A
Adams, Richard
– Watership Down
Allison, Dorothy
– Bastard Out of Carolina
Angelou, Maya
– I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
B
Bechdel, Alison
– Are You My Mother?
Bloch, Robert
– Psycho
Brown, Rita Mae
– Rubyfruit Jungle
Bugliosi, Vincent
– Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
C
Caldwell, Gail
– Let’s Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
– New Life, No Instructions
Cline, Ernest
– Ready Player One
D
Delisle, Guy
–Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea
Demick, Barbara
– Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Dickens, Charles
– A Christmas Carol
– Bleak House
Dumont, Jessie
– I Prefer Girls
Dunham, Lena
– Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s “Learned”
F
Faderman, Lillian
– Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America
Fadiman, Anne
– Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
Flaubert, Gustave
– Madame Bovary
Foer, Jonathan Safran
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
G
Gallagher, John
– Geisha: A Unique World of Tradition, Elegance and Art
Gay, Roxane
– Bad Feminist: Essays
Golden, Arthur
– Memoirs of a Geisha
Golding, William
– Lord of the Flies
Grossman, Lev
– The Magicians (Book 1 of the Magicians series)
– The Magician King (Book 2 of the Magicians series)
Guinn, Jeff
– Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson
H
Hall, Radclyffe
– The Well of Loneliness
Herbert, Frank
– Dune
Hill, Jenna Miscavige
– Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape
Hill, Joe
– NOS4A2
Hornbacher, Marya
– Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Hugo, Victor
– Les Miserables
K
Kaling, Mindy
– Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? And Other Concerns
Kerman, Piper
– Orange is the New Black
King, Stephen
– The Shining
Kingsolver, Barbara
– The Poisonwood Bible
Knapp, Caroline
– Drinking: A Love Story
Kushner, Rachel
– The Flame Throwers
L
Lamb, Wally
– The Hour I First Believed
Levin, Ira
– Rosemary’s Baby
M
March, George
– The Bad Seed
Maroh, Julie
– Blue Is the Warmest Color
Martin, George R. R.
– A Game of Thrones
Morrison, Toni
– The Bluest Eye
N
Novak, B.J.
– One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories
O
Oates, Joyce Carol
– Zombie
Ozeki, Ruth
– A Tale for the Time Being
P
Palahniuk, Chuck
– Haunted
Pershall, Stacy
– Loud in the House of Myself
Picoult, Jodi
– House Rules
Pipher, Mary
– Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
Poehler, Amy
– Yes Please
R
Rowell, Rainbow
– Fangirl
S
Salinger, J.D.
– Franny and Zooey
Stevenson, Bryan
– Just Mercy
Stewart, Sarah
– The Library
T
Thompson, Craig
– Blankets
Tomsky, Jacob
– Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality
W
Waters, Sarah
– The Paying Guests
– The Little Stranger
Winterson, Jeanette
– Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Woodson, Jacqueline
– Brown Girl Dreaming
Z
Zelinsky, Paul O.
– Rumpelstiltskin