War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Frankenstein (Book) by Mary Shelley
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Odyssey by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman and translated by Robert Chandler
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
Republic by Plato
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Confessions by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding)
James: A Novel by Percival Everett
Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome by Robert Harris
The Iliad by Homer
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Pride and Prejudice (Book) by Jane Austen
The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
If This Is a Man by Primo Levi
Klara and the Sun: A Novel by Kazuo Ishiguro
A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960 by Anna Schwartz & Milton Friedman
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Dialogues and Natural History of Religion by David Hume
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih and Denys Johnson-Davies (translator)
Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
The Aeneid (Robert Fitzgerald translation) by Virgil
The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Babel: An Arcane History by R. F. Kuang
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher Browning
A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton Malkiel
The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth