- The Odyssey, Homer -
- Macbeth, Shakespeare -
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain -
- Poetry (Dickinson, Whitman, Frost, Hughes) -
- The House on Mango Street, Cisneros -
- A Lesson Before Dying, Gaines -
- Something Wicked This Way Comes, Bradbury -
- The Secret Life of Bees, Kidd -
- All the Light We Cannot See, Doerr -
- News of the World, Jiles -
- When the Emperor Was Divine, Otsuka -
- Boys in the Boat, Brown -
- How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Alvarez -
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Angelou -
- Leaving Home (anthology), Rochman & McCampbell -
- Ethan Frome, Wharton -
- The Crucible, Miller -
- United States in Literature (reader), Miller, Dwyer & Wood -
- The Glass Menagerie, Williams -
- Points of View (collection), Moffett & McElheny -
- Into the Wild, Krakauer
An American Experience: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain paired with a contemporary text -
An Epic Journey: The Odyssey, by Homer -
Hubris, Ambition and Tragedy: Macbeth, by William Shakespeare -
Distinct American Poetic Voices - Selected poetry by Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and Langston Hughes
The Odyssey, Homer
Ethan Frome, Wharton
Into the Wild - In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. This is the unforgettable story of how Christopher Johnson McCandless came to die.
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