《美国文学选读》（第三版）（Selected Readings in American Literature）是高等院校英语专业教材，也可供师范院校、教育学院、广播电视大学及社会上英语自学者学习使用。
本书以20世纪美国重要作家的作品为主，同时选收18、19世纪的经典作家的作品，在体裁上兼顾小说、诗歌、戏剧与散文。本书的序言简要介绍美国文学发展的历史、各阶段重要的文学流派及代表性作家与作品。正文部分共27个单元，每单元包括“作者简介”、“赏析”、“选文”、“注释”和“问题”等五个部分。选文为长篇著作的选段时，该单元后面还附有该作家的一些箴言名句。
- Front Matter
- Unit 1 Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
- The Autobiography (Excerpt)
- Unit 2 Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
- Unit 3 Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
- Unit 4 Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)
- The Scarlet Letter — Chapter 2
- Unit 5 Herman Melville (1819–1891)
- Unit 6 Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
- Walden — Chapter 2 (Excerpt)
- Unit 7 19th-Century American Poets
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
- Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
- Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
- Unit 8 Mark Twain (1835–1910)
- The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
- Unit 9 Henry James (1843–1916)
- Unit 10 Stephen Crane (1871–1900)
- Unit 11 Willa Cather (1873–1947)
- Unit 12 Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941)
- Unit 13 Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980)
- The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
- Unit 14 F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
- The Great Gatsby — Chapter 9
- Unit 15 William Faulkner (1897–1962)
- Unit 16 Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
- A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
- Unit 17 20th-Century American Poets (I)
- Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
- Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
- William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)
- Robert Frost (1874–1963)
- Langston Hughes (1902–1967)
- Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)
- Unit 18 Eugene Glastone O’Neill (1888–1953)
- Desire Under the Elms — Scene IV
- Unit 19 Elwyn Brooks White (1899–1985)
- Unit 20 Tennessee Williams (1911–1983)
- Unit 21 Ralph Waldo Ellison (1914–1994)
- Invisible Man — Chapter 1
- Unit 22 20th-Century American Poets (II)
- Robert Lowell (1917–1977)
- Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)
- Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)
- CONTENTS iii
- Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997)
- Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)
- Robert Hayden (1913–1980)
- Robert Bly (1926– )
- Maya Angelou (1928– )
- Unit 23 Arthur Miller (1915–2005)
- Death of a Salesman — Act II (Excerpt)
- Unit 24 Saul Bellow (1915–2005)
- Unit 25 Joseph Heller (1923–1999)
- Unit 26 Toni Morrison (1931– )
- Unit 27 Louise Erdrich (1954– )
