The Library of America: The Best in American Literature

The Library of America, a nonprofit publisher, is dedicated to publishing, and keeping in print, authoritative editions of America's best and most significant writing.

Hailed by The New York Times Book Review as the "quasi-official national canon" of American literature, The Library of America each year adds new volumes collecting essential novels, stories, poetry, plays, essays, journalism, historical writing, speeches, and more. (For a complete list of titles arranged by subject, click here.)

• Recent and forthcoming volumes feature the work of Saul Bellow, Elizabeth Bishop, Philip K. Dick, Jack Kerouac, A. J. Liebling, William Maxwell, Thornton Wilder, and Edmund Wilson, as well as the definitive edition of Philip Roth's collected works.
• The best-selling authors in the series include James Baldwin, Robert Frost, Dashiell Hammett, Zora Neale Hurston, Thomas Jefferson, H. P. Lovecraft, Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Paine, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Walt Whitman.
• The Library of America also recently published the special anthologies American Food Writing and American Religious Poems.

Library of America volumes may be purchased individually (directly from this Web site, from many online booksellers, or from your local bookstore) or by subscription at discounts of more than 30%.