■ Coriolanus (William Shakespeare; play)
■ Timon of Athens (William Shakespeare; play)
■ The Taming of the Shrew (William Shakespeare; play)
■ Othello (William Shakespeare; play)
■ Henry V (William Shakespeare; play)
■ Hamlet (William Shakespeare; play)
■ Three Sisters (Anton Chekhov; play)
■ The Iceman Cometh (Eugene O’Neill; play)
■ The Misanthrope (Molière; play)
■ No Exit (Jean-Paul Sartre; play)
■ Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett; play)
■ Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Tom Stoppard; play)
■ Electra (Sophocles; play)
■ Oedipus Rex (Sophocles; play)
■ Our Town (Thornton Wilder; play)
■ The Crucible (Arthur Miller; play)
■ Black Watch (Gregory Burke; play)
■ Metamorphoses (Mary Zimmerman; play)
■ Equivocation (Bill Cain; play)

■ Nox (Anne Carson; poetry)

■ The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien; fiction)
■ Dracula (Bram Stoker; fiction)
■ Watership Down (Richard Adams; fiction)
■ Animal Farm (George Orwell; fiction)
■ The Island of Dr. Moreau (H.G. Wells; fiction)
■ Frankenstein (Mary Shelley; fiction)
■ Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury; fiction)
■ First Love (Ivan Turgenev; fiction)
■ Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson; fiction)
■ The Scarlet Pimpernel (Baroness Emmuska Orczy; fiction)
■ The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie; fiction)

■ Tell the Wolves I’m Home (Carla Rifka Brunt; fiction)
■ The Age of Miracles (Karen Thompson Walker; fiction)
■ Things We Didn’t See Coming (Steven Amsterdam; fiction)
■ A Thousand Cuts (Simon Lelic; fiction)
■ The Art of Hearing Heartbeats (Jan-Philipp Sendker; fiction)
■ Sister (Rosamund Lupton; fiction)
■ The Middlesteins (Jami Attenberg; fiction)
■ The Devil All the Time (Donald Ray Pollock; fiction)
■ The Song of Achilles (Madeline Miller; fiction)
■ Defending Jacob (William Landay; fiction)
■ The English Teacher (Lily King; fiction)
■ The Group (Mary McCarthy; fiction)
■ The Playdate (Alice Millar; fiction)
■ What Alice Forgot (Liane Moriarty; fiction)
■ The Silver Linings Playbook (Matthew Quick; fiction)
■ Gone, Girl (Gillian Flynn; fiction)
■ The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady (Elizabeth Stuckey-French; fiction)
■ Amped (Daniel H. Wilson; fiction)
■ The Lifeboat (Charlotte Rogan; fiction)
■ Bedbugs (Ben H. Winters; fiction)
■ Stay Close (Harlan Coben; fiction)
■ Never Knowing (Chevy Stevens; fiction)
■ Fly Away Home (Jennifer Weiner; fiction)
■ Pariah (Bob Fingerman; fiction)
■ Wool [complete] (Hugh Howey; fiction)

■ Feed (MT Anderson; fiction)
■ The Fault in Our Stars (John Green; YA fiction)
■ Going Bovine (Libba Bray; YA fiction)
■ UnWholly (Neal Shusterman; YA fiction)
■ I Am the Cheese (Robert Cormier; YA fiction)
■ Adventure Unleashed (______ __. _________; unpublished fiction)
■ Mr. Monster (Dan Wells; fiction)
■ I Don’t Want to Kill You (Dan Wells; fiction)
■ Happy Endings Are All Alike (Sandra Scoppettone; YA fiction)
■ Are You in the House Alone? (Richard Peck; YA fiction)
■ Daughters of Eve (Lois Duncan; YA fiction)
■ The Wave (Todd Strasser; YA fiction)
■ The Hole (Guy Burt; fiction)
■ Shapeshifters: Tales from Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Adrian Mitchell; poetry, prose, myth)
■ The Tale of Paradise Lost: Based on the Poem by John Milton (Nancy Willard; fiction)
■ When You Were Mine (Rebecca Serle; YA fiction)
■ Shelter (Harlan Coben; YA fiction)
■ Falling for Hamlet (Michelle Ray; YA fiction)
■ Tiger Eyes (Judy Blume; YA fiction)
■ The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins; fiction)
■ Thirteen Reasons Why (Jay Asher; YA fiction)
■ The Project (Brian Falkner; YA fiction)
■ Epic Fail (Claire LaZebnik; YA fiction)

■ Counterfeit Kids: Why They Can’t Think and How to Save Them (Rod Baird; non-fiction)
■ One for the Books (Joe Queenan; non-fiction)
■ Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (Joshua Foer; non-fiction)
■ The Autobiography of an Execution (David R. Dow; non-fiction)
■ The Memory Palace (Mira Bartók; memoir)
■ The Fiddler in the Subway (Gene Weingarten; non-fiction, journalism/essays)
■ The Power of Habit (Charles Duhigg; non-fiction)
■ Hamlet: Poem Unlimited (Harold Bloom; non-fiction)
■ My Ideal Bookshelf (Thessaly La Force, editor, Jane Mount, illustrator; non-fiction)
■ Say This, NOT That to Your Professor (Ellen Bremen; non-fiction)
■ The End of Your Life Book Club (Will Schwalbe; non-fiction)
■ The Birding Life: A Passion for Birds at Home and Afield (Larry Sheehan; non-fiction)
■ January First: A Child’s Descent into Madness and Her Father’s Struggle to Save Her (Michael Schofield; non-fiction)
■ The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (Nicholas Carr; non-fiction)
■ Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl (Stacey O’Brien; non-fiction)
■ The Essential Voter’s Guide (TIME; non-fiction)
■ Teaching Hamlet and Henry IV, Part I (Peggy O’Brien; non-fiction)
■ Drawn In (Julia Rothman; non-fiction)
■ No Regrets: How Homeschooling Earned me a Master’s Degree at age 16 (Alexandra Swann; memoir)
■ The Fat Flush Plan (Ann Louise Gittleman; health)
■ Are You Liberal? Conservative? Or Confused? (Richard J. Maybury; non-fiction)
■ The Year of Learning Dangerously (Quinn Cummings; memoir)
■ The Paleo Diet (Loren Cordain; non-fiction)
■ The Primal Blueprint (Mark Sisson; non-fiction)
■ How to Retire Overseas (Kathleen Peddicord; non-fiction)
■ Where to Retire (John Howells; non-fiction)
■ The Outsourced Self (Arlie Russell Hochschild; non-fiction)
■ Get Out of My Life, But First Could You Drive Me and Cheryl to the Mall? (Anthony E. Wolf, Ph.D.; non-fiction)
■ Brain Power: Improve Your Mind as You Age (Michael J. Gelb and Kelly Howell; non-fiction)
■ The Only Investment Guide You’ll Ever Need (Andrew Tobias; non-fiction)
■ Lament for a Son (Nicholas Wolterstorff; non-fiction)
■ Roy Lichtenstein, 1923-1997 (Janis Hendrickson; non-fiction)
■ Neptune Noir: Unauthorized Investigations into Veronica Mars (Rob Thomas, editor; non-fiction)
■ Bringing Up Bebe: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting (Pamela Druckerman; non-fiction)
■ Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading (Lizzie Skurnik; non-fiction)
■ Bossypants (Tina Fey; non-fiction)
■ Retirement without Borders (Barry Golson; non-fiction)
■ The World’s Top Retirement Havens (ed. Margaret J. Goldstein; non-fiction)
■ Let’s Go: Peru, Ecuador & Bolivia (ed. Michelle R. Bowman; non-fiction)
■ iDisorder: Understanding Our Obsession with Technology and Overcoming Its Hold on Us (Larry D. Rosen; non-fiction, psychology/technology)
■ The Difference (Jean Chatzky; non-fiction, personal finance)
■ The Pen Commandments (Steven Frank; non-fiction, writing)
■ Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books (Leah Price; non-fiction)
■ Immortal Bird (Doron Weber; memoir)
■ Stop Acting Rich… And Start Living Like a Real Millionaire (Thomas J. Stanley; non-fiction; personal finance)
■ Like Shaking Hands with God (Kurt Vonnegut, Lee Stringer; non-fiction)
■ Artist’s Journal Workshop (Cathy Johnson; non-fiction, art)

■ Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me (Ellen Forney; graphic memoir)
■ Are You My Mother? (Alison Bechdel; graphic memoir)
■ The Zen of Steve Jobs (Caleb Melby; graphic non-fiction)
■ American Born Chinese (Gene Luen Yang; graphic novel)
■ Sweet Tooth Vol. 5: Unnatural Habitat (Jeff Lemire; graphic fiction)
■ Sweet Tooth Vol. 4: Endangered Species (Jeff Lemire; graphic fiction)
■ Sweet Tooth Vol. 3: Animal Armies (Jeff Lemire; graphic fiction)
■ Sweet Tooth Vol. 2: In Captivity (Jeff Lemire; graphic fiction)
■ Sweet Tooth Vol. 1: Out of the Woods (Jeff Lemire; graphic fiction)
■ Kill Shakespeare: Volume 1 (Conor McCreery; graphic fiction)
■ The Night Bookmobile (Audrey Niffenegger; graphic novel)