children's lit

• e.l. konigsburg - from the mixed-up files of mrs. basil e. frankweiler
• lemony snicker - a serious of unfortunate events
• louis sachar - sideways stories from wayside school

fiction

• alan warner - morvern callar
• armitage trail - scarface
• claude brown - manchild in the promised land
• ernest hemingway - a farewell to arms
• ernest hemingway - the sun also rises
• f. scott fitzgerald - tales of the jazz age
• f. scott fitzgerald - the beautiful and the damned
• f. scott fitzgerald - this side of paradise
• franz kafka - the metamorphosis
• george orwell - 1984
• george orwell - animal farm
• haruki murakami - norwegian wood
• irvine welsh - trainspotting
• james m. cain - the postman always rings twice
• johann wolfgang von goethe - the sorrows of young werther
• joseph heller - catch-22
• ken kesey - one flew over the cuckoo's nest
• kim stanley robinson - the years of rice and salt
• liz jensen - the uninvited
• samuel beckett - waiting for godot
• sylvia plath - the bell jar
• theodore dreiser - an american tragedy
• umberto eco - foucault's pendulum
• upton sinclair - the jungle
• vladimir nabokov - lolita
• william march - the bad seed

nonfiction

• caroline de maigret - how to be parisian wherever you are: love, style and bad habits
• charlotte selling - fashion: 150 years of couturiers, designers, labels
• nicholas von hoffman - we are the people our parents warned us against
• pascal bruckner - the temptation of innocence: living in the age of entitlement
• richard brautigan - so the wind won't blow it all away
• sophia amorous - #girlboss
• william o'neil - coming apart: an informal history of america in the 1960's
• owen jones - the establishment - and how they get away with it
• thomas piketty - capital in the twenty-first century
• naomi klein - this changes everything
• noam chomsky and andre vltchek - on western terrorism: from hiroshima to drone warfare
• edward said - culture and imperialism