(Books arranged alphabetically by author)

The Deeper Meaning of Liff, Douglas Adams

The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood

Report from the Interior, Paul Auster
 

Love Always, Ann Beattie

Out of Print, George Brock

World War Z, Max Brooks

The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov

The People Look Like Flowers at Last, Charles Bukowski

Slouching Toward Nirvana, Charles Bukowski

Shatnerquest, Jeff Burk
   

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, Susan Cain

Cosmicomics, Italo Calvino

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, Italo Calvino

Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino

The Stranger, Albert Camus
Wasteland Blues, Scott Christian Carr and Andrew Conry-Murray

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Raymond Carver

Will You Please Be Quiet, Please, Raymond Carver

Girl With a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier

Being Dead, Jim Crace

How to Fake a Moon Landing: Exposing the Myths of Science Denial, Darryl Cunningham
      

Night of the Assholes, Kevin L. Donihe

The Man Who Watched the World End, Chris Dietzel

By Blood We Live, Glen Duncan

Hope, Glen Duncan

The Last Werewolf, Glen Duncan

American Decameron, Mark Dunn
      

Look at Me, Jennifer Egan

American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis

Things the Grandchildren Should Know, Mark Oliver Everett
     

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, Anne Fadiman

Been Down So Long it Looks Like Up to Me, Richard Fariña
     

One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

Middle C, William H. Gass

Omensetter's Luck, William H. Gass

Jesus Was a Time Traveler, D.J. Gelner

And the Dark Sacred Night, Julia Glass

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Seth Grahme-Smith

AM/PM, Amelia Gray
     

Warlock, Oakley Hall

Flash Fiction Funny, edited by Tom Hazuka

The Book of My Lives, Aleksandar Hemon
The Reason I Jump, Naoki Higashida

Hunger, Knut Hamsun

Help! A Bear Is Eating Me!, Mykle Hansen
      

The Sea is My Brother, Jack Kerouac

The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower #1), Stephen King

The Walking Dead, Compendium One, Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard, Cliff Rathburn, Tony Moore

Mastodon Farm, Mike Kleine
       

A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle

This is Your Brain on Music, Daniel J. Levitin
     

Something Wrong With Her, Cris Mazza

Cannonball, Joseph McElroy

A Smuggler's Bible, Joseph McElroy

Moby Dick, Herman Melville
     

Not for Everyday Use, Elizabeth Nunez
      

The Egg Said Nothing, Caris O'Malley
     

A Void, Georges Perec

The Language Instinct, Steven Pinker

The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
Aaron's Leap, Magdaléna Platzová

The Interrogative Mood: A Novel?, Padgett Powell

Out with It: How Stuttering Helped Me Find My Voice, Katherine Preston
Palmerino, Melissa Pritchard

In Search of Lost Time, Vol. I: Swann's Way, Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time, Vol. II: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time, Vol. III: The Guermantes Way, Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time, Vol. IV: Sodom and Gomorrah, Marcel Proust

Bleeding Edge, Thomas Pynchon

Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon

Inherent Vice, Thomas Pynchon

V., Thomas Pynchon

Vineland, Thomas Pynchon
      

The Imperfectionists, Tom Rachman

Basal Ganglia, Matthew Revert

Quartet, Jean Rhys

Jitterbug Perfume, Tom Robbins

Electric Aphorisms, John Roderick
     

Pastoralia, George Saunders

San Francisco Musical History Tour, Joel Selvin

Stay Close, Little Ghost, Oliver Serang

The Disaster Artist, Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell

Love is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time, Rob Sheffield

The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break, Steven Sherrill

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
     

The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt

A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
    
Leningrad, Igor Vishnevetsky

A Man Without a Country, Kurt Vonnegut

Mother Night, Kurt Vonnegut
     

Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments, David Foster Wallace

The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls

The Optimist's Daughter, Eudora Welty

Broken Piano for President, Patrick Wensink

Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

Orlando, Virginia Woolf