《美國文學經典選讀：20世紀》收入了20世紀26位美國作家的經典作品，包括弗羅斯特、杰克倫敦、T.S. 艾略特、菲茨杰拉德、福克納、海明威、厄普代克等美國文壇杰出人物的代表作，涵蓋小說、詩歌等多種體裁，濃縮了美國20世紀英語文學的精華。為幫助讀者理解，編選者還為入選的每位作家撰寫了生平簡介，為入選篇章提供了大量注釋并設計了若干討論問題，是英語專業學生及英語文學愛好者了解美國文學、提高英語閱讀水平能夠和欣賞水平的理想讀物。
《美國文學經典選讀：20世紀》收入了美國20世紀26位美國作家的經典作品，由北外英語教授、博士生導師錢青編選，入選作品體裁及風格多樣，濃縮了美國20世紀英語文學的精華。
錢青：北京外國語大學教授，博士生導師，外研社英美文學文庫系列主編及《英國19世紀文學史》主編，著有《英美文學工具書指南》，是《當代英文散文選讀》和《美國文學名著精選》的主要編寫者。
1. Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
RomanFever
2. Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)
From Sister Carrie
3. Willa Cather (1873-1947)
A Wagner Matinee
4. Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Mending Wall
HomeBurial
The Road Not Taken
Birches
"Out, Out -"
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Desig
Desert Places
5. Jack London (1876-1916)
The Law of Life
6. Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)
Death in the Woods
7. Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
The Snow Man
The Emperor of Ice-Cream
Anecdote of the Jar
8. William Carlos Williams(1883- 1963)
The Widow 's Lament in Springtime
Spring and All
The Red Wheelbarrow
This Is Just to Say
To a Poor Old Woman
The Dance
9. Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
A Pact
In a Station of the Metro
TheRiver-Merchant's Wife : A Letter
From Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
10. T. S.Eliot (1888-1965)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
11. Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953)
From Long Day's Journey into Night
12. Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)
The Grave
13. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
From The Great Gatsby
14. William Faulkner (1897-1962)
A Rose for Emily
15. Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Indian Camp
Hills Like White Elephants
A Clean,Well-Lighted Place
16. John S teinbeck ( 1902-1968)
From The Grapes of Wrath
17. Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Mother to Son
The Weary Blues
Song for a Dark Girl
Freedom Train
Harlem
18. Eudora Welty (1909-2001)
A Worn Path
19. Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
The Fish
At the Fishhouses
Sestina
One Art
20. Ralph Ellison (1913-1994)
From Invisible Man
21. Saul Bellow (1915-2005)
From Seize the Day
22. Arthur Miller ( 1915-2005)
From Death of a Salesman
23. Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
Good Country People
24. Toni Morrison (b. 1931)
The Bluest Eye
25. John Updike (1932-2009)
Separating
26. Alice Walker (b. 1944)
Everyday Use
