Fiction:

• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• Antigone by Sophocles
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Crucible by Arthur Miller
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
• Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
• The Giver by Lois Lowry
• Howards End by E.M. Forster
• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
• Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
• A Room With A View by E.M. Forster
• She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
• The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
• Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
• Where I'm Calling From by Raymond Carver
• Willful Creatures by Aimee Bender
• Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne

Non-fiction:

• 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl by Daniel Pinchbeck
• Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
• Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
• Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
• Awakening the Buddha Within by Lama Surya Das
• A Confession by Leo Tolstoy
• A Course In Miracles
• Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind
• Everyday Zen by Charlotte Joko Beck
• The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
• Freedom From the Known by Juddha Krishnamurti
• A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis
• I Am That by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
• Journey of Awakening: A Meditator's Guidebook by Ram Dass
• Lynch On Lynch by David Lynch & Chris Rodley
• The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell
• Philosophy and Theology by John Caputo
• Reviving Ophelia by Mary Pipher
• Scorsese On Scorsese by Martin Scorsese, Ian Christie & David Thompson
• Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living by Pema Chodron
• The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
• The Tao Te Ching by Lao-Tzu
• Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness by Chogyam Trungpa
• Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
• The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
• The Varieties of Scientific Experience by Carl Sagan

Textbooks, anthologies, etc.:

• Writing the Essay: Art in the World (NYU 2009-2010)
• Film Art by David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson