A good book has no ending

• 1984 by George Orwell (Meet Big Brother)
• A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking (Explore the Universe)
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers (Memoir as metafiction)
• A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah (A child-soldier's story)
• A Series of Unfortunate Events #1: The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket (Wicked good fun)
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (The 60s kids classic)
• Alice Munro: Selected Storiesby Alice Munro (A short-form master)
• Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (Go down the rabbit hole)
• All the President's Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (Unseated a president)
• Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt (An Irish-American Memoir)
• Are You There, God? It's me, Margaret by Judy Blume (The angst of adolescence)
• Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (A literary page turner)
• Beloved by Toni Morrison (The ghosts of slavery)
• Born to Run - A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall (Why and how we run)
• Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat (A journey from Haiti)
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (Launched its own catchphrase)
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl (Vintage Roald Dahl)
• Charlotte's Web by E.B. White (The timeless classic)
• Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese (Ambitious and humane)
• Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brene Brown (Vulnerability breeds courage)
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 1 by Jeff Kinney (For reluctant readers)
• Dune by Frank Herbert (A science fiction classic)
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury ("It was a pleasure to burn.")
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson (Gonzo journalism takes flight)
• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (Marriage can be a real killer)
• Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown (First published in 1947)
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (Dickens' best novel)
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond (Understanding societies)
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling (Meet the boy wizard)
• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (True crime at its best)
• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Award-winning short story debut)
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (A literary milestone)
• Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware (A brilliant graphic novel)
• Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain (Don't eat while you read this)
• Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (One of the best of 2013)
• Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Childhood on the frontier)
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (Nabokov's triumph)
• Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (A Latin American masterpiece)
• Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich (A saga set on the reservation)
• Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl (A life-changing book)
• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris (Funny and poignant)
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (A beautifully-written novel)
• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (Rushdie's breakthrough)
• Moneyball by Michael Lewis (Lewis hits it out of the park)
• Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham (A writer's writer)
• On the Road by Jack Kerouac (The essence of the Beats)
• Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen (A remarkable woman's story)
• Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (A groundbreaking graphic novel)
• Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth (Roth at his finest)
• Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen (The perennial favorite)
• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (The birth of ecology)
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (The absurdist WW2 novel)
• Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin (How Lincoln led)
• The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (19th Century high society)
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon (Chabon's magnum opus)
• The Autobiography of Malcom X by Malcom X and Alex Haley (A classic Modern autobiography)
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (The international sensation)
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (The trials of a "ghetto nerd")
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (Meet Holden Caulfield)
• The Color of Water by James McBride (Exploring a mother's past)
• The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (Great, but diverse)
• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and the Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson (A triumph of narrative nonfiction)
• The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank (Moving and eloquent)
• The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (A soulful young adult novel)
• The Giver by Lois Lowry (Classic dystopia)
• The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman (Pullman's fantasy classic)
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (The rich are different...)
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (Feminist speculative fiction)
• The House At Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne (A boy, a bear, a honeypot)
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (Reality tv writ large)
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (Race, ethics, and medicine)
• The Liars' Club: A Memoir by Mary Karr (A darkly funny memoir)
• The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1) by Rick Riordan (Monsters, Mythology, and a boy)
• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Unique and universal)
• The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler (First-rate Chandler Noir)
• The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright (The history of terrorism)
• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (One ring to rule them all)
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks (A deeply human account)
• The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (The origins of food)
• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster (An odd and original journey)
• The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver (Missionaries in Africa)
• The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro (The Enforcer)
• The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe (The inner life of astronauts)
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy (This way to the apocalypse)
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt (A modern classic)
• The Shining by Stephen King (Chilling and thrilling)
• The Stranger by Albert Camus (Existentialist fiction)
• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (Meet the Lost Generation)
• The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (The best book on Vietnam)
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle (Baby's first book)
• The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (Mole, Toad, Rat, and Badger)
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel by Haruki Murakami (From the modern Japanese master)
• The World According to Garp by John Irving (Beware the "Undertoad")
• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (Life, Love, Death)
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (Tradition vs. change)
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (A beloved family story)
• Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (An American inspiration)
• Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann (Addictively entertaining)
• Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein (The joys of imagination)
• Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (Let the wild rumpus start!)

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