Amy B. Smoyer, PhD

What is AmY reading?

2024

Salmona, M., Lieber, E., Kaczynski (2020). Data analysis using Dedoose: A practical approach for research across the social sciences. Sage Publishing.

Smith, K. & Morris, M. W. (2011). Poster child: The Kemba Smith story. IJB Book Publishing.

Carter, J. (2001). An hour before daylight: Memories of a rural boyhood. Simon and Schuster. Audiobook

Slocumb, B. (2022). The violin conspiracy: A novel. Vintage Books.

Lewis, J. & D’Orso, M. (1998). Walking with the wind: A memoir of the movement. Simon and Schuster.

Hsu, H. (2023). Stay true: A memoir. Penguin Random House. Audiobook.

Carter, J. (2014). A call to action: Women, religion, violence, and power. Simon & Schuster.

L., H. (2022). Hijab butch blues. Random House

2023

Hannaham, J. (2022). Didn’t nobody give a shit what happened to Carlotta. Back Bay Books

Oufkir, M. & Fitoussi, M. (1999). Stolen lives: Twenty years in a desert jail. Hyperion.

Torres Sanchez, J. (2020). We are not from here. Penguin Books.

Spears, B. (2023). The woman in me. Gallery Books.

Welty, E. (1969) The optimist’s daughter. Vintage Books.

Taussig, R. (2020). Sitting pretty: The view from my ordinary resilient disabled body. Harper One.

Holloway, K. F. C. (2002). Passed on: African American mourning stories. Duke University Press.

Shervington, D. (2018). Healing is the revolution. Institute of Women & Ethnic Studies. Also podcast: https://www.iwesnola.org/hitr-podcast

Barber, C. (2020). Citizen Outlaw: One man’s journey from gangleader to peacekeeper. Harper Collins

Dawidoff, N. (2022). The other side of Prospect: A story of violence, injustice, and the American city. W. W. Norton & Company.

Willinger, B. I. & Rice, A. (Eds.). (2003). A history of AIDS social work in hospitals: A daring response to an epidemic. The Haworth Press.

Burnham, M. A. (2022). By hands now known: Jim Crow’s legal executioners. Norton.

Hersey, T. (2022). Rest is resistance: A manifesto. Little Brown Spark.

Williams-Forson, P. (2017). Eating while Black: Food shaming and race in America. The University of North Carolina Press.

Anderson, L. (2022). In their names: The untold story of victims’ rights, mass incarceration, and the future of public safety. The New Press

Cooper Owens, D. (2017). Medical bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology. University of Georgia Press.

Garcia-Hallett, J. (2023). Invisible mothers: Unseen yet hypervisible after incarceration. University of California Press.

Erdrich, L. (2022). The Sentence. HarperCollins.

Cunningham, M. (1998). The hours: A novel. Picador.

Haigh, J. (2022). Mercy Street. Ecco

Woolf, V. (1925) Mrs. Dolloway. Harcourt.

Winston, J. (2021) Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Want Too Much. Atria.

Welch, J. (1974). Winter in the Blood. Penguin Classics.

2022

Butler, O.E. (1980). Wild Seed: A Patternist Novel. Hachette Book Group.

Evison, J. (2019). Lawn Boy. Algonquin Books.

Dawson, J. (2015). This book is gay, Sourcebooks Fire.

Kobabe, M. (2019). Gender queer: A memoir. Oni Press.

White, E. E. (2008). The President’s Daughter. Feiwel & Friends

Rivers, F. (1997). Redeeming love. Multnomah.

Reynolds, J & Griffin, J. (2022). Ain’t burned all the bright. Atheneum.

Blakinger, K. (2022). Corrections in ink: A memoir. St Martin’s Press.

Taylor, S. R. (2021) The body is not an apology: The power of radical self-love. Berrett-Koehler Publishers.

Lowe, L. (2018). No place to go: How public toilets fail our private needs. Coach House Books

Shah, N. (2022). Refusal to eat: A century of prison hunger strikes. University of California Press.

Roach, M. (2021/2003). Stiff: The curious lives of human cadavers. W. W. Norton & Company.

Horan, J. L. (1999). Sitting pretty: An uninhibited history of the toilet. Robson Books.

Crawford, L. (2020). Notes on a silencing: A memoir. Little, Brown & Company.

James, K. (2021). Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School. Grand Central Publishing.

Valenti, J. (2017). Sex object: A memoir. Harper Collins. Audiobook.

2021

Martis, E. (2021). They said this would be fun: Race, campus life, and growing up. McClelland & Stewart.

Hutchinson, S. D. (2019). Brave Face.. Simon & Schuster.

Hanna-Attisha, M. (2018). What the eyes don’t see: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City. Random House

Ellsworth, S. (1992). Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. LSU Press. Audiobook

Peters, T. (2020). Detransition, Baby: A Novel. One World

Gordon-Reed, A. (2021). On Juneteeth. Liveright.

Cornejo Villavicencio, K. (2020). The Undocumented Americans. One World.

Ngozi Adichie, C. (2020). On Grief. Knopf.

Patchett, A (2019). The Dutch House. Trade Paperbacks. Audiobook.

Park Hong, C. (2021). Minor feelings: An Asian American reckoning. New World.

Gaiman, N. (2014). The ocean at the end the lane. William Morrow & Co. Audiobook

Vowell, S. (2011). Unfamiliar fishes. Riverhead Books.

Jaouad, S. (2021). Between two kingdoms: A memoir of a life interrupted. Random House

Tran, P. (2020). Sign, gone: A misfit’s memoir of great books, punk rock, and the fight to fit in. Flatiron Books.

Gay, R. (2018). Ayiti. Grove Press. Audiobook

Coleman Flowers, C. (2020). Waste: One woman’s fight against America’s dirty secret. The New Press.

Whitehead, C. (2020). The Nickel boys. Penguin Random House.

Cummins, J. (2020). American Dirt. Flatiron Books. Audiobook

Khan Cullors, P. & Bandele, A. (2018). When they call you a terrorist: A Black Lives Matter memoir. St. Martins Press.

Bennett, B. (2020) The vanishing half: A novel. Riverhead Books. Audiobook

Cooper, B. (2018). Eloquent Rage: A Black feminist discovers her superpower. St Martin’s Press. Audiobook

Sittenfeld, C. (2020). Rodham: A novel. Random House.

Makkai, R. (2019). The great believers. Penguin Books.

Russ. (2019). It’s all in your head: Get out of your way. Harper Design. Audiobook

Cásare, O. (2020). Where we come from: A novel. Vintage

Genova, L. (2018). Every note played. Simon & Schuster.

Yousafzai, M. & Lamb, C. (2015). I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban. Back Bay Books.

Cottom, T. M. (2019). Thick: And Other Essays. New Press.

Johnson, E. D. (2020). Say I’m Dead: A Family Memoir of Race, Secrets, and Love. Lawrence Hill Books.

Irby, S. (2020). Wow, no thank you. Vintage. Audiobook

Vuong, O. (2019). On earth we’re briefly gorgeous: A novel. Penguin Press

Marshall, T. (2016). Prisoners of geography: Ten maps that explain everything about the world. Schribner.

2020

Gyasi, Y. (2020). Transcendent Kingdom. Knopf.

Trethewey, N. (2020). Memorial Drive: A daughter’s memoir. Harpers Collins.

Zoboi, I. (Ed.). (2019). Black enough: Stories of being young and Black in America. Balzer & Bray/Harper Collins.

Abrams, S. (2019). Lead from the outside: How to build your future and make real change. Picador.

Brown, A.C. (2018). I’m still here: Black dignity in a world made for Whiteness. Convergent Books/Penguin.

Michelson, S. (Ed.) (2017). Dreaming America: Voices of undocumented youth in maximum-security detention. Settlement House

Woodson, Jacqueline. (2019). Red at the Bone. Riverhead Books

Slater, Bashka. (2017). The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers adn the Crime that Changed Their Lives. FSG.

Ikpi, Bassey (2019). I’m Telling the Truth but I’m Lying. Harper Perennial.

Hart, K. (2018). I Can’t Make This Up: Life Lessons. 37 Ink.

Perry, I. (2019). Breathe: A Letter to My Sons. Beacon Press.

McMillan, T. (2020). It’s Not All Downhill from Here. Penguin Randomhouse.

Traister, R. (2018). Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger. Simon & Schuster.

Hill, M. L. (2016). Nobody. Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond. Atria.

Atwood, M. (2019). The Testaments. Nan A. Talese Doubleday.

St. John, W. (2009). Outcasts United: An American Town, A Refugee Team, and One Woman’s Quest to Make a Difference. Spiegel & Grau.

Hansberry, L. (1994/1959). A Raisin in the Sun. Vintage Books.

Broom, S. M. (2019). The Yellow House. Grove Press.

Warren, E. (2014). A Fighting Chance. Metropolitan Books. Audiobook

Towles, A. (2011). Rules of Civility. Penguin Books.

Fink, S. (2013). Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital. Crown Publishers.

Brottman, M. (2016). The Maximum Security Book Club. Harper Collins Publisher.

Mill, M. (2013). Tony’s Story. Jonesboro, GA: G Street Chronicles.

Abu-Jama, M., & Lamont HIll, M. (2014). The Classroom and the Cell: Conversations on Black Life in America. Chicago: Third World Press.

Theoharis, J. (2013). The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks. Boston: Beacon Press.

Derman-Sparks, L & Ramsey, P. G. (2006). What if all the kids are White? Anti-bias multicultural education with young children and familiies. Teacher’s College Press.

Offill, J. (2020). Weather: A Novel. New York: Knopf.

Offill, J. (2014). Dept. of Speculation. New York: Vintage.

Parks, R. (1992). Rosa Parks: My Story. New York: Dial Books.

Brown-Long, C. & Mauger, B. (2020) Free Cyntoia: My search for redemption in the American prison system.  Atria Books.

Johnson, A. (2020). After life: My journey from incarceration to freedom. Harper Paperbacks.

Hirsi Ali, A (2008). Infidel. New York: Atria Books.

Longworth, A. (2016). Zek: An American Prison Story. Seattle: Gabalfa Press.

Diaz, J. (2019). Ordinary Girls: A Memoir. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books.

Hoose, P. (2009). Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice. New York: Square Fish.

Doughty, C. (2019). Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? BIg Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death. New York: Norton & Company. Audiobook

Doughty, C. (2015). Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory. New York: Norton & Company. Audiobook

Bragg, R. (2010). All over but the shoutin'. Vintage.

Wilkerson, I. (2011). The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration. New York: Vintage, Audiobook

2019

Wickersham, J. (2009). The Suicide Index: Putting my Father’s Death in Order. New York: Mariner

Choi, M. H. K. (2019). Permanent Record. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Thompson, H. A. (2017). Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy. New York: VIntage.

Gay, R. (2017). Difficult Women. New York: Grove Atlantic.

Orange, T. (2018). There There: A Novel. New York: Knopf.

Laymon, K. (2018). Heavy: An American Memoir, New York: Schribner.

Hamid, M. (2017). Exit West: A Novel. New York: Riverhead Books.

Noah, T. (2016). Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood. New York: Spiegel & Grau.

Honeyman, G. (2018). Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine. New York: Penguin Books.

King, L. (2014). Euphoria. New York: Grove Press.

Newport, C. (2016). Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World. New York: Grand Central Publishing.

Bauer, S. (2018). American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment. New York: Penguin.

Obama, M. (2018). Becoming. New York: Random House. Audiobook

Rankin, C. (2014). Citizen: An American Lyric. Minneapolis, MN: Greywolf Press.

Irving, D. (2014). Waking up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race. Cambridge, MA: Elephant Room Press.

Peterson, L. J. (2017). All Day: A Year of Love and Survival Teaching Incarcerated Kids at Rikers Island. New York: Hachette.

2018

Gerald, C. (2018). There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir. New York: Riverhead Books.

Chung, N. (2018). All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir. New York: Catapult.

Winter, B. H. (2016). Underground Airlines. New York: Hachette.

Ward, J. (2017). Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel. New York: Simon Schuster/Scribner.

Thomas, A. (2017). The Hate You Give. New York: Harper Collins.

Soulja, S. (2008). Midnight: A Gangster Love Story. New York: Pocket Star Books.

Gay, R. (2017). Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body. New York: Harper.

