poetry:

• charles bukowski - what matters most... (1999)
• daniel halpern - the american poetry anthology (1953)
• dylan thomas - collected poems (2010)
• emily dickinson - selected poems (1960)
• ezra pound - selected poems (1957)
• frank o'hara - the collected poems (1995)
• oscar williams - mentor book: major american poets (1962)
• philip larkin - collected poems (1988)
• robert frost - the selected poems (1962)
• sylvia plath - ariel (1965) (re)
• t.s. eliot - collected poems 1909-1962 (1963)
• t.s. eliot - the waste land & other poems (1930)
• ted hughes - birthday letters (1998)
• william wordsworth - selected poems (1959)

biographies, autobiographies, memoirs:

• alex haley - the autobiography of malcolm x (1995)
• charles bukowski - screams from the balcony (1993)
• david foster wallace - the dfw reader (2015)
• david sedaris - naked (1997)
• david sedaris - when you are engulfed in flames (2008)
• frank mccourt - angela's ashes (1996)
• frederick douglass - narrative of the life (1845)
• joan didion - the year of magical thinking (2005)
• martin luther king jr. - the autobiography (1998)
• paul auster - the invention of solitude (1982)
• robert dallek - an unfinished life: jfk 1917-1963 (2001)
• ✔ sylvia plath - the unabridged journals (2000)
• tobias wolff - this boy's life: a memoir (1989)

drama/plays:

• george bernard shaw - saint joan (1923)
• james baldwin - blues for mister charlie (1964)
• jean-paul sartre - no exit & three other plays (1949)
• lorraine hansberry - a raisin in the sun (1959)
• oscar wilde - lady windermere's fan

short story collections:

• alice munro - runaway (2004)
• dylan thomas - collected stories
• ernest hemingway - in our time (1925) (re)
• flann o'brien - at swim-two birds (1939)
• john barth - on with the story (1996)
• ken wells - floating off the page (2002)
• langston hughes - the best of simple (1990)
• lydia davis - the collected stories (2009)
• philip roth - goodbye columbus (1959)

non-fiction works & essays:

• bill bryson - a short history of nearly everything (2003)
• bill simmons - the book of basketball (2009)
• charles darwin - evolutionary writings (1845)
• charles duhigg - the power of habit (2012)
• chuck klosterman - sex, drugs, & cocoa puffs (2003)
• dale carnegie - how to stop worrying & start living (1948)
• dave cullen - columbine (2009)
• david mamet - writing in restaurants (1987)
• e.m. forster - aspects of the novel (1927)
• greil marcus - a new literary history of america (2009)
• holly george-warren - rolling stone book of the beats (1999)
• jared diamond - collapse: how societies fail/succeed (2005)
• jared diamond - guns, germs & steel (1997)
• john medina - brain rules: 12 principles (2008)
• kay redfield jamison - touched with fire: manic-depressive illness & the artistic temperament (1993)
• lawrence lessig - free culture: nature/future of creativity (2004)
• leland, john - hip: the history (2001)
• LIFE 2000-2009: the decade that changed the world (2009)
• marie kondo - the life-changing magic of tidying up (2011)
• maxwell maltz - the new psycho-cybernetics (2002)
• nancy cobb - in lieu of flowers (2000)
• neil postman - amusing ourselves to death (1985)
• paul tillich - the courage to be (1952)
• slavoj zizek - absolute recoil: towards a new foundation of dialectical materialism (2014)
• sogyal rinpoche - the tibetan book of living & dying (1992)
• stephen d. levitt - superfreakonomics: global cooling, patriotic prostitutes & why suicide bombers should buy life insurance
• stephen hawking - a brief history of time (1998)
• truman capote - in cold blood (1966)
• william strunk jr. - the elements of style (1918)

miscellaneous/collectibles:

• armand eisen - believing in ourselves:the wisdom of women (1992)
• david remnick - fierce pajamas: an anthology of humor writing from the new yorker (2002)
• frank warren - postsecret: confessions on life, death & god (2009)
• marcelline delbecq - close-up (2006)

novels & novellas (pre-1920):

• alexandre dumas - the counte of monte cristo (1844)
• charles dickens - a tale of two cities (1859)
• charles dickens - david copperfield (1850)
• charlotte bronte - jane eyre (1847)
• edith wharton - ethan frome (1911)
• frank norris - mcteague: a story of san francisco (1899)
• franz kafka - the castle (1926)
• fyodor dostoyevsky - notes from underground (1864)
• fyodor dostoyevsky - the house of the dead (1860-2)
• fyodor dostoyevsky - the idiot (1869)
• gustave flaubert - madame bovary (1856)
• harriet beecher stowe - uncle tom's cabin (1852)
• henry james - the bostonians (1885)
• henry james - the portrait of a lady (1881)
• herman melville - moby dick (1851)
• jane austen - emma (1815)
• john milton - paradise lost (1667)
• leo tolstoy - anna karenina (1877)
• leo tolstoy - war and peace (1869)
• louisa may alcott - little women (1880)
• margaret mitchell - gone with the wind (1936)
• ovid - metamorphoses (8 ad)
• stephen crane - the red badge of courage (1895)
• theodore dreiser - sister carrie (1900)
• victor hugo - les miserables (1862)
• victor hugo - the hunchback of notre dame (1831)

novels & novellas (post-1920):

• albert camus - the plague (1947)
• ann petry - the street (1946)
• annie proulx - postcards (1992)
• ayn rand - the fountainhead (1943)
• barbara kingsolver - the bean trees (1988)
• betty smith - a tree grows in brooklyn (1943)
• chinua achebe - things fall apart (1958)
• david foster wallace - the broom of the system (1987)
• david foster wallace - the pale king (2011)
• david huddle - the tenorman (1995)
• don delillo - libra (1988)
• doris lessing - the golden notebook (1962)
• doug dorst - s. (ship of theseus) (2013)
• e.b. white - charlotte's web (1952)
• erich maria remarque - all quiet on the western front (1929)
• f. scott fitzgerald - the beautiful & the damned (1922)
• gabriel garcia marquez - 100 years of solitude (1967)
• gary paulsen - hatchet (1987)
• graeme gibson - five legs (1969)
• haruki murakami - the wind-up bird chronicle (1997)
• henry miller - tropic of cancer (1934)
• henry roth - call it sleep (1934)
• herman hesse - steppenwolf (1927)
• hermann hesse - magister ludi (1943)
• jamaica kincaid - annie john (1985)
• james baldwin - go tell it on the mountain (1953)
• james joyce - finnegans wake (1939)
• jeffrey eugenides - middlesex (2002)
• jerry spinelli - maniac magee (1990) (re)
• john steinbeck - east of eden (1952)
• john steinbeck - of mice & men (1937)
• joyce carol oates - foxfire (1993)
• langston hughes - not without laughter (1930)
• leon uris - exodus (1958)
• leon uris - qb vii (1970)
• lois lowry - the giver (1993) (re)
• markus zusak - i am the messenger (2002)
• meg wolitzer - the interestings (2013)
• milan kundera - the book of laughter & forgetting (1979)
• norman mailer - the naked and the dead (1948)
• patrick chamoiseau - school days (1994)
• paul auster - the new york trilogy (1987)
• ralph ellison - invisible man (1952)
• rebecca wells - divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood (1996)
• richard wright - native son (1940)
• richard yates - revolutionary road (1961)
• saul bellow - herzog (1964)
• stephen king - cujo (1981)
• sunil yapa - yr heart is a muscle the size of a fist (2016)
• tao lin - taipei (2013)
• thornton wilder - the bridge of san luis rey (1927) (re)
• tim o'brien - in the lake of the woods (1995)
• tim robbins - skinny legs & all (1990)
• tom robbins - even cowgirls get the blues (1974)
• toni morrison - tar baby (1981)
• toni morrison - the bluest eye (1970)
• virginia woolf - orlando: a biography (1928)
• virginia woolf - waves (1931)
• william burroughs - naked lunch (1959)
• william faulkner - absolom, absolom! (1938)
• william gaddis - the recognitions (1955)
• william golding - lord of the flies (1954)
• zadie smith - on beauty (2005)