How to Write
- On Writing Well by William Zinsser
- Line by Line: How to Edit Your Own Writing by Claire Kehrwald Cook
- The Art of Styling Sentences by Wadell, Esch and Walker
Reading musts for the serious student of Western Literature
- The Divine Comedy by Dante Aligheri
- King Lear by William Shakespeare
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- Paradise Lost by John Milton
- Don Quixote by Cervantes
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
- One of Ours by Willa Cather
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
- Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
- The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
- Native Son by Richard Wright
- Collected Short Stories by Flannery O’Connor
- The Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
- Collected Poetry of Robert Penn Warren
