Final list, as of April 20, 2011:
| Author | Title | |
| 1984 | George Orwell | |
| "anything by" | Mark Twain | |
| "anything by" | Patricia Highsmith | |
| "anything by" | Wilhem Reich | |
| "anything by" | Willa Cather | |
| Absalom, Absalom | William Faulkner | |
| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | |
| Ahab's Wife | Sena Jeter Naslund | |
| The | Alchemist | Paulo Coelho |
| The | Alexandria Quartet | Lawrence Durrell |
| All the King's Men | Robert Penn Warren | |
| Always Outmanned, Always Outgunned | Walter Mosley | |
| American Gods | Neil Gaiman | |
| The | American Pageant | David M. Kennedy |
| And Tango Makes Three | Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell | |
| And the Band Played On | Randy Shilts | |
| Angle of Repose | Wallace Stenger and Jackson J. Benson | |
| Angry Candy | Harlan Ellison | |
| Animal Dreams | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| Animal, Vegetable, Mineral | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | |
| The | Ants | E. O. Wilson |
| As I Lay Dying | William Faulkner | |
| As You Like It | William Shakespeare | |
| Bastard Out of Carolina | Dorothy Allison | |
| Beloved | Toni Morrison | |
| Between Friends | Debbie Macomber | |
| The | Bhagavad Gita | Sri Krishna |
| Black Beauty | Anna Sewell | |
| Black Like Me: Autobiography of Malcom X | Malcom X | |
| Blood Meridian or the evening redness in the West | Cormac McCarthy | |
| Blood Oranges | John Hawkes | |
| The | Blue Sword | Robin McKinley |
| Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy | Eric Metaxas | |
| Brain Sex: the real different between men and women | Anne Moir | |
| Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | |
| Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky | |
| Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer | |
| A | Canticle for Liebowitz | Walter M. Miller |
| Captain Underpants | Dav Pilkey | |
| Carnival of Fury | William Ivy Flair | |
| The | Catcher in the Rye | J. D. Salinger |
| Ceremony | Leslie Marmon Silko | |
| Cold Comfort Farm | Stella Gibbons | |
| The | Color of Water | James McBride |
| Color Purple | Alice Walker | |
| The | Columbia Encyclopedia | Clarke F. Ansley, editor in chief |
| The | Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson | Emily Dickinson |
| Confederacy of Dunces | Kennedy O'Toole | |
| The | Constitution of the United States of America | James Madison, et al. |
| Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas père | |
| Courage and Consequence | Karl Rove | |
| Crossings: a history of Vermont Bridges | Robert McCullough | |
| Cry the Beloved Country | Alan Patak | |
| David Copperfield | Charles Dickens | |
| The | Declaration of Independence | Thomas Jefferson, et al. |
| Desert Solitaire | Edward Abbey | |
| Diary of Anne Frank | Anne Frank | |
| The | Drifters | James Mitchener |
| Dune | Frank Herbert | |
| Eazy Rollins series | Walter Mosley | |
| The | Elegance of the Hedgehog | Muriel Barbery |
| The | End of Time | Isaac Asimov |
| Ender's Game | Orson Scott Card | |
| Everything is Illuminated | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| A | Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemingway |
| Faust | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | |
| The | Federalist or The Federalist Papers | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay |
| Fifth Sacred Thing | Starhawk | |
| The | Fledgling | Octavia Butler |
| Flowers for Algernon (Charly) | Daniel Keyes | |
| The | Gift | Hafiz |
| Giraffe | J.M. Ledgard | |
| The | Giver | Lois Lowry |
| The | Giving Tree | Shel Silverstein |
| God Bless You Mr. Rosewater | Kurt Vonnegaut | |
| God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy | |
| The | Golden Compass | Philip Pullman |
| Gone With the Wind | Margaret Mitchell | |
| The | Good Earth | Pearl S. Buck |
| Good Omens | Neil Gaiman | |
| Goodnight Moon | Margaret Wise Brown | |
| Goosebumps: Say Cheese and Die | R. L. Stine | |
| The | Gospel According to Biff | Christopher Moore |
| The | Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck |
| The | Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Habibi | Naomi Shihab Nye | |
| Hamlet | William Shakespeare | |
| Harold and the Purple Crayon | Crockett Johnson | |
| Harry Potter series | J. K. Rowling | |
| The | Help | Stockette |
| The | History of Love | Allison Krause |
| The | Hobbit, or, There and Back Again | J. R. R. Tolkien |
| Holes | Lewis Sacher | |
| The | Holy Bible | |
| The | Holy Qur'an | |
| Hope Dies Last: Autobiography | Alexander Dubcek | |
| How Did We Find Out About Electricity? | Isaac Asimov | |
| How Many Licks, or How to Estimate Damn Near Anything | DeAaron Santos | |
| How to Read the Air | Dinaw Mengestu | |
| Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins | |
| I and Thou | Martin Buber | |
| I, Robot | Isaac Asimov | |
| If On a Winter's Night a Traveler… | Italo Calvino | |
| Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl | Harriet Jacobs | |
| Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace | |
| The | Joy of Cooking | Irma von Starkloff Rombauer |
| Katherine | Anya Seton | |
| Klondike Fever | Pierre Berton | |
| L'Etranger | Albert Camus | |
| The | Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles | Julie Andrews |
| Leaves of Grass | Walt Whitman | |
| Let the Circle be Unbroken | Mildred Taylor | |
| Letters to a Young Poet | Rainer Maria Rilke | |
| The | Life of Pi | Yann Martel |
| Like Water for Chocolate | Laura Esquivel | |
| The | Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | C. S. Lewis |
| Little Birds Erotica | Anais Nin | |
| Little House in the Big Woods | Laura Ingalls Wilder | |
| Little Miss Sunshine | Roger Hargreaves | |
| Lolita | Vladimer Nabkob | |
| Lord Jim | Joseph Conrad | |
| Lord of the Flies | William Golding | |
| The | Lord of the Rings | J. R. R. Tokien |
| Love | Leo Buscalgia | |
| Love You Forever | Robert Munsch and Sheila McGraw | |
| Marley and Me | John Grogan | |
| Martian Timeslip | Philip K. Dick | |
| The | Marx-Engels Reader | Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels; ed. by Robert C. Tucker |
| Me Talk Pretty One Day | David Sedaris | |
| Middlemarch | T. S. Eliot | |
| Midwives | Chris Bojalimna | |
| Moby Dick | Herman Melville | |
| Moonspinners | Mary Stewart | |
| Mrs. Dalloway | Virginia Woolf | |
| My Side of the Mountain | Jean Craighead George | |
| Naked | David Sedaris | |
| The | Namesake | Jhumpa Lahiri |
| Neverending Story | Michael Ende | |
| Night | Elie Wiesel | |
| Night Watch | Terry Pratchett | |
| The | Notebook | José Saramago |
| The | Once and Future King | T. H. White |
| One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | Alexander Solzhenitsyn | |
| One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish | Dr. Seuss | |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Ken Kesey | |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| Organic Chemistry, 6th ed. | Francis A. Carey | |
| The | Other Wind | U.K. LeGuin |
| Our Town | Thornton Wilder | |
| Out of Africa | Isak Dinesen | |
| The | Outsiders | S. E. Hinton |
| Parable of the Sower | Octavia Butler | |
| Perdido Street Station | China Mieville | |
| The | Perks of Being a Wallflower | Stephen Chbosky |
| Persuasion | Jane Austen | |
| Le | Petite Prince | Antoine De Saint-Exupery |
| The | Phantom Tollbooth | Norton Juster |
| Phantoms in the Brain | V.S. Ramachandran | |
| The | Pigman | Paul Zindel |
| Pilgrim's Progress | Mark Twain | |
| The | Pillars of the Earth | Ken Follett |
| [Poetry] | Edgar Alan Poe | |
| The | Poisonwood Bible | Barbara Kingsolver |
| A | Prayer for Owen Meany | John Irving |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austin | |
| The | Prophet | Kahlil Gibran |
| Queen Zixi of Ix; or, the Story of the Magic Cloak | Frank L. Baum | |
| Quiet Flows the Dawn | Sholokov | |
| Redwall | Brian Jacques | |
| The | Return of the Native | Thomas Hardy |
| The | Road Less Traveled | M. Scott Peck |
| Robin Hood | [author not given] | |
| Room | [author not given] | |
| Running with Scissors | Augusten Burroughts | |
| The | Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| The | Secret Life of Bees | Sue Monk Kidd |
| Seeds: Time Capsules of Life | Kesseler and Stuppy | |
| A | Separate Peace | John Knowles |
| Short stories | Anton Chekhov | |
| Single Variable Calculus, 6th ed. | James Stewart | |
| Sirens of Titan | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| Slaughter House Five | Kurt Vonnegaut | |
| The | Sledding Hill | Chris Crutcher |
| Snakes: the evolution of myster in nature | Harry Greene | |
| The | Soft Machine | William Burroughs |
| Solaris | Stanilaw Lem | |
| A | Song of Ice and Fire | George R. R. Martin |
| Song of Solomon | Tony Morrison | |
| Soulstepping | Elizabeth C. Fine | |
| The | Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner |
| The | Sparrow | Mary Doria Russel |
| The | Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down | Anne Fadiman |
| Stargirl | Jerry Spinelli | |
| Stones Into Schools | Greg Mortenson | |
| Stranger in a Strange Land | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| Sufi poetry | Rumi (Jalal ad-Dīn Muhammad Rumi) | |
| Summerhill | A. S. Neill | |
| Tales from Central Russia, Book 1 | James Riordan | |
| Tangerine | Edward Bloor | |
| Team of Rivals | Doris Kearns Goodwin | |
| Their Eyes Were Watcing God | Zora Neal Hurston | |
| There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom | Louis Sachar | |
| The | Things They Carried | Tim O'Brien |
| Three Cups of Tea | Greg Mortenson | |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | |
| Toby Chipmunk | Margaret J. McElroy and Jessica O. Younge | |
| Tortilla Flat | John Steinbeck | |
| A | Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Betty Smith |
| Twenty Love Poems and One Song of Despair | Pablo Neruda | |
| The | Twits | Roald Dahl |
| Two Logs Crossing; John Haskell's Story | Walter Dumaux Edmonds | |
| The | Velveteen Rabbit | Margarey Williams |
| Venus In Furs | Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch | |
| Walden | Henry David Thoreau | |
| War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | |
| Water for Elephants | Sara Gruen | |
| Watership Down | Richard Adams | |
| The | Way of the Scout | Tom Brown, Jr. |
| What We Talk About When We Talk About Love | Raymond Carver | |
| Where I'm Calling From | Ray Cower | |
| Where's Waldo? | Martin Handford | |
| Whiteman | Tony D'Souza | |
| Who Are You People? | Shari Candron | |
| The | Wind-Witch | Susan Dexter |
| Winnie the Pooh stories | A.A. Milne | |
| The | Witch of Blackbird Pond | Elizabeth George Speare |
| The | Wizard of Oz | Frank L. Baum |
| The | Woman Warrior | Maxine Kingston |
| The | World According to Garp | John Irving |
| World Without End | Ken Follett | |
| The | Writing Life | Annie Dillard |
| Zeitoun | Dave Eggers |