🐻 Cornell Spanish unofficial reading list 2026
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Freshman level
Continuing Spanish SPAN 1230 (fa26)
- Exploraciones by Blitt & Casas
Narrating the Spanish Civil War SPAN 1305 (fa26)
- Requiem for a Spanish Peasant by Ramón J. Sender
- The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction by Helen Graham
Sophomore level
Spanish Intermediate Composition & Conversation II SPAN 2095 (fa26)
- The Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato
- Manual de gramática by Dozier & Iguina
Junior level
Global Latin America SPAN 3440 (fa26)
- Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
- Global Latin America: Into the 21st Century by Lesser & Gutmann
- Nazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bolaño
- The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez
- Undiscovered by Gabriela Wiener
Diasporas, Disasters & Dissent: Re-Thinking Puerto Rican Studies in the 20th & 21st Centuries SPAN 3675 (fa26)
- Bodega Dreams by Ernesto Quiñonez
- The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer
Senior level
Moses Maimonides SPAN 4540 (fa26)
- Epistles of Maimonides: Crisis & Leadership Abraham S. Halkin
- A Maimonides Reader by Isadore Twersky
- Maimonides in His World: Portrait of a Mediterranean Thinker by Sarah Stroumsa
- Maimonides: The Life & World of One of Civilization’s Greatest Minds by Joel L. Kraemer
- The Guide of the Perplexed by Moses Maimonides
Global Food Cultures of Greater Mexico SPAN 4875 (fa26)
- Planet Taco: A Global History of Mexican Food by Jeffrey M. Pilcher
- Eating NAFTA: Trade, Food Policies & the Destruction of Mexico by Alyshia Gálvez
- American Tacos: A History & Guide by José R. Ralat
- Tequila: A Global History by Ian Williams