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| 1884 |
| | | Huck Finn and his friend Tom Sawyer continue their exploits on the Mississippi in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | |
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| 1885 |
| | | In his novel The Rise of Silas Lapham US author William Dean Howells follows the fortunes of a self-made man in Boston | |
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| 1886 |
| | | US author Frances Hodgson Burnett publishes Little Lord Fauntleroy, featuring an aristocratic child in a velvet suit | |
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| 1890 |
| | | Poems is the first of six collections of Emily Dickinson's poetry, found among her papers on her death and published posthumously | |
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| 1891 |
| | | Herman Melville dies in obscurity in New York, with an unpublished manuscript of Billy Budd (not printed till 1924) | |
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| 1892 |
| | | Leaves of Grass, still growing, is published in its ninth edition in the year of Walt Whitman's death | |
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| 1893 |
| | | US author Stephen Crane cannot find a publisher for his first novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, so issues it privately | |
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| 1895 |
| | | Stephen Crane succeeds handsomely with his second novel, The Red Badge of Courage, set in the American Civil War | |
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| 1896 |
| | | The prolific US poet Edwin Arlington Robinson publishes The Torrent and the Night Before, his first poems about the fictional Tilbury Town | |
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| 1897 |
| | | Henry James views the feckless adults in Maisie's life through the eyes of the child herself in What Maisie Knew | |
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