1. A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence by John E. Mack
  2. A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
  3. Adam's Navel: A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form by Michael Sims
  4. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
  5. Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel by Truman Capote
  6. Antony and Cleopatra by Adrian Goldsworthy
  7. At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
  8. Augustus: First Emperor of Rome by Adrian Goldsworthy
  9. Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories by Herman Melville
  10. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
  11. Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann
  12. Caesar: Life of a Colossus by Adrian Goldsworthy
  13. Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
  14. Collected Stories of Carson McCullers, including The Member of the Wedding and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers
  15. Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 4 Novels and 56 Short Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle
  16. Crazy Salad & Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women & Notes on Media by Nora Ephron
  17. D.V. by Diana Vreeland
  18. Daybook: The Journal of an Artist by Anne Truitt
  19. Death in Venice and Other Tales by Thomas Mann
  20. Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster by Dana Thomas
  21. Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn as Told by a Friend by Thomas Mann
  22. Gods and Kings: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano by Alexander McQueen
  23. Heartburn by Nora Ephron
  24. How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower by Adrian Goldsworthy
  25. I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron
  26. I Remember Nothing: And Other Reflections by Nora Ephron
  27. Letters of James Agee to Father Flye (Neversink) by James Agee
  28. Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson Mccullers by Virginia Carr
  29. Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life by Thomas Wolfe
  30. Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu by Laurence Bergreen
  31. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
  32. Music for Chameleons by Truman Capote
  33. Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose by Flannery O'Connor
  34. Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie
  35. Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe by Laurence Bergreen
  36. Pentimento: A Book of Portraits by Lillian Hellman
  37. Peter the Great: His Life and World by Robert K. Massie
  38. Picasso by Pablo Picasso
  39. Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution by Marie Anoinette
  40. Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers
  41. The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered Casual--and the Modern Home Began by Joan DeJean
  42. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
  43. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
  44. The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
  45. The Complete Stories by Truman Capote
  46. The Essence of Style: How the French Invented High Fashion, Fine Food, Chic Cafes, Style, Sophistication, and Glamour by Joan DeJean
  47. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
  48. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
  49. The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology (P.S.) by Simon Winchester
  50. The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
  51. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
  52. The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot
  53. You Can't Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe