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• After Disasters (Viet Dinh)

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (Michael Chabon)

• American Gods (Neil Gaiman)

• Angels & Demons (Dan Brown)

• The Art of War (Sun Tzu)

• Before the Reef (Eleanor Swanson)

• Billy Budd and Other Tales (Herman Melville)

• Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (David Foster Wallace)

• Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)

• The Code Book (Simon Singh)

• The Devil in the White City (Erik Larson)

• Doing Good Better (William MacAskill)

• Dracula (Bram Stoker)

• Dracula vs. Hitler (Patrick Sheane Duncan)

• Elantris (Brandon Sanderson)

• The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Muriel Barbery)

• Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)

• Everything is Illuminated (Jonathan Safran Foer)

• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Jonathan Safran Foer)

• Fear (Thích Nhất Hạnh)

• Fight Like a Physicist (Jason Thalken)

• For the Term of His Natural Life (Marcus Clarke)

• For the Time Being (Annie Dillard)

• The Five Elements of Effective Thinking (Edward B. Berger and Michael Starbird)

• Geek Love (Katherine Dunn)

• Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Haruki Murakami)

• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Dave Eggers)

• The Hidden Brain (Shankar Vedantam)

• The History of Love (Nicole Krauss)

• A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters (Julian Barnes)

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)

• The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)

• The Hours (Michael Cunningham)

• The House of Spirits (Isabel Allende)

• How Not to Be Wrong (Jordan Ellenberg)

• In the Time of the Butterflies (Laura Esquival)

• The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (Angela Carter)

• Inferno (Dante Alighieri)

• Interpreter of Maladies (Jhumpa Lahiri)

• Into the Wild (Jon Krakauer)

• The Invention of Solitude (Paul Auster)

• Ishmael (Daniel Quinn)

• Krik? Krak! (Edwidge Danticat)

• Lancelot (Walker Percy)

• Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman)

• Let the Great World Spin (Colum McCann)

• Life of Pi (Yann Martel)

• The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)

• Man Walks Into a Room (Nicole Krauss)

• Man's Search for Meaning (Viktor E. Frankl)

• Moby Dick (Herman Melville)

• The Moor's Last Sigh (Salman Rushdie)

• Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)

• Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)

• Neverwhere (Neil Gaiman)

• The New York Trilogy (Paul Auster)

• Nix the Tricks (Tina Cardone)

• The Passion of New Eve (Angela Carter)

• The Princess Bride (William Goldman)

• Ready Player One (Ernest Cline)

• The Robber Bride (Margaret Atwood)

• Room (Emma Donoghue)

• The Sandman series (Neil Gaiman)

• The Satanic Verses (Salman Rushdie)

• Saturday (Ian McEwan)

• Saving Fish From Drowning (Amy Tan)

• The Secret History of Wonder Woman (Jill Lepore)

• The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)

• Shantaram (Gregory David Roberts)

• Small Island (Andrea Levy)

• A Song of Ice and Fire series (George R.R. Martin)

• The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)

• Strange Tales From a Chinese Studio (Pu Songling)

• The Stranger (Albert Camus)

• Tell the Wolves I'm Home (Carol Rifka Brunt)

• Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words (Randall Munroe)

• Thinks... (David Lodge)

• A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini)

• Three Cups of Tea (Greg Mortenson)

• Three Junes (Julia Glass)

• Time's Arrow (Martin Amis)

• Trigger Warning (Neil Gaiman)

• Trolling Euclid (Tom Wright)

• Unaccustomed Earth (Jhumpa Lahiri)

• The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera)

• Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (Cathy O'Neil)

• What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Randall Munroe)

• White Plains (David Hicks)

• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami)

• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert M. Pirsig)