Booklist
The Ruined Map - Kobo Abe
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
Without Feathers - Woody Allen
How To Lose Your Ass and Regain Your Life - Kirstie Alley
Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson
Gulag - Anne Applebaum
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Wonder Spot - Melissa Bank
Griffin & Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence - Nick Bantock
The Sea - John Banville
The Artful Universe Expanded - John Barrow
Simulacra and Simulation - Jean Baudrillard
She Came to Stay - Simone de Beauvoir
He’s Just Not That Into You - Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo
The Devil’s Dictionary - Ambrose Bierce
The Cost of Discipleship - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dandelion Wine - Ray Bradbury
Lithium for Medea - Kate Braveman
A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray
Perverted Little Creep - Christopher X. Brodeur
Thank You for Smoking - Christopher Buckley
Helter Skelter - Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense - Charles Bukowski
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Cold Sassy Tree - Olive Ann Burns
Running With Scissors - Augusten Burroughs
Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs
Happy Death - Albert Camus
The Stranger - Albert Camus
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
Off Magazine Street - Ronald Capps
When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? - George Carlin
Off the Road - Carolyn Cassady
Wonder Boys - Michael Chabon
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
Girl with a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
Crazy in Alabama - Mark Childress
Tender - Mark Childress
World Made of Fire - Mark Childress
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Hopscotch - Julio Cortazar
Mommie Dearest - Christina Crawford
Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World - Greg Critser
Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain - Charles Cross
The Hours - Michael Cunningham
The Farming of Bones - Edwidge Danticat
Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
Keeping the Moon - Sarah Dessen
Valis - Philip K. Dick
One Pill Makes You Larger - Lisa Dierbeck
Out of Africa - Isak Dinesen
The Stolen Child - Keith Donohue
Perfectly Said: when words become art - Brian Douthit
One Day the Ice Will Reveal All Its Dead - Clare Dudman
Geek Love - Katherine Dunn
Circumstantial Evidence - Pete Earley
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers
Skirt and Fiddle - Tristan Egolf
The Greatest White Trash Love Story Ever Told - Rhett Ellis
Wisdom of Shephers - Rhett Ellis
Welcome to Havana, Senor HemingwayAlfredo Jose Estrada
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
The Geographer’s Library - Jon Fasman
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
White Oleander - Janet Fitch
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Standing in the Rainbow - Fannie Flagg
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café - Fannie Flagg
Daisy Faye and the Miracle Man - Fannie Flagg
Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
A Room With a View - E. M. Forster
Why Not Me? - Al Franken
On Bullshit - Harry K. Frankfurt
Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier
Thirteen Moons - Charles Frazier
The Interpretation of Dreams - Sigmund Freud
A Million Little Pieces - James Frey
Good Omens - Neil Gaiman
Veronica - Mary Gaitskill
Night of the Lions - Kuki Gallmann
A Working Girl Can’t Win - Deborah Garrison
Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance? - L. V. Gerstner Jr.
Ellen Foster - Kay Gibbons
Refusing Heaven - Jack Gilbert
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Kiss My Tiara - Susan Jane Gilman
Deliberate Prose - Allen Ginsberg
Wickett’s Remedy - Myla Goldberg
Writing Down the Bones - Natalie Goldberg
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Darkness Visible - William Golding
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Sammy’s Hill - Kristin Gore
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families - Philip Gourevitch
The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth - Robert Graves
Summer of My German Soldier - Bette Greene
The Quiet American - Graham Greene
Model - Michael Gross
A Map of the World - Jane Hamilton
Hunger - Knut Hamsun
84, Charing Cross Road - Helene Hanff
Eventide - Kent Haruf
Duncan Delaney & the Cadillac of Doom - A. L. Haskett
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
The Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst
A Poetics of Postmodernism - Linda Hutcheon
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell - Aldous Huxley
My Mother’s Keeper - B. D. Hyman
A People’s History of the Supreme Court - Peter Irons
Ulysses - James Joyce
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
Critique of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant
Be Honest–You’re Not That Into Him Either - Ian Kerner
The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey
Dolores Claiborne - Stephen King
On Writing - Stephen King
Winter Morning Walks: 100 Postcards to Jim Harrison - Ted Kooser
In the Palm of Your Hand: The Poet’s Portable Workshop - Steve Kowit
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
Salt: A World History - Mark Kurlansky
Ecrits - Jacques Lacan
The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Brave New Girl - Louisa Luna
The Reformation - Diarmaid MacCulloch
A River Runs Through It - Norman Maclean
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West - Gregory Maguire
Collected Poems - Stéphane Mallarmé
The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx
The Razor’s Edge - M. Somerset Maugham
At Home in the World - Joyce Maynard
All the Pretty Horses - Cormac Mccarthy
Cut - Patricia Mccormick
Beauty - Robin McKinley
I Would Have Saved Them If I Could - Leonard Michaels
Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall - Spike Milligan
Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About - Mil Millington
Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal - Christopher Moore
Gap Creek - Robert Morgan
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
The Stones of Summer - Dow Mossman
Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche
I Love Everybody (and Other Atrocious Lies) - Laurie Notaro
The Idiot Girls’ Action-Adventure Club - Laurie Notaro
We Thought You Would be Prettier - Laurie Notaro
A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories - Flannery O’Connor
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail - Malika Oufkir
The Losers’ Club - Richard Perez
Heart Sutra - Red Pine
Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits - Bill Porter
Rapture of Canaan - Sheri Reynolds
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas - Tom Robbins
Still Life With Woodpecker - Tom Robbins
This is Not Civilization - Robert Rosenberg
The Human Stain - Philip Roth
The Southern Haunting of Truman Capote - Marie Rudisill
Empress of the World - Sara Ryan
The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
The Age of Reason - Jean-Paul Sartre
Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser
Drowing Ruth - Christina Schwarz
The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain - Han Shan
The Man Who Ate the 747 - Ben Sherwood
Absurdistan - Gary Shteyngar
Pretty Birds - Scott Simon
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
The Girl Who Married a Lion - Alexander Mccall Smith
Party Monster - James St. James
How to Ruin Your Life - Ben Stein
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
The Kitchen God’s Wife - Amy Tan
Saving Fish from Drowning - Amy Tan
And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out - Yo La Tengo
The Mosquito Coast - Paul Theroux
Stories from a Life in Progress - Lou Ann Thomas
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
The Killer Inside Me - Jim Thompson
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
The Art of War - Sun-Tzu
Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings - Mark Twain
Digging to America - Anne Tyler
Whores for Gloria - William Vollmann
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
Partly Cloudy Patriot - Sarah Vowell
Big Fish - Daniel Wallace
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
Mama Makes Up Her Mind, and Other Dangers of Southern Living - Bailey White
Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
Jenny and the Jaws of Life - Jincy Willett
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe
This Boy’s Life - Tobias Wolff
The Waves - Virginia Woolf
Above the River - James Wright
The Sublime Object of Ideology - Slavoj Zizek