Gay, R. (2014). Bad Feminist: Essays. New York: Harper.

Westover, T. (2017). Educated: A Memoir. New York: Random House.

Casares, O. (2003). Brownsville. New York: Little, Brown & Company.

Monk Kidd, S. (2003). The Secret Life of Bees. New York: Penguin Books.

Lalami, L. (2005). Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits. New York: Harcourt Books.

Gay, R. (2014). Bad Feminist: Essays. New York: Harper Perennial.

Guter, B. & Killacky, Eds. (2004). Queer Crips: Disable Gay Men and Their Stories. New York: Routledge.

Hernández, D. (2014).  A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir. Boston: Beacon Press.

O'Neil, C. (2016). Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy. New York: Broadway Books.

Brown, T. A. (2008). Crooked Road Straight: The Awakening of AIDS Activist Linda Jordan. Hartford, CT: TAB Brown Publishing.

Cetin, F. (2008). My Grandmother: An Armenian-Turkish Memoir. London: Versos Books.

Holmes, S. M. (2013). Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Urrea, L. A. (2010). Into the Beautiful North: A Novel. New York: Little Brown and Company.

Burton, L. (2017). Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women. New York: The New Press

Smoyer, N. (2017).  Donut Dollies in Vietnam: Baby-Blue Dresses and OD Green.  San Bernadino, CA: Copper Books.

Vance, J.D. (2015) Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. New York: Harper.

Atwood, M. (1998). The Handmaiden's Tale. New York: Anchor Books.

Abrams, L.S. & Anderson-Nathe, B. (2012). Compassionate Confinement: A Year in the Life of Unit C. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Springsteen, B. (2016). Born to Run. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Phillips, P. (2016). Blood at the Root. New York: WW Norton & Company.

Greenwell, G. (2016). What Belongs to You: A Novel.  New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

Bacon, L. (2010). Health at any Size: The Surprising Truth about Your Weight. Dallas: BenBella Books.

West, L. (2016).  Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman. New York: Hackette Books.

Bradbury, R. (1953/2013). Fahrenheit 451. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Bronte, E. (1847/2002). Wuthering Heights. New York: Penguin Classics.

Hodgman, G. (2015). Bettyville. New York: Viking Penguin Group.

Schumer, A. (2016). The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo. New York: Gallery Books.

Ngozi Adichie, C. (2014). We Should All Be Feminists. New York: Anchor Books.

Hawkins, P. (2015)  The Girl on the Train. New York: Riverhead Books.

Diamant, A. (2014). The Boston Girl: A Novel. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Lerner, B. (2016). The Bridge Ladies: A Memoir. New York: Harper Collins.

Forney, E. (2012). Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me: A Graphic Memoir. New York: Gotham Books.

Rakoff, D. (2013).  Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish: A Novel. New York: Random House Audio.

Mantel, H. (2014). The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher: Stories. Henry Holt.

Rhimes, S. (2015).  Year of Yes: How to Dance it Out, Stand in the Sun, and Be Your Own Person. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Christie, A. (1939).  And Then There Were None.  New York: Harper.

Genova, A. (2014).  Still Alice. New York: Gallery Books.

Desmond, M. (2015).  Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. New York: Crown.

Henriquez, C. (2014).  The Book of Unknown Americans. New York: Knopf.

Taylor, E. D. (2012). A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons. New York: Macmillan.

Coates, T. (2015). Between the World and Me. New York: Spiegel & Grau.

PREVIOUS YEARS

Abrams, L.S. & Anderson-Nathe, B. (2013). Compassionate Confinement: A Year in the Life of Unit C. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Adichie, C.N. (2013).  Americanah.  New York: Knopf.

Akpan, U.  (2008).  Say You're One of Them.  New York:  Back Bay Books.

Alexander, M. (2012). The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New York: The New Press.

Baca, J. S. (2001).  A place to stand:  The making of a poet.  New York:  Grove Press.

Bender, A. (2010).  The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake:  A novel.  New York:  Doubleday.

Berger, M. T. (2004). Workable Sisterhood: The Political Journey of Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDS. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Black, T. (2009).  When a Heart Turns Rock Solid: The Lives of Three Puerto Rican Brothers On and Off The Streets. New York: Vintage Books.

