Full list, followed by Top 20 lists for both Non-Fiction and Fiction.
Full List (A-Z)
- Albert Camus – The Stranger
- Alan Watts – The Wisdom of Insecurity
- Aldous Huxley – Brave New World
- Alexandre Dumas – The Count of Monte Cristo
- Alexandre Dumas – The Three Musketeers
- Andrew Roberts – Napoleon: A Life
- Anne Lamott – Bird by Bird
- Anthony Powell – A Dance to the Music of Time
- Anthony Trollope – Barchester Towers
- Antoine De Saint-Exupéry – The Little Prince
- Aristotle – Nicomachean Ethics
- Arthur Schopenhauer – The World as Will and Representation
- Arthur Schopenhauer – Parerga and Paralipomena
- Baltasar Gracian – The Art of Worldly Wisdom
- Barry Strauss – Ten Caesars
- Benedict de Spinoza – Ethics
- Benedict de Spinoza – Theologico-Political Treatise
- Bernard Malamud – The Assistant
- Bernard Malamud – The Fixer
- Bertrand Russell – The History of Western Philosophy
- Bertrand Russell – In Praise of Idleness
- Bertrand Russell – The Conquest of Happiness
- Blaise Pascal – Pensées
- Boethius – The Consolation of Philosophy
- C.G. Jung – Man and His Symbols
- C.G. Jung – The Essential Jung
- C.G. Jung – The Freud/Jung Letters
- Carson McCullers – The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
- Charles Dickens – Bleak House
- Charles Dickens – David Copperfield
- Charles Dickens – Great Expectations
- Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart
- Christopher Hibbert – The French Revolution
- Christopher Isherwood – Goodbye to Berlin
- Cicero – Tusculan Disputations
- Clare Carlisle – Spinoza’s Religion
- Confucius – The Analects
- Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe
- David Sedaris – The Best of Me
- David Foster Wallace – Infinite Jest
- Dennis Lehane – Gone, Baby, Gone
- Dennis Lehane – Moonlight Mile
- Dennis Lehane – Mystic River
- Dennis Lehane – Shutter Island
- Dennis Lehane – Since We Fell
- Dennis Lehane – The Given Day
- Dennis Lehane – World Gone By
- Diogenes Laertius – Lives of the Eminent Philosophers
- Don DeLillo – Libra
- Don DeLillo – Underworld
- Don Miguel Ruiz – The Four Agreements
- Don Miguel Ruiz – The Voice of Knowledge
- E.L. Doctorow – Ragtime
- E.M. Forster – A Passage to India
- Elmore Leonard – Get Shorty
- Elmore Leonard – Rum Punch
- Elmore Leonard – The Switch
- Elmore Leonard – Up in Honey’s Room
- Ernest Hemingway – Death in the Afternoon
- Ernest Hemingway – Green Hills of Africa
- Ernest Hemingway – For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Ernest Hemingway – The Complete Short Stories
- Ernest Hemingway – The Old Man and The Sea
- Ernest Hemingway – The Sun Also Rises
- Ernle Bradford – The Great Siege
- F. Scott Fitzgerald – Tender is the Night
- F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Beautiful and Damned
- F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Last Tycoon
- F. Scott Fitzgerald – This Side of Paradise
- Francis Bacon – Essays
- François de La Rochefoucauld – Reflections
- Friedrich Nietzsche – Beyond Good and Evil
- Friedrich Nietzsche – The Will to Power
- Friedrich Nietzsche – Thus Spoke Zarathrustra
- Fyodor Dostoevsky – The Brothers Karamazov
- Fyodor Dostoevsky – The Idiot
- Fyodor Dostoevsky – Crime and Punishment
- Gustave Flaubert – Madame Bovary
- George Bernard Shaw – Pygmalion
- George Eliot – Middlemarch
- George Eliot – Silas Marner
- George Orwell – Down and Out in Paris and London
- Goldsworthy – Augustus: First Emperor of Rome
- Goldsworthy – Caesar: Life of A Colossus
- Graham Greene – Our Man in Havana
- Gregory David Roberts – Mountain Shadow
- Gregory David Roberts – Shantaram
- H.G. Wells – The Time Machine
- Harvey A. Silverglate – Three Felonies a Day
- Henry David Thoreau – Walden
- Henry Green – Loving
- Henry Miller – Tropic of Cancer
- Henry Roth – Call it Sleep
- Herman Melville – Moby Dick
- Hermann Hesse – Siddartha
- Hesiod – Works and Days
- Honoré de Balzac – Lost Illusions
- Honoré de Balzac – Pere Goriot
- Horace – The Complete Odes and Epodes
- Hunter S. Thompson – Hell’s Angels
- Ian McEwan – Atonement
- Ivan Turgenev – Fathers and Sons
- James Allen – As a Man Thinketh
- James Baldwin – Another Country
- James Ellroy – The Black Dahlia
- Jean-Dominique Bauby – The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Confessions
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau – The Social Contract
- Jean-Paul Sartre – We Only Have This Life to Live
- Jed Rakoff – Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free
- Jerzy Kosinsky – The Painted Bird
- Joe Ide – IQ
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Faust
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – From My Life: Poetry and Truth
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Treasury: Selected Prose and Poetry
- John Cheever – Falconer
- John Julius Norwich – Four Princes
- John Kennedy O’Toole – A Confederacy of Dunces
- John O’Hara – Appointment in Samarra
- John Steinbeck – East of Eden
- John Steinbeck – Grapes of Wrath
- John Lewis Gaddis – On Grand Strategy
- Jonathan Franzen – Freedom
- Jonathan Franzen – Strong Motion
- Jonathan Franzen – The Corrections
- Jonathan Swift – Gulliver’s Travels
- Joseph Conrad – Heart of Darkness
- Joseph Conrad – Lord Jim
- Joseph Heller – Catch-22
- Joseph Heller – Something Happened
- Junot Diaz – The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
- Kingsley Amis – Lucky Jim
- Kurt Vonnegut – Breakfast of Champions
- Kurt Vonnegut – Pity the Reader
- Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse Five
- Leo Tolstoy – War and Peace
- Leo Tolstoy – Anna Karenina
- Levon Helm – This Wheel’s on Fire
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline – Journey to the End of the Night
- Lord Chesterfield – Letters to my Son
- Malcolm Lowry – Under the Volcano
- Marcus Aurelius – Meditations
- Mark Twain – Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Michael Connelly – The Black Echo
- Michel de Montaigne – Essays
- Michel Foucault – Discipline & Punish
- Moses Maimonides – The Guide for the Perplexed
- Nancy Mitford – Frederick the Great
- Napoleon Bonaparte – Memoirs from St. Helena
- Nathanael West – The Day of the Locust
- Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Scarlet Letter
- Neil Howe – The Fourth Turning
- Niccolo Machiavelli – Discourses
- Niccolo Machiavelli – The Prince
- Norman Vincent Peale – The Power of Positive Thinking
- O. Henry – Selected Stories
- Orison Swett Marden – How to Get What you Want
- Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Paul Bowles – The Sheltering Sky
- Philip Roth – American Pastoral
- Philip Roth – Portnoy’s Complaint
- Philip Roth – The Plot Against America
- Plato – Republic
- Plotinus – The Enneads
- Plutarch – Lives
- Plutarch – Moralia
- Polybius – The Histories
- Rafael Sabatini – The Life of Cesare Borgia
- Rainer Maria Rilke – Letters to a Young Poet
- Ralph Waldo Emerson – Self-Reliance and Other Essays
- Raymond Carver – Where I’m Calling From
- Raymond Chandler – The Big Sleep
- Raymond Chandler – The Simple Art of Murder
- Richard Burton – Arabian Nights
- Richard Ford – The Sportswriter
- Richard Yates – Revolutionary Road
- Robert Graves – I, Claudius
- Robert Louis Stevenson – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Robert Penn Warren – All the King’s Men
- Robert Stone – Dog Soldiers
- Salman Rushdie – Midnight’s Children
- Saul Bellow – Henderson the Rain King
- Saul Bellow – Herzog
- Saul Bellow – The Adventures of Augie March
- Seneca – Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium
- Seneca – On the Shortness of Life
- Seneca – Dialogues
- Søren Kierkegaard – Papers and Journals
- Stendhal – The Charterhouse of Parma
- Stendhal – The Red and the Black
- Stephen King – On Writing
- Tacitus – The Annals
- Tacitus – The Histories
- Tana French – In The Woods
- Theodore Dreiser – An American Tragedy
- Theodore Roosevelt – The Strenuous Life
- Thomas Hobbes – Leviathan
- Thomas Mann – Buddenbrooks
- Thomas Pynchon – Gravity’s Rainbow
- Thomas Pynchon – The Crying of Lot 49
- Thornton Wilder – The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- Truman Capote – In Cold Blood
- Victor Hugo – Les Misérables
- Victor Hugo – The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Virgil – Complete Works
- Voltaire – Candide
- Voltaire – Philosophy of History
- Voltaire – Treatise on Toleration
- W. Timothy Gallwey – The Inner Game of Tennis
- Walker Percy – The Moviegoer
- Walter Isaacson – Elon Musk
- Walter Mosley – Devil in a Blue Dress
- Walter Scott – Ivanhoe
- Will Durant – The Renaissance
- Will Durant – The Reformation
- Will Durant – The Age of Reason Begins
- Will Durant – The Age of Louis XIV
- Will Durant – The Age of Voltaire
- Will Durant – Rousseau and Revolution
- Will Durant – The Story of Philosophy
- Will Durant – The Lessons of History
- William Burroughs – Naked Lunch
- William Faulkner – Light in August
- William Faulkner – The Sound and the Fury
- William Gaddis – The Recognitions
- William Goldman – Adventures in the Screen Trade
- William Thackeray – Vanity Fair
Top 20: Non-Fiction
- Blaise Pascal – Pensées
- Plutarch – Moralia
- Seneca – Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium
- Benedict de Spinoza – Ethics
- Baltasar Gracian – The Art of Worldly Wisdom
- Arthur Schopenhauer – The World as Will and Representation
- Francis Bacon – Essays
- Friedrich Nietzsche – The Will to Power
- Michel de Montaigne – Essays
- Bertrand Russell – The History of Western Philosophy
- Cicero – Tusculan Disputations
- Plutarch – Lives
- Will Durant – The Age of Voltaire
- François de La Rochefoucauld – Reflections
- Ernle Bradford – The Great Siege
- Will Durant – Rousseau and Revolution
- James Allen – As a Man Thinketh
- Michel Foucault – Discipline & Punish
- Lord Chesterfield – Letters to my Son
- Tacitus – Annals
Top 20: Fiction
- Leo Tolstoy – War and Peace
- Honoré de Balzac – Lost Illusions
- Hermann Hesse – Siddartha
- Theodore Dreiser – An American Tragedy
- William Thackeray – Vanity Fair
- Thomas Mann – Buddenbrooks
- Victor Hugo – Les Misérables
- Jonathan Franzen – The Corrections
- Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe
- Ivan Turgenev – Fathers and Sons
- F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Beautiful and Damned
- Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Scarlet Letter
- Stendhal – The Charterhouse of Parma
- John O’Hara – Appointment in Samarra
- Jerzy Kosinsky – The Painted Bird
- Robert Penn Warren – All the King’s Men
- John Cheever – Falconer
- Saul Bellow – The Adventures of Augie March
- David Foster Wallace – Infinite Jest
- Richard Yates – Revolutionary Road