Asian American literature
Dictee by Theresa Hak Jyung Cha
Native Speaker by Chang Rae Lee
No-No Boy by John Okada
Obasan by Joy Kogawa
The Foreign Student by Susan Choi

African American literature
Passing by Nella Larsen
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson

Postcolonial literature
Snow by Orhan Pamuk

Feminist literature
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Children’s literature
The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

19th Century English literature
The Cranford Chronicles by Elizabeth Gaskell
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell

Memoir
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Between Two Worlds by Roxana Saberi
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling
Bossypants by Tina Fey
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua

Pedagogy
Sharing and Responding by Peter Elbow
Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom by bell hooks
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

Theory
Marxism and Literary Theory by Terry Eagleton
The Location of Culture by Homi Bhabha
Orientalism by Edward Said
Culture and Imperialism by Edward Said
Homi K. Bhabha by David Huddart
Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
The History of Sexuality by Michael Foucault
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Borderlands/La Frotnera: The New Meztisa by Gloria Anzaldua
Black Looks: Race and Representation by bell hooks

This reading list is my own, as is the organization therein. The categorization of the books listed should in no way be taken to be definitive or canonical. It just happens to be the most helpful way of grouping them while I work through my reading list for my graduate studies, teaching, and personal pleasure.