• carrie - stephen king
• is there life after sixth grade? - leslie mcguire
• man and his symbols - carl jung, et al.
• paint it black - janet fitch
• tao te ching - lao tzu, translated by stephen mitchell
• the bell jar - sylvia plath
• the lucifer principle - howard bloom
• the metamorphosis - franz kafka
• the plague - albert camus
• the stranger - albert camus
• the trial - franz kafka
• the twits - roald dahl
• the valley of the dolls - jacqueline susann
• to kill a mockingbird - harper lee
• white oleander - janet fitch

honorary mentions:

• a clockwork orange - anthony burgess
• catcher in the rye - j.d. salinger
• fight club - chuck palaniuk
• running with scissors - augusten burroughs