Quality Books

Nonfiction:
- Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish
- Howard Zinn, People's History of the United States 
- Jay Griffiths, A Sideways Look at Time
- Jonathan Sara Foer, Eating Animals
- Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird, The Secret Life of Plants
- Terrance MacKenna, Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution
- Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations with God series
- Joe Vitale, Zero Limits
- Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat
- Thomas R. Melville, Through a Glass Darkly
- Daniel J Levitin, This is Your Brain on Music
- Graham Hancock, Lords of Poverty
- Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes
- Malcolm Potts, Ever Since Adam and Eve: The Evolution of Human Sexuality
- Steven Poole, Unspeak

Fiction, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Poetry, etc:
- Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game series
- Phillip Pullman, His Dark Materials series
- Patrick Rothfuss, Kingkiller series
- Jean Craighead George, Julie of the Wolves
- Jean Craighead George, My Side of the Mountain
- China Mielville, Perdido Street Station
- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter series
- Eavan Boland, New Collected Poems
- Nabokov, Invitation to a Beheading
- Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
- George Orwell, 1984
- Dr. Seuss, (Anything he ever wrote)
- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series
- Garth Nix, Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen series
- Christopher Moore, A Dirty Job (or his Vampire trilogy)
- Scott O'Dell, Island of the Blue Dolphins
- Sue Monk Kidd, Secret Life of Bees
- Mark Helprin, Freddy and Fredericka