Cabezon, José Ignacio and Roger R. Jackson (eds): Tibetan Literature: Studies in Genre, 1996. Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications. (Selected articles 40 pages).
Hartley, Laruan R and Patricia Schiaffini-Vedani (eds.): Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change, 2008. Durham: Duke University Press. p. 1-373.
Schaeffer, Kurtis: The Culture of the Book in Tibet, 2009. Columbia University Press. p. 1-240.
Jangbu: The Nine-Eyed Agate. Poems and Stories, 2010 . Lanham: Lexington Books. p. 1-188.
Tibetan texts of different genres (religious biography, religious songs, pilgrimage guides, modern fiction) to be decided by course leader, total page nos 100- 150 pages)