Anthology and novels sold separately:
- The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter 8th edition (Norton)
- Giovanni's Room, by James Baldwin (Penguin)
- Sula, by Toni Morrison (Vintage)
- The Complete Maus, by Art Spiegelman (Penguin)
Syllabus texts in the Norton anthology:
- Jonathan Edwards, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
- Benjamin Franklin, “Autobiography (Part II)”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Minister’s Black Veil”
- Herman Melville, “Bartleby, the Scrivener”
- Walt Whitman, “Live Oak, with Moss”
- Emily Dickinson, poems no. 241, 258
- Harriet Jacobs, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl"
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wall-paper”
- Zitkala Sa, “The Soft-Hearted Sioux”
- Sui Sin Far, “Mrs. Spring Fragrance”
- William Carlos Williams, “The Red Wheelbarrow” and “The Young Housewife”
- Langston Hughes, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
- William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily”
- Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
- Sylvia Plath, “Daddy”
- Elizabeth Bishop, “In the Waiting Room”