1. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
2. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
3. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
4. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
5. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
6. I Know This Much Is True (P.S.) by Wally Lamb
7. God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
8. The Bean Trees: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver
9. Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
10. All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
11. Paula by Isabel Allende
12. The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
13. God’s Little Acre by Erskine Caldwel
14. In the First Circle: The First Uncensored Edition by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn and Harry Willets
15. Get Well Soon by Julie Halpern
16. When Dad Killed Mom by Julius Lester