陈怀志编著的《英语读背90篇》选材涉及的作者多，时间和内容跨度大，为了编排有序，在编写过程中演讲和致辞部分尽量按演讲和致辞的时间先后排列，散文和诗歌部分尽量按作者的生活时间先后排列。本书既可以作为高校学生的英语阅读教材，也可以作为其他英语学习者的英语阅读材料。

Section I Speeches or Addresses

 No. 1 The Declaration of Independence (Excerpt)

 No. 2 Address at Gettysburg

 No. 3 The Road to Success (Excerpt)

 No. 4 Unconscious Plagiarism

 No. 5 Farewell to Baseball Address

 No. 6 Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat

 No. 7 Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation

 No. 8 Speech Accepting the Nobel Prize in Literature

 No. 9 The Torch Has Been Passed to a New Generation of Americans

 No. 10 The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination (Excerpt)

 No. 11 I Have a Dream

 No. 12 Remarks on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

 No. 13 We Choose to Go to the Moon

 No. 14 Man and the Earth, Where to Go?

 No. 15 Remarks by Former President of the United States

 -- Nixon at the University of International Business and Economics

 No. 16 Nobel Address 1979 (Excerpt)

 No. 17 The Journey of Our America Must Go on

 No. 18 Keynote Speech at Microsoft Professional Developers Conference

 No. 19 The Secretary-General's Message for the New Millennium

 No. 20 Wails and Bridges

 No. 21 You've Got to Find What You Love

 No. 22 Remarks by the President in a National Address to America's School Children

Section II Essays

 No. 23 On Self-Discipline (Excerpt)

 No. 24 Three Periods of My Youth

 No. 25 Did You Deal with Fortune Fairly?

 No. 26 Letter to a Young Friend

 No. 27 George Washington

 No. 28 On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth

 No. 29 The Ponds (Excerpt)

 No. 30 Solitude

 No. 31 Life

 No. 32 The Love of Beauty

 No. 33 Companionship of Books

 No. 34 Advice to Youth

 No. 35 The Lowest Animal

 No. 36 Youth

 No. 37 IfI Rest, I Rust

 No. 38 We Are on a Journey

 No. 39 The Crab

 No. 40 Find Thyself

 No. 41 Painting As a Pastime

 No. 42 Becoming a Freethinker and a Scientist

 No. 43 The World As I See It (Excerpt)

 No. 44 Late Summer

 No. 45 True Nobility

 No. 46 On Meeting the Celebrated

 No. 47 The Joys of Writing

 No. 48 The Lover and the Beloved (Excerpt)

 No. 49 What Makes a Teacher?

 No. 50 Three Passions

 No. 51 How to Grow Old

 No. 52 What Is Intelligence, Anyway?

 No. 53 Sweet September

 No. 54 I Will Live This Day As If It Is My Last

 No. 55 The Use of History

 No. 56 Be an Expert in Your Field (Excerpt)

 No. 57 Strength of a Single Syllable

 No. 58 How Is It Possible to Believe in God

 No. 59 The Pleasure of Reading

 No. 60 Ambition

 No. 61 Secret Ingredients of Tough People

 No. 62 There Is No God

 No. 63 To Love and to Be Loved ~

 No. 64 Write Your Own Life

 No. 65 I Live Four Lives at a Time

 No. 66 Medicine for the Grief of Lovers of Literature

 No. 67 How to Be True to Yourself-

 No. 68 Bill Gates' ll Rules of Life

 No. 69 Of Studies

 No. 70 The Study of Words

 No. 71 Choose Optimism

Section III Poems

 No. 72 All the World's a Stage

 No. 73 A Red, Red Rose

 No. 74 I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud

 No. 75 She Walks in Beauty

 No. 76 Love's Philosophy

 No. 77 Ode to the West Wind

 No. 78 To Autumn

 No. 79 A Poison Tree

 No. 80 Remembrance

 No. 81 A Psalm of Life

 No. 82 O Captain! My Captain

 No. 83 The Skies Can't Keep Their Secret

 No. 84 When You Are Old

 No. 85 If

 No. 86 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

 No. 87 The Road Not Taken

 No. 88 The More Loving One

Section IV Novel

 No. 89 News of the Engagement

Section V Movie Dialogue

 No. 90 Gone with the Wind (Excerpt)