In Cold Blood- Truman Capote
A Fan's Notes- Frederick Exley
Slaughterhouse 5- Kurt Vonnegut
Invisible Man- Ralph Ellison
The Big Sleep- Raymond Chandler
To Kill a Mockingbird- Harper Lee
Iron John- Robert Bly
A River Runs Through It- Norman Maclean
Anna Karenina- Leo Tolstoy
Bright Lights, Big City- Jay McInerney
The Brothers Karamazov- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Shrine at Altamira- John L'Heureux
The Autobiography of Benjaming Franklin- Benjamin Franklin (obviously)
On the Road- Jack Kerouac
A Separate Peace- John Knowles
The Hobbit- J.R.R. Tolkein
The Maltese Falcoln- Dashiell Hammett
A Clockwork Orange- Anthony Burgess
(Make sure you read the English version of Clockwork with all 21 chapters)
Guns, Germs, and Steel- Jared Diamond
Hamlet- Shakespeare
The Grapes of Wrath- John Steinbeck
River Out of Eden- Richard Dawkins
1984- Eric Blair
Notes to Myself- Hugh Prather
And Then There Were None (Ten Little Indians)- Agatha Christie
All My Sons- Arthur Miller
Walden- Henry David Thoreau
The Day of the Locust- Nathanael West
Waiting for Godot- Samuel Beckett
The Postman Always Rings Twice- James M. Cain
Travels with Charley- John Steinbeck
As I Lay Dying- William Faulkner
Lolita- Vladimir Nabokov
Hiroshima- John Hersey
The Old Man and the Sea- Ernest Hemingway
The Neptune File- Tom Standage
Where I'm Calling From- Raymond Carver
(You must read "A Small, Good Thing" in the above collection)
Winesburg, Ohio- Sherwood Anderson
A Scanner Darkly- Philip K. Dick
Catch-22- Joseph Heller
Portnoy's Complaint- Philip Roth
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek- Annie Dillard
A Room with a View- E.M. Forster
The Selfish Gene- Richard Dawkins
Beloved- Toni Morrison
The Mezzanine- Nicholson Baker
What I'm currently reading: Moneyball- Michael Lewis