Blow, C. M. (2014). Fire Shut Up in My Bones. New York Houghton Milfflin Harcourt.

Boo, Katherine. (2012). Beyond the Beautiful Forever. New York: Random House.

Brown, M. & Martin, CE (2008).  The Naked Truth:  Young, Beautiful, and (HIV) Positive. New York:  HarperCollins Publishers.

Cahn, SM. (1993). Saints and Scamps: Ethics in Academia.  New York: Rowman & LIttlefield Publishers.

Cahn, SM. (2008).  From Student to Scholar:  A Candid Guide to Becoming a Professor.  New York:  Columbia University Press.

Cain, S.(2013). Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking. New York: Broadway Books.

Cervantes, M. (2011).  Don Quijote. (Adapted by Agustin Sanchez Aguilar).  Barcelona:  Vicens Vives.

Counihan, C. (1999). The anthropology of food and body:  Gender, meaning and power.  New York:  Routledge.

Cuevas, T. (1998).  Prison of Women: Testimonies of War and Resistance in Spain, 1939-1975.  (M.E. Giles, Trans.) Albany:  State University of New York Press.

Davis, A. (2003).  Are Prisons Obsolete? New York: Seven Stories Press.

Díaz, J.  (1996).  Drown.  New York:  Riverhead Books.

Drucker, E.  (2011).  A Plague of Prisons:  The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America.  New York:  The New Press

Dunham, L. (2014). Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's Learned. New York: Random House.

Eggers, D. (2009).  Zeitoun.  New York:  Vintage Books.

Engel, J. (2006).  The Epidemic:  A Global History of AIDS. New York: Smithsonian Books.

Errington, F., Fujikura, T., & Gewertz, D. (2013). The Noodle Narratives: The Global Rise of an Industrial Food into the Twenty-First Century. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Farmer, P. (2011).  Haiti: After the Earthquake.  New York: Public Affairs.

Fisher, M. (1995)  My Name is Mary: A Memoir. New York: Scribner.

Fowler, K. J. (2004).  The Jane Austen Book Club.  New York: Putnam's Sons.

Franklin, H. B. (Ed.). (1998).  Prison Writing in 20th Century America.  New York: Penguin Books.

Friedman, L. M. (1993).  Crime and Punishment in American History.  New York:  Vintage Books.

Glaser, E. (1991).  In the Absence of Angels:  A Hollywood Family's Courageous Story. New York: Penguin Books.

Goffman, A. (2014). On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City. Chicago: University of Chicago.

Halkitis, P. N. (2013). The AIDS Generation:  Stories of Survival and Resistance.  New York: Oxford University Press.

Heffernan, E.  (1972).  Making It In Prison: TheSquare, The Cool, and the Life. New York: Wiley-Interscience.

Hirsch, J.S., Wardlow, H., Smith, D.J., Phinney, H.M., Parikh, S. & C.A. Nathanson (2009).  The Secret: Love, Marriage and HIV.  Nashville:  Vanderbilt University Press.

Hobbs, J. (2014).  The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League. New York: Scribner.

Hofmann, R. (2009).  I Have Something To Tell You. New York: Atria Books.

Huang, E. (2013). Fresh Off The Boat: A Memoir. New York: Spiegel & Grau.

Humphreys, H.  (2003).  The Lost Garden. New York: W. W. Norton & Company

Irvine, L.  (2013).  My Dog Always Eats First:  Homeless People and Their Animals. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers.

James, A.C. (2013).  Upper Bunkies Unite. Boston: Goode Book Press.

Jiler, J. (2006).  Doing Time in the Garden: Life Lessons through Prison Horticulture.  Oakland, CA: New Village Press.

Jones, C. (2001).  Stitching a Revolution: The Making of an Activist. New York: HarperOne.

King, S. (2000).  On Writing: A memoir of the craft.  New York: Pocket Books.

Kingsley, P.  (2012).  How to be Danish: From Lego to Lund. A Short Introduction to the State of Denmark.  Croydon: Short Books.

Kinney, J. (2001).  Diary of a Wimpy Kid:  Cabin Fever.  New York:  Amulet Books.

Leblanc, A. N. (2004).  Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx.  New York: Scribner.

Lagueux, R. (Ed.) (2004).  Becoming Teachers: The Graduate Student Guide to Teaching at Yale University. New Haven, CT: McDougal Graduate Teaching Center.

Lahiri, J. (2008).  Unaccustomed Earth. New York:  Alfred A. Knopf.

Lang, J. M. (2008).  On Course: A Week-by-Week Guide to Your First Semester of College Teaching. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Leder, D.  (2000).  The Soul Knows No Bars: Inmates Reflect on Life, Death, and Hope.  Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Levi, R. & Waldman, A (Eds) (2011). Inside this Place, Not of It: Narratives From Women's Prisons. San  Francisco: McSweeny's Books.

Liebow, E. (1967).  Tally's Corner: A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men. Boston: Little, Brown & Company.

Lunsford, S. (2012). Sweet Hell on Fire. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks.

Lupica, M. (2007). Heat.  New York: Puffin.

MacDonald, M. P. (1999). All Souls: A Family Story from Southie. Boston: Beacon Press.

Maxfield, M. G. & Babbie, E. R. (2012). Basics of Research Methods for Criminal Justice and Criminology.  Independence, KY: Cengage, Wasdworth.

McCorkel, J. A. (2013). Breaking Women: Gender, Race, and the New Politics of Imprisonment.New York: New York University Press.

Miller, J. & Deutsch, J. (2011)  Food Studies:  An Introduction to Research Methods.  New York:  Berg.

Monette, P. (1988).  Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir. New York: Harcourt.

Moore, W. (2010).  The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates.  New York: Random House.

Moran, C. (2012). How to be a Woman.  New York: Harper Perennial.

Murray, L. (2010). Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard. New York: Hyperion.

Ngozi Adichie, C. (2007). Half of a Yellow Sun.  London:  Harper Perennial.

Obreht, T.  (2011).  The Tiger's Wife.  New York:  Random House

Perkinson, R. (2010).  Texas Tough: The rise of America's prison empire. New York: Metropolitan Books.

Pisani, E. (2008).  The Wisdom of Whores:  Bureaucrats, Brothels and the Business of AIDS.  New York:  W.W. Norton & Company.

Pope, L. (2012). Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schoools That Will Change the Way You Think About Colleges. New York: Penguin Books.

Reese, J.  (2011).  Make the bread, buy the butter: What you should and shouldn't cook from scratch.  New York:  Free Press.

Rosenberg, S. (2011).  An American Radical: Political Prisoner in My Own Country.  New York: Citadel Press.

Roth, Geneen. (2011).  Women, Food & God. New York: Scribner.

Simien, J. (2014). Dear White People: A Guide to Inter-Racial Harmony in "Post-Racial" America. New York: Simon and Shuster.

Simonson, H. (2010).  Major Pettigrew's Last Stand.  New York: Random House.

Smith, D.E. (1987).  The Everyday World as Problematic: A Feminist Sociology.  Boston: Northeastern University Press.

Sobel, D. (2007). Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time. New York: Walker and Company.

Sotomayor, S. (2013).  My Beloved World. New York: Knopf.

Stein, D. J. (2014). Prison Baby: A Memoir. Boston: Beacon Press.

Stevenson, B. (2014). Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption. New York: Spiegel & Grau.

Stockett, K. (2009).  The Help.  New York:  Amy Finhorn Books.

Tartt, D. (2013). The Goldfinch. New York: Little, Brown and Company.

Thomas, J. J. & Schaefer, J. (2013). Almost Anorexic. Center City, MN: Hazelden.

Toibin, C. (2012).  The Empty Family: Stories. New York: Scribner. (Read them all, especially The Street)

Trounstine, J. (2001).  Shakespeare Behind Bars:  The Power of Drama in a Women's Prison.  New York: St. Martin's Press.

Ward, J. (2013). Men We Reaped: A Memoir. New York: Bloomsbury.

Waters, S. (2014). Paying Guests. New York: Riverhead.

Wolff, T. (2001).  Old School.  New York: Knopf.

Women of Crossroads (2013).  Stinging for Their Suppers: How Women in Prison Nourish Their Bodies and Souls.  Claremont, CA: Crossroads, Inc.

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