• The Emperor's Children - Claire Messud
• Monkey Mind - Daniel Smith
• Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel - Robin Sloan
• HHhH: A Novel - Laurent Binet
• Hologram for the King - Dave Eggers
• Dying Bites - D.D. Barant
• How to Be a Woman - Caitlan Moran
• An Object of Beauty - Steve Martin
• Essays in Love - Alain de Botton
• Tiny Beautiful Things - Cheryl Strayed
• Thoughts Without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective - Mark Epstein
• Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal - Jeanette Winterson
• Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
• The Secret History - Donna Tartt
• The Devil All the Time - Donald Ray Pollock >>chilling, haunting, and very bloody

Jeffrey Eugenides

• Prozac Nation - Elizabeth Wurtzel
• Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
• Party of One: The Loners' Manifesto - Anneli Rufus
• The Adults - Alison Espach*
• A Visit From the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story - Dave Eggers

Colson Whitehead

• Zone One
• The Intuitionist
• Douglas Coupland
• Generation X
• Shampoo Planet
• Microserfs
• jPod
• Eleanor Rigby