- The Cambridge companion to postmodern American fiction, edited by Paula Geyh
- Contemporary American novelists of the absurd,, by Charles B. Harris
- American Indian fiction, Charles R. Larson
- Abortion, choice, and contemporary fiction, the armageddon of the maternal instinct, Judith Wilt
- The politics of exile, ideology in Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and James Baldwin, Bryan R. Washington
- The landscape of nightmare, studies in the contemporary American novel, by Jonathan Baumbach
- Aggressive fictions, reading the contemporary American novel, Kathryn Hume
- Late modernism, politics, fiction, and the arts between the world wars, Tyrus Miller
- Redlining culture, a data history of racial inequality and postwar fiction, Richard Jean So
- The new novel in America;, the Kafkan mode in contemporary fiction
- The middle western farm novel in the twentieth century,, by Roy W. Meyer
- Reading myself and others, Philip Roth
- The American soldier in fiction, 1880-1963, a history of attitudes toward warfare and the military establishment, Peter Aichinger
- Beyond the waste land:, a study of the American novel in the nineteen-sixties,, by Raymond M. Olderman
- War and the novelist, appraising the American war novel, Peter G. Jones ; with a foreword by M. L. Rosenthal
- Writers in crisis; the American novel, 1925-1940
- Unequivocal Americanism, right-wing novels in the Cold War era, by Macel D. Ezell
- Man in modern fiction;, some minority opinions on contemporary American writing
- Southern fiction today;, renascence and beyond., Edited by George Core
- Black humor fiction of the sixties;, a pluralistic definition of man and his world, [by] Max F. Schulz
- Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, and Charolotte Perkins Gilman, studies in short fiction, Janet Beer
- Embroidering the Scarlet A, unwed mothers and illegitimate children in American fiction and film, Janet Mason Ellerby
- Les américanistes, new French criticism on modern American fiction, [edited by] Ira D. Johnson and Christiane Johnson
- The creative present;, notes on contemporary American fiction., Edited by Nona Balakian and Charles Simmons
- The dream of the great American novel, Lawrence Buell
- Black pulp, genre fiction in the shadow of Jim Crow, Brooks E. Hefner
- The American novel now, reading contemporary American fiction since 1980, Patrick O'Donnell
- The Cambridge companion to American fiction after 1945, [edited by] John N. Duvall
- Windows on the world, essays on American social fiction, C. Hugh Holman
- The Pulitzer prize novels;, a critical backward look,, by W.J. Stuckey
- The sweeter welcome, voices for a vision of affirmation--Bellow, Malamud, and Martin Buber, Robert Kegan
- Seven novelists in the American naturalist tradition, an introduction, edited by Charles Child Walcutt
- The modern American novel;, essays in criticism,, edited, with an introd., by Max Westbrook
- The newspaper in the American novel, 1900-1969
- The escape motif in the American novel: Mark Twain to Richard Wright
- New essays on The grapes of wrath, edited by David Wyatt
- Seven modern American novelists;, an introduction
- Fiction of the forties
- The world we imagine;, selected essays
- Epiphany in the modern novel
- Seven American women writers of the twentieth century, an introduction, edited by Maureen Howard
- The death of art: black and white in the recent Southern novel, [by] Floyd C. Watkins
- World War I and the American novel
- Man in the modern novel, John Edward Hardy
- Nat Turner, a troublesome property, directed by Charles Burnett ; produced by Frank Christopher ; written by Charles Burnett, Frank Christopher, Kenneth S. Greenberg ; produced in association with KQED Public Television ; a production of subpix LLC
- Trailing clouds, immigrant fiction in contemporary America, David Cowart
- City of words:, American fiction, 1950-1970
- American fiction, 1920-1940:, John Dos Passos, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, Erskine Caldwell, James T. Farrell, John P. Marquand [and] John Steinbeck
- American writers for children since 1960, fiction, edited by Glenn E. Estes
- American fictions, 1940-1980, a comprehensive history and critical evaluation, Frederick R. Karl