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Favorites
  1. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
  2. A Stranger in This World, Kevin Canty
  3. Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer
  4. Cancer Ward, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
  5. Old School, Tobias Wolff
  6. Facing the Music, Larry Brown
  7. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
  8. Post Office, Charles Bukowski
  9. The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
  10. The Chosen, Chaim Potok

Classical
  1. The Oresteia, Aeschylus
  2. Prometheus Bound, Aeschylus
  3. The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri
  4. Summa Theologiae, Thomas Aquinas
  5. Birds, Aristophanes
  6. The Clouds, Aristophanes
  7. Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle
  8. Physics, Aristotle
  9. Metaphysics, Aristotle
  10. On the Soul, Aristotle
  11. Poetics, Aristotle
  12. Politics, Aristotle
  13. Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
  14. The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer
  15. Discourses, Epictetus
  16. The Bacchae, Euripides
  17. Medea, Euripides
  18. The Histories, Herodotus
  19. The Iliad, Homer
  20. The Odyssey, Homer
  21. On the Nature of Things, Titus Lucretius Carus
  22. The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli
  23. The Guide of the Perplexed, Moses Maimonides
  24. Paradise Lost, John Milton
  25. Apology, Plato
  26. Crito, Plato
  27. Gorgias, Plato
  28. Meno, Plato
  29. Phaedo, Plato
  30. Phaedrus, Plato
  31. The Republic, Plato
  32. The Sophist, Plato
  33. Timaeus, Plato
  34. Symposium, Plato
  35. Theaetetus, Plato
  36. Enneads, Plotinus
  37. Confessions, St. Augustine
  38. Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
  39. Henry V, William Shakespeare
  40. Hamlet, William Shakespeare
  41. Othello, William Shakespeare
  42. King Lear, William Shakespeare
  43. Macbeth, William Shakespeare
  44. The Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare
  45. Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare
  46. As You Like It, William Shakespeare
  47. Ajax, Sophocles
  48. Oedipus the King, Sophocles
  49. Oedipus at Kolonos, Sophocles
  50. Philoktetes, Sophocles
  51. Antigone, Sophocles
  52. Annals of Imperial Rome, Tacitus
  53. The Peloponnesian War, Thucydides
  54. Beowulf, Unknown
  55. The Aeneid, Virgil

Fiction
  1. Watership Down, Richard Adams
  2. The Outlander, Gil Adamson
  3. A Death in the Family, James Agee
  4. Indian Killer, Sherman Alexie
  5. The Evil B. B. Chow and Other Stories, Steve Almond
  6. My Life in Heavy Metal, Steve Almond
  7. Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America, Steve Almond
  8. Perhaps Women, Sherwood Anderson
  9. Nemesis, Isaac Asimov
  10. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
  11. Beware of God, Shalom Auslander
  12. Foreskin's Lament, Shalom Auslander
  13. Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach
  14. Foregone, Russell Banks
  15. A Permanent Member of the Family, Russell Banks
  16. Lost Memory of Skin, Russell Banks
  17. The Sweet Hereafter, Russell Banks
  18. Cloudsplitter, Russell Banks
  19. The Reserve, Russell Banks
  20. Continental Drift, Russell Banks
  21. Trailer Park, Russell Banks
  22. Rule of the Bone, Russell Banks
  23. Affliction, Russell Banks
  24. Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced, Catherine Barnett
  25. The Hermit's Story, Rick Bass
