Contributions to NCTE Special Volume:

The Canon of American Literature: 1,000 Great Works of American Literature.  Ed. George Kurian.  Urban, IL: The Assembly on American Literature of the National Council of Teachers of English; New York: Bowker, 2006.

Crime and Mystery Fiction: [50]

Ball, John.  In the Heat of the Night. 

Biggers, Earl Derr.  The House without a Key. 

Bloch, Robert.  Psycho.

Block, Lawrence.  Eight Million Ways to Die.

Burke, James Lee.  A Morning for Flamingoes. 

Cain, James M.  The Postman Always Rings Twice. 

Capote, Truman.  In Cold Blood. 

Carr, Caleb.  The Alienist.

Chandler, Raymond. The Long Goodbye.

Clark, Mary Higgins.  Where Are the Children? 

Condon, Richard.  Prizzi’s Honor.

Connelly, Michael.  The Concrete Blonde.

Cornwell, Patricia.  Post-Mortem.

Crumley, James.  The Last Good Kiss. 

Deaver, Jeffery.  The Bone Collector.

Dunne, John Gregory.  True Confessions.

Ellis, Bret Easton.  American Psycho.

Ellroy, James.  L.A. Confidential. 

Friedman, Kinky.  Elvis, Jesus, and Coca-Cola. 

Gardner, Erle Stanley.  The Case of the Crooked Candle.

Grafton, Sue.  G Is for Gumshoe. 

Hammett, Dashiell.  The Maltese Falcon.

Harris, Thomas.  Silence of the Lambs. 

Higgins, George V.  The Friends of Eddie Coyle.

Highsmith, Patricia.  Strangers on a Train. 

Hillerman, Tony.  Skinwalkers. 

Himes, Chester.  Blind Man with a Pistol.

Leonard, Elmore.  Get Shorty. 

Lethem, Jonathan.  Motherless in Brooklyn. 

MacDonald, John D.  The Dreadful Lemon Sky.

MacDonald, Ross.  The Underground Man. 

Mailer, Norman.  Executioner’s Song. 

McBain, Ed.  Sadie When She Died. 

Mosley, Walter.  Devil in a Blue Dress. 

Muller, Marcia.  The Shape of Dread. 

Oates, Joyce Carol.  Zombie. 

Paretsky, Sara.  Burn Marks. 

Poe, Edgar Allan. 

Puzo, Mario.  The Godfather. 

Queen, Ellery.  Calamity Town. 

Sallis, James.  Ghost of a Flea.

Sanders, Lawrence.  The First Deadly Sin.

Smith, Mark.  The Death of the Detective. 

Smith, Martin Cruz.  Gorky Park.

Spillane, Mickey.  I, the Jury. 

Stout, Rex.  The League of Frightened Men.

Thompson, Jim.  The Killer inside Me. 

Tidyman, Ernest.  Shaft. 

Wambaugh, Joseph.  The Choirboys. 

Woolrich, Cornell.  Rendezvous in Black. 

Spy Fiction:  [50]

Aarons, Edward Sidney.  Assignment to Disaster.

Adler, Warren.  Trans-Siberian Express.

Atlee, Philip.  The Death Bird Contract.

Avallone, Michael.  Shoot It Again, Sam.

Buckley, William F.  Stained Glass.

Clancy, Tom.  The Cardinal of the Kremlin.

Condon, Richard.  The Manchurian Candidate.

Cooper, James Fenimore.  The Spy.

Furst, Alan.  Night Soldiers.

Garfield, Brian Francis Wynne.  Hopscotch.

Gilman, Dorothy.  The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax.

Grady, James Thomas.  Six Days of the Condor.

Granger, Bill.  The November Man.

Guild, Nicholas M.  The Summer Soldier.

Hamilton, Donald.  The Ambushers..

Henissart, Paul Henri.  The Winter Spy.

Hood, William Joseph.  Spy Wednesday.

Hoyt, Richard.  Trotsky’s Run.

Hynd, Noel, and Christopher Creighton,  The Khruschev Objective.

Ignatius, David Reynolds.  Agents of Innocence.

Jackson, James O. Dzerzhinsky Square.

Kurland, Michael, and Chester Anderson.  A Plague of Spies.

Latham, Aaron.  Orchids for Mother.

Lederer, William Julius.  The Ugly American.

Lee, Chang-rae.  Native Speaker.

Littell, Robert.  The Amateur.

---. The Defection of A. J. Lewinter.

Ludlum, Robert.  The Rhinemann Exchange.

---.  The Bourne Identity.

MacInnes, Helen.  Assignment in Brittany.

MacKinnon, Colin.  Finding Hoseyn.

Maggio, Joe.  Company Man.

Mailer, Norman.  Harlot’s Ghost.

Marquand, John P. Stopover Tokyo.

McCarry, Charles.  The Miernik Dossier.

McCarthy, Wilson.  The Detail.

Phillips, David Atlee.  The Carlos Contract.

Poe, Edgar Allan.  “The Purloined Letter” and “The Gold Bug.”

Poyer, Joseph John.  The Chinese Agenda.

Proffitt, Nicholas.  Embassy House.

Roberts, James Hall.  Dragons at the Gate.

Rostand, Robert.  The Killer Elite.

Roth, Holly.  The Content Assignment.

Sapir, Richard, and Warren Murphy.  The Destroyer #2: Death Check.

Sherman, Daniel Michael.  Mole.

Sinclair, Upton.  World’s End.

Thomas, Ross. The Cold-War Swap.

Trevanian.  The Eiger Sanction.

Uris, Leon.  Topaz.

Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.  Mother Night.

Western Fiction:  [50]

Berger, Thomas.  Little Big Man.

Blake, Michael.  Dances with Wolves.

Blevins, Win.  Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse.

Brand, Max. Destry Rides Again.

Brown, Dee.  Killdeer Mountain.

Capps, Benjamin. The Trail to Ogallala.

Clark, Walter Van Tilberg.  The Ox-Bow Incident.

---.  The Track of the Cat.

Cooper, James Fenimore.  The Prairie.

Cushman, Dan.  Silver Mountain.

Doctorow, E. L.  Welcome to Hard Times.

Estleman, Loren D.  Aces and Eights.

Fisher, Vardis.  Mountain Man.

Grey, Zane.  Riders of the Purple Sage.

Guthrie, A. B. The BIg Sky.

---.  The Way West.

Hansen, Ron.  The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.

Haycox, Ernest.  Bugles in the Afternoon.

---.  The Earthbreakers.

Henry, Will. Chiricahua.

Horgan, Paul.  A Distant Trumpet.

Hough, Emerson.  The Covered Wagon.

Huffaker, Claire.  Nobody Loves a Drunken Indian.

---.  The War Wagon.

Humphrey, William.  The Ordways.

Johnson, Dorothy M.  Indian Country.

Jones, Douglas.  The Court Martial of George Armstrong Custer.

Kelton, Elmer.  The Time It Never Rained.

---.  Slaughter.

Kiefer, Warren.  Outlaw.

Kilpatrick, Terrence.  Swimming Man Burning.

L’Amour, Louis.  Bendigo Shafter.

---.  The Daybreakers.

---. Down the Long Hills.

Leonard, Elmore.  Hombre.

Manfred, Frederick.  Lord Grizzly.

McCarthy, Cormac.  All the Pretty Horses.

McMurtry, Larry.  Anything for Billy.

---.  Lonesome Dove.

Overholser, Wayne D.  The Violent Land.

Portis, Charles.  True Grit.

Sandoz, Mari.  Slogum House.

Smiley, Jane.  The All-True Travels and Adventures of Liddie Newton.

Swarthout, Glendon.  The Shootist.

Tidyman, Ernest.  High Plains Drifter.

Wellman, Paul I.  The Comancheros.

Wheeler, Richard.  Masterson.

Williams, Jeanne.  The Valiant Women.

Wister, Owen.  The Virginian.

Zollinger, Norman.  Riders to Cibola.