- The Importance of Reading
- "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan
- What I Found In America by Anzia Yezierska
- The Outlook For American Culture by Aldous Huxley
- Selective Excerpts from "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch
- Shooting An Elephant (1936) by George Orwell
- Life in the City (Cuộc sống ở thành thị) w/Audio
- Living in a Multiracial Community (Sống trong một cộng động đa chủng tộc) w/ Audio
- Science and its Effects (Khoa học và những tác động của nó) (audio included)
- A Heroic Deed (Một hành động có tính cách anh hùng) (audio included)
- Travel as a Means of Education (Đi một ngày đàng học một sang khôn) (Audio Included)
- The Problem of China (1922) (Vấn đề của Trung Quốc) by Bertrand Russell (w/ audio)
- ESE Reading Class 1: A Comprehensive Vocabulary List
- Farewell! by Guy de Maupassant (Vocab + Audio included)
- “A Classical Heroine and Her Modern Manifestation" by Nathalie Nguyen
- Lying in the Tall Grasses, Eating Cane (1998) by Opal Palmer Adisa
- Shanghai Dreams by Brook Larmer
- The Burden of Thirst by Tina Rosenberg
- The Lady with the Dog (Anton Chekhov)
- The Lottery (1948) by Shirley Jackson
- Doctor Zhivago
- My Life by Anton Chekhov
- Bel Ami by Guy de Maupassant
- Reflection and Reading
- The Great Food Crisis of 2011 (Lester Brown)