vol. 1. Angela's ashes / Frank McCourt
Aspects of the novel / E.M. Forster
Black boy / Richard Wright
Darkness visible / William Styron
The education of Henry Adams / Henry Brooks Adams
The journalist and the murderer / Janet Malcolm
Lindbergh / A. Scott Berg
The making of the atomic bomb / Richard Rhodes
My brother / Jamaica Kincaid
Paula / Isabel Allende
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek / Annie Dillard
A preface to morals / Walter Lippmann
Silent spring / Rachel Carson
The souls of Black folk / W.E.B. Du Bois
A study of history / Arnold J. Toynbee.

vol. 2. Anne Frank: the diary of a young girl / Anne Frank
Cadillac desert: the American West and its disappearing water / Marc Reisner
Design for dying / Timothy Leary
The double helix / James D. Watson
Eleanor Roosevelt, volume one, 1884-1933 / Blanche Wiesen Cook
Good-bye to all that / Robert Graves
I know why the caged bird sings / Maya Angelou
In cold blood / Truman Capote
Madame Curie / Eve Curie
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, written by himself / Frederick Douglass
Out of Africa / Isak Dinesen
Profiles in courage / John Fitzgerald Kennedy
A room of one's own / Virginia Woolf
The story of my life / Helen Keller
Undaunted courage / Stephen E. Ambrose.

vol. 3. The affluent society / John Kenneth Galbraith
Autobiographies / William Butler Yeats
The autobiography of Malcolm X / Malcolm X
Backlash: the undeclared war against American women / Susan Faludi
Coming of age in Mississippi / Anne Moody
Hunger of memory: the education of Richard Rodriguez / Richard Rodriguez
The interpretation of dreams / Sigmund Freud
I remain in darkness / Annie Ernaux
I will bear witness: a diary of the Nazi years, 1933-1941 / Victor Klemperer
News of a kidnapping / Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Operating instructions / Anne Lamott
Self-reliance / Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shadow and act / Ralph Ellison
A theory of justice / John Rawls
Walden / Henry David Thoreau.

vol. 4. The American language / H.L. Mencken
The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas / Gertrude Stein
The autobiography of Mark Twain / Mark Twain
Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia / Rebecca West
The diary of Samuel Pepys / Samuel Pepys
Elizabeth the Great / Elizabeth Jenkins
Eminent Victorians / Lytton Strachey
The Gnostic gospels / Elaine Pagels
In the American grain / William Carlos Williams
Kaffir boy: the true story of a Black youth's coming of age in apartheid South Africa / Mark Mathabane
Night / Elie Wiesel
Notes of a native son / James Baldwin
On growth and form / D'Arcy Thompson
The promise of American life / Herbert Croly
Speak, memory: an autobiography revisited / Vladimir Nabokov.

vol. 5. Art and illusion: a study in the psychology of pictorial representation / E.H. Gombrich
The basketball diaries / Jim Carroll
A boy called H / Kappa Senoh
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee / Dee Brown
The elements of style / William Strunk, Jr. and E.B. White
The feminine mystique / Betty Friedan
The golden bough / James Frazer
The liars' club / Mary Karr
The lost daughters of China / Karin Evans
A mathematician's apology / G.H. Hardy
Selected essays, 1917-1932 / T.S. Eliot
Shame / Annie Ernaux
Steal this book / Abbie Hoffman
The varieties of religious experience / William James.