  26. Big Swiss, Jen Beagin
  27. Eon, Greg Bear
  28. The Doctor's House, Ann Beattie
  29. Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow
  30. More Die of Heartbreak, Saul Bellow
  31. The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, Aimee Bender
  32. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, Aimee Bender
  33. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt
  34. Civil War Stories, Ambrose Bierce
  35. A Man for All Seasons, Robert Bolt
  36. The Wettest County in the World (also published as Lawless), Matt Bondurant
  37. Drop City, T. Coraghessan Boyle
  38. The Martian Chronicles, Ray Douglas Bradbury
  39. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Douglas Bradbury
  40. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
  41. A Miracle of Catfish, Larry Brown
  42. Big Bad Love, Larry Brown
  43. Billy Ray's Farm, Larry Brown
  44. Dirty Work, Larry Brown
  45. Facing the Music, Larry Brown
  46. Father and Son, Larry Brown
  47. Fay, Larry Brown
  48. Joe, Larry Brown
  49. The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck
  50. Factotum, Charles Bukowski
  51. Post Office, Charles Bukowski
  52. Ham on Rye, Charles Bukowski
  53. Women, Charles Bukowski
  54. The Captain, Charles Bukowski
  55. The Most Beautiful Woman in Town: Stories, Charles Bukowski
  56. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
  57. Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs
  58. Junkie, William S. Burroughs
  59. Queer, William S. Burroughs
  60. Cities of the Red Night, William S. Burroughs
  61. Erewhon, Samuel Butler
  62. Tobacco Road, Erskine Caldwell
  63. Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
  64. The Stranger, Albert Camus
  65. The Underworld, Kevin Canty
  66. Where the Money Went: Stories, Kevin Canty
  67. Into the Great Wide Open, Kevin Canty
  68. Nine Below Zero, Kevin Canty
  69. Honeymoon, Kevin Canty
  70. Winslow in Love, Kevin Canty
  71. A Stranger in this World: Stories, Kevin Canty
  72. Apaches, Lorenzo Carcaterra
  73. Gangster, Lorenzo Carcaterra
  74. Sleepers, Lorenzo Carcaterra
  75. The Signal, Ron Carlson
  76. Madonna Red, James Carroll
  77. The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman, Angela Carter
  78. What We Talk about When We Talk about Love: Stories, Raymond Carver
  79. Where I'm Calling From, Raymond Carver
  80. Fires, Raymond Carver
  81. Spartina, John Casey
  82. My Antonia, Willa Cather
  83. Falconer, John Cheever
  84. The Complete Short Novels, Anton Chekhov
  85. Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, 1892-1895, Anton Chekhov
  86. The Alchemist, Paul Coelho
  87. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
  88. The Secret Sharer, Joseph Conrad
  89. The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane
  90. The Complete Poems of Stephen Crane, Stephen Crane
  91. A Feast of Snakes, Harry Crews
  92. Florida Frenzy: Essays, Harry Crews
  93. The Mulching of America, Harry Crews
  94. The Sleepy Hollow Family Almanac, Kris D'Agostino
  95. The Farming of Bones, Edwidge Danticat
  96. The Diaspora Sonnets, Oliver de la Paz
  97. White Noise, Don DeLillo
  98. Paris Trout, Pete Dexter
  99. Drown: Stories, Junot Diaz
  100. This is How You Lose Her, Junot Diaz
  101. City of God, E. L. Doctorow
  102. All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
  103. The Shell Collector: Stories, Anthony Doerr
  104. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  105. My Only Sunshine, Lou Dischler
  106. Adultery and Other Choices, Andre Dubus
  107. Selected Stories, Andre Dubus
  108. Dancing After Hours: Stories, Andre Dubus
  109. The Cage Keeper and Other Stories, Andre Dubus
  110. So Much a Part of You, Polly Dugan
  111. The Lover, Marguerite Duras
  112. The French Broad, Wilma Dykeman
  113. Walking Across Egypt, Clyde Edgerton
  114. A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
  115. What is the What, Dave Eggers
  116. The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg, Deborah Eisenberg
  117. Silas Marner, George Eliot
  118. Selected Poems, T. S. Eliot
  119. Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
  120. Ask the Dust, John Fante
  121. April Morning, Howard Fast
  122. The Sound and the Fury, William Cuthbert Faulkner
  123. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
  124. Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
  125. Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn
  126. The Ticking Is the Bomb, Nick Flynn
  127. Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
  128. Independence Day, Richard Ford
  129. The Sportswriter, Richard Ford
  130. Women with Men, Richard Ford
  131. Wildlife, Richard Ford
  132. Rock Springs, Richard Ford
  133. Canada, Richard Ford
  134. Palo Alto, James Franco
  135. Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier
  136. Nightwoods, Charles Frazier
  137. The O. Henry Prize Stories, 2003, Laura Furman (ed.)
  138. Food: A Love Story, Jim Gaffigan
  139. Bad Behavior, Mary Gaitskill
  140. The Mare, Mary Gaitskill
  141. The Tesseract, Alex Garland
  142. The Beach, Alex Garland
  143. Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
  144. Strangers to Temptation, Scott Gould
  145. Swimming to Cambodia, Spalding Gray
  146. Monster in a Box, Spalding Gray
  147. Lord of the Flies, William Golding
  148. Autobiography of a Face, Lucy Grealy
  149. The Secret River, Kate Grenville
  150. The Idea of Perfection, Kate Grenville
  151. The Lieutenant, Kate Grenville
  152. Black Like Me, John Howard Griffin
  153. Follow Me: Stories, Paul Griner
  154. New Stories from the South: 2006, Allan Gurganus (ed.)
  155. Bound for Glory, Woody Guthrie
  156. A Real Good War, Sam Halpert
  157. Hunger, Knut Hamsun
  158. Airships, Barry Hannah
  159. Legends of the Fall, Jim Harrison
  160. The Beast God Forgot to Invent, Jim Harrison
  161. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
  162. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
  163. Green Hills of Africa, Ernest Hemingway
  164. The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
  165. For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
  166. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
  167. The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel, Amy Hempel
  168. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein
  169. Lost Horizon, James Hilton
  170. Smilla's Sense of Snow, Peter Hoeg
  171. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
  172. Fireman's Fair, Josephine Humphreys
  173. Nowhere Else on Earth, Josephine Humphreys
  174. Rich in Love, Josephine Humphreys
  175. Dreams of Sleep, Josephine Humphreys
  176. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
  177. A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
  178. Last Night at Twisted River, John Irving
  179. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
  180. A Pale View of Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro
  181. The Buried Giant, Kazuo Ishiguro
  182. The Lottery and other Stories, Shirley Jackson
  183. Jesus' Son, Denis Johnson
  184. Tree of Smoke, Denis Johnson
  185. Dubliners, James Joyce
  186. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
  187. The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
  188. Pu-239: a Novella and Stories, Ken Kalfus
  189. Love Me, Garrison Keillor
  190. The Book of Guys: Stories, Garrison Keillor
  191. Legs, William Kennedy
  192. Demon Box, Ken Kesey
  193. Sometimes a Great Notion, Ken Kesey
  194. Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes
  195. Captains Courageous, Rudyard Kipling
  196. Redeployment, Phil Klay
  197. My Struggle, Book 1, Karl Ove Knausgaard
  198. A Separate Peace, John Knowles
  199. Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott
  200. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
  201. Aaron's Rod, D. H. Lawrence
  202. Lady Chatterley's Lover, D. H. Lawrence
  203. Independent People, Halldor Laxness
  204. The Fish Can Sing, Halldor Laxness
  205. Disquiet, Julia Leigh
  206. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle
  207. A Wind in the Door, Madeleine L'Engle
  208. Survival in Auschwitz, Primo Levi
  209. The Screwtape Letters, C. S. Lewis
  210. Main Street, Sinclair Lewis
  211. The Job, Sinclair Lewis
  212. White Fang, Jack London
  213. The Call of the Wild, Jack London
  214. Evangeline, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  215. The Falling Boy, David Long
  216. Island, Alistair MacLeod
  217. God's Grace, Bernard Malamud
  218. The Assistant, Bernard Malamud
  219. Pictures of Fidelman, Bernard Malamud
  220. The Tenants, Bernard Malamud
  221. The Magic Barrel: Stories, Bernard Malamud
  222. The Fixer, Bernard Malamud
  223. The Natural, Bernard Malamud
  224. The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, Hilary Mantel
  225. Matterhorn, Karl Marlantes
  226. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  227. Life of Pi, Yann Martel
