陶洁主编的《美国文学选读(第3版普通高等教育十一五国家级规划教材)》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”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。

Unit 1 Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
The Autobiography (Excerpt)
Unit 2 Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
The Cask of Amontillado
Unit 3 Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Self-Reliance (Excerpt)
Unit 4 Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804--1864)
The Scarlet Letter -- Chapter
Unit 5 Herman Melville (1819-1891)
Moby Dick -- Chapter
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)
The Jolly Corner
Unit 10 Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
The Open Boat
Unit 11 Willa Cather (1873-1947)
Miss Jewett
Unit 12 Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)
The Triumph of the Egg
Unit 13 Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Unit 14 F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
The Great Gatsby -- Chapter
Unit 15 William Faulkner (1897-1962)
Barn Burning
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)
Once More to the Lake
Unit 20 Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
A Streetcar Named Desire
Unit 21 Ralph Waldo Ellison (1914-1994)
Invisible Man -- Chapter
Unit 22 20th-Century American Poets (II)
Robert Lowell (1917-1977)
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
Robert Hayden (1913-1980)
Robert Bly (1926-)
MayaAngelou (1928-)
Unit 23 Arthur Miller (1915-2005)
Death of a Salesman -- Act II (Excerpt)
Unit 24 Saul Bellow (1915-2005)
Looking for Mr. Green
Unit 25 Joseph l-Idler (1923--1999)
Catch-22 (Chapter41)
Unit 26 Toni Morrison (1931- )
Recitatif
Unit 27 Louise Erdrieh (1954- )
Lulu's Boys