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Textbooks:
At a Glance: Writing Essays and Beyond with Integrated Readings, 6th Edition. Lee Brandon. Wadsworth Publishing, 2014.
They Say, I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing, 3rd Edition. Birkenstein, Graff, and Durst. W. W. Norton & Co., 2014.
Exploring Language, 14th Edition. Goashgarian, Gary. Longman, 2014.
The Curious Writer 5th Edition. Ballenger, Bruce. Longman, 2016.
The Call to Write, 6th Edition, Trimbur, John. Wadsworth Publishing, 2013.
Rereading America: Cultural Contexts for Critical Thinking and Writing, 9th Edition by Gary Colombo and Robert Cullen. Bedford/St. Martin's, 2013.
A Community of Readers, 7th edition. Alexander, Roberta, and Jan Lombardi. Wadsworth Publishing, 2015.
Choices: A Writing Guide with Readings, 5th edition. Mangelsdorf, Kate, and Evelyn Posey. Bedford/St. Martin's, 2012.
Interactions: A Thematic Reader, 9th edition. Moseley, Ann, and Jeanette Harris. Houghton Mifflin, 2015.
The Least You Should Know about English, 12th edition. Paige Wilson and Teresa Ferster Glazier. Wadsworth, 2014.
Rules of Thumb: A Guide for Writers, 9th edition. Silverman, Jay, Elaine Hughes, and Diana Roberts Wienbroer. McGraw-Hill, 2012.
Non-fiction and Memoir: (all classics)
A Walk in the Woods, Bryson, Bill, Harper, 1999.
Outliers. Gladwell, Malcolm. Back Bay Books, 2011.
Best American Essays of the Century. Oates and Atwan, eds. Mariner, 2001.
50 Essays, 4th edition. Cohen, Samuel. Bedford/St. Martin's, 2014.
Me Talk Pretty One Day. Sedaris, David. Back Bay, 2000.
A Death in Belmont. Junger, Sebastian. Norton, 2006.
Into Thin Air. Krakauer, Jon. Villard, 1997.
Into the Wild. Krakauer, Jon. Signet, 2005.
The Hunger of Memory. Rodriguez, Richard. Dial Press, 2004.
House Made of Dawn. Momaday, N. Scott. Signet, 2004.
Shadows on the Koyukuk. Huntington, Sidney, and Jim Reardon. Alaska Northwest Books, 1993.
Persepolis (Graphic Novel). Satrapi, Marjane. Pantheon, 2004.
What The Best College Students Do. Bain, Ken. Belknap, 2012.
(E)dentity. Vie, Stephanie. Fountainhead, 2011.
Black Boy. Wright, Richard. Harper/Perennial, 2008.
I Am Malala. Yousafzai, Malala. Back Bay, 2013.
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. Pink, Daniel. Riverhead Books, 2011.
Fiction: (all classics)
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. Alvarez, Julia. Algonquin, 2010.
The Hunger Games. Collins, Suzanne. Scholastic, 2008.
Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen. Vintage, 1997
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. Mariner Books, 2009.
Little Bee. Cleave, Chris. Simon & Schuster, 2008.
A Friend of the Earth. Boyle, T.C. Penguin, 2001.
Fight Club. Palahniuk, Chuck. Holt Paperbacks, 2004.
Tortilla Curtain. T. Coraghessan Boyle. Penguin Books, 1996.
Cannery Row. Steinbeck, John. Penguin, 2002.
The Color Purple. Walker, Alice. Harvest, 2006.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Diaz, Junot. Riverhead Books, 2008.
Girl in Hyacinth Blue. Vreeland, Susan. Knopf, 2007.
The Joy Luck Club. Tan, Amy. Penguin, 2006.
The Kite Runner. Hosseini, Khaled. Riverhead/Penguin, 2003.
Milkweed. Spinelli, Jerry. Laurel Leaf/Random House, 2003.
The Namesake. Lashiri, Jumpa. Mariner, 2004.
Parrot in the Oven. Martinez, Victor. Rayo, 2004.
Kindred. Butler, Octavia. Beacon, 2008.
Montana 1948. Watson, Larry. Milkweek Editions, 2007.
Election. Perrotta, Tom. Berkeley Trade, 1998.
Sold. McCormick, Patricia. Hyperion, 2008.
My Name Is Aram. Saroyan, William. Capuchin, 2009.