Teaching Guides
101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived by Allan Lazar, Dan Karlan, and Jeremy Salter
The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie
The Alchemist* by Paulo Coelho
American Tapestry* by Rachel L. Swarns
And Then There Were None* by Agatha Christie
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
Ariel by Sylvia Plath
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt* by Eleanor Roosevelt
Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston
Beacon Hills High by Mo’Nique and Sherri McGee McCovey
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala
Beauty Sick by Renee Engeln
Becoming Cliterate by Laurie Mintz
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Ben, In the World by Doris Lessing
Black Boy by Richard Wright
The Book of the Dun Cow by Walter Wangerin Jr.
Boys & Sex by Peggy Orenstein
Brave New World* by Aldous Huxley
Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley
The Bridge of San Luis Rey* by Thornton Wilder
A Broom of One’s Own by Nancy Peacock
Carry On by Lisa Fenn
Capital Dames by Cokie Roberts
Cassandra Speaks by Elizabeth Lesser
Charlie Whistler's Omnium Gatherum by Philip Delves Broughton
Chicano by Richard Vasquez
Dare to Speak by Suzanne Nossel
A Deadly Wandering by Matt Richtel
Dear America by Jose Antonio Vargas
Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
The Essential Ginsberg* by Allen Ginsberg, edited by Michael Schumacher
Everybody Lies by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
Every Tongue Got to Confess by Zora Neale Hurston
The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer
Finding Fish by Antwone Quenton Fisher
First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung
The Forgotten Man, Graphic Edition by Amity Shlaes
Forty Autumns by Nina Willner
Founding Mothers* by Cokie Roberts
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
French Kids Eat Everything by Karen Le Billon
Girls & Sex by Peggy Orenstein
Go Set a Watchman* by Harper Lee
Gold by Isaac Asimov
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
The Great and Calamitous Tale of Johan Thoms by Ian Thornton
The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread by Dan Robertson
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
The Hidden Habits of Genius by Craig Wright
The Hidden Life of Otto Frank by Carol Ann Lee
Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance
House Made of Dawn by M. Scott Momaday
How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Revised Edition* by Thomas C. Foster
How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster (Index)
How to Read Poetry Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster
How to Read the Constitution and Why by Kim Wehle
How to Write a Sentence by Stanley Fish
The Ides of March* by Thornton Wilder
Israel by Daniel Gordis
It All Changed in an Instant edited by SMITH Magazine
Kid Quixotes by Stephen Haff
Ladies of Liberty* by Cokie Roberts
Last Days of Summer by Steve Kluger
Let the Lion Eat Straw by Ellease Southerland
Letters to a Bullied Girl by Olivia Gardner
Letting Go by Karen Levin Coburn and Madge Treeger
Like Dreamers by Yossi Klein Halevi
Lincoln: How Abraham Lincoln Ended Slavery in America* by Harold Holzer
Lost Horizon by James Hilton
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
Lucky Child by Loung Ung
Making Mischief by Gregory Maguire
Management Cases by Peter F. Drucker
The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder
Midnight in Broad Daylight by Pamela Rotner Sakamoto
Murder on the Orient Express* by Agatha Christie
A Nation of Immigrants by John F. Kennedy
Native Son by Richard Wright
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Not For Sale by David Batstone
Not Quite What I Was Planning edited by SMITH Magazine
Not That Bad edited by Roxane Gay
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
On Hitler’s Mountain by Irmgard A. Hunt
Ophelia Speaks by Sara Shandler
Orphan Train* by Christina Baker Kline
Our Town* by Thornton Wilder
Packinghouse Daughter by Cheri Register
Peril at End House by Agatha Christie
The Person You Mean to Be by Dolly Chugh
A Prayer for Owen Meany* by John Irving
Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy
Red Sky at Morning by Richard Branford
Run by Ann Patchett
The Secrets of Mary Bowser by Lois Leveen
The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder
Smyrna, September 1922 by Lou Ureneck
Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat by Hal Herzog
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Sounder by William H. Armstrong
Sounds of the River by Da Chen
A Stone of Hope by Jim St. Germain
SuperFreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Summerland by Michael Chabon
Their Eyes Were Watching God* by Zora Neale Hurston
There Is Life After College by Jeffrey J. Selingo
Theophilus North by Thornton Wilder
Think Like a Freak by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
To Kill a Mockingbird* by Harper Lee
Unforgetting by Roberto Lovato
Walking the Bible by Bruce Feiler
Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled by Wendy Pearlman
We Need to Talk by Celeste Headlee
We Were There by Yvonne Latty
Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? by Kathleen Collins
The Wild Truth by Carine McCandless
Wheelock’s Latin by Frederic M. Wheelock and Richard A. LaFleur
Where God Was Born by Bruce Feiler
Why Poetry by Matthew Zapruder
A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum
*Denotes a Common Core-aligned teaching guide