The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food by Jennifer 8. Lee
Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin
Union Atlantic by Adam Haslett
Game Change by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin
The Hemingses of Monticello by Annette Gordon-Reed
Never Tell Our Business to Strangers by Jennifer Mascia
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

American Subversive by David Goodwillie
Radical Walking Tours of New York City by Bruce Kayton
Whip Smart by Melissa Febos
Report From Engine Co. 82 by Dennis Smith
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time by David Goodwillie

Don’t Cry by Mary Gaitskill
Agaat by Marlene van Niekerk
Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White, Garth Williams and Rosemary Wells
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupéry and Richard Howard
Monsieur Pain by Roberto Bolaño
The Easter Parade by Richard Yates
Drown by Junot Díaz
The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City by Jennifer Toth

Lost and Found: Stories from New York edited by Thomas Beller
It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs edited by Smith Magazine
Love Is a Four-Letter Word edited by Michael Taeckens
Flight Patterns: A Century of Stories about Flying edited by Dorothy Spears
Granta 91: Wish You Were Here: The Magazine of New Writing edited by Ian Jack
State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America edited by Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey
The Thinking Fan’s Guide to the World Cup edited by Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey
Before & After: Stories from New York edited by Thomas Beller

When Skateboards Will Be Free: A Memoir of a Political Childhood by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh

The Crowned Cannibals: Writings on Repression in Iran by Reza Baraheni

The Impostor’s Daughter: A True Memoir by Laurie Sandell

Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary by Bertrand M. Patenaude

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung by Mao Tse-Tung

Essential Works of Marxism edited by Arthur Mendel

Webster’s New World Vest Pocket Dictionary

The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers

While They Slept: An Inquiry into the Murder of a Family by Kathryn Harrison

Jack the Ripper: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural by Terry Lynch

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean

Lazy Little Loafers by Susan Orlean

Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin

Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell

Great Plains by Ian Frazier

Avian Medicine by by Branson Ritchie, Greg J. Harrison, Don Zantrop and Linda Harrison

Extra Extraordinary Chickens Stephen Green-Armytage

Keeping Pet Chickens by Johannes Paul

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

The Rules: Time-Tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right by Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider

Joe Gould’s Secret by Joseph Mitchell

Sweet and Low by Rich Cohen

Negotiate This!: By Caring, But Not T-H-A-T Much by Herb Cohen

Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer

Bellow: A Biography by James Atlas

Israel Is Real by Rich Cohen

The First Annual Grand Prairie Rabbit Festival by Ken Wheaton

The Complete Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

The Judas Strain by James Rollins

On Writing by Stephen King

Powdered Eggs by Charles Simmons

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

The Bible According to Mark Twain edited by Howard G. Baetzhold and Joseph B. McCullough

Classic Crews: A Harry Crews Reader by Harry Crews

The Long Haul by Amanda Stern

Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson

Driving the Heart and Other Stories by Jason Brown

Happy Baby by Stephen Elliott

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

Neuroses in Clinical Practice by Henry P. Laughlin

Influence by Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen

The Guinea Pig Diaries by A. J. Jacobs

Operating Instructions by Anne Lamott

How Zebras Got Their Stripes by Leslie Sims and Laure Fournier

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

Britannica Student Encyclopedia (16 vol.) by multiple authors

The Know-It-All by A. J. Jacobs

The Year of Living Biblically by A. J. Jacobs

Reading the Bible Again For the First Time by Marcus J. Borg

Holy Bible by multiple authors

The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman