Recommended Reading
Sci-Fi/Fantasy
- Madeleine L'Engle, The Time Trilogy, Many Waters
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, Children of Hurin
- Michael Crichton, Timeline, Sphere
- Ursula LeGuin, The Earthsea Quartet
- Octavia Butler, Kindred
- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter
- C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Space Trilogy
- Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
Literary Fiction
- Jonathan Safron Foer, Everything is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- Yiyun Li, The Vagrants
- Julia Alvarez, In the Time of the Butterflies
- Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge, Abide with Me
- Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero
- J.M. Coetzee, The Life and Times of Michael K, Waiting for the Barbarians, Foe, Disgrace, Elizabeth Costello
- Arundati Roy, The God of Small Things
- John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
- C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
- Irene Zabytko, The Sky Unwashed
- Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
- Chaim Potok, The Chosen, My Name is Asher Lev
- Gish Jen, World and Town
Classics
- Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
- Pearl Buck, The Good Earth
- Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
- John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent, Travels with Charley, East of Eden
- George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London, Animal Farm, Burmese Days
- Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Non-Fiction
- Kevin Roose, The Unlikely Disciple
- Tina Fey, Bossypants
- Jeanette Walls, Half Broke Horses
- C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce, The Four Loves, Mere Christianity
- Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma, A Defense of Food
- Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
- Judith Butler, Precarious Life, Who Sings the Nation State?
- Vaclav Havel, The Art of the Impossible
- Jenny Lawson, Let's Pretend This Never Happened
Children's/YA Lit
- E.B. White, Charlotte's Web
- E.L. Konigsburg, The View from Saturday
- Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
- Neal Shusterman, Unwind
- Marcus Zusak, The Book Thief
Plays
- Shakespeare, Macbeth, Othello, King Lear, Much Ado, The Merchant of Venice, Richard III
- Arthur Miller, The Crucible, Death of a Salesman, After the Fall
- Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire
- Sarah Ruhl, Eurydice
- Bill Cain, Equivocation
- Sophocles, Antigone
Poetry
- Mahmoud Darwish, Journal of an Ordinary Grief
- Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours
