《美国文学选读》由复旦大学外文系编注，共三册：第一册，美国独立革命到第一次世界大战；第二册，两次大战之间；第三册，战后到八十年代。

本书为第三册。本书每篇大多由“作者简介”、“题解”、“选文”和“注释”四个部分组成。有少数“选文”因可独立成章，有关评述已在“作者简介”中提到，“题解”便从略；还有少数“选文”较为明白易展，个别需要解释之处已在“题解”中作了说明，“注释”便从略。

Vladimir Nabokov (1899--1977)

The Admiralty Spire

Anais Nin (1903--1977)

Hejda

Issac Bashevis Singer (1904--1991)

Neighbors

Robert Penn Warren (1905--1989)

Birth of Love

Theodore Roethke (1908--1963)

Open House

Weed Puller

Tennessee Williams (1911--1983)

The Glass Menagerie--Scene 5-7

John Cheever (1912--1982)

The Enormous Radio

Irwin Shaw (1913--1984)

The Young Lions--Chapter 34

Ralph EUison (1914--  )

Invisible Man--Prologue, Chapter I

Bernard Malamud (1914--1986) 

from The Assistant

Randall Jarrel (1914--1965)

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

John Berryman (1914--1972) 

The Ball Poem

Saul Bellow (1915--  )

Seize the Day--Chapter I

Arthur Miller (1915--  )

Death of a Salesman--Act 2

Robert Lowell (1917--1977)

For Sale

Waking in the Blue

For the Union Dead

J. D. Salinger (1919--  )

The Catcher in the Rye Chapter 17, Chapter 22

Betty Friedan (1921--  )

How to Get the Women's Movement Moving Again

Alex Haley (1921--1992)

Roots--Chapter 33-36, Chapter 39

Jack Kerouac (1922--1969)

On the Road--Part II Chapter 6

Kurt Vonnegut (1922--  )

Report on the Barnhouse Effect

Norman Mailer (1923--  )

The Armies of the Night--Book I Part IV 2. The Marshal and the Nazi

James Dickey (1923--  )

The Lifeguard

Joseph Heller (1923--  )

Catch.22--Chapter 40, Chapter 42

James Baldwin (1924--1987)

from Notes of a Native Son

Flannery O'Connor (1925--1964)

Everything That Rises Must Converge

William Styron (1925--  )

Lie Down in Darkness--Chapter 1

Allen Ginsberg (1926--  )

America

James Wright (1927--1980)

A Blessing

Edward Albee (1928--  )

The Zoo Story

Martin Luther King Jr. (1929--1968)

I Have a Dream

Gary Snyder (1930--  )

Riprap

Piute Creek

Meeting the Mountains 

John Barth (1930--  )

Title

Toni Morrison (1931--  )

Song of Solomon--Chapter I

John Updike (1932--  )

A&P

Sylvia Plath (1932--1963)

Daddy

Death & Co.

Philip Roth (1933--  )

Goodbye, Columbus--Chapter 1-3

Le Roi Jones (1934--  )

Incident

Marie Winn (1936--  )

The Plug-in Drug: TV and the American Family

Thomas Pynchon (1937--)

The Crying of Lot 49--Chapter 4

Joyce Carol Oates (1938--  )

Them--Book II Chapter 6

Sam Sheperd (1943--  )

Buried Child--Act 3

Alice Walker (1944--  )

The Civil Rights Movement: What Good Was It?