Biographies / Memoirs
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot
- Night – Elie Wiesel
- The Glass Castle – Jeannette Walls
- Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom
- The Story of My Life – Helen Killer
- Zeitoun – Dave Eggers
- The Year of Reading Dangerously – Andy Miller
- What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding – Kristin Newman
- Eat Pray Love – Elizabeth Gilbert
Classics
- Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
- To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee
- The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez
- Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
- The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
- 1984 – George Orwell
- Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream – William Shakespeare
- Othello – William Shakespeare
- Of Mice and Men – John Steinback
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
- The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
- Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
- Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
- Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
- The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
- A Little Princess – Frances Hodgson Burnett
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
- And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie
- The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
- Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
- The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
- Lord of the Flies – William Golding
- Oedipus Rex – Sophocles
- Antigone – Sophocles
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
- The House on Mango Street – Sandra Cisneros
Contemporary Fiction
- Americanah – Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
- 1Q84 – Haruki Murakami
- Bel Canto – Ann Patchett
- The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
- Little Bee – Chris Cleave
- The Help – Kathryn Stockett
- The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
- Me Before You – Jojo Moyes
- The Devil Wears Prada – Lauren Weisberger
- The Notebook – Nicholas Sparks
- The Last Song – Nicholas Sparks
- My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult
- Nineteen Minutes – Jodi Picoult
- Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
- The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
- Broken Harbour – Tana French
- The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
- A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
- And the Mountains Echoed – Khaled Hosseini
- The Art of Fielding – Chad Hobach
- State of Wonder – Ann Patchett
- The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson
- Angels and Demons – Dan Brown
- Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
- The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt
- Atonement – Ian McEwan
- The Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom
- The Memory Keeper’s Daughter – Kim Edwards
- A Visit from the Goon Squad – Jennifer Egan
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Díaz
- The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- Revolutionary Road – Richard Yates
- Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami
- The Thing Around Your Neck – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Fantasy/Science Fiction
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – J.K. Rowling
- Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West – Gregory Maguire
- The Gunslinger – Stephen King
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
- The Giver – Lois Lowry
- A Game of Thrones – George R.R. Martin
- A Clash of Kings – George R.R. Martin
- A Storm of Swords – George R.R. Martin
Non-fiction
- The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business – Charles Duhigg
- Outliers: The Story of Success – Malcolm Gladwell
- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking – Malcolm Gladwell
- Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead – Sheryl Sandberg
- Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
- Moonwalking with Einstein – Joshua Foer
- The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter Most – Meg Jay
- Devil in the White City – Erik Larson
- Guns, Germs, and Steel – Jared Diamond
- A People’s History of the United States – Howard Zinn
- In the Garden of Beasts – Erik Larson
- The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time – Jeffrey Sachs
- Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty – Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
- The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum – Temple Grandin
- We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow You Will Be Killed with Your Families – Philip Gourevitch
Young Adult
- Divergent – Veronica Roth
- Insurgent – Veronica Roth
- Allegiant – Veronica Roth
- The Fault in Our Stars – John Green
- Paper Towns – John Green
- The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Series – Ann Brashares
- Twilight – Stephanie Meyer
- New Moon – Stephanie Meyer
- Eclipse – Stephanie Meyer
- Breaking Dawn – Stephanie Meyer
- The Princess Diaries Series – Meg Cabot
- Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging – Louise Rennison
- All-American Girl – Meg Cabot
- Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson
- The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
- Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins
- Mockingjay – Suzanne Collins
- Eragon – Christopher Paolini
- Artemis Fowl – Eoin Colfer
- Coraline – Neil Gaiman
- Holes – Louis Sachar
- The City of Ember – Jeanne DuPrau
- The People of Sparks – Jeanne DuPrau
- Inkheart – Cornelia Funke
- An Abundance of Katherines – John Green
- Eleanor & Park – Rainbow Rowell