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Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy (Translated by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky)
The Man With Two Left Feet, P.G. Wodehouse
The Church of Baseball, Ron Shelton
Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
Childhood’s End, Arthur C. Clarke
The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead
The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
Here, Richard McGuire
The Sandman, Vol 1, Neil Gaiman
Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese
The Watchmen, Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
Early Days in Escondido, Frances Beven Ryan & Lewis C. Ryan
Island and Other Stories, Alastair MacLeod
This Is All a Dream We Dreamed, Blair Jackson
Legacy of Ashes, Tim Weiner
Will, Will Smith
A Little Devil in America, Hanif Abdurraqib
The Ministry of the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson
Born on the Fourth of July, Ron Kovic
The Final Revival of Opal and Nev, Dawnie Walton
A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Jim Henson, Brian Jay Jones
The Sum of Us, Heather McGhee
Me, Elton John
Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin
2034, Elliot Ackerman & Admiral James Stavridis
The Go-Giver, Bob Burg & John David Mann
This is How They Tell Me the World Ends, Nicole Perlroth
Deacon King Kong, James McBride
Dear America, Jose Antonio Vargas
The Teammates, David Halberstam
How to be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi
Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner
Uncanny Valley, Anna Wiener
Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance
How Music Works, David Byrne
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, William Kamkwamba
The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson
Tree of Smoke, Denis Johnson
Mystery Train, Greil Marcus
The Stand, Stephen King
American Heiress, Jeffrey Toobin
Becoming, Michelle Obama
Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari
Lab Girl, Hope Jahren
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir, Patrisse Cullors and asha bandele
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, Carrie Brownstein
Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney
Girl in a Band, Kim Gordon
The End of the Affair, Graham Greene
Room, Emma Donoghue
Fox 8, George Saunders
The Overstory, Richard Powers
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown
Once More We Saw Stars, Jayson Greene
Please Kill Me, Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain
The Heart of Understanding, Thich Nhat Hanh
A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Rebecca Solnit
The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
On Writing, Stephen King
There There, Tommy Orange
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us, Hanif Abdurraqib
Assembling California, John McPhee
Operating Instructions, Ann Lamott
Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times, Florynce Kennedy
Devotion, Patti Smith
The Daily Show (The Book): An Oral History, Chris Smith
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie
Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders
My Life on the Road, Gloria Steinem
We Should All Be Feminists, Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie
American Pastoral, Philip Roth
If This Isn’t Nice, What Is?, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Empire Falls, Richard Russo
The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams
Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates
The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
Wonderful Tonight, Pattie Boyd
How Can I Keep From Singing?, David King Dunaway
Bird By Bird, Anne Lamott
Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
Born a Crime, Trevor Noah
They Call Me Supermensch, Shep Gordon
A Visit From The Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
The Plague, Albert Camus
Ain’t I a Woman, bell hooks
Willie, Willie Nelson & Bud Shrake
Tenth of December, George Saunders
Kindred, Octavia Butler
Jubilee Hitchiker, William Hjortsberg
The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel, Amy Hempel
Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen
Hope In The Dark, Rebecca Solnit
Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism, Bob Edwards
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
Arborists’ Cerification Study Guide, Sharon J. Lilly
It’s Not Cancer, It’s Brain Slugs, Matthew R. Scarbrough
Anton Chekov’s Short Stories, Anton Chekov
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
Portnoy’s Complaint, Philip Roth
A Lost Lady, Willa Cather
Wild, Cheryl Strayed
Shop Class as Soulcraft, Michael B. Crawford
Beloved, Toni Morrison
Open City, Teju Cole
Drinking in America, Susan Cheever
Cairo, Ahdaf Soueif
Between the World and Me, Ta Na-hesi Coates
Kafka On The Shore, Haruki Murakami
