- _River of Shadows_ by Jeannette Walls
- _On the River of Plums_ by Amy Tan
- _The River Why_ by David James Duncan
- _Run, River_ by Ann Patchett
- _Along a Great River_ by Jason Chin
- _All Along the River_ by Richard Peck
- _And So the River Flows_ by Alan Watts
Poems
- "River" by Langston Hughes
- "The River" by W.S. Merwin
- "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth
- "In a Station of the Metro" by Ezra Pound
- "O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman
- "The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter" by Ezra Pound
- "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Sara Teasdale