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.