1. Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist by David Levithan & Rachel Cohn


2. Bird by Bird by Ann Lamott


3. Animal Farm by George Orwell


4. Shakespeare by Bill Bryson


5. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz


6. Franny & Zooey by J.D. Salinger


7. Neither Here Nor There by Bill Bryson


8. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami


9. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi


10. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll


11. Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie


12. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald


13. Violet & Claire by Francesca Lia Block


14. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini


15. Naive. Super by Erland Loe


16. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera


17. Moab Is My Washpot by Stephen Fry


18. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak


19. The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett


20. The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner


21. Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote


22. Drown by Junot Díaz


23. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch


24. The History of Love by Nicole Krauss


25. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates


26. Between the Bridge and the River by Craig Ferguson


27. Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen


28. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga


29. My Booky Wook by Russell Brand


30. Into the Wild by John Krakauer


31. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman


32. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith


33. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides


34. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides


35. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh


36. Getting the Girl by Markus Zusak


37. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway


38. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway


39. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell


40. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell


41. American on Purpose by Craig Ferguson


42. Seymour: An Introduction & Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters by J.D. Salinger


43. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers


44. The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan


45. When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris


46. No one belongs here more than you. by Miranda July


47. Dress Your Family in Corduroy & Denim by David Sedaris


48. Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg


49. The Best Creative Non-Fiction - edited by Lee Gutkind


50. The Old Man & the Sea by Ernest Hemingway