- The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
- Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
- The Art of War - Sun Tze
- Chindia - Peter Engardio
- Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
- A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
- Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Running with Scissors - Augusten Burroughs
- Tender Is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
- The Girl Who Played with Fire - Steig Larsson
- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest - Steig Larsson
- Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
- For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
- Dry: A Memoir - Augusten Burroughs
- Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
- Love Letters of Great Women - Ursula Doyle
Lolita - Vladimir NabokovI Hope They Serve Beer in Hell - Tucker Max- Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
- Young Lonigan - James T. Farrell
- Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
Dreams of My Father - Barack Obama- The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan - James T. Farrell
- Judgement Day - James T. Farrell
- In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
- Rape of Nanking - Iris Chang
- Appointment in Samarra - John O'Hara
On the Road Again - Jack Kerouac- High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
Memoirs of My Melancholy Whores - Gabriel García Márquez- Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Peter Pan - J. M. Barrie- Lush Life - Richard Price
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
- The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
- Not Wanted on the Voyage - Timothy Findley
- The Joyluck Club - Amy Tan
- The Hunger Artist - Franz Kafka
- The Colony of Unrequited Dreams - Wayne Johnston
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
A Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez- I Know This Much is True - Wally Lamb
- Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
- Empress Orchid - Anchee Min
- Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
- 1984 - George Orwell
- The Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
- Netherland - Joseph O'Neill
- Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold Story of English - John McWhorter
- The Tale of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu
- Loving Frank - Nancy Horan
- The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
- The Tin Drum - Günter Grass
- A Widow for One Year - John Irving
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel García Márquez- The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran - Azadeh Moaveni- 2666 - Natasha Wimmer
South of the Border, West of the Sun - Haruki Murakami- Open Secrets: Stories - Alice Munro
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini- Sarah's Key - Tatiana de Rosnay
- The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance - Ron Chernow
- The Fox in the Attic - Richard Hughes
Hard Boiled Wonderland the End of the World - Haruki Murakami- The War of the World - Niall Ferguson
- A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier - Ishmael Beah
- The Makioka Sisters - Tanizaki Junichiro
Princess - Jean Sassoon- Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri
- Songs for the Missing - Stewart O'Nan
- The Color Purple - Alice Walker
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami- The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M. Cain
- A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
- The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka