• The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
• Candide by Voltaire (1759)*
• Walden by Henry David Thoreau (1854)
• On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (1859)
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865)
• The Sea-Wolf by Jack London (1904)
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1911)
• The Prophet by Khalil Gibran (1923)
• Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler (1925)
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)*
• Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1925)
• Journey to the End of Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1932)
• Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre (1938)
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939)*
• The Stranger by Albert Camus (1942)
• Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes by Edith Hamilton (1942)
• The Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank (1942)
• Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet (1943)
• 1984 by George Orwell (1948)*
• The Chronicles of Narnia series by C.S. Lewis (1950-1956)*
  • The Magician's Nephew
  • The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
  • The Horse and His Boy
  • Prince Caspian
  • The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
  • The Silver Chair
  • The Last Battle
• Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger (1953)
• Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs (1953)
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955)*
• On the Road by Jack Kerouac (1957)
• Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (1959)*
• To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)*
• Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger (1961)*
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (1962)
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1963)*
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1969)*
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (1980)
• Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski (1982)
• The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa (1982)
• White Noise by Don Delillo (1985)
• The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (1990)*
• The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides (1993)*
• Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen (1993)
• Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk (1996)
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby (1997)
• Battle Royale by Koushn Takami (1999)
• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (2002)
• The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

(* means I already own this book)