Shorter Reads
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis
Art of War by Sun Tzu
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Candide by Voltaire
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Journey to the center of the earth by Jules Verne
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Who was Changed and Who Was Dead by Barbara Comyns
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
1776 by David McCullough
1984 by George Orwell
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
If He Hollers Let Him Go by Chester Himes
Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life by Héctor García and Francesc Miralles
James by Percival Everett
J'Accuse...! by Émile Zola
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Miracle at St. Anna by James McBride
Most Blessed of the Patriarchs by Annette Gordon-Reed
Nightgown by Djuna Barnes
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Passing by Nella Larsen
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Taxi by Khaled Al Khamissi
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Trial by Kafka
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh
Why We Can't Wait by Martin Luther King Jr.
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Everything Else
Adaptable: How Your Unique Body Really Works by Herman Pontzer
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Germinal by Émile Zola
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Native Son by Richard Wright
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Hemings of Monticello by Annette Gordon-Reed
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal by David McCullough
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Epics (Over 800 Pages)
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
John Adams by David McCullough
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow