Novels
Emma by Jane Austen
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Timeline by Michael Chrichton
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Little Dorrit Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Mistress of Mellyn by Victoria Holt
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Witch Tree Symbol by Carolyn Keene
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Group by Mary McCarthy
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Chikara!: A Sweeping Novel of Japan and America by Robert Skimin
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Short Stories
Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Anderson
Grimm’s Fairy Tales by Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm
Poetry
Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes
Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect by Robert Burns
Complete Poems by Emily Dickinson
An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope
Shakespeare’s Sonnets by William Shakespeare
New Poems of Emily Dickinson edited by William Shurr et al
Drama
Love for Love by William Congreve
The Mourning Bride by William Congreve
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
Richard III by William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Non-Fiction
Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
Mommie Dearest by Christina Crawford
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man by Susan Faludi
The Art of Eating by M.F. K. Fisher
James Joyce’s Ulysses by Stuart Gilbert
The Walter Hagen Story by Walter Hagen
Partial Portraits by Henry James
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath edited by Karen V. Kukil
To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation by Martin Luther
John Adams by David McCullough
The Days of H.L. Mencken by H.L. Mencken
A Mencken Chrestomathy by H.L. Mencken
The Total Woman by Marabel Morgan
Who’s Who and What’s What in Shakespeare by Evangeline M. O’Connor
The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
The Republic by Plato
Etiquette by Emily Post
Everybody’s Autobiography by Gertrude Stein
Hell’s Angels by Hunter S. Thompson
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
Reference
The Bible
The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford Shakespeare
Webster’s Dictionary
Newspapers
Barron’s
The Financial Times
The Hartford Courant
The New York Times
The Wall Street Journal
Magazines
CosmoGirl
Cosmopolitan
Glamour
GQ
Highlights for Children
InStyle
Ms.
The New Yorker
Playboy
Comics
Archie
Mister Miracle
Superman
Authors
Francis Bacon
Honore de Balzac
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Judy Blume
Charlotte Bronte
Colette
Dante
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sigmund Freud
Václav Havel
Homer
Ben Jonson
Stephen King
Christopher Marlowe
John Muir
Friedrich Nietzsche
Edna O’Brien
George Sand
Jean-Paul Sartre
John Webster
Edith Wharton
Walt Whitman