Primary Texts
- London, Jack, The Call of the Wild (Ed. Nicholas Ruddick, Broadview, 2009), ISBN: 9781551118444
- Auster, Paul, Timbuktu (Picador, 1999), ISBN: 978031242894
- Melville, Herman, Moby-Dick (Ed. Hershel Parker, Norton Critical Edition, 3rd ed., 2017), ISBN: 978-0-393-28500-0
- Hogan, Linda, People of the Whale (Norton, 2008), ISBN: 9780393064575
- Sinclair, Upton, The Jungle (Ed. Clare Virginia Eby, Norton Critical Edition, 2002), ISBN: 978-0-393-97779-0
- Ozeki, Ruth L., My Year of Meats (Canongate Books), ISBN 9781782111146
Secondary Texts
- McHugh, Susan, Dog (Reaktion Books, 2004), ISBN: 1861892039
- Roman, Joe, Whale (Reaktion Books, 2006), ISBN: 9781861892461
- Velten, Hannah, Cow (Reaktion Books, 2007), ISBN: 9781861893260
- Lundblad, Michael, The Birth of a Jungle: Animality in Progressive-Era U.S. Literature and Culture (Oxford, 2015), ISBN: 9780190231583
Additional secondary readings TBA