| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain |
The Discoverers by Daniel Boorstin |
| Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene |
| Blindness by Jose Saramago |
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard |
| The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
" Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" by Richard Feynman |
| The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck |
Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose |
| The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald |
With Malice Toward None by Stephen Oates |
| Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott |
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| Possession by A. S. Byatt |
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| The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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| “Seeing” by Jose Saramago |
“A Distant Mirror” by Barbara Tuchman |
| All the Names by Jose Saramago |
1776 by David McCullough |
| The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas |
The Bible As History by Werner Keller |
| Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton |
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam |
| David Copperfield by Charles Dickens |
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking |
| East of Eden by John Steinbeck |
How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill |
| Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
Longitude by Dava Sobel |
| The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
Mayflower: A story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick |
| Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien |
The Millennium Problems by Keith Devlin |
| Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson |
| Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy |
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester |
| The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara |
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen |
| Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
Six Easy Pieces by Richard Feynman |
| Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien |
William Wallace by James A. MacKay |
| The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold |
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| Martin Eden by Jack London |
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| The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy |
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| My Antonio by Willa Cather |
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| Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
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| Silas Marner by George Eliot |
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| Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
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| Tess of the d'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy |
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| To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee |
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| The Turn of the Screw by Henry James |
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| “Middlemarch” by George Eliot |
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| “Angle of Repose” by Wallace Stegner |
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| “Straight Man” by Richard Russo |
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| “The History of Love” by Nicole Krauss |
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| “The Moon and Sixpence” by Somerset Maugham |
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| The Awakening by Kate Chopin |
The Arcanum by Janet Gleeson |
| Baudolino by Umberto Eco |
Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays by S. Hawking |
| Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain |
The Code Book by Simon Singh |
| The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon |
E=mc^2 by David Bodanis |
| Emma by Jane Austen |
Euclid's Window by Leonard Mlodinow |
| Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy |
Nothing Like It in the World by Stephen E. Ambrose |
| Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift |
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| I, Claudius by Robert Graves |
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| Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| Life of Pi by Yann Martel |
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| Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel |
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| Moby Dick by Herman Meville |
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| The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco |
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| Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind |
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| Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig |
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| The China Garden by Liz Berry |
The Mystery of the Aleph by Amir Aczel |
| Ex Libris by Ross King |
Casino Moscow by Matthew Brzezinski |
| Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco |
Cleopatra's Nose by Daniel J. and Ruth Boorstin |
| Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier |
Mozart by Peter Gay |
| Peace Like A River by Leif Enger |
Time Lord by Clark Blaise |
| The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason |
When Least Is Best by Paul J. Nahin |
| Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson |
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| “The Smithsonian Institution” by Gore Vidal |
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