Fiction

• 84 Charing Cross Road, by Helene Hanff
• Animal Dreams, by Barbara Kingsolver
• Another Roadside Attraction, by Tom Robbins
• Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks, by Donald Harington
• The Book of Ruth, by Jane Hamilton
• Breath, Eyes, Memory, by Edwidge Danticat
• Bridgit Jones's Diary, by Helen Fielding
• The Cider House Rules, by John Irving
• Cold Mountain,by Charles Frazier
• The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
• The Deep End of the Ocean, by Jacquelyn Mitchard
• The Dollmaker, by Harriette Arnow
• The Edible Woman, by Margaret Atwood
• Ellen Foster, by Kaye Gibbons
• Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, by Tom Robbins
• Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe, by Fannie Flagg
• The Horse Whisperer, by Nicholas Evans
• Jewel, by Bret Lott
• Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry
• The Loop, by Nicholas Evans
• The Painted Bird, by Jerzy Kosinski
• The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver
• Practical Magic, by Alice Hoffman
• Prodigal Summer, by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Shipping News, by Annie Proulx
• Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer
• Songs in Ordinary Time, by Mary McGarry Morris
• Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy, by Jostein Gaarder
• Still Life with Woodpecker, by Tom Robbins
• Sula, by Toni Morrison
• Surfacing, by Margaret Atwood
• Tara Road, by Maeve Binchy
• Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
• Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! by Fannie Flagg
• Where the Heart Is, by Billie Letts
• A Widow for One Year, by John Irving
• The Women's Room, by Marilyn French
• The World According to Garp, by John Irving

Literature

• All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque
• The Assistant, by Bernard Malamud
• The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath
• The Call of the Wild, by Jack London
• Catch 22, by Joseph Heller
• Demian, by Hermann Hesse
• The Fixer, by Bernard Malamud
• The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand
• The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
• The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers
• Magister Ludi: The Glass Bead Game, by Hermann Hesse
• The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka
• Middlemarch, by George Eliot
• My Antonia, by Willa Cather
• Night, by Elie Wiesel
• A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster
• Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier
• A Room with a View, by E.M. Forster
• The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy
• To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith
• White Fang, by Jack London
• Women in Love, by D. H. Lawrence

Historical

• Eaters of the Dead, by Michael Crichton
• Girl with a Pearl Earring, by Tracy Chevalier
• I, Claudius and Claudius the God, by Robert Graves
• The Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett
• Pontius Pilate, by Paul L. Maier
• The Red Tent, by Anita Diamant

Autobiographical

• Angela's Ashes: A Memoir, by Frank McCourt
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
• In My Father's Court, by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Travelogue

• Blue Highways:A Journey Into America, by William Least Heat-Moon
• In a Sunburned Country, by Bill Bryson
• Let Us Build Us A City: Eleven Lost Towns, by Donald Harington
• Under the Tuscan Sun, by Frances Mayes
• A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail, by Bill Bryson

Suspense

• Along Came a Spider, by James Patterson
• The Burden of Proof, by Scott Turow
• Chromosome 6, by Robin Cook
• The Client, by John Grisham
• The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown
• A Thief of Time, by Tony Hillerman
• Kiss the Girls, by James Patterson
• Midwives, by Chris Bohjalian
• Presumed Innocent, by Scott Turow
• The Rainmaker, by John Grisham
• Skinwalkers, by Tony Hillerman
• A Time to Kill, by John Grisham
• Toxin, by Robin Cook

Horror

• Dracula, by Bram Stoker
• Drakulya: The Lost Journal of Mircea Drakulya, Lord of the Undead, by Earl Lee
• From the Corner of His Eye, by Dean Koontz
• Ghost Story, by Peter Straub
• The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson
• Intensity, by Dean Koontz
• It, by Stephen King
• Lightning, by Dean Koontz
• Memnoch the Devil, by Anne Rice
• Misery, by Stephen King
• The Mummy or Ramses the Damned, by Anne Rice
• The Stand, by Stephen King
• The Vampire Lestat, by Anne Rice
• The Witching Hour, by Anne Rice

Fantasy

• The Crystal Cave and The Hollow Hills, by Mary Stewart
• Enchantment, by Orson Scott Card
• Eye of the World, and theWheel of Time series, by Robert Jordan
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, by J. K. Rowling
• The King Must Die and The Bull from the Sea, by Mary Renault
• Lord Foul's Bane, Illearth War, and The Power That Preserves by Stephen R. Donaldson
• A Song for Arbonne, by Guy Gavriel Kay

Science Fiction

• 1984, by George Orwell
• Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
• Contact, by Carl Sagan
• The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Dune, by Frank Herbert
• Ender's Game and all sequels, by Orson Scott Card
• The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood
• The Lathe of Heaven, by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury
• Songmaster, by Orson Scott Card
• The Sparrow and Children of God , by Mary Doria Russell
• Sphere, by Michael Crichton
• Stand on Zanzibar, by John Brunner
• Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert A. Heinlein
• This Perfect Day, by Ira Levin