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