Novels
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- Stoner by John Williams
- The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- Factotum by Charles Bukowski
- Post Office by Charles Bukowski
- Watership Down by Richard Adams
- Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Phillip K. Dick
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
- A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
- Alas Babylon by Pat Frank
- Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
- Women by Charles Bukowski
- Death on the Installment Plan by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- Ask the Dust by John Fante
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
- Virtual Light by William Gibson
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
- The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace
- Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut
- Ubik by Phillip K. Dick
- Leaving Las Vegas by John O’Brien
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Nonfiction, Essay, Memoir, etc.
- The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
- A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
- The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
- A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
- The Face in the Mirror: How We Know Who We Are by Julian Paul Keenan
Short Story Collections
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
- Oblivion: Stories by David Foster Wallace
- The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
- Cathedral by Raymond Carver