Literature Aloud: Classic and Contemporary Stories, Poems, and Selected Scenes
AlbumTracklist 143:18
CD 1
| 1 | Eveline James Joyce read by Gabriel Byrne | 11:22 | |
| 2 | Girl Jamaica Kincaid | 3:50 | |
| 3 | A&P John Updike | 16:51 | |
| 4 | Nighttime Fires Regina Barreca | 1:56 | |
| 5 | The Fish Elizabeth Bishop read by Randall Jarrell | 3:46 | |
| 6 | Snowbanks North of the House Robert Bly | 1:39 | |
| 7 | The Mother Gwendolyn Brooks | 2:05 | |
| 8 | We Real Cool Gwendolyn Brooks | 2:02 | |
| 9 | next to of course god america i E. E. Cummings | 0:57 | |
| 10 | I Heard a Fly Buzz—When I Died Emily Dickinson read by Glenda Jackson | 0:52 | |
| 11 | I Heard a Fly Buzz—When I Died Emily Dickinson read by Robert Pinsky | 0:45 | |
| 12 | Presentiment Is That Long Shadow on the Lawn Emily Dickinson read by Meryl Streep | 0:17 | |
| 13 | There's a Certain Slant of Light Emily Dickinson read by Sharon Stone | 0:38 | |
| 14 | There's a Certain Slant of Light Emily Dickinson read by Julie Harris | 0:53 | |
| 15 | What Soft—Cherubic Creatures Emily Dickinson read by Robert Pinsky | 0:29 | |
| 16 | What Soft—Cherubic Creatures Emily Dickinson read by Julie Harris | 0:33 | |
| 17 | Wild Nights—Wild Nights! Emily Dickinson read by Robert Pinsky | 0:25 | |
| 18 | The Flea John Donne read by Richard Burton | 1:21 | |
| 19 | The Sun Rising John Donne read by Richard Burton | 1:31 | |
| 20 | The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock T. S. Eliot | 8:29 | |
| 21 | The Colonel Carolyn Forché | 3:40 | |
| 22 | Acquainted With the Night Robert Frost | 0:45 | |
| 23 | After Apple-Picking Robert Frost | 1:56 | |
| 24 | Birches Robert Frost | 3:02 | |
| 25 | Mending Wall Robert Frost | 2:13 |
CD 2
| 1 | Letter With No Address Donald Hall | 4:31 | |
| 2 | The Dover Bitch Anthony Hecht | 1:39 | |
| 3 | The Schoolroom on the Second Floor of the Knitting Mill Judy Page Heitzman | 1:06 | |
| 4 | Dream Boogie Langston Hughes | 0:30 | |
| 5 | Dream Variations Langston Hughes | 0:38 | |
| 6 | Harlem Langston Hughes | 0:25 | |
| 7 | Negro Langston Hughes | 0:46 | |
| 8 | The Negro Speaks of Rivers Langston Hughes | 0:42 | |
| 9 | The Weary Blues Langston Hughes | 1:35 | |
| 10 | La Belle Dame sans Merci John Keats read by Sir Ralph Richardson | 2:39 | |
| 11 | Ode on a Grecian Urn John Keats read by Sir Ralph Richardson | 3:38 | |
| 12 | Song to a Waitress Aron Keesbury | 0:36 | |
| 13 | A Visit From St. Sigmund X. J. Kennedy | 3:40 | |
| 14 | The Blue Bowl Jane Kenyon read by Donald Hall | 0:46 | |
| 15 | After Making Love We Hear Footsteps Galway Kinnell | 1:40 | |
| 16 | Blackberry Eating Galway Kinnell | 0:52 | |
| 17 | A Watts Mother Mourns While Boiling Beans Etheridge Knight | 0:34 | |
| 18 | Woodchucks Maxine Kumin | 2:01 | |
| 19 | Gathered at the River Denise Levertov | 3:07 | |
| 20 | Hazel Tells LaVerne Katharyn Howd Machan | 0:50 | |
| 21 | Rite of Passage Sharon Olds | 1:16 | |
| 22 | One Perfect Rose Dorothy Parker | 0:48 | |
| 23 | Marks Linda Pastan | 0:33 | |
| 24 | My Papa's Waltz Theodore Roethke | 0:44 | |
| 25 | My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun William Shakespeare read by John Gielgud | 0:48 | |
| 26 | Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? William Shakespeare read by John Gielgud | 0:55 | |
| 27 | When Forty Winters Shall Besiege Thy Brow William Shakespeare read by John Gielgud | 0:56 | |
| 28 | Black Hair Gary Soto | 1:48 | |
| 29 | Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night Dylan Thomas | 1:35 | |
| 30 | Love Calls Us to the Things of This World Richard Wilbur | 1:59 | |
| 31 | The Red Wheelbarrow William Carlos Williams | 0:09 | |
| 32 | A Blessing James Wright | 1:46 | |
| 33 | Adam's Curse William Butler Yeats read by Julian Sands | 2:05 | |
| 34 | That the Night Come William Butler Yeats read by Samantha Eggar | 0:34 | |
| 35 | Scene From Nora, a Stage Adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House Ingmar Bergman read by Linda Purl & David Dukes | 12:05 | |
| 36 | A Scene From M. Butterfly David Henry Hwang read by B. D. Wong | 5:25 | |
| 37 | A Scene From Hamlet William Shakespeare read by John Gielgud | 2:22 | |
| 38 | A Scene From Hamlet William Shakespeare read by Kenneth Branagh | 2:27 |