| Parent: | Literary Classics of the United States, Inc. (d.b.a.) |
| Status: | Active |
| Country: | United States |
| Headquarters: | New York City |
| Distribution: | Penguin Random House Publisher Services[1] |
| Publications: | Books |
| Topics: | American documents, memoirs, criticism, and journalism |
| Genre: | Classic American literature |
| Revenue: | $8.78 million (2022)[2] |
| Numemployees: | 22 (staff, 2023)[3] |
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 Anthologies and works containing historical documents, criticism, and journalism are also published.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.
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]
The founding of the Library of America took place in 1979, with the creation of an entity known as Literary Classics of the United States, Inc. (This remains the entity under which LOA notes, chronologies, and other auxiliary materials are copyrighted;[7] and, officially, employees work for Literary Classics of the United States, Inc.)Publishers associated in some way with the creation include Lawrence Hughes, Helen Honig Meyer, and Roger W. Straus Jr. The initial board of advisers included Robert Penn Warren, C. Vann Woodward, R. W. B. Lewis, Robert Coles, Irving Howe, and Eudora Welty.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,[8] who had been a friend of Wilson's since the 1950s.[9] The executive director was Cheryl Hurley, who had worked at the Modern Language Association.[6] Other founding officers included the literary critic Richard Poirier, as vice president, and the publisher Jason Epstein, as treasurer.[10] 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.[6] Another founder was the textual scholar G. Thomas Tanselle; he too had been involved in the discussions prior to creation,[6] and after that he chaired the committee that was the arbiter of LOA textual policy.
Aaron remained in his position until 1985,[11] 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.[9] 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.[12]
Hanna M. "Gila" Bercovitch served as founding editor, senior editor, and then editor-in-chief until her death in 1997. 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."[13] She was followed as editor-in-chief by the poet and critic Geoffrey O'Brien.[12] He retired in 2017,[12] and was followed in 2018 by John Kulka, who was given the title of editorial director.[14]
The first volumes were published in 1982,[5] ten years after Wilson's death. They were priced moderately. The launch was accompanied by considerable amounts of publicity. Public response was in terms of sales positive from the beginning; 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. The response to the series continued to grow over time; between 1993 and 1996, the publisher's frontlist sales doubled. By 1996, the Library of America was getting two-thirds of its sales via subscription programs and one-third through bookstores. 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. Similarly, the rule that authors had to be American-born was later relaxed when Vladimir Nabokov was added to the list. 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.
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,[15] 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.[16] 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,[17] as did such volumes as a collection of letters that Grant wrote to his wife Julia.[18]
The publisher aims to keep classics and notable historical and genre works in print permanently to preserve America's literary and cultural heritage. 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. As LOA chief executive Cheryl Hurley stated in 2001, "We're not only a publisher, we're a cultural institution."[19] Although the LOA sells more than a quarter-million volumes annually,[20] with the original seed money having run out,[19] the publisher depends on individual contributions to help meet the costs of preparing, marketing, manufacturing, and maintaining its books.[16] In one large form of donation, as of 2001 a $50,000 contribution could sponsor a particular book being kept in print.[19] Some books published as additions to the series are not kept in print in perpetuity.[21]
Library of America volumes are prepared and edited by recognized scholars on the subject. Notes on the text are normally included and the source texts identified; these notes have been called "fascinating in themselves". This is part of the extensive back matter typically included with each volume, behind which large amounts of research and scholarship are conducted.[14]
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.[13] 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.[22]
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.[23] This is per Wilson's original design. At times this omission can lead to frustration based on the inability to know the basis upon which material for a volume was selected.
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;[24] The New York Times has called them "predictably superb".[25] 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".[26] 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".[27] 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.[28] LOA staff have also sometimes helped scholars working on related projects.[29]
The Library of America has received considerable praise for its endeavors. 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."[30] The aforementioned poet and critic Stephen Yenser has called the Library of America "invaluable";[27] that same term has been used to describe Library of America by the Cox News Service,[31] by the Los Angeles Times,[32] and by a book prize committee.[33]
Newsweek magazine said in 2010 that "For three decades, the LOA has done a splendid job of making good on" its initial goals. 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".[34] 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.[25] 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".[35]
The Library of America has attracted a number of criticisms as well, including accusations of selection biases in favor of literary and political trends[36] and the questionable inclusion of certain writers ostensibly non-canonical.[37] 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.[38] 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.
