| Mark Twain on the Loose: A Comic Writer and the American Self BF Michelson University of Massachusetts Press, 1995 | 103 | 1995 |
| "Technology" B Michelson The Oxford Companion to Mark Twain, ed. Gregg Camfield, 591-599, 2003 | 73* | 2003 |
| Printer's Devil: Mark Twain and the American Publishing Revolution B Michelson University of California Press, 2006 | 56 | 2006 |
| Literary Wit B Michelson Univ of Massachusetts Press, 2000 | 39 | 2000 |
| Wilbur's Poetry: Music in a Scattering Time B Michelson Univ of Massachusetts Press, 1991 | 36 | 1991 |
| Mark Twain the tourist: The form of the innocents abroad B Michelson American Literature 49 (3), 385-398, 1977 | 28 | 1977 |
| Edith Wharton's House Divided B MICHELSON STUDIES IN AMERICAN FICTION 12 (2), 199-215, 1984 | 20 | 1984 |
| Theron Ware in the Wilderness of Ideas B Michelson American Literary Realism, 1870-1910 25 (1), 54-73, 1992 | 19 | 1992 |
| The Myth of Gatsby B Michelson Modern Fiction Studies 26 (4), 563-577, 1980 | 17 | 1980 |
| Deus Ludens: The Shaping of Mark Twain's "Mysterious Stranger" B Michelson Novel: A Forum on Fiction 14 (1), 44-56, 1980 | 17 | 1980 |
| Huck and the Games of the World B Michelson American Literary Realism, 1870-1910, 108-121, 1980 | 15 | 1980 |
| Hawthorne's House of Three Stories B Michelson The New England Quarterly 57 (2), 163-183, 1984 | 14 | 1984 |
| Realism, Romance, and Dynamite: The Quarrel of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court B Michelson The New England Quarterly 64 (4), 609-632, 1991 | 12 | 1991 |
| The Idea of Henderson B Michelson Twentieth Century Literature 27 (4), 309-324, 1981 | 8 | 1981 |
| Ever Such a Good Time: The Structure of Mark Twain's Roughing It BF Michelson Dutch Quarterly Review of Anglo-American Letters 17, 182-199, 1987 | 7 | 1987 |
| Joyce Carol Oates: an annotated bibliography F Lercangée, BF Michelson Garland Pub., 1986 | 7 | 1986 |
| Sam Clemens and the Mississippi River Metropolis BF Michelson Cosmopolitan Twain, 64-92, 2008 | 5 | 2008 |
| Keillor, Rölvaag, and the art of telling the truth B Michelson American Studies 30 (1), 21-34, 1989 | 5 | 1989 |
| Randall Jarrell and Robert Lowell: The Making of" Lord Weary's Castle" B Michelson Contemporary literature 26 (4), 402-425, 1985 | 4 | 1985 |
| The web and the rites of knowing B Michelson Educational Technology, 17-22, 2001 | 3 | 2001 |
