Books I Taught in a First-Year Course from 2008-2011 (Three Semesters)

Adrian Tomine, Shortcomings

August Wilson, Fences

Barb Johnson, More of This World or Maybe Another

Barbara Shoup, Everything You Want

Bonnie Jo Campbell, American Salvage

Brady Udall, The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint

Brian K. Vaughan, et al., Pride of Baghdad

Cathy Day, The Circus in Winter

Christopher Coake, We’re in Trouble

Colum McCann, This Side of Brightness

Daniel Woodrell, Winter’s Bone

Donald Ray Pollock, Knockemstiff

Dylan Landis, Normal People Don’t Live Like This

Eugene O’Neill, Long Day’s Journey into Night

Junot Diaz, Drown

Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun

Louise Erdrich, Tracks

Marie Howe, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time

Patricia Henley, Hummingbird House

Paul Harding, Tinkers

Paul Yoon, Once the Shore

Per Petterson, Out Stealing Horses

Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried

Tracy Winn, Mrs. Somebody Somebody