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Let’s Talk About It Books and Poems
| Title and Author | Theme |
| 1185 Park Avenue: A Memoir by Anne Roiphe | A Mind of Her Own |
| A & P by John Updike | Family: The Way We Were, the Way We Are |
| Absalom! Absalom! by William Faulkner | New American Worlds |
| The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie | Objects of Art |
| After Columbus: The Smithsonian Chronicle of North American Indians by Herman J. Viola | Sovereign Worlds |
| Aghwee the Sky Monster by Ōe Kenzaburō | Contemporary Japanese Literature |
| All the King’s Men by Roert Penn Warren | Land of Opportunity |
| “America” by Langston Hughes | The Work of Freedom |
| American Pastoral by Philip Roth | A Mind of Her Own |
| American Poets Say Goodbye to the 20th Century by Andrei Codrescu and Laura Rosenthal, eds. | End of the World or World Without End |
| America’s War: Talking About the Civil War and Emancipation on their 150th Anniversaries by Edward L. Ayers, ed. | Making Sense of the American Civil War |
| Angels in America by Tony Kushner | Demons, Golems, and Dybbuks |
| Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner | Exploring the West … Whose West |
| Atonement by Ian McEwan | Love, Forgiveness, and Wisdom |
| Bee Season by Myla Goldberg | A Mind of Her Own |
| Bel Canto by Ann Patchett | Love and Forgiveness in the Presence of the Enemy |
| Blackberry Winter by Margaret Mead | The Journey Inward |
| Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya | Being Ethnic, Becoming American |
| Blessed Assurance: At Home with the Bomb in Amarillo, Texas by A. G. Mojtabai | End of the World or World Without End |
| Blue as the Lake: A Personal Geography by Robert B. Stepto | Long Gone |
| The Boy Who Wrote Poetry by Mishima Yukio | Contemporary Japanese Literature |
| Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska | A Mind of Her Own |
| The Bridge of Dreams by Tanizaki Junichiro | Contemporary Japanese Literature |
| Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson | Not For Children Only |
| “A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon” by Gwendolyn Brooks | The Work of Freedom |
| Brothers and Keepers by John Edgar Wideman | Places in the Heart |
| The Centaur in the Garden by Moacyr Scliar | Between Two Worlds |
| Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White | Not For Children Only |
| China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston | The Nation That Works |
| Christopher Columbus, Mariner by Samuel Eliot Morison | Seeds of Change |
| Classic Fairy Tales by Iona Opie and Pete Opie | Not For Children Only |
| Confessions of an Advertising Man by David Ogilvy | Making a Living, Making a Life |
| A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain | The Many Realms of King Arthur |
| Coriolanus by William Shakespeare | Individual Rights and Community in America |
| Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam by James McPherson | Making Sense of the American Civil War |
| The Crown of Columbus by Michael Dorris and Louise Erdrich | Seeds of Change |
| Custer Died for Your Sins by Vine Deloria, Jr. | Sovereign Worlds |
| The Days of the French Revolution by Christopher Hibbert | Liberty and Violence |
| The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy | Love and Forgiveness in the Light of Death |
| Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller | Making a Living, Making a Life |
| Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville | Individual Rights and Community in America |
| Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley | Long Gone |
| The Devil in Texas by Aristeo Brito | One Vision, Many Voices |
| Disgrace by J. M Coetzee | Love and Forgiveness in the Light of Death |
| The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin | End of the World or World Without End |
| The Dogs of Paradise by Abel Posse | Seeds of Change |
| “Double Dutch” by Gregory Pardlo | The Work of Freedom |
| Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas | One Vision, Many Voices |
| Dragonwings by Laurence Yep | Not For Children Only |
| Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia | One Vision, Many Voices, Land of Opportunity |
| During the Reign of the Queen of Persia by Joan Chase | Family: The Way We Were, the Way We Are |
| Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston | The Journey Inward |
| The Dybbuk by S. Ansky | Demons, Golems, and Dybbuks |
| Embers by Sandor Marai | Love and Forgiveness in the Presence of the Enemy |
| Empire Falls by Richard Russo | Places in the Heart |
| The End of the Affair by Graham Greene | Destruction or Redemption |
| End of the Line: Auto Workers and the American Dream by Richard Feldman and Michael Fetzold, eds. | The Nation That Works |
| The End of Work by Jeremy Rifkin | The Nation That Works |
| The Essential Rumi (poems) translated by Coleman Barks | Love, Forgiveness, and Wisdom |
| Everyman by Philip Roth | Love and Forgiveness in the Light of Death |
| Evidence of Red by LeAnne Howe | Objects of Art |
| Family by J. California Cooper | The Work of Freedom |
| The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin | The Work of Freedom |
| Fiskadoro by Denis Johnson | End of the World or World Without End |
| The Five-Forty-Eight by John Cheever | Family: The Way We Were, the Way We Are |
| The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles | Destruction or Redemption |
| Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera | Isabella’s Sisters |
| Friends, a play by Abe Kôbô | Contemporary Japanese Literature |
| From Here to Eternity by James Jones | What America Reads |
| Gilead by Marilynne Robinson | Places in the Heart |
| The Giver by Lois Lowry | Not For Children Only |
| The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams | Family: The Way We Were, the Way We Are |
| Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin | Being Ethnic, Becoming American |
| Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell | What America Reads |
| Growing Up by Russell Baker | Making a Living, Making a Life |
| Growing Up Latino: Memoirs and Stories by Harold Augenbraum and Ilan Stavans, eds. | One Vision, Many Voices |
| The Guardian by Ana Castillo | Love and Forgiveness in the Presence of the Enemy |
| The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood | New American Worlds |
| The History of Love by Nicole Kraus | Love, Forgiveness, and Wisdom |
| A History of Women in America by Carol Hymowitz and Michaele Weissman | The Nation That Works |
| Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson | Making Tracks |
| Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez | The Nation That Works |
| “I Like to See It Lap the Miles” by Emily Dickinson | Making Tracks |
| Idylls of the King by Alfred, Lord Tennyson | The Many Realms of King Arthur |
| If He Hollers Let Him Go by Chester Himes | Long Gone |
| The Iliad by Homer | Love and Forgiveness in the Presence of the Enemy |
| “In a Station of the Metro” by Ezra Pound | Making Tracks |
| In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alva | One Vision, Many Voices |
| Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World by Jack Weatherford | Sovereign Worlds |
| The Indian Lawyer by James Welch | Sovereign Worlds |
| Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison | New American Worlds |
| Isabella of Castille: The First Renaissance Queen by Nancy Rubin | Isabella’s Sisters |
| Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë | Love and Forgiveness in the Presence of the Enemy |
| “January Chance” by Mark Van Doren | Making Tracks |
| Jazz by Toni Morrison | Love and Forgiveness in the Light of Death |
| Jazz Cleopatra: Josephine Baker in Her Time by Phyllis Rose | Isabella’s Sisters |
| Kaaterskill Falls by Allegra Goodman | Between Two Worlds |
| The Journal of Christopher Columbus translated by Cecil Jane | Seeds of Change |
| Keeping in Touch by Ellen Goodman | The Nation That Works |
| Kindred by Octavia Butler | The Work of Freedom |
| King Lear by Shakespeare | Love and Forgiveness in the Light of Death |
| The Known World by Edward P. Jones | The Work of Freedom |
| Kokoro by Natsume Sôseki | Contemporary Japanese Literature |
| Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog | Isabella’s Sisters |
| Last Refuge: The Environmental Showdown in the American West by Jim Robbins | Exploring the West … Whose West |
| Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West by Patricia Limerick | Exploring the West … Whose West |
| Lemon Swamp by Mamie Garvin Fields | The Nation That Works |
| Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Stewart | The Journey Inward |
| The Little Disturbances of Man by Grace Paley | Your Heart’s Desire |
| Little Women by Louisa May Alcott | Not For Children Only |
| Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry | New American Worlds |
| Looking Backward: 2000–1887 by Edward Bellamy | End of the World or World Without End |
| “Looking for Bodies” by Patricia Smith | The Work of Freedom |
| Lost in Translation by Eva Hoffman | Between Two Worlds Isabella’s Sisters |
| Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich | Sovereign Worlds |
| The Lover by A.B. Yehoshua | Your Heart’s Desire |
| The Lyre of Orpheus by Robertson Davies | The Many Realms of King Arthur |
| Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert | Destruction or Redemption |
| March by Geraldine Brooks | Making Sense of the American Civil War |
| The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka | Demons, Golems, and Dybbuks |
| Mending Skins by Eric Gansworth | Objects of Art |
| The Mind-Body Problem by Rebecca Goldstein | Your Heart’s Desire |
| Morgan’s Passing by Ann Tyler | Destruction or Redemption |
