Literature suggestions/5 paragraph prompts

As for essays, have you considered using the DBQ prompts without the documents? Those questions are usually answerable without them to some extent.  Also, You may want to peek at the LEQ (Long Essay Question) prompts in the AP World course. I steal from there a lot, and just scaffold or change wording as needed to meet my learners' needs. 

In random order: Tale of Two Cities, Candide, All Quiet on the Western Front, Animal Farm, Things Fall Apart, Night, Burmese Days, Heart of Darkness, Red Scarf Girl, The Far Pavilions, Number the Stars, The Rape of Nanking, The Clay Marble, The Endless Steppe, Iron Curtain Memoirs, Bamboo People, Winterkill, Words on Fire, 1984, Where the Light Falls, Six Red Months in Russia, One Day in the Life of Denisovich, Blood Red Sunset, Maus

Carolyn Lunger , if you are looking for a literature connection, some publishers include them with textbook resources. 

Here's a few.  Let me know if this is they type of material you are looking for.

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Children of Violence by Doris Lessing (about growing up in Zimbabwe

Passage to India by E.M. Forster (about the end of British colonialism in India)

The Tin Flute by Gabrielle Roy ( about Quebec at the end of the depression) 

Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Gray (about early 20th century America)

I love this list of books. Thank you for sharing it.