Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis

The Trial by Franz Kafka

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis

Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds by Harold Bloom

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television by Jerry Mander

Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings by Yoko Ono by Yoko Ono

The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby

Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein

Black Boy (American Hunger) : A Record of Childhood and Youth by Richard Wright

A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace

America’s Game: The Epic Story of How Pro Football Captured a Nation by Michael MacCambridge

Et Tu, Babe by Mark Leyner

Revolution In the Head: The Beatles’ Records and the Sixties by Ian Macdonald

Teenage Wasteland: Suburbia’s Dead End Kids by Donna Gaines

The Imperfectionists: A Novel by Tom Rachman

The Long Hard Road Out of Hell by Marilyn Manson

Loose Balls: The Short, Wild Life of the American Basketball Association by Terry Pluto

Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work! by Douglas Coupland

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth by Paul Hoffman

The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind is Designed to Killby David M. Buss

Black Boy (American Hunger) : A Record of Childhood and Youth by Richard Wright

Black Planet : Facing Race During an NBA Season by David Shields

Jernigan by David Gates

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks​

A Fan’s Notes: A Fictional Memoir by Frederick Exley

The Boys on the Bus by Timothy Crouse

Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer

The Disappointment Artist and Other Essays by Jonathan Lethem

The Fifties by David Halberstam

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

The Archaic Revival: Speculations on Psychedelic Mushrooms, the Amazon, Virtual Reality, UFOs, Evolution, Shamanism, the Rebirth of the Goddess, and the End of History by Terence McKenna

Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut

The Interrogative Mood: A Novel? by Padgett Powell

The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm

Where I’m Calling From by Raymond Carver

Them: Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson