Reflection

· “Self Reliance” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

· “The Declaration of Independence”

· “On Human Understanding” – John Locke

· Ragged Dick – Horatio Alger

· On Walden Pond – Henry David Thoreau

· The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne

· Billy Budd – Herman Melville

· The Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane

· Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain

· Death of a Salesman –Arthur Miller

· The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

· In Our Time – Ernst Hemingway

· The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan

· Fight Club – Chuck Palahniuk

· The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love – Oscar Hijuelos

· How the Other Half Lives – Jacob Riis (photojournalism)

· A Raisin in the Sun – Lorraine Hansberry

· The American Dream – Edward Albee (dramatic play)

· The Day of the Locust – Nathaniel West

· Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison

· Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson

· The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream – Barak Obama

· The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay – Michael Chabon

· The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

· Watchmen – Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons

· Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides

· Revolutionary Road – Richard Yates

· The Right Stuff – Tom Wolfe

· Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America - Barbara Ehrenreich