A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, by Dave Eggers

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, by J. K. Rowling

Player Piano, by Kurt Vonnegut

Bad News, by Donald E. Westlake

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, by Steven Pinker

The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, by Douglas R. Hofstadter

Speaking With the Angel, by Nick Hornby (Editor)

The Language Instinct, by Steven Pinker

The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen