NonFiction & Memoirs 

  • the Bielski Brothers - Peter Duff 
  • the Colony: the Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai - John Tayman
  • Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith & Love - Dava Sobel
  • Infidel - Ayaan Hirsi Ali 
  • the Infinite Book - John D. Barrow
  • Labels - Evelyn Waugh
  • a Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life - J Craig Venter
  • the Meaning of Everything: the Story of the Oxford English Dictionary - Simon Winchester
  • Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature - Jan Lars Jensen
  • Reading Lolita in Tehran: a Memoir in Books - Azar Nafisi
  • the Renaissance: a Short History - Paul Johnson 
  • Simplexity - Jeffrey Kluger
  • Time Travel in Einstein's Universe: The Physical Possibilities of Time Travel Through Time - J Richard Gott 
  • an Unfinished Life: John F Kennedy, 1917-1963 - Robert Dallek 
  • Venice: Lion City: The Religion of Empire - Garry Wills
  • a World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Godel & Einstein - Palle Yourgrau

Classics 

  • 1984 - George Orwell 
  • the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
  • the Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain 
  • Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
  • Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank 
  • the Catcher & the Rye - J.D. Salinger
  • Crime & Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky 
  • the Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
  • David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
  • Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
  • Don Quixote - Miguel Cervantes 
  • Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Emma - Jane Austen 
  • Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes 
  • Frankenstein - Mary Shelley 
  • the Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
  • the Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
  • Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
  • Little Women - Louisa May Alcott 
  • Lord of the Flies - William Golding 
  • the Lottery and Other Stories - Shirley Jackson 
  • Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
  • Middlemarch - George Eliot 
  • the Odyssey - Homer 
  • Of Mice & Men - John Steinbeck
  • a Passage to India - E M Forester
  • Persuasion - Jane Austen 
  • the Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan
  • the Portable Dorothy Parker - Dorothy Parker
  • Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw
  • Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
  • a Room with a View - E M Forrester 
  • the Screwtape Letters - C S Lewis 
  • Sense & Sensibility - Jane Austen
  • the Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne (read in high school, but need to re-read!)
  • the Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner 
  • the Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe

Fiction 


  • Brick Lane - Monica Ali 
  • the Code of the Woosters - P.G. Wodehouse 
  • the Distant Land of My Father - Bo Caldwell 
  • Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury 
  • the Five People you Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom 
  • How to Breathe Underwater - Julie Orringer
  • Old School - Tobias Wolff 
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • the Penderwicks... - Jeanne Birdsall 
  • a Quiet Storm - Rachel Howzell Hall  
  • Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky
  • the Truth & Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters - Elisabeth Robinson