| Le Morte D’Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory | The Many Realms of King Arthur |
| A Mother and Two Daughters by Gail Godwin | Destruction or Redemption |
| Mr. Sammler’s Planet by Saul Bellow | Between Two Worlds |
| My Life by Isadora Duncan | The Journey Inward |
| “Night Journey” by Theodore Roethke | Making Tracks |
| Night Sky, Morning Star by Evelina Zuni Lucero | Objects of Art |
| Noon Wine by Katherine Anne Porter | Land of Opportunity |
| Nothing Like It in the World by Stephen Ambrose | Making Tracks |
| On Gold Mountain: The 100-Year Odyssey of a Chinese-American Family by Lisa See | Exploring the West … Whose West |
| Once and Future King by T. H. White | The Many Realms of King Arthur |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez | New American Worlds |
| One Writer’s Beginnings by Eudora Welty | The Journey Inward |
| Ordeal by Fire, Volume II: The Civil War by James M. McPherson | Rebirth of a Nation |
| Ordinary People by Judith Guest | Family: The Way We Were, the Way We Are |
| An Orphan in History by Paul Cowan | Being Ethnic, Becoming American |
| Out of Egypt by Andre Aciman | Between Two Worlds |
| Paula by Isabel Allende | Love and Forgiveness in the Light of Death |
| Plainsong by Kent Haruf | Places in the Heart |
| Points of View: An Anthology of Short Stories edited by James Moffett and Kenneth McElheny | Family: The Way We Were, the Way We Are |
| Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth | Your Heart’s Desire |
| Praisesong for the Widow by Paule Marshall | Long Gone |
| The Private Mary Chestnut: The Unpublished Civil War Diaries edited by C. Vann Woodward | Rebirth of a Nation |
| The Professor’s House by Willa Carter | Making a Living, Making a Life |
| The Puttermesser Papers by Cynthia Ozick | Demons, Golems, and Dybbuks |
| Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow | Land of Opportunity |
| A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry | Family: The Way We Were, the Way We Are |
| Reconstruction: After the Civil War by John Hope Franklin | Rebirth of a Nation |
| Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke | Liberty and Violence |
| The Republic by Plato | Individual Rights and Community in America |
| Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie | Exploring the West … Whose West |
| “Riding the A” by May Swenson | Making Tracks |
| Rights of Man by Thomas Paine | Liberty and Violence |
| Rising from the Rails by Larry Tye | Making Tracks |
| A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean | Places in the Heart |
| Satan in Goray by Isaac Bashevis Singer | Demons, Golems, and Dybbuks |
| The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne | Individual Rights and Community in America |
| Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand | Land of Opportunity |
| The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett | Not For Children Only |
| Seeds of Change: A Quincentennial Commemoration edited by Herman Viola | Seeds of Change |
| Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen | Love, Forgiveness, and Wisdom |
| Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich | Objects of Art |
| Shane by Jack Schaefer | What America Reads |
| A Simple Story by S.Y. Agnon | Your Heart’s Desire |
| The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Individual Rights and Community in America |
| The Stone Boy by Gina Berriault | Family: The Way We Were, the Way We Are |
| The Street by Ann Lane Petry | Long Gone |
| A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens | Liberty and Violence |
| A Tan and Sandy Silence by John D. MacDonald | What America Reads |
| Tevye the Dairyman by Sholem Aleichem | A Mind of Her Own |
| This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind by Ivan Doig | Family: The Way We Were, the Way We Are |
| This Song Remembers by Jane Katz | The Nation That Works |
| Thousand Cranes by Kawabata Yasunari | Contemporary Japanese Literature |
| “the times” by Lucille Clifton | The Work of Freedom |
| “To a Locomotive in Winter” by Walt Whitman | Making Tracks |
| Tokyo Story, a filmscript by Ozu Yasujiro | Contemporary Japanese Literature |
| “Tornado Child” by Kwame Dawes | The Work of Freedom |
| Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution by R.R. Palmer | Liberty and Violence |
| Two Roads to Sumter by William and Bruce Catt | Rebirth of a Nation |
| Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe | Rebirth of a Nation What America Reads |
| The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday | Being Ethnic, Becoming American |
| “Window” by Carl Sandburg | Making Tracks |
| A Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare | Love, Forgiveness, and Wisdom |
| Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston | Being Ethnic, Becoming American |
| Working by Studs Terkel | Making a Living, Making a Life The Nation That Works |