  228. In Paradise, Peter Matthiessen
  229. In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, Peter Matthiessen
  230. The Orchard Keeper, Cormac McCarthy
  231. No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy
  232. The Road, Cormac McCarthy
  233. Outer Dark, Cormac McCarthy
  234. The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy
  235. Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
  236. All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy
  237. The Passenger, Cormac McCarthy
  238. Stella Maris, Cormac McCarthy
  239. The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, Carson McCullers
  240. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
  241. Charming Billy, Alice McDermott
  242. On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan
  243. Tularosa, Michael McGarrity
  244. Lake Overturn, Vestal McIntyre
  245. Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
  246. The Fear of Everything: Stories, John McNally
  247. Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass, Meg Medina
  248. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
  249. The Best American Short Stories, 2004, Lorrie Moore (ed.)
  250. Travelers Rest, Keith Lee Morris
  251. Call it What You Want, Keith Lee Morris
  252. The Dart League King, Keith Lee Morris
  253. The Greyhound God, Keith Lee Morris
  254. The Best Seats in the House and Other Stories, Keith Lee Morris
  255. Sula, Toni Morrison
  256. The Best American Short Stories, 2003, Walter Mosley (ed.)
  257. Half a Life, V. S. Naipaul
  258. Sweat, Lynn Nottage
  259. Black Elk Speaks, as told through John G. Neihardt
  260. Bone, Fae Myenne Ng
  261. The Refugees, Viet Thanh Nguyen
  262. The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen
  263. Flannery O'Connor the Complete Stories, Flannery O'Connor
  264. Master and Commander, Patrick O'Brian
  265. Tomcat in Love, Tim O'Brien
  266. Northern Lights, Tim O'Brien
  267. Going After Cacciato, Tim O'Brien
  268. The Nuclear Age, Tim O'Brien
  269. In the Lake of the Woods, Tim O'Brien
  270. The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien
  271. July, July, Tim O'Brien
  272. The English Patient, Michael Onadaatje
  273. There There, Tommy Orange
  274. Burmese Days, George Orwell
  275. Animal Farm, George Orwell
  276. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
  277. Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
  278. Choke, Chuck Palahniuk
  279. Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
  280. Truth and Beauty, Ann Patchett
  281. Refresh, Refresh, Benjamin Percy
  282. The Wilding, Benjamin Percy
  283. The Second Coming, Walker Percy
  284. The Moviegoer, Walker Percy
  285. Bad Haircut: Stories, Tom Perrotta
  286. Joe College, Tom Perrotta
  287. Little Children, Tom Perrotta
  288. The Abstinence Teacher, Tom Perrotta
  289. Election, Tom Perrotta
  290. The Leftovers, Tom Perrotta
  291. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig
  292. Knockemstiff, Donald Ray Pollock
  293. My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
  294. The Gift of Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
  295. The Chosen, Chaim Potok
  296. The Promise, Chaim Potok
  297. The Book of Lights, Chaim Potok
  298. Accordion Crimes, E. Annie Proulx
  299. The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx
  300. That Old Ace in the Hole, E. Annie Proulx
  301. The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
  302. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
  303. The Cove, Ron Rash
  304. Serena, Ron Rash
  305. One Foot in Eden, Ron Rash
  306. Saints at the River, Ron Rash
  307. The World Made Straight, Ron Rash
  308. Casualties: Stories, Ron Rash
  309. New Stories from the South: 2005, Shannon Ravenel (ed.)
  310. New Stories from the South: 2004, Shannon Ravenel (ed.)
  311. New Stories from the South: 2003, Shannon Ravenel (ed.)
  312. New Stories from the South: 2001, Shannon Ravenel (ed.)
  313. New Stories from the South: 1995, Shannon Ravenel (ed.)
  314. Rain Dragon, Jon Raymond
  315. Livability, Jon Raymond
  316. Cannibals in Love, Mike Roberts
  317. Red Hills and Cotton: An Upcountry Memory, Ben Robertson
  318. The Mathematician's Shiva, Stuart Rojstaczer
  319. American Pastoral, Philip Roth
  320. The Counterlife, Philip Roth
  321. Pedro Paramo, Juan Rulfo
  322. St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, Karen Russell
  323. Vampires in the Lemon Grove, Karen Russell
  324. I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son, Kent Russell
  325. Chances Are, Richard Russo
  326. The Destiny Thief, Richard Russo
  327. That Old Cape Magic, Richard Russo
  328. Bridge of Sighs, Richard Russo
  329. Straight Man, Richard Russo
  330. Mohawk, Richard Russo
  331. The Whore's Child and Other Stories, Richard Russo
  332. Empire Falls, Richard Russo
  333. The Risk Pool, Richard Russo
  334. Nobody's Fool, Richard Russo
  335. Everybody's Fool, Richard Russo
  336. Elsewhere: A Memoir, Richard Russo
  337. Trajectory, Richard Russo
  338. Nine Stories, J. D. Salinger
  339. The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger
  340. Blindness, Jose Saramago
  341. Tenth of December, George Saunders
  342. Happy-Go-Lucky, David Sedaris
  343. The Best of Me, David Sedaris
  344. Calypso, David Sedaris
  345. Theft by Finding, David Sedaris
  346. Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls, David Sedaris
  347. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk, David Sedaris
  348. Holidays on Ice, David Sedaris
  349. When You Are Engulged in Flames, David Sedaris
  350. Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
  351. Barrel Fever, David Sedaris
  352. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, David Sedaris
  353. Naked, David Sedaris
  354. Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules, David Sedaris, ed.
  355. The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara
  356. To the Last Man, Jeff Shaara
  357. The Last Full Measure, Jeff Shaara
  358. Love and Hydrogen: New and Selected Stories, Jim Shepard
  359. Project X, Jim Shepard
  360. Like You'd Understand, Anyway, Jim Shepard
  361. You Think That's Bad, Jim Shepard
  362. Larry's Party, Carol Shields
  363. Unless, Carol Shields
  364. Stray Decorum, George Singleton
  365. Novel: A Novel, George Singleton
  366. The Baptism of Billy Bean: A Novel, Roger Alan Skipper
  367. Gorky Park, Martin Cruz Smith
  368. Cancer Ward, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
  369. The First Circle, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
  370. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
  371. "We Never Make Mistakes": Two Short Novels, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
    • An Incident at Krechetovka Station,
    • Matryona's House,
  372. Dear John, Nicholas Sparks
  373. The Big Rock Candy Mountain, Wallace Stegner
  374. Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner
  375. Working Days, the Journals of `The Grapes of Wrath', 1938-1941, John Steinbeck
  376. Travels with Charley, John Steinbeck
  377. The Long Valley, John Steinbeck
  378. Cannery Row, John Steinbeck
  379. The Moon is Down, John Steinbeck
  380. To a God Unknown, John Steinbeck
  381. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
  382. Dog Soldiers, Robert Stone
  383. Bear and His Daughter, Robert Stone
  384. The Door, Magda Szabo
  385. The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
  386. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
  387. The Little Friend, Donna Tartt
  388. The Mosquito Coast, Paul Theroux
  389. Generation of Swine, Hunter S. Thompson
  390. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
  391. All My Puny Sorrows, Miriam Toews
  392. The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien
  393. The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien
  394. The Silmarillion, J. R. R. Tolkien
  395. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
  396. We the Animals, Justin Torres
  397. Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned, Wells Tower
  398. Dragonfish, Vu Tran
  399. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
  400. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
  401. Pudd'nhead Wilson, Mark Twain
  402. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Mark Twain
  403. Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer
  404. Authority, Jeff VanderMeer
  405. Acceptance, Jeff VanderMeer
  406. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, Jules Verne
  407. Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
  408. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
  409. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Kurt Vonnegut
  410. Night Rider, Robert Penn Warren
  411. The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells
  412. The First Men in the Moon, H. G. Wells
  413. The Robber Bridegroom, Eudora Welty
  414. The Ponder Heart, Eudora Welty
  415. The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder
  416. Right Ho, Jeves, P. G. Wodehouse
  417. A Man in Full, Tom Wolfe
  418. The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe
  419. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe
  420. From Bauhaus to Our House, Tom Wolfe
  421. The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, Tom Wolfe
  422. In Pharaoh's Army, Tobias Wolff
  423. The Barracks Thief, Tobias Wolff
  424. Old School, Tobias Wolff
  425. The Night in Question: Stories, Tobias Wolff
  426. In the Garden of the North American Martyrs: Stories, Tobias Wolff
  427. The Sun is Also a Star, Nicola Yoon
  428. The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon, Richard Zimler
  429. The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Paul Zindel

Non-Fiction (very incomplete list)
