1984 – George Orwell
- A Brief History Of Time – Stephen Hawking
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius – Dave Eggers
- A Long Way Gone – Ishmael Beah
- A Series of Unfortunate Events #1: The Bad Beginning: The Short-Lived Edition – Lemony Snicket
- A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle
- Alice Munro: Selected Stories – Alice Munro
- Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
- All the President’s Men – Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
- Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir – Frank McCourt
- Are You There, God? It’s me, Margaret – Judy Blume
- Bel Canto – Ann Patchett
- Beloved – Toni Morrison
- Born To Run – A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen – Christopher McDougall
- Breath, Eyes, Memory – Edwidge Danticat
- Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
- Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White
- Cutting For Stone – Abraham Verghese
- Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead – Brene Brown
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 1 – Jeff Kinney
- Dune – Frank Herbert
- Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream – Hunter S. Thompson
- Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
- Goodnight Moon – Margaret Wise Brown
- Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies – Jared M. Diamond
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – J.K. Rowling
- In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
- Interpreter of Maladies – Jhumpa Lahiri
- Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
- Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth – Chris Ware
- Kitchen Confidential – Anthony Bourdain
- Life After Life – Kate Atkinson
Little House on the Prairie – Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
- Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Love Medicine – Louise Erdrich
- Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl
- Me Talk Pretty One Day – David Sedaris
- Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
- Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
- Moneyball – Michael Lewis
- Of Human Bondage – W. Somerset Maugham
- On the Road – Jack Kerouac
- Out of Africa – Isak Dinesen
- Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi
- Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
- Pride & Prejudice – Jane Austen
- Silent Spring – Rachel Carson
- Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
- Team of Rivals – Doris Kearns Goodwin
- The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay – Michael Chabon
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X – Malcolm X and Alex Haley
- The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Diaz
- The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
- The Color of Water – James McBride
- The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
- The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America – Erik Larson
- The Diary of Anne Frank – Anne Frank
- The Fault in Our Stars – John Green
- The Giver – Lois Lowry
- The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
- The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
- The House At Pooh Corner – A. A. Milne
The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot
- The Liars’ Club: A Memoir – Mary Karr
- The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1) – Rick Riordan
- The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler
- The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 – Lawrence Wright
- The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales – Oliver Sacks
- The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals – Michael Pollan
- The Phantom Tollbooth – Norton Juster
- The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel – Barbara Kingsolver
- The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York – Robert A. Caro
- The Right Stuff – Tom Wolfe
- The Road – Cormac McCarthy
- The Secret History – Donna Tartt
- The Shining – Stephen King
- The Stranger – Albert Camus
- The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
- The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar – Eric Carle
- The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel – Haruki Murakami
- The World According to Garp – John Irving
- The Year of Magical Thinking – Joan Didion
- Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
- To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption – Laura Hillenbrand
- Valley of the Dolls – Jacqueline Susann
- Where the Sidewalk Ends – Shel Silverstein
- Where the Wild Things Are – Maurice Sendak