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."[39] 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."[37] 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.[40]
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 Shores Snooki." Images of the faux volumes were included.[41]
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.[42]
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."[43] 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."[44]
The designer of the appearance of Library of America books is Bruce Campbell. 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".[45]
The LOA uses paper that meets guidelines for permanence originally set out by a committee of the Council on Library Resources[45] and subsequently by the American National Standards Institute.[46] Each volume is printed on thin but opaque acid-free paper, allowing books ranging from 700 to 1,600 pages to remain fairly compact[5] (although not as small as those in La Pléiade).[43] The paper used means the books will last a very long time without crumbling or yellowing.[10] [5] All volumes in the main series have the same trim size, NaNinches by NaNinches, dimensions that are based on the golden section.[45] The weight of each volume is around 2lb.[5]
For the hardcover editions, the binding cloth is woven rayon, and the books are Smyth-sewn.[45] Each includes a ribbon bookmark.[23] Pages in the books will lie flat when open.[47] The uniform typeface is Galliard.[45]
The LOA publishes selected titles in paperback, mainly for the college textbook market.[35]
| Author | Title | Editor(s) | Year | ISBN | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Typee, Omoo, Mardi | 1982 | ||||
| 2 | Tales and Sketches | 1982 | ||||
| 3 | Poetry and Prose | 1982 | ||||
| 4 | Three Novels | 1982 | ||||
| 5 | Mississippi Writings | 1982 | ||||
| 6 | Novels and Stories | 1982 | ||||
| 7 | Novels and Social Writings | 1982 | ||||
| 8 | Novels 1875–1886 | 1982 | ||||
| 9 | Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick | 1983 | ||||
| 10 | Collected Novels | 1983 | ||||
| 11 | France and England in North America Volume 1 | 1983 | ||||
| 12 | France and England in North America Volume 2 | 1983 | ||||
| 13 | Novels 1871–1880 | 1983 | ||||
| 14 | Novels, Mont Saint Michel, The Education | & Jayne N. Samuels | 1983 | |||
| 15 | Essays and Lectures | 1983 | ||||
| 16 | History, Tales and Sketches | 1983 | ||||
| 17 | Writings | 1984 | ||||
| 18 | Prose and Poetry | 1984 | ||||
| 19 | Poetry and Tales | 1984 | ||||
| 20 | Essays and Reviews | 1984 | ||||
| 21 | The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It | 1984 | ||||
| 22 | Literary Criticism: Essays on Literature, American Writers, English Writers | & Mark Wilson | 1984 | |||
| 23 | Literary Criticism: French Writers, Other European Writers, Prefaces to the New York Edition | & Mark Wilson | 1984 | |||
| 24 | Pierre, Israel Potter, The Piazza Tales, The Confidence-Man, Billy Budd, Uncollected Prose | 1985 | ||||
| 25 | Novels 1930–1935 | & Noel Polk | 1985 | |||
| 26 | The Leatherstocking Tales Volume 1 | 1985 | ||||
| 27 | The Leatherstocking Tales Volume 2 | 1985 | ||||
| 28 | A Week, Walden, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod | 1985 | ||||
| 29 | Novels 1881–1886 | 1985 | ||||
| 30 | Novels | 1986 | ||||
| 31 | History of the United States during the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson (1801–1809) | 1986 | ||||
| 32 | History of the United States during the Administrations of James Madison (1809–1817) | 1986 | ||||
| 33 | Novels and Essays | 1986 | ||||
| 34 | Writings | 1986 | ||||
| 35 | Early Novels and Stories | 1987 | ||||
| 36 | Sister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt, Twelve Men | 1987 | ||||
| 37A | Silence Dogood, The Busy-Body, and Early Writings | 1987 | ||||
| 37B | Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings | 1987 | ||||
| 38 | Writings 1902–1910 | 1987 | ||||
| 39 | Collected Works | 1988 | ||||
| 40 | Complete Plays 1913–1920 | 1988 | ||||
| 41 | Complete Plays 1920–1931 | 1988 | ||||
| 42 | Complete Plays 1932–1943 | 1988 | ||||
| 43 | Novels 1886–1890 | 1989 | ||||
| 44 | Novels 1886–1888 | 1989 | ||||
| 45 | Speeches and Writings 1832–1858 | 1989 | ||||
| 46 | Speeches and Writings 1859–1865 | 1989 | ||||
| 47 | Novellas and Other Writings | 1990 | ||||
| 48 | Novels 1936–1940 | & Noel Polk | 1990 | |||
| 49 | Later Novels | 1990 | ||||
| 50 | Memoirs and Selected Letters | & William S. McFeeley | 1990 | |||
| 51 | Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman | 1990 | ||||
| 52 | Bracebridge Hall, Tales of a Traveller, The Alhambra | 1991 | ||||
| 53 | The Oregon Trail, The Conspiracy of Pontiac | 1991 | ||||
| 54 | Sea Tales | & Thomas Philbrick | 1991 | |||
| 55 | Early Works | 1991 | ||||
| 56 | Later Works | 1991 | ||||
| 57 | Stories, Poems, and Other Writings | 1991 | ||||
| 58 | Writings 1878–1899 | 1992 | ||||
| 59 | Main Street and Babbitt | 1992 | ||||
| 60 | Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches and Essays 1852–1890 | 1992 | ||||
| 61 | Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches and Essays 1891–1910 | 1992 | ||||
| 62 | The Debate on the Constitution: Part One: September 1787 to February 1788 | 1993 | ||||
| 63 | The Debate on the Constitution: Part Two: January to August 1788 | 1993 | ||||
| 64 | Collected Travel Writings: Great Britain and America | 1993 | ||||
| 65 | Collected Travel Writings: The Continent | 1993 | ||||
| 66 | American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Volume 1: Freneau to Whitman | 1993 | ||||
| 67 | American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Volume 2: Melville to Stickney, American Indian Poetry, Folk Songs and Spirituals | 1993 | ||||
| 68 | Autobiographies | 1994 | ||||
| 69 | Novels and Stories | 1994 | ||||
| 70 | Collected Poems and Translations | & Paul Kane | 1994 | |||
| 71 | Historical Romances | 1994 | ||||
| 72 | Novels and Stories 1932–1937 | 1994 | ||||
| 73 | Novels 1942–1954 | & Noel Polk | 1994 | |||
| 74 | Novels and Stories | 1995 | ||||
| 75 | Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings | 1995 | ||||
| 76 | Collected Writings | 1995 | ||||
| 77 | Reporting World War II: American Journalism 1938–1944 | , Anne Matthews, et al. | 1995 | |||
| 78 | Reporting World War II: American Journalism 1944–1946 | , Anne Matthews, et al. | 1995 | |||
| 79 | Stories and Early Novels | 1995 | ||||
| 80 | Later Novels and Other Writings | 1995 | ||||
| 81 | Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays | & Mark Richardson | 1995 | |||
| 82 | Complete Stories 1892–1898 | 1996 | ||||
| 83 | Complete Stories 1898–1910 | 1996 | ||||
| 84 | Travels and Other Writings | 1996 | ||||
| 85 | U.S.A. | 1996 | ||||
| 86 | The Grapes of Wrath and Other Writings 1936–1941 | 1996 | ||||
| 87 | Novels and Memoirs 1941–1953 | 1996 | ||||
| 88 | Novels 1955–1962 | 1996 | ||||
| 89 | Novels 1969–1974 | 1996 | ||||
| 90 | Writings and Drawings | 1996 | ||||
| 91 | Writings | 1997 | ||||
| 92 | Nature Writings | 1997 | ||||
| 93 | Novels and Other Writings | 1997 | ||||
| 94 | Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 40s | 1997 | ||||
| 95 | Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s | 1997 | ||||
| 96 | Collected Poetry and Prose | & Joan Richardson | 1997 | |||
| 97 | Early Novels and Stories | 1998 | ||||
| 98 | Collected Essays | 1998 | ||||
| 99 | Writings 1903–1932 | & Harriet Chessman | 1998 | |||
| 100 | Writings 1932–1946 | & Harriet Chessman | 1998 | |||
| 101 | Complete Novels | & Michael Kreyling | 1998 | |||
| 102 | Stories, Essays, and Memoir | & Michael Kreyling | 1998 | |||
| 103 | Three Gothic Novels | 1998 | ||||
| 104 | Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism 1959–1969 | , Lawrence Lichty, et al. | 1998 | |||
| 105 | Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism 1969–1975 | , Lawrence Lichty, et al. | 1998 | |||
| 106 | Complete Stories 1874–1884 | 1999 | ||||
| 107 | Complete Stories 1884–1891 | 1999 | ||||
| 108 | American Sermons: The Pilgrims to Martin Luther King Jr. | 1999 | ||||
| 109 | Writings | 1999 | ||||
| 110 | Complete Novels | 1999 | ||||
| 111 | Complete Stories 1864–1874 | 1999 | ||||
| 112 | Novels 1957–1962 | & Joseph Blotner | 1999 | |||
| 113 | Writings and Drawings | 1999 | ||||
| 114 | Slave Narratives | 2000 | ||||
| 115 | American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume 1: Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker | , John Hollander, et al. | 2000 | |||
| 116 | American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume 2: E. E. Cummings to May Swenson | , John Hollander, et al. | 2000 | |||
| 117 | Novels and Stories 1920–1922 | 2000 | ||||
| 118 | Poems and Other Writings | 2000 | ||||
| 119 | Plays 1937–1955 | & Kenneth Holditch | 2000 | |||
| 120 | Plays 1957–1980 | & Kenneth Holditch | 2000 | |||
| 121 | Collected Stories 1891–1910 | 2001 | ||||
| 122 | Collected Stories 1911–1937 | 2001 | ||||
| 123 | The American Revolution Writings from the War of Independence 1775–1783 | 2001 | ||||
| 124 | Collected Essays and Poems | 2001 | ||||
| 125 | Crime Stories and Other Writings | 2001 | ||||
| 126 | Novels 1930–1942 | 2001 | ||||
| 127 | Novels 1944–1962 | 2001 | ||||
| 128 | Complete Novels | 2001 | ||||
| 129 | Writings | 2001 | ||||
| 130 | The Gilded Age and Later Novels | 2002 | ||||
| 131 | Stories, Novels, and Essays | 2002 | ||||
| 132 | Novels 1942–1952 | 2002 | ||||
| 133 | Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, Dodsworth | 2002 | ||||
| 134 | The Sheltering Sky, Let It Come Down, The Spider's House | 2002 | ||||
| 135 | Complete Stories and Later Writings | 2002 | ||||
| 136 | Complete Novels and Stories | 2002 | ||||
| 137 | Reporting Civil Rights: American Journalism 1941–1963 | , David J. Garrow, et al. | 2003 | |||
| 138 | Reporting Civil Rights: American Journalism 1963–1973 | , David J. Garrow, et al. | 2003 | |||
| 139 | Novels 1896–1899 | 2003 | ||||
| 140 | An American Tragedy | 2003 | ||||
| 141 | Novels 1944–1953 | 2003 | ||||
| 142 | Novels 1920–1925 | 2003 | ||||
| 143 | Travel Books and Other Writings 1916–1941 | 2003 | ||||
| 144 | Poems and Translations | 2003 | ||||
| 145 | Writings | 2004 | ||||
| 146 | Three Western Narratives | 2004 | ||||
| 147 | Democracy in America | 2004 | ||||
| 148 | Studs Lonigan: A Trilogy | 2004 | ||||
| 149 | Collected Stories: Gimpel the Fool to The Letter Writer | 2004 | ||||
| 150 | Collected Stories: A Friend of Kafka to Passions | 2004 | ||||
| 151 | Collected Stories: One Night in Brazil to The Death of Methuselah | 2004 | ||||
| 152 | & Co. | Broadway Comedies | 2004 | |||
| 153 | The Rough Riders, An Autobiography | 2004 | ||||
| 154 | Letters and Speeches | 2004 | ||||
