classics:

• 1984: george orwell
• adventures of huckleberry finn: mark twain
• animal farm: george orwell
• brave new world: aldous huxley
• cat's cradle: kurt vonnegut
• fahrenheit 451: ray bradbury
• frankenstein: mary shelley
• life, the universe, and everything: douglas adams
• lord of the flies: william golding
• madame bovary
• of mice and men: john steinbeck
• on the road: jack kerouac
• one flew over the cuckoo's nest: ken kesey
• prime of miss jean brodie: muriel spark
• slaughterhouse-five: kurt vonnegut
• so long, and thanks for all the fish: douglas adams
• the bell jar: sylvia plath
• the catcher and the rye: j.d. sallinger
• the crucible: arthur miller
• the fountainhead: ayn rand
• the giver: lois lowry
• the great gatsby: f. scott fitzgerald
• the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy: douglas adams
• the hours: michael cunningham
• the quiet american: graham greene
• the restaurant at the end of the universe: douglas adams
• the things they carried: tim o'brien
• things fall apart: chinua achebe
• to kill a mockingbird: harper lee
• young zaphod plays it safe: douglas adams

contemporary fiction:

• everything i never told you: celeste ng
• the martian: andy weir
• discovery of witches trilogy: deborah harkness
• 50 shades of grey trilogy: e.l. james
• a visit from the goon squad: jennifer egan
• cosmopolis: don delillo
• extremely loud and incredibly close: jonathan safran
• gone girl: gillian flynn
• hard love
• harry potter series: j.k. rowling
• little bee: chris cleave
• the girl with the dragon tattoo trilogy: stieg larsson
• the handmaid's tale
• the hunger games: suzanne collins
• the time traveler's wife: audrey niffenegger
• twilight series: stephanie meter
• white noise: don delillo
• white teeth: zadie smith

shakespeare:

• a midsummer's night dream: william shakespeare
• macbeth: william shakespeare
• romeo & juliet: william shakespeare

non-fiction:

• a fractured mind: robert oxnam
• an unquiet mind: kay jamison
• bossypants: tina fay
• complications: atul gawande
• freakonomics: stephen dubner, steven levitt
• is everyone hanging out without me (and other concerns)?: mindy kaling
• scientist in the crib: alison gopnik
• yes please: amy poehler