The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Anthem by Ayn Rand
The Alchemist by Paul Coehlo
The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
My Antonìa by Willa Cather
Adam Bede by George Eliot
All The Little Live Things by Wallace Stegner
Magnificent Obsession by Lloyd C. Douglas
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Jim the Boy by Tony Earley
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Mama Day by Gloria Naylor
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Guns, Germs & Steel by Jared Diamond
A compilation of the following contemporary poems:
- Billy Collins:
- "Introduction to Poetry"
- "Questions About Angels"
- "Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes"
- "Another Reason Why I Don't Keep a Gun in the House"
- Elizabeth Bishop:
- "Insomnia"
- "The Filling Station"
- "In the Waiting Room"
- "Sestina"
- Sylvia Plath: "Blackberrying"
- Anne Sexton:
- "In Celebration of My Uterus"
- "Little Girl, My String Bean, My Lovely Woman"
- "To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph"
- Maxine Kumin:
- "The Ancient Lady Poets"
- "John Green Takes His Warner, New Hampshire Neighbor to a Red Sox Game"
- "The Brown Mountain"
- Alan Shapiro: "On Men Weeping"