| 155 | Tales | 2005 | ||||
| 156 | Little Women, Little Men, Jo's Boys | 2005 | ||||
| 157 | Novels and Stories 1959–1962 | 2005 | ||||
| 158 | Novels 1967–1972 | 2005 | ||||
| 159 | Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, A Death in the Family, and Shorter Fiction | 2005 | ||||
| 160 | Film Writing and Selected Journalism | 2005 | ||||
| 161 | Two Years Before the Mast and Other Voyages | 2005 | ||||
| 162 | Novels 1901–1902 | 2006 | ||||
| 163 | Collected Plays 1944–1961 | 2006 | ||||
| 164 | Novels 1926–1929 | & Noel Polk | 2006 | |||
| 165 | Novels 1973–1977 | 2006 | ||||
| 166 | American Speeches: Political Oratory from the Revolution to the Civil War | 2006 | ||||
| 167 | American Speeches: Political Oratory from Abraham Lincoln to Bill Clinton | 2006 | ||||
| 168 | Complete Poems and Selected Letters | 2006 | ||||
| 169 | Novels 1956–1964 | 2007 | ||||
| 170 | Travels with Charley and Later Novels 1947–1962 | & Brian Railsback | 2007 | |||
| 171 | Writings, with Other Narratives of Roanoke, Jamestown, and the First English Settlement of America | 2007 | ||||
| 172 | Collected Plays and Writings on Theater | 2007 | ||||
| 173 | Four Novels of the 1960s | 2007 | ||||
| 174 | Road Novels 1957–1960 | 2007 | ||||
| 175 | Zuckerman Bound: A Trilogy and Epilogue 1979–1985 | 2007 | ||||
| 176 | Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s and 30s | 2007 | ||||
| 177 | Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s and 40s | 2007 | ||||
| 178 | American Poetry: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries | 2007 | ||||
| 179 | Early Novels and Stories | 2008 | ||||
| 180 | Poems, Prose, and Letters | 2008 | ||||
| 181 | World War II Writings | 2008 | ||||
| 182 | American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau | 2008 | ||||
| 183 | Five Novels of the 1960s and 70s | 2008 | ||||
| 184 | Later Novels and Stories | 2008 | ||||
| 185 | Novels and Other Narratives 1986–1991 | 2008 | ||||
| 186 | Collected Stories and Other Writings | 2008 | ||||
| 187 | Collected Poems 1956–1987 | 2008 | ||||
| 188 | Collected Stories and Other Writings | 2009 | ||||
| 189 | Complete Novels | 2009 | ||||
| 190 | American Writings | 2009 | ||||
| 191 | The Sweet Science and Other Writings | 2009 | ||||
| 192 | The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now | 2009 | ||||
| 193 | VALIS and Later Novels | 2009 | ||||
| 194 | The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels 1926–1948 | 2009 | ||||
| 195 | Collected Stories | & Maureen P. Carroll | 2009 | |||
| 196 | American Fantastic Tales Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps | 2009 | ||||
| 197 | American Fantastic Tales Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now | 2009 | ||||
| 198 | Writings | 2010 | ||||
| 199 | The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Works | 2010 | ||||
| 200 | A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator, Other Travels | 2010 | ||||
| 201 | Selected Journals 1820–1842 | 2010 | ||||
| 202 | Selected Journals 1841–1877 | 2010 | ||||
| 203 | The American Stage: Writing on Theater from Washington Irving to Tony Kushner | 2010 | ||||
| 204 | Novels and Stories | 2010 | ||||
| 205 | Novels 1993–1995 | 2010 | ||||
| 206 | Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series | 2010 | ||||
| 207 | Prejudices: Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Series | 2010 | ||||
| 208 | The Affluent Society and Other Writings 1952–1967 | 2010 | ||||
| 209 | Novels 1970–1982 | 2010 | ||||
| 210 | Gods' Man, Madman's Drum, Wild Pilgrimage | 2010 | ||||
| 211 | Prelude to a Million Years, Song Without Words, Vertigo | 2010 | ||||
| 212 | The Civil War The First Year Told by Those Who Lived It | , Stephen W. Sears, et al. | 2011 | |||
| 213 | Revolutionary Writings 1755–1775 | 2011 | ||||
| 214 | Revolutionary Writings 1775–1783 | 2011 | ||||
| 215 | Novels 1903–1911 | 2011 | ||||
| 216 | Novels and Stories 1963–1973 | 2011 | ||||
| 217 | Harlem Renaissance Five Novels of the 1920s | 2011 | ||||
| 218 | Harlem Renaissance Five Novels of the 1930s | 2011 | ||||
| 219 | The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs | 2011 | ||||
| 220 | The American Trilogy 1997–2000 | 2011 | ||||
| 221 | The Civil War The Second Year Told by Those Who Lived It | 2012 | ||||
| 222 | The Guns of August, The Proud Tower | 2012 | ||||
| 223 | Collected Plays 1964–1982 | 2012 | ||||
| 224 | The Eighth Day, Theophilus North, Autobiographical Writings | 2012 | ||||
| 225 | Five Noir Novels of the 1940s and 50s | 2012 | ||||
| 226 | Novels and Stories 1950–1962 | 2012 | ||||
| 227 | American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1953–1956 | 2012 | ||||
| 228 | American Science Fiction: Five Classic Novels 1956–1958 | 2012 | ||||
| 229 | The Little House Books, Volume 1 | 2012 | ||||
| 230 | The Little House Books, Volume 2 | 2012 | ||||
| 231 | Collected Poems | 2012 | ||||
| 232 | The War of 1812 Writings from America's Second War of Independence | 2012 | ||||
| 233 | American Antislavery Writings: Colonial Beginnings to Emancipation | 2012 | ||||
| 234 | The Civil War The Third Year Told by Those Who Lived It | 2013 | ||||
| 235 | Collected Stories | 2013 | ||||
| 236 | Novels 2001–2007 | 2013 | ||||
| 237 | Nemeses | 2013 | ||||
| 238 | A Sand County Almanac and Other Writings on Ecology and Conservation | 2013 | ||||
| 239 | Collected Poems | 2013 | ||||
| 240 | Collected Poems 1952–1993 | 2013 | ||||
| 241 | Collected Poems 1996–2011 | 2013 | ||||
| 242 | Collected Early Stories | 2013 | ||||
| 243 | Collected Later Stories | 2013 | ||||
| 244 | Stories and Other Writings | 2013 | ||||
| 245 | Writings from the Great Awakening | 2013 | ||||
| 246 | Essays of the 1960s and 70s | 2013 | ||||
| 247 | Clotel and Other Writings | 2014 | ||||
| 248 | Novels and Stories of the 1940s and 50s | 2014 | ||||
| 249 | Novels and Stories of the 1960s | 2014 | ||||
| 250 | The Civil War The Final Year Told by Those Who Lived It | 2014 | ||||
| 251 | Shakespeare in America: An Anthology from the Revolution to Now | 2014 | ||||
| 252 | Novels 1976–1985 | 2014 | ||||
| 253 | American Musicals 1927–1949: The Complete Books and Lyrics of Eight Broadway Classics | 2014 | ||||
| 254 | American Musicals 1950–1969: The Complete Books and Lyrics of Eight Broadway Classics | 2014 | ||||
| 255 | Four Novels of the 1970s | 2014 | ||||
| 256 | Work, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Stories and Other Writings | 2014 | ||||
| 257 | The Days Trilogy, Expanded Edition | 2014 | ||||
| 258 | Music Chronicles 1940–1954 | 2014 | ||||
| 259 | Art in America 1945–1970: Writings from the Age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism | 2014 | ||||
| 260 | Novels 1984–2000 | 2015 | ||||
| 261 | Collected Plays 1987–2004, with Stage and Radio Plays of the 1930s and 40s | 2015 | ||||
| 262 | Visions of Cody, Visions of Gerard, Big Sur | 2015 | ||||
| 263 | Major Works on Religion and Politics | 2015 | ||||
| 264 | Four Crime Novels of the 1950s | 2015 | ||||
| 265 | The American Revolution Writings from the Pamphlet Debate, Volume 1, 1764–1772 | 2015 | ||||
| 266 | The American Revolution Writings from the Pamphlet Debate, Volume 2, 1773–1776 | 2015 | ||||
| 267 | Four Novels of the 1980s | 2015 | ||||
| 268 | Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1940s | 2015 | ||||
| 269 | Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1950s | 2015 | ||||
| 270 | Writings on Landscape, Culture, and Society | 2015 | ||||
| 271 | Four Novels of the 1920s | 2015 | ||||
| 272 | Later Novels | 2015 | ||||
| 273 | Novels 1987–1997 | 2016 | ||||
| 274 | Autobiographies | 2016 | ||||
| 275 | Letters | 2016 | ||||
| 276 | Writings from the New Nation 1784–1826 | 2016 | ||||
| 277 | The State of Music and Other Writings | 2016 | ||||
| 278 | War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing | 2016 | ||||
| 279 | Three Novels of the Early 1960s | 2016 | ||||
| 280 | Four Later Novels | 2016 | ||||
| 281 | The Complete Orsinia | 2016 | ||||
| 282 | Stories | 2016 | ||||
| 283 | The Unknown Kerouac: Rare, Unpublished and Newly Translated Writings | 2016 | ||||
| 284 | Collected Essays and Memoirs | & Paul Devlin | 2016 | |||
| 285 | Collected Essays on Evolution, Nature, and the Cosmos, Volume One | 2016 | ||||
| 286 | Collected Essays on Evolution, Nature, and the Cosmos, Volume Two | 2016 | ||||
| 287 | Stories, Plays and Other Writings | 2017 | ||||
| 288 | Collected Writings | 2017 | ||||
| 289 | World War I and America: Told by the Americans Who Lived It | 2017 | ||||
| 290 | Novels and Stories 1942–1963 | 2017 | ||||
| 291 | Novels 1963–1979 | 2017 | ||||
| 292 | Later Essays | 2017 | ||||
| 293 | Diaries 1779–1821 | 2017 | ||||
| 294 | Diaries 1821–1848 | 2017 | ||||
| 295 | Four Later Novels | 2017 | ||||
| 296 | Hainish Novels and Stories, Volume One | 2017 | ||||
| 297 | Hainish Novels and Stories, Volume Two | 2017 | ||||
| 298 | Complete Stories 1938–1959 | 2017 | ||||
| 299 | Complete Stories 1960–1992 | 2017 | ||||
| 300 | Why Write? Collected Nonfiction 1960–2013 | 2017 | ||||
| 301 | Complete Poems 1991‒2000 | 2017 | ||||
| 302 | Port William Novels and Stories (The Civil War to World War II) | 2018 | ||||
| 303 | Reconstruction Voices from America's First Great Struggle for Racial Equality | 2018 | ||||
| 304 | Collected Novels and Poems | & Paul Devlin | 2018 | |||
| 305 | Four Books of the 1960s | 2018 | ||||
| 306 | Collected Essays of the 1960s | 2018 | ||||
| 307 | Silent Spring and Other Writings on the Environment | 2018 | ||||
| 308 | Westerns | 2018 | ||||
| 309 | The Wrinkle in Time Quartet | 2018 | ||||
| 310 | The Polly O'Keefe Quartet | 2018 | ||||
| 311 | Novels 1959–1965 | 2018 | ||||
| 312 | Two Novels of the American Revolution | 2018 | ||||
| 313 | Four Novels of the 1930s | 2019 | ||||
| 314 | The Street, The Narrows | 2019 | ||||
| 315 | Always Coming Home (Author's Expanded Edition) | 2019 | ||||
| 316 | Essays 1969–1990 | 2019 | ||||
| 317 | Essays 1993–2017 | 2019 | ||||
| 318 | The Longest Day, A Bridge Too Far | 2019 | ||||
| 319 | Novels and Stories | 2019 | ||||
| 320 | Complete Poems | 2019 | ||||
| 321 | American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1960–1966 | 2019 | ||||
| 322 | American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1968–1969 | 2019 | ||||
| 323 | The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, Little Lord Fauntleroy | 2019 | ||||
| 324 | Complete Novels | 2019 | ||||
| 325 | The 1960s and 70s | 2019 | ||||
| 326 | Novels 1968–1975 | 2020 | ||||
| 327 | Collected Stories | 2020 | ||||
| 328 | Dog Soldiers, A Flag for Sunrise, Outerbridge Reach | 2020 | ||||
| 329 | The Fate of the Earth, The Abolition, The Unconquerable World | 2020 | ||||
