Addams, Jane.  Twenty Years at Hull-House.

Albee, Edward. The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?

Algren, Nelson. Chicago: City On the Make.

Amis, Kingsley. Lucky Jim.

Andreasen, Nancy C, MD, PhD. The Creating Brain: The Neuroscience of Genius.

Auburn, David. Proof.

Buck, Pearl. Pavillion of Women. 

Byatt, A.S.  Possession.

Cather, Willa. My Antonia.

Cather, Willa. Song of the Lark.

Clay, Cynthia Joyce. Vector Theory and the Plot Structures of Literature and Drama.

Cohen, Ted.  Jokes.

Dahl, Roald.  George's Marvelous Medicine.

Danto, Arthur C. Beyond the Brillo Box.

Davies, Robertson.  A Mixture of Frailties.

Dewey, John.  Art as Experience.

Didion, Joan.  Play It As It Lays.

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan.  The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes.

Dreiser, Theodore. Sister Carrie.

Du Bois, W.E.B. The Souls of Black Folks.

Eco, Umberto. The Name of the Rose.

Eliot, George. Middlemarch.

Forester, C.S. The Horatio Hornblower series.

Fraleigh, Sondra Horton. Dance and the Lived Body.

Frankl, Viktor. Man's Search for Meaning.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Faust.

Greene, Graham. The Power and the Glory.

Hansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun.

Hawking, Stephen. A Brief History of Time.

Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea.

Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite-Runner.

Ionesco, Eugene.  Exit the King.

James, Henry. A Portrait of a Lady.

James, Henry. "In the Cage."

Johnson, Mark. The Meaning of the Body.

Kandinsky, Wassily. Concerning the Spiritual in Art.

Kundera, Milan. The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

Kosinski, Jerzy. The Painted Bird.

Langer, Susanne. Philosophy in a New Key.

Lee, Harper. To Kill A Mockingbird.

Lessing, Doris. "One Off the Short List."

Lessing, Doris. "The Day I Lost My Heart."

Lethem, Jonathan. Motherless Brooklyn.

Lewis, Sinclair.  Main Street.

London, Jack. The Call of the Wild.

Margolis, Joseph.  What, After All, Is A Work of Art?

Maugham, W. Somerset. The Moon and Sixpence.

McCullers, Carson. The Member of the Wedding.

McCarthy, Cormac. No Country For Old Men.

McCourt, Frank.  Angela's Ashes.

McLean, Norman. A River Runs Through It.

Merton, Thomas.  Seven-Story Mountain.

Miller, Arthur.  Death of a Salesman.

Mishima, Yukio. Spring Snow.

Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon.

Nagel, Thomas. The View From Nowhere.

Noe, Alva.  Out of Our Heads.

Nottage, Lynn.  Ruined.

Orwell, George. The Road To Wigan Pier.

Peirce, Charles Sanders. "Evolutionary Love."

Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Tell-Tale Heart."

Proulx, Annie. Brokeback Mountain and Other Stories.

Rilke, Rainer Maria. Selected Poetry.

Ruhl, Sarah. A Clean House.

Raven, Francis. Inverted Curvatures.

Russell, Bertrand. Why I Am Not A Christian and Other Essays.

Sarjapi, Marjane. Persepolis.

Shakespeare, William. King Lear.

Smith, Betty. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

St. Vincent Millay, Edna. Collected Poems.

Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath.

Sudnow, Dan. Ways of the Hand.

Thomasson, Amie. Fiction and Metaphysics.

Twain, Mark. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

Vidal, Gore. The Weekend.

Webber, Thomas L. Flying Over 96th Street.

West, Rebecca. The Thinking Reed.

Wharton, Edith. Ethan Frome.

Wharton, Edith. House of Mirth.

Wiesel, Elie. Night.

Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Wilde, Oscar. The Nightingale and the Rose.

Williams, William Carlos. Collected Poems.

Williams, Tennessee. A Streetcar Named Desire.

Wilson, August. The Piano Lesson.

Yates, Richard.  Revolutionary Road.