978-1-59853-306-4
257 | H. L. Mencken | The Days Trilogy, Expanded Edition | Marion Elizabeth Rodgers | 2014 | 978-1-59853-308-8
258 | Virgil Thomson | Music Chronicles 1940–1954 | Tim Page | 2014 | 978-1-59853-309-5
259 |  various | Art in America 1945–1970: Writings from the Age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism | Jed Perl | 2014 | 978-1-59853-310-1
260 | Saul Bellow | Novels 1984–2000 | James Wood | 2015 | 978-1-59853-352-1
261 | Arthur Miller | Collected Plays 1987–2004, with Stage and Radio Plays of the 1930s and 40s | Tony Kushner | 2015 | 978-1-59853-353-8
262 | Jack Kerouac | Visions of Cody, Visions of Gerard, Big Sur | Todd Tietchen | 2015 | 978-1-59853-374-3
263 | Reinhold Niebuhr | Major Works on Religion and Politics | Elisabeth Sifton | 2015 | 978-1-59853-375-0
264 | Ross Macdonald | Four Crime Novels of the 1950s | Tom Nolan | 2015 | 978-1-59853-376-7
265 |  various | The American Revolution: Writings from the Pamphlet Debate, Volume 1, 1764–1772 | Gordon S. Wood | 2015 | 978-1-59853-377-4
266 |  various | The American Revolution: Writings from the Pamphlet Debate, Volume 2, 1773–1776 | Gordon S. Wood | 2015 | 978-1-59853-378-1
267 | Elmore Leonard | Four Novels of the 1980s | Gregg Sutter | 2015 | 978-1-59853-412-2
268 |  various | Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1940s | Sarah Weinman | 2015 | 978-1-59853-430-6
269 |  various | Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1950s | Sarah Weinman | 2015 | 978-1-59853-431-3
270 | Frederick Law Olmsted | Writings on Landscape, Culture, and Society | Charles E. Beveridge | 2015 | 978-1-59853-452-8
271 | Edith Wharton | Four Novels of the 1920s | Hermione Lee | 2015 | 978-1-59853-453-5
272 | James Baldwin | Later Novels | Darryl Pinckney | 2015 | 978-1-59853-454-2
273 | Kurt Vonnegut | Novels 1987–1997 | Sidney Offit | 2016 | 978-1-59853-464-1
274 | Henry James | Autobiographies | Philip Horne | 2016 | 978-1-59853-471-9
275 | Abigail Adams | Letters | Edith Gelles | 2016 | 978-1-59853-465-8
276 | John Adams | Writings from the New Nation 1784–1826 | Gordon S. Wood | 2016 | 978-1-59853-466-5
277 | Virgil Thomson | The State of Music and Other Writings | Tim Page | 2016 | 978-1-59853-467-2
278 |  various | War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing | Lawrence Rosenwald | 2016 | 978-1-59853-473-3
279 | Ross Macdonald | Three Novels of the Early 1960s | Tom Nolan | 2016 | 978-1-59853-479-5
280 | Elmore Leonard | Four Later Novels | Gregg Sutter | 2016 | 978-1-59853-492-4
281 | Ursula K. Le Guin | The Complete Orsinia | Brian Attebery | 2016 | 978-1-59853-493-1
282 | John O'Hara | Stories | Charles McGrath | 2016 | 978-1-59853-497-9
283 | Jack Kerouac | The Unknown Kerouac: Rare, Unpublished and Newly Translated Writings | Todd Tietchen | 2016 | 978-1-59853-498-6
284 | Albert Murray | Collected Essays and Memoirs | Henry Louis Gates Jr. & Paul Devlin | 2016 | 978-1-59853-503-7
285 | Loren Eiseley | Collected Essays on Evolution, Nature, and the Cosmos, Volume One | William Cronon | 2016 | 978-1-59853-506-8
286 | Loren Eiseley | Collected Essays on Evolution, Nature, and the Cosmos, Volume Two | William Cronon | 2016 | 978-1-59853-507-5
287 | Carson McCullers | Stories, Plays and Other Writings | Carlos L. Dews | 2017 | 978-1-59853-511-2
288 | Jane Bowles | Collected Writings | Millicent Dillon | 2017 | 978-1-59853-513-6
289 |  various | World War I and America: Told by the Americans Who Lived It | A. Scott Berg | 2017 | 978-1-59853-514-3
290 | Mary McCarthy | Novels and Stories 1942–1963 | Thomas Mallon | 2017 | 978-1-59853-516-7
291 | Mary McCarthy | Novels 1963–1979 | Thomas Mallon | 2017 | 978-1-59853-517-4
292 | Susan Sontag | Later Essays | David Rieff | 2017 | 978-1-59853-519-8
293 | John Quincy Adams | Diaries 1779–1821 | David Waldstreicher | 2017 | 978-1-59853-520-4
294 | John Quincy Adams | Diaries 1821–1848 | David Waldstreicher | 2017 | 978-1-59853-522-8
295 | Ross Macdonald | Four Later Novels | Tom Nolan | 2017 | 978-1-59853-534-1
296 | Ursula K. Le Guin | Hainish Novels and Stories, Volume One | Brian Attebery | 2017 | 978-1-59853-538-9
297 | Ursula K. Le Guin | Hainish Novels and Stories, Volume Two | Brian Attebery | 2017 | 978-1-59853-539-6
298 | Peter Taylor | Complete Stories 1938–1959 | Ann Beattie | 2017 | 978-1-59853-542-6
299 | Peter Taylor | Complete Stories 1960–1992 | Ann Beattie | 2017 | 978-1-59853-543-3
300 | Philip Roth | Why Write? Collected Nonfiction 1960–2013 |  | 2017 | 978-1-59853-540-2
301 | John Ashbery | Complete Poems 1991‒2000 | Mark Ford | 2017 | 978-1-59853-535-8
302 | Wendell Berry | Port William Novels and Stories (The Civil War to World War II) | Jack Shoemaker | 2018 | 978-1-59853-554-9
303 |  various | Reconstruction: Voices from America's First Great Struggle for Racial Equality | Brooks D. Simpson | 2018 | 978-1-59853-555-6
304 | Albert Murray | Collected Novels and Poems | Henry Louis Gates Jr. & Paul Devlin | 2018 | 978-1-59853-561-7
305 | Norman Mailer | Four Books of the 1960s | J. Michael Lennon | 2018 | 978-1-59853-558-7
306 | Norman Mailer | Collected Essays of the 1960s | J. Michael Lennon | 2018 | 978-1-59853-559-4
307 | Rachel Carson | Silent Spring and Other Writings on the Environment | Sandra Steingraber | 2018 | 978-1-59853-560-0
308 | Elmore Leonard | Westerns | Terrence Rafferty | 2018 | 978-1-59853-562-4
309 | Madeleine L'Engle | The Wrinkle in Time Quartet | Leonard S. Marcus | 2018 | 978-1-59853-578-5
310 | Madeleine L'Engle | The Polly O'Keefe Quartet | Leonard S. Marcus | 2018 | 978-1-59853-579-2
311 | John Updike | Novels 1959–1965 | Christopher Carduff | 2018 | 978-1-59853-581-5
312 | James Fenimore Cooper | Two Novels of the American Revolution | Alan Taylor | 2018 | 978-1-59853-582-2
313 | John O'Hara | Four Novels of the 1930s | Steven Goldleaf | 2019 | 978-1-59853-600-3
314 | Ann Petry | The Street, The Narrows | Farah Jasmine Griffin | 2019 | 978-1-59853-601-0
315 | Ursula K. Le Guin | Always Coming Home (Author's Expanded Edition) | Brian Attebery | 2019 | 978-1-59853-603-4
316 | Wendell Berry | Essays 1969–1990 | Jack Shoemaker | 2019 | 978-1-59853-606-5
317 | Wendell Berry | Essays 1993–2017 | Jack Shoemaker | 2019 | 978-1-59853-608-9
318 | Cornelius Ryan | The Longest Day, A Bridge Too Far | Rick Atkinson | 2019 | 978-1-59853-611-9
319 | Booth Tarkington | Novels and Stories | Thomas Mallon | 2019 | 978-1-59853-620-1
