Multicultural American Literature:

  • The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
  • Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
  • Bearheart: The Heirship Chronicles by Gerald Vizenor
  • Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
  • Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko
  • The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday
  • House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
  • Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
  • Miles from Nowhere by Nami Mun
  • The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
  • Solar Storms by Linda Hogan
  • Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan
  • People of the Whale by Linda Hogan
  • Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
  • Tracks by Louise Erdrich
  • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
  • The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
  • The Devil’s Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea
  • By the Lake of Sleeping Children by Luis Alberto Urrea
  • House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
  • Borderlands/La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldua
  • The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Words Under the Words by Naomi Shihab Nye
  • How We Became Human by Joy Harjo
  • Crazy Brave by Joy Harjo
  • Toxic Flora by Kimiko Hahn

Environmental Literature:

  • A Conservationist Manifesto by Scott Russell Sanders
  • The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
  • The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You by Dorothy Bryant
  • Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
  • When the Killing’s Done by TC Boyle
  • Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert by Terry Tempest Williams
  • The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth by E. O. Wilson
  • Biophilia: The Human Bond with Other Species by E. O. Wilson
  • Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
  • The Mountains of California by John Muir
  • The Land of Little Rain by Mary Austin
  • Walden: or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
  • The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  • Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
  • Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
  • Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
  • Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
  • Ecology of a Cracker Childhood by Janisse Ray
  • The Practice of the Wild by Gary Snyder
  • The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich
  • Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply by Vandana Shiva
  • The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
  • Solar Storms by Linda Hogan
  • White Noise by Don Delillo
  • Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World by Linda Hogan
  • Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
  • The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture by Wendell Berry