| 330 | Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, The Paranoid Style in American Politics, Uncollected Essays 1956–1965 | 2020 | ||||
| 331 | The Western: Four Classic Novels of the 1940s and 50s | 2020 | ||||
| 332 | American Women's Suffrage: Voices from the Long Struggle for the Vote 1776–1965 | 2020 | ||||
| 333 | African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song | 2020 | ||||
| 334 | The Sun Also Rises and Other Writings 1918–1926 | 2020 | ||||
| 335 | Annals of the Western Shore | 2020 | ||||
| 336 | Four Novels of the 1940s and 50s | 2020 | ||||
| 337 | Plymouth Colony | & Kelly Wisecup | 2020 | |||
| 338 | Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories | 2021 | ||||
| 339 | Novels 1978–1984 | 2021 | ||||
| 340 | Biophilia, The Diversity of Life, Naturalist | 2021 | ||||
| 341 | The 1980s and 90s | 2021 | ||||
| 342 | Complete Stories and Other Writings | 2021 | ||||
| 343 | Collected Stories | 2021 | ||||
| 344 | Novels and Stories | 2021 | ||||
| 345 | 101 Stories | 2021 | ||||
| 346 | Writings | 2021 | ||||
| 347 | Novels and Story Cycles | 2021 | ||||
| 348 | Five Novels | 2021 | ||||
| 349 | Collected Novels | 2021 | ||||
| 350 | Black Reconstruction | 2021 | ||||
| 351 | World War II Memoirs: The Pacific Theater | 2021 | ||||
| 352 | The Sea Trilogy | 2021 | ||||
| 353 | The Great Gatsby, All the Sad Young Men and Other Writings 1920–1926 | 2022 | ||||
| 354 | Novels 1986–1990 | 2022 | ||||
| 355 | The Woman Warrior, China Men, Tripmaster Monkey, Other Writings | 2022 | ||||
| 356 | Novels, Stories and Poems | 2022 | ||||
| 357 | Collected Poems | & Anthony Hunt | 2022 | |||
| 358 | Speeches and Writings | 2022 | ||||
| 359 | The Army of the Potomac Trilogy | 2022 | ||||
| 360 | The Illustrated Man, The October Country, Other Stories | 2022 | ||||
| 361 | Bless Me, Ultima, Tortuga, Alburquerque | 2022 | ||||
| 362 | The Mambo Kings and Other Novels | & Laura P. Alonso-Gall | 2022 | |||
| 363 | Three Novels of the 1980s | 2022 | ||||
| 364 | The Naked and the Dead and Selected Letters 1945–1946 | 2023 | ||||
| 365 | Novels 1996–2000 | 2023 | ||||
| 366 | Black Writers of the Founding Era | & Nicole Seary | 2023 | |||
| 367 | Novels and Stories of the 1970s and 80s | 2023 | ||||
| 368 | Collected Poems | 2023 | ||||
| 369 | Collected Works | 2023 | ||||
| 370 | Crime Novels: Five Classic Thrillers 1961–1964 | 2023 | ||||
| 371 | Crime Novels: Four Classic Thrillers 1964–1969 | 2023 | ||||
| 372 | Collected Plays and Other Writings | 2023 | ||||
| 373 | Novels and Stories | 2023 | ||||
| 374 | Mao II, Underworld | 2023 | ||||
| 375 | Stories | 2023 | ||||
| 376 | Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle: Part One, Reconstruction to the Red Summer | 2024 | ||||
| 377 | Essential Writings | 2024 | ||||
| 378 | Autobiographies and Other Writings | 2024 | ||||
| 379 | Five Novels | 2024 | ||||
| 380 | The Moviegoer and Other Novels 1961–1971 | 2024 | ||||
| 381 | Port William Novels and Stories: The Postwar Years | 2024 | ||||
| 382 | Latino Poetry | 2024 | ||||
| 383 | Four Novels | 2024 | ||||
| 384 | A Farewell to Arms and Other Writings 1927–1932 | 2024 | ||||
| 385 | World War II Memoirs: The European Theater | 2024 | ||||
| 386 | Memoirs and Later Writings | 2024 | ||||
| 387 | Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle: Part Two, Tulsa to the Boston Busing Crisis | 2025 | ||||
| 388 | Collected Writings | 2025 | ||||
| 389 | The Origins of Totalitarianism | & Thomas Wild | 2025 | |||
| 390 | Speeches and Writings | 2025 | ||||
| 391 | Essential Prose | 2025 |