  1. Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey
  2. A Little Devil in America, Hanif Abdurraqib
  3. Animal Joy, Nuar Alsadir
  4. The Elephant Whisperer, Lawrence Anthony
  5. Ogallala Blue, William Ashworth
  6. Beyond Control, James F. Barnett, Jr.
  7. Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America, John M. Barry
  8. Mohawk Blood, Michael Baughman
  9. Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story, John Bloom
  10. The Best of Brevity, Zoe Bossiere and Dinty W. Moore
  11. The Water Hustlers, Robert H. Boyle, John Graves, T. H. Watkins
  12. Nomadland, Jessica Bruder
  13. At Home: A Short History of Private Life, Bill Bryson
  14. A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
  15. Notes from a Small Island, Bill Bryson
  16. A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson
  17. The Road to Little Dribbling, Bill Bryson
  18. The Body, Bill Bryson
  19. Bicycle Diaries, David Byrne
  20. The Shallows, Nicholas Carr
  21. The Secret Knowledge of Water, Craig Childs
  22. Flow, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  23. Almost Midnight, Michael W. Cuneo
  24. Cherokee Place Names, John Currahee
  25. Daily Rituals, Mason Currey
  26. The Years, Annie Ernaux
  27. A Woman's Story, Annie Ernaux
  28. The Big Thirst, Charles Fishman
  29. No Time Like the Future, Michael J. Fox
  30. On the Rez, Ian Frazier
  31. Great Plains, Ian Frazier
  32. Stasiland, Anna Funder
  33. Better, Atul Gawande
  34. Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann
  35. Empire of the Summer Moon, S. C. Gwynne
  36. Sleepless Nights, Elizabeth Hardwick
  37. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman
  38. The Island of Lost Maps, Miles Harvey
  39. A Year in the Maine Woods, Bernd Heinrich
  40. A Naturalist at Large, Bernd Heinrich
  41. Mind of the Raven, Bernd Heinrich
  42. King Leopold's Ghost, Adam Hochschild
  43. The Triggering Town, Richard Hugo
  44. Odd Type Writers, Celia Blue Johnson
  45. The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments, George Johnson
  46. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, Doris Kearns Goodwin
  47. Hearing Homer's Song, Robert Kaniegel
  48. The Imitation of Christ, Thomas à Kempis
  49. The Soul of a New Machine, Tracy Kidder
  50. Mountains Beyond Mountains, Tracy Kidder
  51. Brief Encounters, Judith Kitchen and Dinah Lenney
  52. Cod, Mark Kurlansky
  53. Salt, Mark Kurlansky
  54. Scale Invariance, Annick Lesne & Michel Lagües
  55. The Girl with Seven Names, Hyeonseo Lee
  56. Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
  57. The Winters of the World, Edited by Brian S. John
  58. Lord of Publishing: A Memoir, Sterling Lord
  59. H is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald
  60. Carnal Actrs, Nancy Mairs
  61. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940, William Manchester
  62. 1491, Charles C. Mann
  63. 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created, Charles C. Mann
  64. Born to Run, Christopher McDougall
  65. The Control of Nature, John McPhee
  66. The Pine Barrens, John McPhee
  67. The Curve of Binding Enery, John McPhee
  68. Deep Work, Cal Newport
  69. Lanterns on the Levee, William Alexander Percy
  70. Hamlet's Blackberry, William Powers
  71. A Deadly Wandering, Matt Richtel
  72. The Pine Barrens of New Jersey, Karen F. Riley
  73. Red Hills and Cotton, Ben Robertson
  74. Cherokee Voices: Early Accounts of Cherokee Life in the East, Vicki Rozema
  75. Wicked River, Lee Sandlin
  76. The Distancers, Lee Sandlin
  77. The Intellectual Life, A. G. Sertillanges
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  79. The Monster of Florence, Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi
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  81. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  82. Hillbilly Elegy, J. D. Vance
  83. How Old is the Universe?, David A. Weintraub
  84. The Goshawk, T. H. White
  85. Brothers and Keepers, John Edgar Wideman
  86. Outposts, Simon Winchester
  87. The Professor and the Madman, Simon Winchester
  88. On Writing Well, William Zinsser