1753-1784 – Complete Writings – Phillis Wheatley

1775-1783 – The American Revolution: writings from the War of Independence — Library of America, collection published in 2001

1760-1800 – Black Writers of the Founding Era: 1760-1800 — Library of America, collection published 2023

1783-1865 – American Antislavery Writings: Colonial Beginnings to Emancipation — Library of America, collection published 2012

1839 – The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe

1845 – The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass — Frederick Douglass

1850 – The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne

1851 – Moby Dick – Herman Mellville

1854 – Walden – Henry David Thoreau

1855 – Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman

1868 – Little Women – Louisa May Alcott

1881 – The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James

1884 – Ramona – Helen Hunt Jackson

1884 – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain

1885 – The Rise of Silas Lapham – William Dean Howells

1890 – Poems – Emily Dickinson

1898 – Hawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen — Queen Liliʻuokalani

1899 – The Awakening – Kate Chopin

1900 – The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – L. Frank Baum

1901 – Up from Slavery — Booker T. Washington

1902 – Indian Boyhood — Charles A. Eastman

1902-1967 – The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes – Langston Hughes, published 1994

1903 – The Souls of Black Folk — W.E.B. Du Bois

1903 – The Call of the Wild – Jack London

1905 – The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton

1906 – Geronimo’s Story of His Life — Geronimo and S.M. Barrett

1906 – The Jungle – Upton Sinclair

1913 – O Pioneers! – Willa Cather

1915 – Spoon River Anthology – Edgar Lee Masters

1916 – Sixty Years in Southern California — Harris Newmark

1921 – American Indian Stories — Zitkala-Sa

1925 – The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

1929 – The Maltese Falcon — Dashiell Hammett

1929 – The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner

1930 – Complete Poems of Robert Frost

1931 – The Joy of Cooking – Irma Rombauer

1937 – Their Eyes Were Watching God — Zora Neale Hurston

1937 – – Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

1939 – The Day of the Locust – Nathaniel West

1939 – The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler

1939 – The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

1940 – Native Son — Richard Wright

1942 – If He Hollers Let Him Go – Chester Himes

1943 – America Is in the Heart — Carlos Bulosan

1943 – The Human Comedy – William Saroyan

1946 – All the King’s Men – Robert Penn Warren

1946 – Southern California: An Island on the Land – Carey McWilliams

1949 – The Sheltering Sky – Paul Bowels

1949 – Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller

1950-2000 – Peanuts – Charles Schulz

1952 – Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison

1952 – The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway

1953 – Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradburry

1954 – The Berlin Stories – Christopher Isherwood

1955 – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – Tennessee Williams

1955 – The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith

1956 – Peyton Place – Grace Metalious

1957 – No-No Boy — John Okada

1958 – The Witch of Blackbird Pond – Elizabeth George Speare

1959 – A Raisin in the Sun – Lorraine Hansberry

1959 – Pocho — José Antonio Villarreal

1959 – On the Road – Jack Keroac

1960 – To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

1961 – Eat a Bowl of Tea — Louis Chu

1961 – Catch-22 — Joseph Heller

1961-1970 – The Fantastic Four – Jack Kirby and Stan Lee

1961 – Revolutionary Road – Richard Yates

1962 – The Man in the High Castle – Philip K. Dick

1963 – The Feminine Mystique – Betty Friedan

1963 – The Fire Next Time — James Baldwin

1964 – Why We Can’t Wait — Martin Luther King Jr.

1965 – The Autobiography of Malcolm X — Malcolm X / Alex Haley

1968 – True Grit – Charles Portis

1968 – House Made of Dawn — N. Scott Momaday

1969 – Custer Died for Your Sins — Vine Deloria Jr.

1969 – The Revolt of the Black Athlete — Harry Edwards

1969 – Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut

1970 – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee — Dee Brown

1970 – Chicano — Richard Vasquez

1970 – Play it as it Lays – Joan Didion

1971 – …And the Earth Did Not Devour Him — Tomás Rivera

1971 – Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies – Reyner Banham

1972 – The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo – Oscar Zeta Acosta

1972 – Bless Me, Ultima — Rudolfo Anaya

1972 – Occupied America — Rodolfo Acuña

1972 – God Is Red — Vine Deloria Jr.

1972 – Ego Tripping — Nikki Giovanni

1973 – Rubyfruit Jungle – Rita Mae Brown

1973 – Farewell to Manzanar — Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

1974 – Helter Skelter – Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry

1974 – Aiiieeeee! — Frank Chin et al. (eds.)

1976 – Roots — Alex Haley

1976 – The Woman Warrior — Maxine Hong Kingston

1977 – Ceremony — Leslie Marmon Silko

1978 – Tales of the City – Armistead Maupin

1978 – The Stories of John Cheever – John Cheever

1980 – Ask the Dust – John Fante

1980 – The Tortilla Curtain – T.C. Boyle

1980 – Cosmos – Carl Sagan

1981 – This Bridge Called My Back — Moraga & Anzaldúa (eds.)

1981 – What We Talk About When We Talk About Love – Raymond Carver

1981-present – Love and Rockets – Gilbert, Jaime, and Mario Hernandez

1982 – Hunger of Memory — Richard Rodriguez

1982 – The House of the Spirits — Isabel Allende

1983 – Women, Culture, & Politics — Angela Y. Davis

1984 – Sister Outsider — Audre Lorde

1984 – The House on Mango Street — Sandra Cisneros

1984 – Love Medicine — Louise Erdrich

1986 – Maus – Art Spiegelman

1987 – Fools Crow — James Welch

1987 – Beloved — Toni Morrison

1987 – Borderlands / La Frontera — Gloria Anzaldúa

1987 – And the Band Played On – Randy Schilts

1988 – M. Butterfly — David Henry Hwang

1989 – The Joy Luck Club — Amy Tan

1989 – Strangers from a Different Shore — Ronald Takaki

1989 – The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love — Oscar Hijuelos

1990 – Devil in a Blue Dress – Walter Mosley

1990 – Lakota Woman — Mary Brave Bird

1990 – – Material Dreams: Southern California Through the 1920s – Kevin Star

1990 – – The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien

1990 – Vineland – Thomas Pynchon

1991 – Rain of Gold — Victor Villaseñor

1991 – How the García Girls Lost Their Accents — Julia Alvarez

1992 – Dreaming in Cuban — Cristina García

1992 – Black California — B. Gordon Wheeler

1992 – City of Quartz – Mike Davis

1993 – Angels in America – Tony Kushner

1993 – Parable of the Sower – Octavia E. Butler

1993 – Always Running — Luis J. Rodríguez

1993 – Becoming Mexican American — George Sánchez

1993 – So Far from God — Ana Castillo

1993 – When I Was Puerto Rican — Esmeralda Santiago

1993 – From a Native Daughter — Haunani-Kay Trask

1993 – Charlie Chan Is Dead — Jessica Hagedorn (ed.)

1993 – Mankiller: A Chief and Her People — Wilma Mankiller

1994 – Black Noise — Tricia Rose

1995 – One Nation Under a Groove — Gerald Lyn Early

1995 – Under the Feet of Jesus — Helena María Viramontes

1997 – The Circuit — Francisco Jiménez

1997 – Underworld – Don Delillo

1998 – Living for Change — Grace Lee Boggs

1999 – Valencia – Michelle Tea

1999 – Interpreter of Maladies — Jhumpa Lahiri

1999 – The Coldest Winter Ever — Sister Soulja

1999 – All Our Relations — Winona LaDuke

2000 – Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth – Chris Ware

2000 – Harvest of Empire — Juan González

2000 – Asian American Dreams — Helen Zia

2000 – – The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay – Michael Chabon

2001 – Asian Americans: The Movement and the Moment — Louie & Omatsu (eds.)

2002 – 9/11 Commission Report – National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States

2003 – Her Dream of Dreams — Beverly Lowry

2003 – Death of Innocence — Mamie Till-Mobley

2003 – The Namesake — Jhumpa Lahiri

2003 – The Chinese in America — Iris Chang

2003 – Waiting for Snow in Havana — Carlos Eire

2003 – Blankets – Craig Thompson

2004 – Rising from the Rails — Larry Tye

2004 – The Devil’s Highway — Luis Alberto Urrea

2004 – Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of its Mexican Past – William Deverell

2004 – ThePlot Against America – Philip Roth

2005 – Can’t Stop Won’t Stop — Jeff Chang

2006 – Across a Hundred Mountains — Reyna Grande

2006 – Bound for Freedom — Douglas Flamming

2006 – Enrique’s Journey — Sonia Nazario

2006 – American Born Chinese — Gene Luen Yang

2006 – The Road – Cormac McCarthy

2007 – The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao — Junot Díaz

2007 – The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian – Sherman Alexie

2008 – Five Hundred Years of Chicana Women’s History — Elizabeth Martinez

2008 – The Latehomecomer — Kao Kalia Yang

2009 – Passing It On — Yuri Kochiyama

2010 – The Warmth of Other Suns — Isabel Wilkerson

2010 – Freedom Flyers — J. Todd Moye

2010 – Black Los Angeles — Hunt & Ramón (eds.)

2010 – I Hotel — Karen Tei Yamashita

2010 – Vietnamerica — GB Tran

2010 – Mendez v. Westminster — Philippa Strum

2011 – Code Talkers — Nez Chester and Judith Avila

2012 – Samurai Among Panthers — Diane C. Fujino

2012 – The Chinatown War: Chinese Los Angeles and the Massacre of 1871 – Scott Zesch

2013 – Braiding Sweetgrass — Robin Wall Kimmerer

2013 – The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins — Brenda E. Stevenson

2013 – Black and Brown in Los Angeles — Kun & Pulido

2013 – The Color of Success — Ellen Wu

2014 – Citizen 13660 — Miné Okubo

2014 – Brown Girl Dreaming — Jacqueline Woodson

2014 – The Harlem Hellfighters — Max Brooks

2014 – An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

2015 – Between the World and Me — Ta-Nehisi Coates

2015 – The Sympathizer — Viet Thanh Nguyen

2015 – The Making of Asian America — Erika Lee

2016 – From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

2016 – Original Gangstas — Ben Westhoff

2016 – Hidden Figures — Margot Lee Shetterly

2016 – Serve the People — Karen L. Ishizuka

2016 – The Paper Menagerie — Ken Liu

2016 – Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles – John Mack Faragher

2017 – The Hate U Give — Angie Thomas

2017 – The Color of Law — Richard Rothstein

2017 – I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter — Erika L. Sánchez

2017 – Pachinko — Min Jin Lee

2017 – The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen — Sean Sherman

2018 – Young, Gifted and Black — Jamia Wilson

2018 – Becoming — Michelle Obama

2018 – Heavy — Kiese Laymon

2018 – America Is Not the Heart — Elaine Castillo

2018 – Dear America — José Antonio Vargas

2018 – House of Broken Angels — Luis Alberto Urrea

2018 – The Poet X — Elizabeth Acevedo

2018 – There, There – Tommy Orange

2018 – The Library Book – Susan Orlean

2019 – The Nickel Boys — Colson Whitehead

2019 – Gender Queer: A Memoir – Maia Kobabe

2019 – How to Be an Antiracist — Ibram X. Kendi

2019 – Heartbeat of Wounded Knee — David Treuer

2019 – Interior Chinatown — Charles Yu

2019 – On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous — Ocean Vuong

2019 – They Called Us Enemy — George Takei

2019 – Hollywood Chinese — Arthur Dong

2019 – Dominicana — Angie Cruz

2019 – Ordinary Girls — Jaquira Díaz

2019 – An American Sunrise: Poems — Joy Harjo

2020 – Black Wall Street — Hannibal B. Johnson

2020 – Set the Night on Fire — Mike Davis & Jon Wiener

2020 – Being Heumann: an unrepentant memoir of a disability rights activist — Judith Heumann

2020 – Mexican Gothic — Silvia Moreno-Garcia

2020 – The Undocumented Americans — Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

2020 – Minor Feelings — Cathy Park Hong

2020 – DMZ Colony — Don Mee Choi

2020 – The Magic Fish — Trung Le Nguyen

2020 – Postcolonial Love Poems — Natalie Diaz

2020 – The Night Watchman — Louise Erdrich

2020 – The Only Good Indians — Steven Graham Jones

2021 – The 1619 Project – Nikole Hannah Jones, ed.

2021 – For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts — Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez

2021 – Crying in H Mart — Michelle Zauner

2022 – The Coveted Westside — Jennifer Mandel

2022 – Stay True — Hua Hsu

2022 – Rise — Jeff Yang et al.

2022 – No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies — Julian Aguon

2023 – Our Migrant Souls — Héctor Tobar

2023 – A Council of Dolls — Mona Susan Power

2024 – James — Percival Everett

2024 – Corky Lee’s Asian America — Corky Lee

2024 – Giant Robot — Eric Nakamura

2024 – Headshot – Rita Bulwinkel

2024 – The Generations Project: LA County Community Histories – LA County Library

2025 – Dead and Alive: Essays – Zadie Smith