plays

• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
• Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
• ✔ Hamlet by William Shakespeare
• Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
• ✔ The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
• ✔ Othello by William Shakespeare
• ✔ Macbeth by William Shakespeare
• ✔ Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
• ✔ The Oedipus Plays by Sophocles

memoirs

• The Hole in Our Gospel by Richard Stearns
• How Starbucks Saved my Life by Michael Gates Gill
• ✔ Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
• ✔ Lipstick Jihad by Azadeh Moaveni
• ✔ Cairo: Memoir of a City Transformed by Ahdaf Soueif
• ✔ I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
• The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
• ✔ Night by Elie Wiesel

biographies

• Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
• Paul Among the People by Sarah Ruden
• Martin Luther: the Great Reformer by Edward P. Booth
• Abraham: The First Historical Biography by David Rosenberg
• ✔ Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
• ✔ A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar
• Bloody Mary by Carolly Erickson

poetry

• A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry edited by Czeslaw Milosz
• ✔ Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Robert Browning's Poetical Works I
• Robert Browning's Poetical Works II
• Poems of the Night by Jorge Luis Birges
• Selected Poems by William Wordsworth
• ✔ The Breakbeat Poets: New American Poets in the Age of Hip-Hop edited by Kevin Coval, Quraysh Ali Lansana, and Nate Marshall
• ✔ Final Harvest by Emily Dickinson
• ✔ Words Under the Words by Naomi Shihab Nye
• ✔ Her Blue Body Everything We Know by Alice Walker
• Falling Water by John Koethe

religion & theology

• ✔ To Life! by Harold S. Kushner
• The Bible
• The Way of Chuang Tzu interpreted by Thomas Merton
• ✔ What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam by John Esposito
• Dictionary of Celtic Mythology assembled by Peter Berresford Ellis
• ✔ Beyond God the Father by Mary Daly
• ✔ Journeys by Heart by Rita Nakashima Brock

feminism & gender

• ✔ Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution by Mona Eltahawy
• ✔ Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
• Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism edited by Daisy Hernández and Bushra Rehman
• This Bridge Called my Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa
• ✔ Hunger Pains: The Modern Woman's Tragic Quest for Thinness by Mary Pipher, PhD
• Undoing Gender by Judith Butler
• Sex, Power, and Consent: Youth Culture and the Unwritten Rules by Anastasia Powell
• Ain't I a Woman? by bell hooks
• Feminism is for Everybody by bell hooks

anarchism, socialism, & anti-imperialism

• Anarchism and its Aspirations by Cindy Milstein
• Anarchism: From Theory to Practice by Daniel Guérin
• Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader
• Revolutions in Reverse: Essays on Politics, Violence, Art, and Imagination by David Graeber
• The Communist Hypothesis by Alain Badiou
• Reform or Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg
• Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? by Mark Fisher
• Free Comrades: Anarchism and Homosexuality in the United States, 1895-1917 by Terence Kissack
• Culture and Imperialism by Edward Said
• Origins of Family, Private Property, and the State by Friedrich Engels

race & racism

• ✔ Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy Roberts
• We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity by bell hooks
• Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa

palestine & israel

• ✔ Gaza in Crisis by Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé
• The Politics of Dispossession by Edward Said
• The Forgotten Palestinians by Ilan Pappé
• Mizrahi Feminism and the Question of Palestine by Smadar Lavie
• Reflections on Exile and Other Essays by Edward Said
• On Zionism by Emma Goldman
• Zionism in Iraq by Sadok H. Masliyah

history

• Shared Dreams: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Jewish Community by Rabbi Marc Schneier
• The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
• The Life and Death of a Druid Prince by Anne Ross and Don Robbins
• Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

science & ethics

• ✔ Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
• ✔ Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
• ✔ Mean Genes by Terry Burnham, PhD and Jay Phelan, PhD

names

• ✔ The New Baby Name Survey by Bruce Lansky
• ✔ Cool Names for Babies by Pamela Redmond Satran and Linda Rosenkrantz

language

• The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White
• Weird Word Origins by Paul McFedries
• Egyptian Arabic Phrasebook by Siona Jenkins
• Dirty Yiddish by Adrienne Gusoff

art

• ✔ The Art of Mesoamerica by Mary Ellen Miller
• Dalí by Elizabeth Keevill and Kevin Eyres

classic lit

• The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkein
• The Two Towers by JRR Tolkein
• The Return of the King by JRR Tolkein
• The Hobbit by JRR Tolkein
• ✔ Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by JK Rowling
• ✔ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling
• Inferno by Dante
• ✔ Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• ✔ Animal Farm by George Orwell
• ✔ Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
• ✔ The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
• ✔ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf
• ✔ The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• ✔ The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• ✔ A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
• Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• ✔ Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• ✔ The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• ✔ Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• ✔ To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
• ✔ Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

children's lit

• ✔ Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
• ✔ The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
• ✔ The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey by Trenton Lee Stewart
• ✔ The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma by Trenton Lee Stewart
• The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
• The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis
• ✔ The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
• ✔ To Give a Boy a Gun by Todd Strasser
• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
• ✔ The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
• ✔ The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Thirteen Days to Midnight by Patrick Carman
• The Falconer's Knot by Mary Hoffman
• ✔ The Ghost Belonged to Me by Richard Peck
• I, Coriander by Sally Gardner
• Story Time by Edward Bloor
• ✔ Becoming Naomi Leon by Pam Muñoz Ryan
• ✔ Witch Child by Celia Rees
• ✔ Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska

ya lit

• ✔ The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• ✔ Divergent by Veronica Roth
• ✔ It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
• ✔ Going Bovine by Libba Bray
• ✔ A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
• ✔ An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
• ✔ Rooftops of Tehran by Mahbod Seraji
• ✔ Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly

contemporary adult lit

• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• ✔ The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
• ✔ Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
• ✔ Room by Emma Donoghue
• The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
• Forty Stories by John Updike
• Irons in the Fire by John McPhee
• ✔ In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
• The House of the Spirits Isabel Allende
• Sellevision by Augusten Burroughs

spanish language

• ✔ Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes
• ✔ Lazarillo de Tormes by Anónimo
• ✔ La Casa de Bernarda Alba by Frederico García Lorca
• Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

misc

• ✔ The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories 3 by Joseph Gordon-Levitt and wirrow
• ✔ A Journey Through Time by Jay Barbree and Martin Caidin
• ✔ Adirondack Ghosts II by Linda Lee Macken
• ✔ Do Elephants Jump? by David Feldman
• The Meaning of Life by Bradley Trevor Greive
• ✔ A System of Harmony for Teacher and Pupil by John A. Broekhoven
• ✔ Ophelia Speaks by Sara Shandler
• The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe