- The Darwin Conspiracy by John Darnton
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Userlands by Dennis Cooper (editor)
- Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
- The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells
- Song of Susannah by Stephen King
- The End of Faith by Sam Harris
- Lisey's Story by Stephen King
- Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- The Well-Educated Mind by Susan Wise Bauer
- Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos
- The Ruins by Scott Smith
- Only Revolutions by Mark Z. Danielewski
- The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke
- Will in the World by Stephen Greenblatt
- As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
- Aeneid by Virgil
- The Waterworks by E. L. Doctorow
- Bodily Harm by Margaret Atwood
- Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
- The Drowning Tree by Carol Goodman
- The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
- Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
- While I Was Gone by Sue Miller
- A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling
- 1776 by David McCullough
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- True Evil by Greg Iles
- Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- The Innocent Man by John Grisham
- The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
- The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
- For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
- The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
- Inferno by Dante
- A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
- Paradise Lost by John Milton
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Last Days of Dogtown by Anita Diamant
- Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris
- The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
- The Odyssey by Homer
- Against Depression by Peter D. Kramer
- A Good and Happy Child by Justin Evans
- The Castle in the Forest by Norman Mailer
- The Dark Tower by Stephen King
- Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
- Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
- The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
- The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor
- Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
- Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad
- Ecce Homo by Friedrich Nietzsche
- The Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
- On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- Hunger by Knut Hamsun
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
- Ulysses by James Joyce
