Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Profiles in Courage by John  Kennedy

Bright Lights, Big City by Jay Mcinerney

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

Freakonomics by Steven Levitt Stephen Dubner

Escape from Slavery by Francis Bok

Devil in the White City by Eric Larsen

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

Endurance:  Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing

City of Thieves by David Benioff

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach

The Tequila Worm by Viola Canales

Stones From the River by Ursula Hegi

Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell

Breaking Night by Liz Murray

Shantram by Gregory David Roberts

The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa

Into Thin Air by John Krakauer

The Pianist  by Wladyslaw Szpilman

Homecoming by Cathy Kelly

The Seventh Most Important Thing by Shelley Pearsall

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barberry 

The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore

Zeitoun  by Dave Eggers

11/22/63 by Stephen King