The Stench of Honolulu, Jack Handey
A Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy, Douglas Adams
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Morris
Everyday Zen, Charlotte Joko Beck
The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God, Etgar Keret
In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
Satchel Paige’s America, William Price Fox
Bossypants, Tina Fey
Sex at Dawn, Christopher Ryan & Cacilda Jetha
Rabbit Run, John Updike
This Is How You Lose Her, Junot Diaz
Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish, David Rakoff
The Savage Detectives, Roberto Bolaño
The World Until Yesterday, Jared Diamond
Steal Like An Artist, Austin Kleon
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
I’m a Stranger Here Myself, Bill Bryson
Memos From Purgatory, Harlan Ellison
Our Band Could Be your Life, Michael Axelrod
Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs
Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste, Lester Bangs
Player Piano, Kurt Vonnegut
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyesvky
The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories, Charles Bukowski
Shakey: Neil Young’s Biography, Jimmy McDonough
Traffic: Why We Drive The Way We Do, Tom Vanderbilt
Raymond Carver: A Writer’s Life, Carol Sklenicka
Searching For The Sound, Phil Lesh
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safron Foer
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
Miles: The Autobiography, Miles Davis
Dissonant Identities, Barry Shank
The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes, Neil Gaiman
Catch 22, Joseph Heller
The Tokyo-Montana Express, Richard Brautigan
Mayor of MacDougal Street, Dave Van Ronk
Dragonslippers, Roasalind B. Penfold
Tribes, Seth Godin
Made to Stick, Chip Heath & Dan Heath
Being Peace, Thich Nhat Hanh
Ghettonation, Cora Daniels
White Teeth, Zadie Smith
Life, Keith Richards
Linchpin, Seth Godin
Weinland Park Evaluation Project, Tamar M. Forrest, Ph.D. & Howard Goldstein, Ph.D.
Einstein’s Dream, Alan Lightman
Where I’m Calling From, Raymond Carver
Just Kids, Patti Smith
The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
The Giver, Lois Lowry
The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran
Jackson Falls, Terry Bowman
On The Road (Original Scroll), Jack Kerouac
Ishmael, Daniel Quinn
The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Gonzo Papers, Vol. 1, Hunter S. Thompson
Please Kill Me, Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain
The Lost Weekend, Charles Jackson
Born Standing Up, Steve Martin
Zen And Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig
Ham On Rye, Charles Bukowski
Even Cowgirls Get The Blues, Tom Robbins
The Happy Hooker, Xaviera Hollander
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me, Richard Farina
The Political Mind, George Lakoff
Positively 4th Street, David Hajdu
The Essential Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi
The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan
The Road, Cormac Macarthy
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
The Armies of the Night, Norman Mailer
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
Ralph the Duck, Frederick Busch
The Unabomber’s Manifesto, Theodore Kaczynski
What Is The What, Dave Eggers
The Human Comedy, William Saroyan
Down and Out In Paris and London, George Orwell
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
Wise Blood, Flannery O’Connor
Chronicles, Vol. 1, Bob Dylan
Bound for Glory, Woody Guthrie
The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell
Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
Disposable People, Kevin Bales
WordPress for Dummies, Lisa Sabin-Wilson
Gig, ed. John Bowe, Marisa Bowe, and Sabin Streeter
A Lovely Love Story, Edward Monkton
Born to Run, Christoper McDougall
Jesus’ Son, Denis Johnson
Mother Night, Kurt Vonnegut
Massive Change, Bruce Mau
Atop an Underwood, Jack Kerouac
Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
Love is a Mix Tape, Rob Sheffield
Blessed Unrest, Paul Hawken
Planet of the Apes, Pierre Boulle
The Yage Letters, William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg
Walden, Henry David Thoreau
The Pocket Buddha Reader, ed. by Anne Bancroft
Revenge of the Lawn, Richard Brautigan
Franny & Zooey, JD Salinger
Steppenwolf, Herman Hesse
Still Life With Woodpecker, Tom Robbins
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me, Richard Fariña
The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
You Can’t Win, Jack Black
Shopgirl, Steve Martin
High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safron Foer
Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
We, Yevgeny Zamyatin
The Secret Sharer, Joseph Conrad
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers
Running With Scissors, Augusten Burroughs
The Body, Stephen King
Going After Cacciato, Tim O’Brien
Nine Stories, JD Salinger