320 | Herman Melville | Complete Poems | Hershel Parker | 2019 | 978-1-59853-618-8
321 |  various | American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1960–1966 | Gary K. Wolfe | 2019 | 978-1-59853-501-3
322 |  various | American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1968–1969 | Gary K. Wolfe | 2019 | 978-1-59853-502-0
323 | Frances Hodgson Burnett | The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, Little Lord Fauntleroy | Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina | 2019 | 978-1-59853-638-6
324 | Jean Stafford | Complete Novels | Kathryn Davis | 2019 | 978-1-59853-644-7
325 | Joan Didion | The 1960s and 70s | David L. Ulin | 2019 | 978-1-59853-645-4
326 | John Updike | Novels 1968–1975 | Christopher Carduff | 2020 | 978-1-59853-649-2
327 | Constance Fenimore Woolson | Collected Stories | Anne Boyd Rioux | 2020 | 978-1-59853-650-8
328 | Robert Stone | Dog Soldiers, A Flag for Sunrise, Outerbridge Reach | Madison Smartt Bell | 2020 | 978-1-59853-654-6
329 | Jonathan Schell | The Fate of the Earth, The Abolition, The Unconquerable World | Martin J. Sherwin | 2020 | 978-1-59853-658-4
330 | Richard Hofstadter | Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, The Paranoid Style in American Politics, Uncollected Essays 1956–1965 | Sean Wilentz | 2020 | 978-1-59853-659-1
331 |  various | The Western: Four Classic Novels of the 1940s and 50s | Ron Hansen | 2020 | 978-1-59853-661-4
332 |  various | American Women's Suffrage: Voices from the Long Struggle for the Vote 1776–1965 | Susan Ware | 2020 | 978-1-59853-664-5
333 |  various | African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song | Kevin Young | 2020 | 978-1-59853-666-9
334 | Ernest Hemingway | The Sun Also Rises and Other Writings 1918–1926 | Robert W. Trogdon | 2020 | 978-1-59853-667-6
335 | Ursula K. Le Guin | Annals of the Western Shore | Brian Attebery | 2020 | 978-1-59853-668-3
336 | Shirley Jackson | Four Novels of the 1940s and 50s | Ruth Franklin | 2020 | 978-1-59853-670-6
337 |  various | Plymouth Colony | Lisa Brooks & Kelly Wisecup | 2020 | 978-1-59853-673-7
338 | Octavia E. Butler | Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories | Gerry Canavan & Nisi Shawl | 2021 | 978-1-59853-675-1
339 | John Updike | Novels 1978–1984 | Christopher Carduff | 2021 | 978-1-59853-677-5
340 | Edward O. Wilson | Biophilia, The Diversity of Life, Naturalist | David Quammen | 2021 | 978-1-59853-679-9
341 | Joan Didion | The 1980s and 90s | David L. Ulin | 2021 | 978-1-59853-683-6
342 | Jean Stafford | Complete Stories and Other Writings | Kathryn Davis | 2021 | 978-1-59853-682-9
343 | Donald Barthelme | Collected Stories | Charles McGrath | 2021 | 978-1-59853-684-3
344 | Elizabeth Spencer | Novels and Stories | Michael Gorra | 2021 | 978-1-59853-686-7
345 | O. Henry | 101 Stories | Ben Yagoda | 2021 | 978-1-59853-690-4
346 | S. J. Perelman | Writings | Adam Gopnik | 2021 | 978-1-59853-692-8
347 | Ray Bradbury | Novels and Story Cycles | Jonathan R. Eller | 2021 | 978-1-59853-700-0
348 | Virginia Hamilton | Five Novels | Julie K. Rubini | 2021 | 978-1-59853-701-7
349 | John Williams | Collected Novels | Daniel Mendelsohn | 2021 | 978-1-59853-702-4
350 | W. E. B. Du Bois | Black Reconstruction | Eric Foner & Henry Louis Gates Jr. | 2021 | 978-1-59853-703-1
351 |  various | World War II Memoirs: The Pacific Theater | Elizabeth D. Samet | 2021 | 978-1-59853-704-8
352 | Rachel Carson | The Sea Trilogy | Sandra Steingraber | 2021 | 978-1-59853-705-5
353 | F. Scott Fitzgerald | The Great Gatsby, All the Sad Young Men and Other Writings 1920–1926 | James L. W. West III | 2022 | 978-1-59853-714-7
354 | John Updike | Novels 1986–1990 | Christopher Carduff | 2022 | 978-1-59853-717-8
355 | Maxine Hong Kingston | The Woman Warrior, China Men, Tripmaster Monkey, Other Writings | Viet Thanh Nguyen | 2022 | 978-1-59853-724-6
356 | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | Novels, Stories and Poems | Alfred Bendixen | 2022 | 978-1-59853-719-2
357 | Gary Snyder | Collected Poems | Jack Shoemaker & Anthony Hunt | 2022 | 978-1-59853-721-5
358 | Frederick Douglass | Speeches and Writings | David W. Blight | 2022 | 978-1-59853-722-2
359 | Bruce Catton | The Army of the Potomac Trilogy | Gary W. Gallagher | 2022 | 978-1-59853-725-3
360 | Ray Bradbury | The Illustrated Man, The October Country, Other Stories | Jonathan R. Eller | 2022 | 978-1-59853-728-4
361 | Rudolfo Anaya | Bless Me, Ultima, Tortuga, Alburquerque | Luis Alberto Urrea | 2022 | 978-1-59853-729-1
362 | Oscar Hijuelos | The Mambo Kings and Other Novels | Lori Marie Carlson-Hijuelos & Laura P. Alonso-Gall | 2022 | 978-1-59853-730-7
363 | Don DeLillo | Three Novels of the 1980s | Mark Osteen | 2022 | 978-1-59853-733-8
364 | Norman Mailer | The Naked and the Dead and Selected Letters 1945–1946 | J. Michael Lennon | 2023 | 978-1-59853-743-7
365 | John Updike | Novels 1996–2000 | Christopher Carduff | 2023 | 978-1-59853-744-4
366 |  various | Black Writers of the Founding Era | James G. Basker & Nicole Seary | 2023 | 978-1-59853-734-5
367 | Bernard Malamud | Novels and Stories of the 1970s and 80s | Philip Davis | 2023 | 978-1-59853-745-1
368 | Ursula K. Le Guin | Collected Poems | Harold Bloom | 2023 | 978-1-59853-736-9
369 | Charles Portis | Collected Works | Jay Jennings | 2023 | 978-1-59853-746-8
370 |  various | Crime Novels: Five Classic Thrillers 1961–1964 | Geoffrey O'Brien | 2023 | 978-1-59853-737-6
371 |  various | Crime Novels: Four Classic Thrillers 1964–1969 | Geoffrey O'Brien | 2023 | 978-1-59853-738-3
372 | Adrienne Kennedy | Collected Plays and Other Writings | Marc Robinson | 2023 | 978-1-59853-751-2
373 | Joanna Russ | Novels and Stories | Nicole Rudick | 2023 | 978-1-59853-753-6
374 | Don DeLillo | Mao II, Underworld | Mark Osteen | 2023 | 978-1-59853-755-0
375 | William Faulkner | Stories | Theresa M. Towner | 2023 | 978-1-59853-752-9
376 |  various | Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle: Part One, Reconstruction to the Red Summer | Tyina L. Steptoe | 2024 | 978-1-59853-766-6
377 | Jimmy Breslin | Essential Writings | Dan Barry | 2024 | 978-1-59853-768-0
378 | Helen Keller | Autobiographies and Other Writings | Kim E. Nielsen | 2024 | 978-1-59853-772-7
379 | Ursula K. Le Guin | Five Novels | Brian Attebery | 2024 | 978-1-59853-773-4
380 | Walker Percy | The Moviegoer and Other Novels 1961–1971 | Paul Elie | 2024 | 978-1-59853-775-8
381 | Wendell Berry | Port William Novels and Stories: The Postwar Years | Jack Shoemaker | 2024 | 978-1-59853-776-5
382 |  various | Latino Poetry | Rigoberto González | 2024 | 978-1-59853-783-3
383 | Ernest J. Gaines | Four Novels | John Wharton Lowe | 2024 | 978-1-59853-790-1
384 | Ernest Hemingway | A Farewell to Arms and Other Writings 1927–1932 | Robert W. Trogdon | 2024 | 978-1-59853-784-0
385 |  various | World War II Memoirs: The European Theater | Elizabeth D. Samet | 2024 | 978-1-59853-785-7
386 | Joan Didion | Memoirs and Later Writings | David L. Ulin | 2024 | 978-1-59853-787-1
387 |  various | Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle: Part Two, Tulsa to the Boston Busing Crisis | Tyina L. Steptoe | 2025 | 978-1-59853-801-4
388 | Margaret Fuller | Collected Writings | Brigitte Bailey, Noelle Baker & Megan Marshall | 2025 | 978-1-59853-803-8
389 | Hannah Arendt | The Origins of Totalitarianism | Jerome Kohn & Thomas Wild | 2025 | 978-1-59853-806-9
390 | John Quincy Adams | Speeches and Writings | David Waldstreicher | 2025 | 978-1-59853-808-3
391 | Gary Snyder | Essential Prose | Jack Shoemaker | 2025 | 978-1-59853-810-6
392 | John Guare | Plays | Tony Kushner, Michael Paller & Anne Cattaneo | 2025 | 978-1-59853-816-8
393 | Octavia E. Butler | Lilith's Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy | Imani Perry | 2025 | 978-1-59853-818-2
394 |  various | American Short Stories: The Nineteenth Century, Volume 1: Brockden Brown to Twain | John Stauffer | 2026 | 978-1-59853-820-5
395 |  various | American Short Stories: The Nineteenth Century, Volume 2: Harte to Dunbar-Nelson | John Stauffer | 2026 | 978-1-59853-822-9
396 | George Templeton Strong | Civil War Diaries | Geoff Wisner | 2025 | 978-1-59853-825-0
397 | William Kennedy | The Albany Trilogy | Paul Grondahl | 2026 | 978-1-59853-841-0
398 | John McPhee | Encounters in Wild America | David Remnick | 2026 | 978-1-59853-842-7
399 | Jim Thompson | Five Noir Novels of the 1950s and 60s | Robert Polito | 2026 | 978-1-59853-843-4

### Special anthologies

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Wall containing commemorate plaques and other items, within the Library of America offices in New York

* Writing New York (Phillip Lopate, ed. 1998) ISBN 978-1-883011-62-8
* American Sea Writing (Peter Neill, ed. 2000) ISBN 978-1-883011-83-3
* Baseball (Nicholas Dawidoff, ed. 2002) ISBN 978-1-931082-09-9
* Writing Los Angeles (David L. Ulin, ed. 2002) ISBN 978-1-931082-27-3
* Americans in Paris (Adam Gopnik, ed. 2004) ISBN 1-931082-56-1
* American Writers at Home (J. D. McClatchy, author, Erica Lennar, photographer 2004) ISBN 978-1-931082-75-4
* American Movie Critics (Phillip Lopate, ed. 2006) ISBN 978-1-931082-92-1
* American Religious Poems (Harold Bloom and Jesse Zuba, eds., 2006) ISBN 978-1-931082-74-7
* American Food Writing (Molly O'Neill, ed., 2007) ISBN 978-1-59853-005-6
* True Crime: An American Anthology (Harold Schechter, ed., 2008) ISBN 978-1-59853-031-5
* Becoming Americans: Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing (Ilan Stavans, ed., 2009) ISBN 978-1-59853-051-3
* At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing (George Kimball and John Schulian, eds., 2011) ISBN 978-1-59853-092-6
* The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion (Andy Borowitz ed., 2011) ISBN 978-1-59853-107-7
* Into the Blue: American Writing on Aviation and Spaceflight (Joseph J. Corn, ed., 2011) ISBN 978-1-59853-108-4
* The Cool School: Writing from America's Hip Underground (Glenn O'Brien, ed., 2013) ISBN 978-1-59853-256-2
* Football: Great Writing about the National Sport (John Schulian, ed., 2014) ISBN 978-1-59853-307-1
* Shake It Up: Great American Writing on Rock and Pop from Elvis to Jay Z (Kevin Dettmar and Jonathan Lethem, eds., 2017) ISBN 978-1-59853-531-0
* Basketball: Great Writing About America's Game (Alexander Wolff, ed., 2018) ISBN 978-1-59853-556-3
* Dance in America: A Reader's Anthology (Mindy Aloff, ed., 2018) ISBN 978-1-59853-584-6
* The Future Is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women, from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin (Lisa Yaszek, ed., 2018) ISBN 978-1-59853-580-8
* The Great American Sports Page: A Century of Classic Columns from Ring Lardner to Sally Jenkins (John Schulian, ed., 2019) ISBN 978-1-59853-612-6
* American Birds (Andrew Rubenfeld and Terry Tempest Williams, eds., 2020) ISBN 978-1-59853-655-3
* American Christmas Stories (Connie Willis, ed., 2021) ISBN 978-1-59853-706-2
* Women's Liberation! Feminist Writings that Inspired a Revolution and Still Can (Alix Kates Shulman and Honor Moore, eds., 2021) ISBN 978-1-59853-678-2
* The Future Is Female! More Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women (Lisa Yaszek, ed., 2022) ISBN 978-1-59853-732-1
* The Black Fantastic: Twenty Afrofuturist Stories (André M. Carrington, ed., 2025) ISBN 978-1-59853-811-3

### American poets project

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Two of Library of America's earliest volumes

* American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse (John Hollander, editor 2003) ISBN 978-1-931082-49-5
* Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems (J. D. McClatchy, editor 2003) ISBN 978-1-931082-35-8
* Edgar Allan Poe: Poems and Poetics (Richard Wilbur, editor 2003) ISBN 978-1-931082-51-8
* Poets of World War II (Harvey Shapiro, editor 2003) ISBN 978-1-931082-33-4
* Karl Shapiro: Selected Poems (John Updike, editor 2003) ISBN 978-1-931082-34-1
* Walt Whitman: Selected Poems (Harold Bloom, editor 2003) ISBN 978-1-931082-32-7
* Yvor Winters: Selected Poems (Thom Gunn, editor 2003) ISBN 978-1-931082-50-1
* John Berryman: Selected Poems (Kevin Young, editor 2004) ISBN 978-1-931082-69-3
* Kenneth Fearing: Selected Poems (Robert Polito, editor 2004) ISBN 978-1-931082-57-0
* Amy Lowell: Selected Poems (Honor Moore, editor 2004) ISBN 978-1-931082-70-9
* Muriel Rukeyser: Selected Poems (Adrienne Rich, editor 2004) ISBN 978-1-931082-58-7
* John Greenleaf Whittier: Selected Poems (Brenda Wineapple, editor 2004) ISBN 978-1-931082-59-4
* William Carlos Williams: Selected Poems (Robert Pinsky, editor 2004) ISBN 978-1-931082-71-6
* The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks (Elizabeth Alexander, editor 2005) ISBN 978-1-931082-87-7
* Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems (John Hollander, editor 2005) ISBN 978-1-931082-77-8
* Samuel Menashe: New and Selected Poems (Christopher Ricks, editor 2005) ISBN 978-1-931082-85-3
* Poets of the Civil War (J. D. McClatchy, editor 2005) ISBN 978-1-931082-76-1
* Theodore Roethke: Selected Poems (Edward Hirsch, editor 2005) ISBN 978-1-931082-78-5
* Edith Wharton: Selected Poems (Louis Auchincloss, editor 2005) ISBN 978-1-931082-86-0
* A. R. Ammons: Selected Poems (David Lehman, editor 2006) ISBN 978-1-931082-93-8
* Cole Porter: Selected Lyrics (Robert Kimball, editor 2006) ISBN 978-1-931082-94-5
* Louis Zukofsky: Selected Poems (Charles Bernstein, editor 2006) ISBN 978-1-931082-95-2
* American Sonnets (David Bromwich, editor 2007) ISBN 978-1-59853-015-5
* Kenneth Koch: Selected Poems (Ron Padgett, editor 2007) ISBN 978-1-59853-006-3
* Carl Sandburg: Selected Poems (Paul Berman, editor 2007) ISBN 978-1-59853-100-8
* Anne Stevenson: Selected Poems (Andrew Motion, editor 2007) ISBN 978-1-59853-018-6
* James Agee: Selected Poems (Andrew Hudgins, editor 2008) ISBN 978-1-59853-032-2
* Ira Gershwin: Selected Lyrics (Robert Kimball, editor 2009) ISBN 978-1-59853-052-0
* Poems from the Women's Movement (Honor Moore, editor 2009) ISBN 978-1-59853-042-1
* Stephen Foster & Co.: Lyrics of America's First Great Popular Songs (Ken Emerson, editor 2010) ISBN 978-1-59853-070-4
* Stephen Crane: Complete Poems (Christopher Benfey, editor 2011) ISBN 978-1-59853-093-3
* Countee Cullen: Collected Poems (Major Jackson, editor 2013) ISBN 978-1-59853-083-4

### Special publications

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* Isaac Bashevis Singer: An Album (Ilan Stavans, editor, 2004) ISBN 978-1-931082-64-8
* Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber (Robert Polito, editor, 2009) ISBN 978-1-59853-050-6
* Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu: John Updike on Ted Williams (2010) ISBN 978-1-59853-071-1
* The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael (Sanford Schwartz, editor, 2011) ISBN 978-1-59853-109-1
* The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard (Ron Padgett, editor, 2012) ISBN 978-1-59853-149-7
* Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (2012) ISBN 978-1-59853-165-7; Tarzan of the Apes (2012) ISBN 978-1-59853-164-0
* American Pastimes: The Very Best of Red Smith (Daniel Okrent, editor, 2013) ISBN 978-1-59853-217-3
* The Top of His Game: The Best Sportswriting of W. C. Heinz (Bill Littlefield, editor, 2015) ISBN 978-1-59853-372-9
* President Lincoln Assassinated!! The Firsthand Story of the Murder, Manhunt, Trial, and Mourning (Harold Holzer, editor, 2015) ISBN 978-1-59853-373-6
* String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis (2016) ISBN 978-1-59853-480-1
* My Dearest Julia: The Wartime Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to His Wife (2018) ISBN 978-1-59853-589-1
* Harold Bloom, The American Canon: Literary Genius from Emerson to Pynchon (David Mikics, editor, 2019) ISBN 978-1-59853-640-9
* Kate Bolick, Jenny Zhang, Carmen Maria Machado, and Jane Smiley, March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women (2019) ISBN 978-1-59853-628-7
* Where the Light Falls: Selected Stories of Nancy Hale (Lauren Groff, editor, 2019) ISBN 978-1-59853-642-3
* The Peanuts Papers: Writers and Cartoonists on Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the Gang, and the Meaning of Life (Andrew Blauner, editor, 2019) ISBN 978-1-59853-616-4
* Walt Whitman Speaks: His Final Thoughts on Life, Writing, Spirituality, and the Promise of America, as Told to Horace Traubel (Brenda Wineapple, editor, 2019) ISBN 978-1-59853-614-0
* American Conservatism: Reclaiming an Intellectual Tradition (Andrew J. Bacevich, editor, 2020) ISBN 978-1-59853-656-0
* American Democracy: 21 Historic Answers to 5 Urgent Questions (Nicholas Lemann, editor, 2020) ISBN 978-1-59853-662-1
* The Collected Breece D'J Pancake: Stories, Fragments, Letters (2020) ISBN 978-1-59853-672-0
* Dolores Hitchens, Sleep with Strangers (2021) ISBN 978-1-59853-697-3; Sleep with Slander (2021) ISBN 978-1-59853-698-0
* Molière, The Complete Richard Wilbur Translations, volume 1 (2021) ISBN 978-1-59853-707-9; volume 2 (2021) ISBN 978-1-59853-708-6
* Mary Jane Ward, The Snake Pit (2021) ISBN 978-1-59853-680-5
* Richard Wright, The Man Who Lived Underground (2021) ISBN 978-1-59853-676-8
* Hannah Arendt, On Lying and Politics (2022) ISBN 978-1-59853-731-4
* Edward Hirsch, The Heart of American Poetry (2022) ISBN 978-1-59853-726-0
* Ronald L. Fair, Many Thousand Gone: An American Fable (2023) ISBN 978-1-59853-763-5
* Nancy Hale, The Prodigal Women (2023) ISBN 978-1-59853-749-9
* John A. Williams, The Man Who Cried I Am (2023) ISBN 978-1-59853-761-1
* Hannah Arendt and Henry David Thoreau, On Civil Disobedience (2024) ISBN 978-1-59853-791-8
* The MAD Files: Writers and Cartoonists on the Magazine that Warped America's Brain (David Mikics, editor, 2024) ISBN 978-1-59853-792-5
* Jay Parini, Robert Frost: Sixteen Poems to Learn by Heart (2024) ISBN 978-1-59853-770-3
* S. J. Perelman, Cloudland Revisited: A Misspent Youth in Books and Film (2024) ISBN 978-1-59853-780-2; Crazy Like a Fox (2024) ISBN 978-1-59853-778-9
* O. Henry for the Holidays: Seven Classic Thanksgiving and Christmas Stories (2025) ISBN 978-1-59853-833-5
* Sarah Ruden, I Am the Arrow: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath in Six Poems (2025) ISBN 978-1-59853-813-7
* Ursula K. Le Guin's Book of Cats (2025) ISBN 978-1-59853-829-8
* Helen Vendler, Inhabit the Poem: Last Essays (2025) ISBN 978-1-59853-827-4
* The Testimony of Henry Adams, Freedman: Hope, Terror, and Exodus in the Post-Civil War South (2026) ISBN 978-1-59853-836-6
* Walt Whitman, On Democracy (2026) ISBN 978-1-59853-846-5
* Ted Widmer, The Living Declaration: A Biography of America's Founding Text (2026) ISBN 978-1-59853-844-1

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10. ^ a b "Library of America remembers its founding president and life trustee Daniel Aaron, 1912-2016". Library of America. May 3, 2016. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
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14. ^ a b Irmscher, Christoph (November–December 2015). "Chronicler of Two Americas". Harvard Magazine.
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* Hurley, Cheryl (1996). "Rescuing America's Literary Heritage: The Story of the Library of America". Publishing Research Quarterly. 12 (4): 36–49\. doi:10.1007/BF02680573. S2CID 143756072 - via EBSCO Connect.

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