Fiction

Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Indian Killer by Sherman Alexie
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
An Invisible Sign of My Own by Aimee Bender
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
Eventide by Kent Haruf
Lost Horizon by James Hilton
The Bone People by Keri Hulme
Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Possessions by Julia Kristeva
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers
The Gentle Axe by R.N. Morris
Because it is Bitter, and Because it is my Heart by Joyce Carol Oates
1984 by George Orwell
The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst
A Short History of a Small Place by T.R. Pearson
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
The Informer by Akimitsu Takagi
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
Native Son by Richard Wright

Poetry

poetry by Allen Ginsberg
poetry by Richard Hugo

Short Stories/Short Story Collections

“Appointment with Death” by Agatha Christie
“My Old Man” by Ernest Hemingway
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Mysterious Secret of the Valuable Treasure by Jack Pendarvis
“The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe
“The Pit and the Pendulum” by Edgar Allan Poe
“Bells in the Morning” by Richard Yates


Non-Fiction

The Funhouse Mirror by Robert Ellis Gordon
Secrets of the Temple by William Greider
When Corporations Rule the World by David Korten
Amazing Grace by Jonathan Kozol
Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television by Jerry Mander
Blue Highways by William Least Heat Moon
The Jaguar’s Smile by Salman Rushdie
Gaviotas by Allan Weisman
Refuge by Terry Tempest Williams
A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn

Writing

The Art of Fiction by John Gardner
Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
Wild Mind by Natalie Goldberg
Stein on Writing by Sol Stein
The Elements of Style by Strunk and White

Children/Young Adult

Mrs. Piggle Wiggle books by Betty Mac Donald
The BFG by Roald Dahl
The Witches by Roald Dahl
Bridge to Terabithia
Pippi Longstocking books Astrid Lindgren
Where the Wild Things Are
Peter Pan