Class Readings
- “Nightfall” (short story) by Isaac Asimov (1941)
- Nightfall (novel) by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg (1990)
- A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah (2007)
- “You Had One Job” by Scott Brown (2016)
- Wabash by Robert Olen Butler (1987)
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
- Turtles all the Way Down by John Green (2017)
- Exit West by Mohsin Hamid (2017)
- The Odyssey by Homer
- A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry (1959)
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)
- “A Passage of the Hands” in About This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory by Barry Lopez (1998)
- “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Peggy McIntosh (1989)
- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah (2016)
- Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family by Amy Ellis Nutt (2015)
- The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien (1990)
- Animal Farm by George Orwell (1945)
- A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki (2013)
- Gabi, a Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero (2014)
- Anthem by Ayn Rand (1938)
- American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers by Nancy Jo Sales (2017)
- Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
- Maus by Art Spiegelman (serialized 1980 to 1991)
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939)
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (1937)
- “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” by Wallace Stevens (1917)
- Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance (2016)
- Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware (serialized 1995 to 2000)
- Night by Elie Wiesel (1956, translated into English in 1960)
- Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson (2016)
- Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (2014)