• cat's cradle - kurt vonnegut
• the thing about life is that one day you'll be dead - david shields
• extremely loud and incredibly close - jonathan safran foer
• water for elephants - sara gruen
• the adventures of huckleberry finn - mark twain
• the adventures of tom sawyer - mark twain
• the prince and the pauper - mark twain
• braking on ice - jesse strunk
• anne frank: the diary of a young girl - anne frank
• outliers: the story of successs - malcolm gladwell
• they do it with mirrors - agatha christie
• a million miles in a thousand years - donald miller
• the lovely bones - alice sebold

started, but have yet to finish...

• sex, drugs, and cocoa puffs - chuck klosterman
• in a pit with a lion on a snowy day - mark batterson