- Siddhartha (1922) by Hermann Hesse
- The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement (2011) by David Brooks
- A Farewell to Arms (1929) by Ernest Hemingway
- Mrs Dalloway (1925) by Virginia Woolf
- The Sea Around Us (1951) by Rachel Carson
- Pride and Prejudice (1813) by Jane Austen
- The Old Man and the Sea (1952) by Ernest Hemingway
- A Short History of Nearly Everything (2003) by Bill Bryson
- The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World (2001) by Michael Pollan
- The Prince (1532) by Niccolò Machiavelli
- Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (2012) by Cheryl Strayed
- Falling Leaves (1997) by Adeline Yen Mah
- The Alchemist (1988) by Paulo Coelho [translated by Alan R. Clarke]
- A Brief History of Time (1988) by Stephen Hawking
- Great Expectations (1861) by Charles Dickens
IN PROGRESS
- The Odyssey by Homer
- The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (2010) by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Midnight’s Children (1980) by Salman Rushdie
The Straining Reader 