• Lisa Taddeo Three Women
• Eleanor Cotton The Luminaries
• A.S. Byatt Possession
• Louis de Bernières Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
• Umberto Eco The Name of the Rose
• Paul Auster The New York Trilogy
• Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay *
• Jonathan Lethem The Fortress of Solitude
• Douglas Coupland Microserfs
• Douglas Coupland Generation X
• Jasper Fforde The Eyre Affair
• Michel Faber The Book of Strange New Things
• Samuel Beckett Molloy
• Samuel Beckett Malone Dies
• Flann O'Brien The Third Policeman
• James Baldwin Go Tell It on the Mountain
• Julio Cortázar Hopscotch
• Roberto Bolaño The Savage Detectives
• Roberto Bolaño 2666 *
• Alfredo Véa The Silver Cloud Cafe
• Thomas Mann The Magic Mountain *
• Kōbō Abe The Woman in the Dunes
• Ursula K. Le Guin A Wizard Of Earthsea
• Terry Pratchett The Colour of Magic
• Neil Gaiman American Gods
• Margaret Atwood The Year of the Flood
• Margaret Atwood MaddAddam
• Frank Herbert Dune
• Isaac Asimov Foundation
• Kurt Vonnegut Cat's Cradle
• Ray Bradbury The Martian Chronicles
• Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451
• Don DeLillo White Noise
• Robert M. Pirsig Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
• Tom Wolfe The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
• Thomas Pynchon The Crying of Lot 49
• Thomas Pynchon V. *
• David Foster Wallace The Pale King
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky Notes from Underground
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Idiot
• Vladimir Nabokov Pale Fire *
• Vladimir Nabokov Invitation to a Beheading
• Vladimir Nabokov Pnin
• Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina
• Leo Tolstoy The Death of Ivan Ilych
• Albert Camus The Myth of Sisyphus
• Albert Camus The Fall
• Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre *
• Louisa May Alcott Little Women
• Henry David Thoreau Walden *
• Daniel Keyes Flowers for Algernon
• John Milton Paradise Lost
• Homer The Odyssey
• Dante Inferno

plays

• Jean-Paul Sartre No Exit
• Molière The Misanthrope
• Anton Chekhov Uncle Vanya
• Bertolt Brecht Mother Courage and Her Children
• Eugene O'Neill The Iceman Cometh
• Samuel Beckett Endgame

short stories

• Jorge Luis Borges Labyrinths *
• Flannery O'Connor A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories
• Sam Shepard Day Out of Days
• David Foster Wallace Oblivion

non-fiction

• Yuval Noah Harari Sapiens
• Steven Pinker How the Mind Works
• Steven Pinker The Language Instinct
• Oliver Sacks The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
• Simone de Beauvoir The Second Sex
• Susan Sontag Against Interpretation
• Joan Didion The White Album
• Karl Ove Knausgard My Struggle 2-5

young adult/children's fiction

• Ray Bradbury Dandelion Wine
• Kenneth Grahame The Wind in the Willows
• Richard Adams Watership Down
• Madeleine L'Engle A Wrinkle in Time
• Lemony Snicket A Series of Unfortunate Events
• Graeme Simsion The Rosie Project

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