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A
Adams, Douglas – The hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy
Adams, Richard – Watership Down
Adrienne, Carole – Healing a divided nation: How the American Civil War revolutionized Western medicine
Aleichem, Sholem – Tevye the Milkman †
Allende, Isabel – The house of spirits †
Amundsen, Lucie B. – Locally laid: How we built a plucky industry-changing egg farm — from scratch
Andersen, Hans Christian – The little mermaid
Angelou, Maya – I know why the caged bird sings
Asimov, Isaac – Foundation
Atwood, Margaret – The handmaid’s tale
Audubon, John James – The birds of America
Aymar, Brandt (ed.) – The personality of the cat and The personality of the dog
B
Bainbridge, Julia – Good drinks: Alcohol-free recipes for when you’re not drinking for whatever reason
Baker, Robin – Sperm wars: Infidelity, sexual conflict, and other bedroom battles
de Balzac, Honoré – Eugénie Grandet †
Barrie, J.M. – Peter Pan
Baum, L. Frank – The life and adventures of Santa Claus
Bertelsen, Cynthia D. – A hastiness of cooks
Blackmore, R.D. – Lorna Doone
Bly, Nellie – Ten days in a mad-house
Bourdain, Anthony – Appetites
Bradbury, Ray – The Martian chronicles
Bray, Libba – The diviners
Bray, Libba – Going bovine
Brennan, Marie – A natural history of dragons
Brockenbrough, Martha – The game of love and death
Brontë, Anne – The tenant of Wildfell Hall †
Brontë, Charlotte – Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily – Wuthering Heights
Brown, Dee – Bury my heart at Wounded Knee
Buck, Pearl S. – The good earth
Bugliosi, Vincent – Helter skelter: The true story of the Manson murders †
Burgess, Anthony – A clockwork orange
Burnett, Frances Hodgson – A little princess †
Burns, Olive Ann – Cold Sassy Tree †
Butler, Octavia E. – Kindred
C
Cadbury, Deborah – Chocolate wars: The 150-year rivalry between the world’s greatest chocolate makers
Cain, James M. – The postman always rings twice
Carriger, Gail – Soulless; Changeless; Blameless; Heartless; Timeless
Carroll, Lewis – Alice’s adventures in Wonderland
Carson, Rachel – The sea around us
Carson, Rae – The girl of fire and thorns; The crown of embers: The bitter kingdom
Carson, Rae – Walk on Earth a stranger
de Cervantes, Miguel – Don Quixote †
Chomsky, Noam and Herman, Edward S. – Manufacturing consent
Chopin, Kate – The awakening
Christie, Agatha – And then there were none
Clancy, Tom – The hunt for Red October
Cline, Ernest – Ready player one
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor – The rime of the ancient mariner
Cormier, Robert – The chocolate war
Cousteau, Jacques-Yves – The silent world †
Crichton, Michael – Jurassic Park
D
Dairman, Tara – All four stars
Darwin, Charles – Voyage of the Beagle
Dawkins, Richard – The greatest show on Earth
Dellamonica, A.M. – Child of a hidden sea
Di Justo, Patrick – This is what you just put in your mouth: From eggnog to beef jerky, the surprising secrets of what’s inside everyday products
Diamond, Kerry and Wu, Claudia (ed.) – Cherry bombe: The cookbook
Dick, Philip K. – Ubik
Didion, Joan – Slouching towards Bethlehem †
Dillard, Annie – Pilgrim at Tinker Creek †
Dixon, Heather – Illusionarium
Doller, Trish – The devil you know
Donnelly, Jennifer – Deep blue
Doyle, Arthur Conan – The adventures and memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Dreger, Alice – Galileo’s middle finger: Heretics, activists, and the search for justice in science
Dumas, Alexandre – The Count of Monte Cristo
Dumas, Alexandre – The three musketeers
Dyer, Jonah Lisa and Stephen – The season
Dr. Seuss – How the Grinch stole Christmas
E
Eco, Umberto – The name of the rose †
Eggers, Dave – The circle
Eig, Jonathan – The birth of the pill: How four crusaders reinvented sex and launched a revolution
Eisner, Will – A contract with God and other tenement stories
Eliot, George – Middlemarch
Eliot, T.S. – Old Possum’s book of practical cats
Ellis, Joseph J. – Founding brothers: The revolutionary generation
F
Falcones, Ildefonso – The barefoot queen
Faulkner, William – Absalom, Absalom!
Fessler, Ann – The girls who went away
Fforde, Jasper – The Eyre affair
Fisher, Thomas – The emergency: A year of healing and heartbreak in a Chicago ER
Fleming, Ian – Casino Royale †
Frankl, Viktor E. – Man’s search for meaning
Fraser, Antonia – The wives of Henry VIII
Fuller, Randall – The book that changed America: How Darwin’s theory of evolution ignited a nation
G
Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand – The story of my experiments with truth
Garner, Alan – The owl service
Garten, Jeffrey E. – From silk to silicon: The story of globalization through ten extraordinary lives
Gaskell, Elizabeth – North and south
Gavenas, Mary Lisa – Color stories: Behind the scenes of America’s billion-dollar beauty industry
General Mills, Betty Crocker Kitchens – The Betty Crocker cookbook
Gibbons, Stella – Cold Comfort Farm †
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins – The yellow wallpaper
Gläser, Mechthild – The book jumper
Goodall, Jane – In the shadow of Man
Goodall, Jane – Reason for hope: A spiritual journey
Goodkind, Terry – Wizard’s first rule
Graedon, Alena – The word exchange
Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm – The complete Brothers Grimm fairy tales
Grush, Loren – The six: The untold story of America’s first women astronauts
H
Hammett, Dashiell – The Maltese falcon
Handler, Daniel – We are pirates
Hanna-Attisha, Mona – What the eyes don’t see: A story of crisis, resistance, and hope in an American city
Hardy, Thomas – Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Hartman, Rachel – Seraphina
Hedayat, Sadegh – The blind owl
Helget, Nicole – Wonder at the edge of the world
Hemingway, Ernest – A moveable feast
Herriot, James – All creatures great and small
Hillyer, Lexa – Proof of forever
Houston Keith – The book: A cover-to-cover exploration of the most powerful object of our time
Howard, A.G. – Splintered
Hruban, Ralph H. and Linder, William – A scientific revolution: Ten men and women who reinvented American medicine
Hugo, Victor – The hunchback of Notre-Dame
Hurston, Zora Neale – Their eyes were watching God
I
Irving, Washington – The legend of Sleepy Hollow
Isherwood, Christopher – A single man †
J
Jackson, Shirley – The haunting of Hill House
Jacobs, Harriet – Incidents in the life of a slave girl
James, Henry – The turn of the screw
Johnson, Kirk Wallace – The fishermen and the dragon: Fear, greed, and a fight for justice on the Gulf Coast
Jones, Diana Wynne – Howl’s moving castle †
Juster, Norton – The phantom tollbooth †
K
Kelton, Elmer – The good old boys
Kesey, Ken – One flew over the cuckoo’s nest †
Kipling, Rudyard – The jungle book
Kirby, Jessi – Things we know by heart
Knisley, Lucy – Relish: My life in the kitchen
Koppel, Lily – The astronaut wives club
Krishna, Priya – Indian-ish: Recipes and antics from a modern American family
Krist, Gary – Empire of sin: A story of sex, jazz, murder, and the battle for modern New Orleans
L
Larsen, Nella – Passing †
Le, Stephen – 100 million years of food: What our ancestors ate and why it matters today
Le Guin, Ursula K. – A wizard of Earthsea
Lee, Stacey – Under a painted sky
Levin, Ira – Rosemary’s baby
Lili’uokalani – Hawaii’s story by Hawaii’s queen
Llewellyn, Richard – How green was my valley
Lofting, Hugh – The story of Doctor Dolittle
Loos, Anita – Gentlemen prefer blondes
López-Alt, J. Kenji – The food lab: Better home cooking through science
Lovecraft, H.P. – The call of Cthulhu
M
MacDonald, Betty – The egg and I
MacPhail, Theresa – Allergic: Our irritated bodies in a changing world
Madison, Deborah – Vegetarian cooking for everyone
Maggs, Sam – The fangirl’s guide to the galaxy
Markham, Beryl – West with the night
du Maurier, Daphne – Rebecca
Mayle, Peter – French lessons: Adventures with a knife, fork, and corkscrew
Mayle, Peter – A year in Provence
Maxwell, Terry – Wildlife of the Concho Valley
McCaffrey, Anne – Dragonflight
McCulley, Johnston – The mark of Zorro †
McMurtry, Larry – Lonesome Dove
Melville, Herman – Moby Dick
Milán, Victor – The dinosaur lords
Miller, Henry – Tropic of Cancer
Mitchell, Margaret – Gone with the wind
Montefiore, Simon Sebag – The Romanovs: 1613–1918
Montgomery, L.M. – Anne of Green Gables
Morris, William – The wood beyond the world
N
Nesbit, E. – The enchanted castle
Newton, Maud – Ancestor trouble: A reckoning and a reconciliation
Niven, Jennifer – All the bright places
Nix, Garth – Clariel
Novik, Naomi – His majesty’s dragon; League of dragons
O
Orczy, Emmuska – The Scarlet Pimpernel †
Orwell, George – Animal farm
P
