Zora Neale Hurston – Their Eyes Were Watching God
Kerry Patterson – Crucial Conversations
Scott McClanahan – Crapalachia: A Biography of a Place
Anthony Bourdain – Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Sylvia Plath – The Bell Jar
Alan Watts – This Is It: and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience
Steven Brill – America’s Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Back-Room Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System
Franz Kafka – The Trial
Truman Capote – In Cold Blood
Yasunari Kawabata – House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories
Jordy Rosenberg – Confessions of the Fox
Joy Williams – Ninety-Nine Stories of God
Edith Wharton – The Age of Innocence
Virginia Woolf – Mrs. Dalloway
John Bartlett – Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations
D.H. Lawrence – Sons and Lovers
Sylvia Plath – Ariel
Herman Melville – Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street
William Faulkner – Absalom, Absalom!
Adam Levin – Hot Pink
Thomas Paine – Common Sense
Hanif Abdurraqib – They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us
Sylvia Plath – The Colossus and Other Poems
Tommy Orange – There There
Oliver Sacks – Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Julia Fierro – The Gypsy Moth Summer
Kazuo Ishiguro – The Remains of the Day
Malcolm Lowry – Under the Volcano
Thomas Mann – Death in Venice
Jay McInerney – Bright Lights, Big City
C.V. Wedgwood – The Thirty Years War
Bill Flanagan – U2 at the End of the World
Joseph Mitchell – Up in the Old Hotel
Emily Brontë – Wuthering Heights
James Baldwin – Notes of a Native Son
David Foster Wallace – Oblivion
Hilton Als – White Girls
Crispin Kott and Mike Katz – Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to New York City
Questlove – Soul Train: The Music, Dance, and Style of a Generation
E.L. Doctorow – The Waterworks
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Americanah
Henry Miller – The Books in My Life
Harper Lee – Go Set a Watchman
David Foster Wallace – A Supposedly Fun Things I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples – Saga, Vol. 1
Colson Whitehead – The Underground Railroad
Liz Climo – Lobster Is the Best Medicine: A Collection of Comics About Friendship
The Oatmeal – If My Dogs Were a Pair of Middle-Aged Men
Miranda July – The First Bad Man
Alison Bechdel – Fun Home
Betty Edwards – Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
Kliph Nesteroff – The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy
Scott Carr – Former Glory
James Baldwin – Giovanni’s Room
Michelle Alexander – The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Jane Smiley – The Sagas of Icelanders
Ursula K. Le Guin – A Wizard of Earthsea
Hugleikur Dagsson – The Very Worst of Dagsson
James Baldwin – The Fire Next Time
Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run
Tom Gauld – Baking With Kafka
Miranda July – No One Belongs Here More Than You
Susan Sontag – Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays
Dave Eggers – What Is the What
José Saramago – Death with Interruptions
Nathaniel Kressen – Concrete Fever
Matt Young – Eat the Apple
Gunnar Karlsson – History of Iceland
Richard Yates – Revolutionary Road
Moriel Rothman-Zecher – Sadness Is a White Bird
John Steinbeck – Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck – The Pearl
George Saunders – The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip
Douglas Watson – A Moody Fellow Finds Love and Then Dies
Sam Quinones – Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic
Erling Kagge – Silence: In the Age of Noise
Ahmed Saadawi – Frankenstein in Baghdad
Halldór Laxness – Independent People
Mark Frost – Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier
Lawrence Wright – The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
Barbara Demick – Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea