Books

Guide:

• Most recent first. List dates from summer 2009, when I was 15.
• Recommended titles in bold, modeled on Aaron Swartz’s excellent Review of Books.
• I love talking about books, or why I bolded/didn’t bold a certain title. Find me on Twitter.

List:

• Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger, by Charles T. Munger, Peter E. Kaufman.
• Investing: The Last Liberal Art, by Robert G. Hagstrom.
• Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor, by Tren Griffin.
• Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue, by Ryan Holiday.
• The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, by Brad Stone.
• Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, by Steven Pinker.
• The ‘How To’ Grants Manual: Successful Grantseeking Techniques for Obtaining Public and Private Grants, by David G. Bauer.
• The Shepherd, by Frederick Forsyth.
• The Simple Path to Wealth: Your road map to financial independence and a rich, free life, by J.L. Collins.
• One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories, by B.J. Novak.
• A Random Walk Down Wall Street, by Burton G. Malkiel.
• Truly Devious (Truly Devious, #1), by Maureen Johnson.
• No Time to Spare by Ursula K. Le Guin.
• Essays Of Warren Buffett: Lessons For Corporate America, by Warren Buffett.
• The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life, by Alice Schroeder.
• The Financial Diet, by Chelsea Fagan.
• Amusing Ourselves to Death, by Neil Postman.
• I Will Find You: A Reporter Investigates the Life of the Man Who Raped Her, by Joanna Connors.
• A World Without “Whom”: The Essential Guide to Language in the Buzzfeed Age, by Emmy J. Favilla.
• Artemis, by Andy Weir.
• The River of Consciousness, by Oliver Sacks.
• And We’re Off, by Dana Schwartz.
• Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me, by Bill Hayes.
• Exit West, by Mohsin Hamid.
• Lapsing Into a Comma: A Curmudgeon’s Guide to the Many Things That Can Go Wrong in Print — And How to Avoid Them, by Bill Walsh.
• Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest, by Zeynep Tufekci.
• The Romantic Movement: Sex, Shopping, and the Novel, by Alain de Botton.
• Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe’s Guide to Better English in Plain English, by Patricia T. O’Conner.
• The Foundation Center’s Guide to Proposal Writing, by Jane C. Geever.
• Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline
• Accidence Will Happen: A Recovering Pedant’s Guide to English Language and Style, by Oliver Kamm.
• Turtles All the Way Down, by John Green.
• Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate, by Zoe Quinn.
• Rich Dad, Poor Dad, by Robert T. Kiyosaki.
• Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• What Happened, by Hillary Rodham  Clinton.
• The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye (Millennium, #5), by David Lagercrantz.
• Ecotopia, by Ernest Callenbach.
• Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History, by Katy Tur.
• Conscience of a Conservative: A Rejection of Destructive Politics and a Return to Principle, by Jeff Flake.
• Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience and Finding Joy, by Sheryl Sandberg.
• For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway.
• 80,000 Hours: Find a fulfilling career that does good, by Benjamin Todd.
• Me Before You, by Jojo Moyes.
• The Dead Zone, by Stephen King.
• The Voice of America: Lowell Thomas and the Invention of 20th-Century Journalism, by Mitchell Stephens.
• Bitch Doctrine: Essays for Dissenting Adults, by Laurie Penny.
• The Ghost, by Robert Harris.
• Cosmos, by Carl Sagan.
• American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road, by Nick Bilton.
• Conclave, by Robert Harris.
• Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, by J.D. Vance.
• The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century, by Steven Pinker
• Everyone’s a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too: A Book, by Jomny Sun
• How to Be a Woman, by Caitlin Moran.
• Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury.
• The Complete Book of Grant Writing: Learn to Write Grants Like a Professional, by Nancy Smith.
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
• Grit, by Angela Duckworth
• Personal History, by Katharine Graham
• Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties by Beth Kobliner
• All Your Worth: The Ultimate Lifetime Money Plan, by Elizabeth Warren, Amelia Warren Tyagi
• The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing, by Norman Mailer
• Reflections in a Bloodshot Lens: America, Islam and the War of Ideas, by Lawrence Pintak
• Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are, by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
• The Only Grant-Writing Book You’ll Ever Need: Top Grant Writers and Grant Givers Share Their Secrets, by Ellen Karsh, Arlen Sue Fox
• Zen in the Art of Writing, by Ray Bradbury
• Remote: Office Not Required, by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson
• How to Ruin Everything: Essays, by George Watsky
• I’jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody, by Sinan Antoon
• Work at Home Superstar: How to Stay Focused and Rock Your Day, by Jack Wilson
• Being Abbas El Abd, Ahmed Alaidy
• Breaking Knees: Modern Arabic Short Stories from Syria, Zakaria Tamer
• Needful Things, by Stephen King.
• The Committee, by Sonallah Ibrahim
• Revolutionary Dissent: How the Founding Generation Created the Freedom of Speech, by Stephen D. Solomon
• The Story of Zahra, by Hanan Al-Shaykh, Peter Ford (Translator)
• Arabesques, by Anton Shammas
• Times of My Life and My Life with the Times, by Max Frankel
• The Renegade Writer: A Totally Unconventional Guide to Freelance Writing Success, by Linda Formichelli and Diana Burrell
• Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman.
• Returning to Haifa, by Ghassan Khanafani.
• The Conference of the Birds, by Farid al-Din Attar, Dick Davis (Translator), Afkham Darbandi (Translator)
• Endings, by Abdul Rahman Munif
• Fascism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions #77), by Kevin Passmore.
• Gold Dust, by Ibrahim al-Koni.
• Finders Keepers (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #2), by Stephen King
• Season of Migration to the North, by Tayeb Salih
• Norse Mythology, by Neil Gaiman
• The Golden Chariot, by Salwa Bakr
• Miramar, by Naguib Mahfouz
• Law 101: Everything You Need to Know about the American Legal System by Jay M. Feinman
• Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
• Thank You for Smoking, by Christopher Buckley.
• The Rise of the Image the Fall of the Word, by Mitchell Stephens.
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, by Michael Chabon.
• They Know Everything About You: How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy, by Robert Scheer
• Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China, by Evan Osnos.
• The Panama Papers: Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money, by Bastian Obermayer and Frederik Obermaier.
• The Artful Edit: On the Practice of Editing Yourself, by Susan Bell.
• The Internet of Things, by Samuel Greengard.
• So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, by Jon Ronson.
• Chuck Amuck: The Life and Time of an Animated Cartoonist, by Chuck Jones.
• My Name Is Asher Lev, by Chaim Potok.
• Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World’s Superpowers, by Simon Winchester.
• The Broker, by John Grisham.
• Bag of Bones, by Stephen King.
• How Would a Patriot Act? Defending American Values from a President Run Amok, by Glenn Greenwald.
• Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, by Anne Lamott.
• The Secret History, by Donna Tartt.
• Scrappy Little Nobody, by Anna Kendrick.
• Trigger Mortis, by Anthony Horowitz
• Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them, by Francine Prose
• The Productive Writer: Tips & Tools to Help You Write More, Stress Less & Create Success, by Sage Cohen.
• Indefensible: One Lawyer’s Journey into the Inferno of American Justice, by David Feige.
• The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz, by Aaron Swartz (Author), Lawrence Lessig (Introduction).
• “There Are Things I Want You to Know” about Stieg Larsson and Me, by Eva Gabrielsson.
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Philosophy: Everything Is Fire (Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture #25), by Eric Bronson (Series Editor).
• Habit Stacking: 97 Small Life Changes That Take Five Minutes or Less, by S.J. Scott.
• My Word is My Bond by Roger Moore, Gareth Owen.
• Schindler’s List, by Thomas Keneally.
• The Firm, by John Grisham.
• Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind, by Jocelyn K. Glei.
• Salty Baby: A Memoir, by Orla Tinsley.
• Where Am I Now?: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame, by Mara Wilson.
• Fighting for the Press, by James C. Goodale.
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, by J.K. Rowling.
• On Writing, by Stephen King. (Reread.)
• The Green Mile, by Stephen King.
• 11/22/63, by Stephen King.
• The Next Decade: Empire and Republic in a Changing World, by George Friedman.
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, by J.K. Rowling.
• The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman.
• The Man Who Was Thursday, by G. K. Chesterton.
• The Moon’s a Balloon, by David Niven.
• Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, by Jon Meachum.
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, by J.K. Rowling.
• And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, by Randy Shilts.
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, by J.K. Rowling.
• The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr, by H.W. Brands.
• Coraline, by Neil Gaiman.
• Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution, by Mona Eltahawy.
• Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More, by Janet Mock.
• The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government’s Secret Drone Warfare Program, by Jeremy Scahill and The Staff of The Intercept.
• Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church, by The Boston Globe.
• The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm.
• The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis.
• The Magician’s Nephew, by C.S. Lewis
• The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction by Neil Gaiman
• Night Draws Near: Iraq’s People in the Shadow of America’s War, by Anthony Shadid.
• Slouching Toward Bethlehem, by Joan Didion.
• Drown, by Junot Díaz.
• Mission Failure: America and the World in the Post-Cold War Era, by Michael Mandelbaum.
• Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories, by Truman Capote
• Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism, by Robert A. Pape.
• The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco.
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Díaz.
• Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in Europe, by George Freidman.
• Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
• This Town, by Mark Leibowich.
• Sex With Shakespeare, by Jillian Keenan.
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, by J.K. Rowling.
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, by J.K. Rowling.
• Hamilton: The Revolution, by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter.
• From Beirut to Jerusalem, by Thomas L. Friedman
• Israel/Palestine, by Alan Dowty.
• Dark Places, by Gillian Flynn.
• Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.
• Sharp Objects, by Gillian Flynn
• Thrilling Cities, by Ian Fleming.
• The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror, by Bernard Lewis.
• Alexander Hamilton, by Ron Chernow. 
• Orientalism, by Edward W. Said.
• Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town, by Jon Krakauer.
• I Saw Ramallah, by Mourid Barghouti.
• Dumb Witness, by Agatha Christie.
• Politics & Society in the Contemporary Middle East, by Michele Penner Angrist (Editor)
• Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World, by Edward W. Said
• Cards on the Table, by Agatha Christie.
• The Struggle for Iran, by Christopher De Bellaigue.
• The Modern Middle East: A History, by James Gelvin.
• And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie.
• Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One’s Looking), by Christian Rudder
• A History of Modern Iran, by Ervand Abrahamian.
• In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote.
• We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families, by Philip Gourevitch
• The Girl in the Spider’s Web, by David Lagercrantz, Stieg Larsson (Creator)
• On the Move: A Life, by Oliver Sacks.
• Islam without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty, by Mustafa Akyol.
• Here Is New York, by E.B. White.
• Pakistan: In the Shadow of Jihad and Afghanistan, by Mary Anne Weaver.
• Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield, by Jeremy Scahill.
• Beyond News: The Future of Journalism, by Mitchell Stephens.
• The Internet of Garbage, by Sarah Jeong.
• Palace Walk, by Naguib Mahfouz.
• Persepolis 2, by Marjane Satrapi.
• Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, by Marjane Satrapi.
• Making the Most of College: Students Speak Their Minds, by Richard J. Light.
• Uncommon Carriers, by John McPhee.
• Deadline Artists: America’s Greatest Newspaper Columns, by John P. Avlon, Errol Louis, and Jesse Angelo.
• The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It, by Kelly McGonigal.
• Know Your Beholder, by Adam Rapp.
• Animal Liberation, by Peter Singer.
• Patti LuPone: A Memoir, by Patti LuPone.
• Arab Spring Dreams: The Next Generation Speaks Out for Freedom and Justice from North Africa to Iran, by Nasser Weddady and Sohrab Ahmari.
• Newsfail: Climate Change, Feminism, Gun Control, and Other Fun Stuff We Talk About Because Nobody Else Will, by Jamie Kilstein and Allison Kilkenny.
• The Art of Opinion Writing: Insider Secrets from Top Op-Ed Columnists, by Suzette Martinez Standring.
• The Arabic Alphabet: How to Read & Write It, by Nicholas Awde and Putros Samano.
• No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam, by Reza Aslan.
• China Airborne, by James Fallows.
• Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World, by Bruce Schneier.
• Monstrous Regiment, by Terry Pratchett.
• The Night of the Gun: A reporter investigates the darkest story of his life. His own, by David Carr.
• The Reluctant Fundamentalist, by Mohsin Hamid.
• Empire of the Mind: A History of Iran, by Michael Axworthy.
• The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday: Unexpected Encounters in the Changing Middle East, by Neil MacFarquhar.
• Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran, by Azadeh Moaveni.
• Season of Migration to the North, by Tayeb Salih.
• Murder on the Orient Express, by Agatha Christie.
• Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran, by Ray Mottahedeh.
• Being There, by Jerzy Kosinski.
• Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products, by Leander Kahney.
• Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation, by Stephen Johnson.
• Public Editor #1: The Collected Columns (with Reflections, Reconsiderations and Even a Few Retractions) of the First Ombudsman of The New York Times, by Daniel Okrent.
• Walks With Men, by Ann Beattie.
• Words’ Worth: Write Well and Prosper, by Terri Brooks and Mary Quigley.
• Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein, by Andrew Cockburn and Patrick Cockburn.
• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, by Agatha Christie.
• Making News at The New York Times, by Nikki Usher.
• A Portrait of Egypt: A Journey Through the World of Militant Islam, by Mary Anne Weaver.
• Super Sad True Love Story, by Gary Shteyngart. 
• Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (and Parents Sane), by Gavin de Becker.
• Page One: Inside The New York Times and the Future of Journalism. Edited by David Folkenflik.
• The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk, by Randy Shilts.
• Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity, by Julia Serano.
• Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War, by James Risen.
• Virtually Normal, by Andrew Sullivan.
• Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell. (First book of 2015.)
• Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn.
• Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age, by Cory Doctorow.
• Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future, by Cory Doctorow.
• Women Don’t Ask, by Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever.
• The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak.
• The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, by Astra Taylor
• It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens, by Danah Boyd.
• On Writing Well, by William Zinsser.
• We the Media, by Dan Gillmor.
• American Gods, by Neil Gaiman.
• Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous, by Gabriella Coleman.
• The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help, by Amanda Palmer.
• Carrie, by Stephen King.
• The Gift of Fear, by Gavin de Becker.
• The Journalist and the Murderer, by Janet Malcolm.
• The Hacker Playbook: A Practical Guide to Penetration Testing, by Peter Kim.
• Edge of Eternity, by Ken Follett.
• OS X 10.10 Yosemite: The Ars Technica Review, by John Siracusa.
• The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect, by Bill Kovach, Tom Rosenstiel.
• Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea, by Charles Seife.
• When Google Met Wikileaks, by Julian Assange.
• Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Woman’s Prison, by Piper Kerman.
• How to Win at College: Surprising Secrets for Success from the Country’s Top Students, by Cal Newport.
• Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948 (Open Media Series), by Tanya Reinhart.
• Readings for Diversity and Social Justice, by Maurianne Adams, Warren Blumenfeld, Carmelita Castaneda, Heather W. Hackman, Madeline L. Peters, Ximena Zuniga.
• Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution, by Laurie Penny.
• Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed, by Alexis Ohanian. 
• Zero To One: Notes on Startups, or, How to Build the Future, by Peter Thiel, with Blake Masters.
• The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography, by Simon Singh.
• WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange’s War on Secrecy, by David Leigh and Luke Harding.
• Hard Choices, by Hillary Rodham Clinton.
• Wikileaks and the Age of Transparency, by Micah L. Sifry.
• Get Sh*t Done!: From spare room to boardroom in 1,000 days, by Niall Harbison.
• One L, by Scott Turow.
• @ Is For Activism: Dissent, Resistance And Rebellion In A Digital Culture, by Joss Hands.
• With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful, by Glenn Greenwald.
• Mr. Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore, by Robin Sloan.
• Free Flight: Inventing the Future of Travel, by James Fallows
• Cypherpunks, by Julian Assange, with Jacob Applebaum, Andy Müller-Maguhn, and Jérémie Zimmermann.
• This Machine Kills Secrets: Julian Assange, the Cypherpunks, and Their Fight to Empower Whistleblowers, by Andy Greenberg.
• The Argument: Inside the Battle to Remake Democratic Politics, by Matt Bai.
• No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State, by Glenn Greenwald.
• The Smart Girl’s Guide to Privacy, by Violet Blue.
• Rosaura a las Diez, by Marco Denevi. (Read for a Spanish class at NYU.)
• Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer. (Objectively the worst book I’ve read this year.)
• Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion, by Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, Harry Lewis
• Civilization and its Discontents, by Sigmund Freud.
• Consider the Lobster, by David Foster Wallace.
• To Play The King, by Michael Dobbs.
• The Time Traveler, by H.G. Wells.
• On the Genealogy of Morality, by Friedrich Nietzsche.
• Night, by Elie Wiesel.
• Dragnet Nation, by Julia Angwin.
• House of Cards, by Michael Dobbs.
• Amusing Ourselves to Death, by Neil Postman.
• Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley.
• V For Vendetta, by Alan Moore.
• Citizenville: How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government, by Gavin Newsom.
• Faust, by Goethe.
• The Snowden Files, by Luke Harding.
• Rework, by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson.
• An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth, by Chris Hadfield.
• Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley.
• This Star Won’t Go Out, by Esther, Lori, and Wayne Earl.
• Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides.
• The Art of Fielding, by Chad Harbach.
• Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World, by Bruce Schneier.
• The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien.
• Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World’s Most Dangerous Website, by Daniel Domscheit-Berg.
• To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. (First book of 2014!)
• Violence, Nudity, Adult Content, by Vince Passaro.
• Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, by Tony Kushner.
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey.
• From the Soil: The Foundations of Chinese Society, by Fei Xiatong
• Montauk, by Max Frisch
• Cosmopolis, by Don DeLillo.
• Doctor Sleep, by Stephen King.
• China in War and Revolution, 1895-1949 (Asia’s Transformations), by Peter Zarrow.
• The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger.
• American Psycho, by Bret Easton Ellis.
• Harry, A History: The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life Inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon, by Melissa Anelli.
• An American Dream, by Norman Mailer.
• Brief Encounters with the Enemy, by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh.
• Junkie, by William Burroughs.
• A Woman Soldier’s Own Story: Xie Bingying.
• God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, by Christopher Hitchens.
• The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck.
• Intellectual Memoirs, by Mary McCarthy.
• OS X 10.9 Mavericks: The Ars Technica Review, by John Siracusa.
• The Company She Keeps, by Mary McCarthy.
• How to Become a Straight-A Student: The Unconventional Strategies Real College Students Use to Score High While Studying Less, by Cal Newport.
• “Shanghai, Springtime 1930,” a novella included in “I Myself Am a Woman” by Ding Ling.
• Miss Lonelyhearts, by Nathanael West.
• Washington Square, by Henry James.
• Closer to the Knives, by David Wojnarowicz.
• Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut.
• The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
• Guardian Angel, by Robert Muchamore.
• Tuesdays With Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson, by Mitch Albom.
• The Ocean at the End of the Lane, by Neil Gaiman.
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou.
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, by J.K. Rowling.
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, by J.K. Rowling.
• Inferno, by Dan Brown.
• American Savage: Insights, Slights, and Fights on Faith, Sex, Love, and Politics, by Dan Savage.
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass, by Lewis Carroll.
• The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, by Stieg Larsson.
• The Girl Who Played With Fire, by Stieg Larsson.
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, by J.K. Rowling.
• Food Rules, by Michael Pollan.
• Here’s the Deal, by David Leonhardt.
• The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson.
• Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow.
• One Shot Kill, by Robert Muchamore.
• How To Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie.
• The Kid, by Dan Savage.
• Will Grayson, Will Grayson, by John Green and David Levithan.
• Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo.
• The Roald Dahl Treasury, by Roald Dahl.
• Animal Farm, by George Orwell.
• The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family, by Dan Savage
• Winter of The World, by Ken Follett.
• Dan Savage: The First Gay Celebrity, by Mark Oppenheimer.
• The Emperor of All Maladies, by Siddhartha Mukherjee.
• A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway.
• On Writing, by Stephen King.
• Fall of Giants, by Ken Follett.
• The Man Who Never Was: World War II’s Boldest Counter-Intelligence Operation, by Ewen Montagu.
• Breaking Dawn, by Stephanie Meyer.
• Nocturne: A Play, by Adam Rapp.
• Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake, by Frank W. Abagnale and Stan Redding.
• Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins.
• The Lonesome West, by Martin McDonagh.
• Punkzilla, by Adam Rapp.
• Pet Sematary, by Stephen King.
• Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins.
• The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins.
• Under the Dome, by Stephen King.
• Bridge to Teribithia, by Katherine Patterson.
• Empire of the Sun, by J.G. Ballard.
• Eclipse, by Stephanie Meyer.
• New Moon by Stephanie Meyer.
• Twilight by Stephanie Meyer.
• The Faults In Our Stars by John Green.
• Looking For Alaska by John Green.
• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson.
• Kill The Messenger by Tami Hoag.
• People’s Republic by Robert Muchamore.
• Prior Bad Acts by Tami Hoag.
• The Princess Bride by William Goldman.
• Secret Army by Robert Muchamore.
• Outliers: The Story Of Success by Malcolm Gladwell.
• Lord Loss, by Darren Shan.
• Eastern Standard Tribe, by Cory Doctorow.
• The Year of Endless Sorrows, by Adam Rapp.
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon.
• Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory, by Ben Macintyre.
• Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare.
• Without You: A Story of Love, Loss, and the Musical RENT, by Anthony Rapp.
• The Shining, by Stephen King.
• Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age, by Paul Graham.
• The Immortal Game, by Mark Coggins.
• Zugzwang, by Ronan Bennett.
• I Am The Messenger, by Markus Zuzak.
• The Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown.
• All The President’s Men, by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.
• The Last Little Blue Envelope by Maureen Johnson.
• My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell.