Mysteries (authors)
- Agatha Christie
- Martha Grimes
- P.D James
- Ngaio Marsh
- Anne Perry
- Dorothy Sayers
- Patricia Wentworth
- Dayworld series - Philip Jose Farmer
- Hitchhiker's Guide series - Douglas Adams
- The Princess Bride - William Goldman
- The Riverworld Saga - Philip Jose Farmer
- World of Tiers - Philip Jose Farmer
Youth
- The Wizard of Oz - Frank L. Baum
- The Chocolate War - Robert Cormier
- I Am the Cheese - Robert Cormier
- Momo - Michael Ende
- Neverending Story - Michael Ende
- The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson
- The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
- Shadow in Hawthorn Bay - Janet Lunn
- Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- His Dark Materials trilogy - Philip Pullman
- The Ruby in the Smoke - Philip Pullman
- Harry Potter - J.K. Rowling
- The Pigman - Paul Zindel
General Fiction
- Armageddon in Retrospect (and anything else) - Kurt Vonnegut
- Bone Black - bell hooks
- Dry - Augusten Burroughs
- Even Cowgirls Get the Blues - Tom Robbins
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
- Heave - Chrissy Ann Colin
- Lullabies for Little Criminals - Heather O'Neill
- Q & A - Vikram Swarup
- Running With Scissors - Augusten Burroughs
- The Color Purple - Alice Walker
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
- The Highest Tide - Jim Lynch
- The Last of the Crazy People - Timothy Findley
- The Wives of Bath - Susan Swan
- White Teeth - Zadie Smith
- Wicked - Gregory Maguire
- A Christmas Carrol - Charles Dickens
- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
- Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Erotica
- Little Birds - Anais Nin
- Delta of Venus - Anais Nin
Non-fiction
- I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight - Margaret Cho
- Henry and June - Anais Nin
- In Defense of Food - Michael Pollan
- The Purity Myth - Jessica Valenti
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - Oliver Sacks
- The Fat Girl's Guide to Life - Wendy Shanker
- Authentic Happiness - Martin Seligman
- The Beauty Myth - Naomi Wolfe
- Backlash - Susan Faludi
- The Encyclopedia of Women's Myths and Secrets - Barbara G. Walker
- Being Brown: A Very Public Life - Rosemary Brown
- My Life in France - Julia Child
- Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White - Frank H. Wu
- Salvation - bell hooks
- Pre-code Hollywood: Sex, immorality, and insurrection in American Cinema 1930-1934 - Thomas Doherty
- Where the Girls Are - Susan J. Douglas
- The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies - Vito Russo
- The Race Gallery: The return of racial science - Marek Kohn
- The 100-Mile Diet: A year of local eating - Alisa Smith & J.B. MacKinnon
- The Dinner Diaries: Raising whole wheat kids in a white bread world - Betsy Block
- Mindless Eating: Why we eat more than we think - Brian Wansink
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
- Inside Out - Evelyn Lau
- I'm the One That I want - Margaret Cho
