The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Genesis
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks
The Narrative of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
The Narrative of Henry Box Brown by Henry Brown
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
“The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin
“A White Heron” by Sarah Orne Jewett
Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. DuBois
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Confessions by Augstine
excerpts from The Squatter and the Don by Maria Ruiz de Burton
“In the Land of the Free” by Sui Sin Far
Maus I and Maus II by Art Spiegelman
Modernist Poetry (Eliot, Pound, Stein, cummings, Stevens, Williams, Frost)
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Eat and Run : My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness by Scott Jurek
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Night by Elie Wiesel
“Separating” by John Updike
“The Devil is a Busy Man” by David Foster Wallace
“Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow” by Kurt Vonnegut
“A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“Cathedral” by Raymond Carver
“The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara
“What Work Is” by Phillip Levine
“How to Tell a True War Story” by Tim O’Brien
“The White Man’s Burden” by Rudyard Kipling
Prologue and Chapter 1 from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
“Persimmons” by Li-Young Lee
“It’s a Class Struggle, Godammit!” by Fred Hampton
Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
“The Petrified Man” by Eudora Welty
“The Red Convertible” by Louise Erdrich
“Yellow Woman” by Leslie Marmon Silko
“Gilded Six-Bits” by Zora Neale Hurston
“The Balloon” by Donald Barthelme
“Entropy” by Thomas Pynchon
“Remember” by Joy Harjo
“A&P” by John Updike
Night by Eli Wiesel
“The Black Church” by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
“The Meaning of Emancipation for Black Women” by Angela Davis
“The Wife of Bath’s Tale and Prologue” by Geoffrey Chaucer
“TV People” by Haruki Murakami
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know” by Adam Grant
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Things Fall Apart by China Achebe
Speak: The Graphic Novel by Laurie Halse Anderson and Emily Carroll
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
