1. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
2. Theogony, Works and Days (Oxford World's Classics) by Hesiod
3. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
4. Royalty's Strangest Characters: Extraordinary but True Tales from 2,000 Years of Mad Monarchs and Raving Rulers (Strange by Geoff Tibballs
5. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
6. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
7. The Merry Wives of Windsor (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare
8. Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
9. The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
10. Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson
11. The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel by Diane Setterfield
12. The Song of Roland (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous
13. Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
14. The Sea by John Banville
15. Marx for Beginners by Rius
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16. Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
17. Suite Française by Irene Nemirovsky
18. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
19. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
20. The Magus by John Fowles
21. Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
22. King Lear (New Folger Library Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
23. Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
24. The Turn of the Screw and The Aspern Papers (Penguin Classics) by Henry James
25. The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan
26. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
27. Absurdistan: A Novel by Gary Shteyngart
28. Do You Speak American? by Robert MacNeill
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29. March by Geraldine Brooks
30. I, Claudius by Robert Graves
31. Shakespeare's Sonnets (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare
32. The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
33. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
34. The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
35. Brutal Journey: Cabeza de Vaca and the Epic First Crossing of North America by Paul Schneider
36. Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen
37. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
38. CSS
39. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, A Toltec Wisdom Book by Don Miguel Ruiz

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40. The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down by Colin Woodward
41. House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
42. Wild Life by Molly Gloss
43. The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology by Simon Winchester
44. A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
45. The Master Butchers Singing Club: A Novel (Erdrich, Louise) by Louise Erdich
46. Black Swan Green: A Novel by David Mitchell
47. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
48. Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) by Charlotte Bronte
49. The Last Town on Earth: A Novel
50. Heat by Bill Buford