fiction

The House of The Spirits by Isabel Allende

Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis

London Fields by Martin Amis

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks

Regeneration by Pat Barker

Nightwood by Djuna Barnes

The Road to Wellville by T. C. Boyle

Dogwalker by Arthur Bradford

Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

The Master & Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Possession by A.S. Byatt

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

David Boring by Daniel Clowes

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Nostromo by Joseph Conrad

Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Woman Who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle

Geek Love by Katherine Dunn

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

Peace Like a River by Leif Enger

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

A Fan's Notes by Frederick Exley

Time & Again by Jack Finney

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill

Collected Tales by Nikolai Gogol

Kalpa Imperial by Angelica Gorodischer

Spending by Mary Gordon

The White Bone by Barbara Gowdy

Hunger by Knut Hamsun

Haunted Ground by Erin Hart

I Am Not jackson Pollock by John Haskell

You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett

Mysterious Skin by Scott Heim

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

Swimming by Joanna Hershon

Cowboys Are My Weakness by Pam Houston

Island by Aldous Huxley

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

The World According to Garp by John Irving

Waiting by Ha Jin

Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson

The Known World by Edward P. Jones

Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine by Thom Jones

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Lady Chatterly's Lover by D.H. Lawrence

The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing

Fall on Your Knees by Anne-Marie MacDonald

The Way the Crow Flies by Anne-Marie MacDonald

The Art Lover by Carole Maso

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Martin Dressler by Steven Millhauser

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

The Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

The Enigma of Arrival by V. S. Naipaul

Because It is Bitter & Because It is My Heart Joyce Carol Oates

Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor

How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer

Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by Z.Z. Packer

Shadow Without a Name by Ignacio Padilla

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake by Breece D'J Pancake

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

The Godfather by Mario Puzo

Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendell

The Rough Guide to Cult Fiction

In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders

Civilwarland in Bad Decline by George Saunders

Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz

The Emigrants by W. G. Sebald

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Sophie's Choice by William Styron

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan

The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Secret Diary of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend

Women of the Silk by Gail Tsukiyama

The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama

Summer in Baden Baden by Leonid Tsypkin

Whores for Gloria by William T. Vollman

Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

The Sculptress by Minette Walters

Acid Row by Minette Walters

The Collected Stories of Richard Yates by Richard Yates

Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto

sci-fi/fantasy

Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke

Neuromancer by William Gibson

The Wind's Twelve Quarters by Ursula K. LeGuin

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

VURT by Jeff Noon

Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake

Accelerando by Charles Stross

Farmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R. Tolkien


poetry & drama

Dante: Poet of the Secular World by Erich Auerbach

The Complete Poems of Hart Crane

Without a Map by Meredith Hall

The Iliad by Homer

The Odyssey by Homer

Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara

Letters on Life by Rainer Maria Rilke

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

The Importance of Being Earnest & Other Plays by Oscar Wilde

Paterson by William Carlos Williams


childrens books

Looking For Alaska by John Green

A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett

From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankelweiler E.L.Konigsberg

The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf

David & the Phoenix by Edward Ormondroyd

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith



General non-fiction

The 9/11 Commission Report

Legends of Winter Hill by Jay Atkinson

I Thought My Father Was God by Paul Auster

Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes

T.A.Z.: The Autonomous Zone by Hakim Bey

Slightly Out of Focus by Robert Capa

The Speckled Monster by Jennifer Lee Carrell

Self Portrait With Turtles by David M. Carroll

Wild Swans by Jung Chang

Common Prayers by Harvey Cox

The Bones of the Master by George Crane

Women, Culture and Politics by Angela Davis

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

Real Ultimate Power by Robert Hamburger

Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand

Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz

Waning of the Middle Ages by Johan Huizinga

Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley

Decisive Day by Richard M. Ketchum

Saratoga by Ricard M. Ketchum

Sex, Drugs & Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman

Geography of Nowhere by James Kunstler

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

Wisconsin Death Trip by Michael Lesy

The Old, Weird America by Greil Marcus

The Drama of the Gifted Child by Alice Miller

The Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller

A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink

The Republic by Plato

How the Other Half Lives by Jacob A. Riis

Stiff by Mary Roach

Public Power in the Age of Empire by Arundhati Roy

An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire Arundhati Roy

Achilles in Vietnam by Jonathan Shay

With the Old Breed by Eugene B. Sledge

The Pitch That Killed by Mike Sowell

The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci Jonathan Spence

In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

Billy the Kid by Robert M. Utley

Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen

Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts

Parachute Infantry by David Kenyon Webster

Waiting For God by Simone Weil


biography/memoir

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

A Woman in Berlin by Anonymous

Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

Dry by Augusten Burroughs

Fist, Stick, Knife, Gun by Jeffrey Canada

Banvard's Folly by Paul Collins

Autobiography of a Face by Grealy

Lost In Translation by Eva Hoffman

Drinking, a Love Story by Caroline Knapp

Henry & June by Anais Nin

The Burn Journals by Brent Runyon

Burning The Days by James Salter

The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan

Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees
by Lawrence Weschler