55 books in series

LOA

LOA is a 55-book series with 55 released primary works first released in 1820 with contributions by Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Washington Irving, Stephen Crane, Library of America Staff, James Fenimore Cooper, Willa Cather, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, James Baldwin, Charles Brockden Brown, William L. Andrews, Henry Louis Gates, Theodore Dreiser, John Dos Passos, Ezra Pound, H. P. Lovecraft, Jack Kerouac, Philip K. Dick, Jonathan Lethem, John Marshall, Mark Twain, Lynd Ward, John Adams, Ambrose Bierce, Barbara W. Tuchman, Gary K. Wolfe, Sherwood Anderson, May Swenson, Jonathan Edwards, William Wells Brown, James Shapiro, Various, Abigail Adams, Madeleine L'Engle, Ann Petry, R.A. Lafferty, Samuel R. Delany, Jack Vance, Joanna Russ, Ursula K. Le Guin, S.J. Perelman, Ray Bradbury, Rachel Carson, Frederick Douglass, Charles Portis, Joan Didion, and John Quincy Adams.

#1
Typee, Omoo, Mardi

#1 of 55 in LOA

1982 • 1 Reader • 1,333 pages

#4
Uncle Tom's cabin, or, Life among the lowly ; The minister's wooing ; Oldtown folks

#4 of 55 in LOA

1852 • 319 Readers • 1,477 pages • 3.4

#16
Washington Irving: History, Tales & Sketches

#16 of 55 in LOA

1820 • 1 Reader • 1,198 pages

#18
Stephen Crane: Prose & Poetry

#18 of 55 in LOA

1984 • 1 Reader • 1,422 pages

#24
Herman Melville: Pierre, Israel Potter, The Piazza Tales, The Confidence-Man, Uncollected Prose, Billy Budd, Sailor

#24 of 55 in LOA

1984 • 3 Readers • 1,478 pages

#54
Sea Tales

#54 of 55 in LOA

1991 • 1 Reader • 942 pages

#57
Willa Cather: Stories, Poems, & Other Writings

#57 of 55 in LOA

1992 • 1,039 pages

#73
William Faulkner: Novels 1942–1954

#73 of 55 in LOA

1994 • 1 Reader • 1,110 pages • 5

#86
The Grapes of Wrath and Other Writings 1936–1941: The Long Valley / The Grapes of Wrath / The Log from the Sea of Cortez / The Harvest Gypsies

#86 of 55 in LOA

1996 • 3 Readers • 1,067 pages • 4

#97
Early Novels & Stories: Go Tell It on the Mountain / Giovanni’s Room / Another Country / Going to Meet the Man

#97 of 55 in LOA

1998 • 970 pages

#103
Charles Brockden Brown: Three Gothic Novels

#103 of 55 in LOA

1998 • 1 Reader • 944 pages

#114
Slave Narratives

#114 of 55 in LOA

2000 • 2 Readers • 992 pages

#123
The American Revolution: Writings from the War of Independence, 1775–1783

#123 of 55 in LOA

2001 • 3 Readers • 878 pages • 5

#132
John Steinbeck: Novels 1942-1952

#132 of 55 in LOA

1976 • 2 Readers • 1,032 pages

#140
An American Tragedy

#140 of 55 in LOA

1900 • 120 Readers • 502 pages • 3.8

#142
Dos Passos: Novels 1920-1925: One Man's Initiation: 1917, Three Soldiers, Manhattan Transfer

#142 of 55 in LOA

2003 • 1 Reader • 879 pages

#144
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Ezra Pound

#144 of 55 in LOA

2003 • 1,416 pages

#146
Three Western Narratives

#146 of 55 in LOA

2004 • 1 Reader • 1,036 pages

#155
Tales of H.P. Lovecraft

#155 of 55 in LOA

2005 • 31 Readers • 838 pages • 4.4

#174
Jack Kerouac: Road Novels 1957-1960

#174 of 55 in LOA

2007 • 2 Readers • 864 pages

#193
Philip K. Dick: VALIS and Later Novels

#193 of 55 in LOA

2009 • 874 pages

#198
John Marshall: Writings

#198 of 55 in LOA

1987 • 1 Reader • 950 pages

#200
Mark Twain: A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator, Other Travels

#200 of 55 in LOA

2010 • 2 Readers • 1,145 pages

#210
Gods’ Man / Madman’s Drum / Wild Pilgrimage

#210 of 55 in LOA

2010 • 2 Readers • 833 pages • 4.5

#211
Prelude to a Million Years / Song Without Words / Vertigo

#211 of 55 in LOA

2010

#213
Revolutionary Writings, 1755-1775

#213 of 55 in LOA

2011 • 1 Reader • 743 pages

#214
Revolutionary Writings 1775–1783

#214 of 55 in LOA

2011 • 1 Reader

#219
The Devil’s Dictionary / Tales, & Memoirs

#219 of 55 in LOA

2011 • 3 Readers • 880 pages

#222
The Guns of August

#222 of 55 in LOA

1962 • 267 Readers • 658 pages • 4.2

#227
American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels, 1953-1956

#227 of 55 in LOA

2012 • 2 Readers

#232
The War of 1812: Writings from America's Second War of Independence

#232 of 55 in LOA

2012 • 1 Reader • 892 pages

#233
American Antislavery Writings: Colonial Beginnings to Emancipation

#233 of 55 in LOA

2012 • 1 Reader • 963 pages

#235
Sherwood Anderson: Collected Stories

#235 of 55 in LOA

2012 • 1 Reader • 1,084 pages • 5

#239
Collected Poems

#239 of 55 in LOA

2013 • 1 Reader • 759 pages

#245
Writings from the Great Awakening

#245 of 55 in LOA

2013 • 1 Reader • 801 pages

#247
Clotel & Other Writings

#247 of 55 in LOA

2014 • 1 Reader • 1,042 pages

#251
Shakespeare in America: an Anthology from the Revolution to Now

#251 of 55 in LOA

2014 • 2 Readers • 724 pages

#259
Art in America 1945-1970: Writings from the Age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism

#259 of 55 in LOA

2014 • 1 Reader

#275
Letters

#275 of 55 in LOA

2016 • 1 Reader

#276
Writings from the New Nation 1784–1826

#276 of 55 in LOA

2016 • 1 Reader • 905 pages

#310
The Polly O'Keefe Quartet: The Arm of the Starfish / Dragons in the Water / A House Like a Lotus / An Acceptable Time

#310 of 55 in LOA

2018 • 1 Reader • 993 pages

#314
The Street, The Narrows

#314 of 55 in LOA

2019 • 1 Reader • 815 pages

#320
Complete Poems: Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War / Clarel / John Marr and Other Sailors / Timoleon Etc. / Posthumous & Uncollected

#320 of 55 in LOA

2019 • 2 Readers • 1,200 pages • 5

#322
American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1968-1969: Past Master / Picnic on Paradise / Nova / Emphyrio

#322 of 55 in LOA

2019

#335
Annals of the Western Shore: Gifts / Voices / Powers

#335 of 55 in LOA

2017 • 1 Reader • 672 pages

#338
Octavia E. Butler: Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories

#338 of 55 in LOA

2021 • 7 Readers • 790 pages • 4.5

#346
S. J. Perelman: Writings

#346 of 55 in LOA

2021 • 1 Reader • 629 pages

#347
Novels & Story Cycles: The Martian Chronicles / Fahrenheit 451 / Dandelion Wine / Something Wicked This Way Comes

#347 of 55 in LOA

1962 • 900 pages

#352
Cover 7

Rachel Carson

#352 of 55 in LOA

2021 • 2 Readers

#358
Frederick Douglass: Speeches & Writings

#358 of 55 in LOA

2022 • 1 Reader

#360
Ray Bradbury: The Illustrated Man, The October Country & Other Stories

#360 of 55 in LOA

2022 • 1 Reader • 992 pages

#368
Collected Poems

#368 of 55 in LOA

2018 • 2 Readers • 850 pages • 4

#369
Charles Portis: Collected Works

#369 of 55 in LOA

2023 • 2 Readers • 1,096 pages

#382
Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology

#382 of 55 in LOA

2024 • 1 Reader • 4

#386
Joan Didion: Memoirs & Later Writings

#386 of 55 in LOA

2024 • 1 Reader

#390
John Quincy Adams: Speeches & Writings

#390 of 55 in LOA

2025 • 1 Reader • 832 pages