- The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
- The Gook Lover by Ron Wulkan
- Oracle Night by Paul Auster
- All Aunt Hagar's Children by Edward P. Jones
- Purgatorio by Dante
- The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
- Remainder by Tom McCarthy
- Filthy Shakespeare by Pauline Kiernan
- Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee
- Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
- Girl Factory by Jim Krusoe
- The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster
- The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
- Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman
- The Chess Machine by Robert Löhr
- The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- The Journal of Jules Renard by Jules Renard
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
- Everyman by Philip Roth
- Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
- Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
- The Waste Land and Other Writings by T. S. Eliot
- Who by Fire by Diana Spechler
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- A Man without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut
- Endgame by Samuel Beckett
- Get a Life by Nadine Gordimer
- The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter
- The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
- Falling Man by Don DeLillo
- Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
- Girlbomb by Janice Erlbaum
- Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
- The Truth Will Out by Brenda James and William D. Rubinstein
- Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
- The Art of Love by Ovid
- Sonnets by William Shakespeare
- Inferno by Dante
- Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
- Dubliners by James Joyce
- The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
- The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
- Beijing Coma by Ma Jian
