《美国文学经典选读：20世纪》收入了20世纪26位美国作家的经典作品，包括弗罗斯特、杰克伦敦、T.S. 艾略特、菲茨杰拉德、福克纳、海明威、厄普代克等美国文坛杰出人物的代表作，涵盖小说、诗歌等多种体裁，浓缩了美国20世纪英语文学的精华。为帮助读者理解，编选者还为入选的每位作家撰写了生平简介，为入选篇章提供了大量注释并设计了若干讨论问题，是英语专业学生及英语文学爱好者了解美国文学、提高英语阅读水平能够和欣赏水平的理想读物。
《美国文学经典选读：20世纪》收入了美国20世纪26位美国作家的经典作品，由北外英语教授、博士生导师钱青编选，入选作品体裁及风格多样，浓缩了美国20世纪英语文学的精华。
钱青：北京外国语大学教授，博士生导师，外研社英美文学文库系列主编及《英国19世纪文学史》主编，著有《英美文学工具书指南》，是《当代英文散文选读》和《美国文学名著精选》的主要编写者。
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