Pearce, Jackson and Stiefvater, Maggie – Pip Bartlett’s guide to magical creatures
Perelman, Deb – The Smitten Kitchen cookbook
Perkins, Stephanie et al. – My true love gave to me
Perkins, Stephanie et al. – Summer days and summer nights
Peters, Elizabeth – Crocodile on the sandbank
Pitts, Leonard, Jr. – Freeman
Plath, Sylvia – The bell jar
Pollack, Eileen – The only woman in the room: Why science is still a boys’ club
Potter, Jeff – Cooking for geeks: Real science, great hacks, and good food
Preston, Douglas and Child, Lincoln – Relic
Preston, Douglas and Child, Lincoln – Riptide
Proulx, Annie – The shipping news
Puckette, Madeline and Hammack, Justin – Wine folly
Pullman, Philip – The golden compass
Pyle, Howard – The merry adventures of Robin Hood
Q
de Queiroz, Alan – The monkey’s voyage: How improbable journeys shaped the history of life
R
Ransome, Arthur – Swallows and Amazons †
Rhys, Jean – Wide Sargasso Sea
Rice, Anne – Interview with the vampire †
Roach, Mary – Bonk: The curious coupling of science and sex
Rohr, Stephanie – Feminist cross-stitch
Rossetti, Christina – Goblin market
Rush, Elizabeth – Rising: Dispatches from the new American shore
S
de Saint-Exupéry, Antoine – Le petit prince
Salih, Tayeb – Season of migration to the north †
Sanderson, Brandon – Elantris
Sanderson, Brandon – Mistborn; The well of ascension; The hero of ages
Sanderson, Brandon – The rithmatist
Sanderson, Brandon – Warbreaker
Sappho – Poems and fragments
Schroeder, Lisa – All we have is now
Schwab, V.E. – A darker shade of magic
Scoble, Gretchen and Field, Ann – The meaning of flowers
Sedgwick, Marcus – Blood red, snow white
Sewell, Anne – Black Beauty
Shakespeare, William – Shakespeare’s sonnets
Shetterly, Margot Lee – Hidden figures: The American dream and the untold story of the black women mathematicians who helped win the Space Race
Shikibu, Murasaki – The tale of Genji †
Shirer, William L. – The rise and fall of the Third Reich
Shubin, Neil – Your inner fish: A journey into the 3.5-billion-year history of the human body
Silko, Leslie Marmon – Ceremony
Singh, Khushwant – Train to Pakistan †
Spiering, Francine (ed.) – Houston cooks
Smith, Betty – A tree grows in Brooklyn
Smith, Nancy MacDonell – The classic ten: The true story of the little black dress and nine other fashion favorites
Spark, Muriel – The prime of Miss Jean Brodie †
Steinbeck, John – East of Eden
Sterne, Laurence – The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman
Stevenson, Robert Louis – Treasure Island
Stewart, Elinore Pruitt – Letters of a woman homesteader
Suma, Nova Ren – The walls around us
Swaby, Rachel – Headstrong: 52 women who changed science — and the world
Sykes, Bryan – The seven daughters of Eve: The science that reveals our genetic ancestry
T
Tan, Amy – The Joy Luck Club †
Tennesen, Michael – The next species: The future of evolution in the aftermath of Man
Texas Monthly (ed.) – The big Texas cookbook
Thomas, Dylan – Under Milk Wood
Thomas, Sherry – The burning sky; The perilous sea; The immortal heights
Tolkien, J.R.R. – The lord of the rings
Tolstoy, Leo – Anna Karenina
Toomer, Jean – Cane †
Tuchman, Barbara W. – The guns of August
U
V
Valentine, Helen and Thompson, Alice – Better than beauty: A guide to charm
Van Wagenen, Maya – Popular: Vintage wisdom for a modern geek
Vonnegut, Kurt – Slaughterhouse-five
Vonnegut, Kurt – We are what we pretend to be
W
Walker, Alice – The color purple
Washington, Booker T. – Up from slavery
Watson, James D. – The double helix: A personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA
Wein, Elizabeth – Rose under fire
Wells, Diana – 100 flowers and how they got their names
Wells, H.G. – The time machine
Wharton, Edith – The house of mirth
White, T.H. – The once and future king
Wiesel, Elie – Night
Wilde, Oscar – The picture of Dorian Gray
Willan, Anne and Cherniavsky, Mark – The cookbook library: Four centuries of the cooks, writers, and recipes that made the modern cookbook
Wilson, Bee – Consider the fork: A history of how we cook and eat
Wilson, Edward O. – Naturalist
Woolf, Virginia – Orlando
Wootton, David – The invention of science: The Scientific Revolution from 1500 to 1750
Wright, Karen – The road to Dr Pepper, Texas: The story of Dublin Dr Pepper
X
Y
Yang, Gene Luen – Boxers; Saints
Yeats, W.B. – Fairy and folk tales of the Irish peasantry
Yonan, Joe – Cool beans
Z
Zepeda, Gwendolyn – Lone star legend
Anonymous
Anon., transl. by Antoine Galland and Edward William Lane, ed. by Muhsin al-Musawi – The Arabian nights †
Anon., transl. by Simon Armitage – Sir Gawain and the Green Knight