- Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
    - Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?) by Philip K. Dick
    - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
    - People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present by Howard Zinn
    - Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
    - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3) by J. K. Rowling
    - Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law by Peter Woit
    - The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth by Paul Hoffman
    - The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
    - Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
    - 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
    - The Philip K. Dick Reader by Philip K. Dick
    - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
    - Undaunted Courage:  Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephen Ambrose
    - The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
    - The Recollections of Eugene P. Wigner: As Told To Andrew Szanton by Andrew Szanton
    - Gun, Germs, and Steel:  The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
    - Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
    - The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan by Robert Kanigel
    - Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein
    - A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album byAshley Kahn
    - Siddartha by Hermann Hesse
    - The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross
    - Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life by Daniel C. Dennett
    - A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
    - Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
    - Under the Banner of Heaven:  A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer
    - Planet Simpson: How a Cartoon Masterpiece Define a Generation by Chris Turner
    - In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
    - Fast Food Nation by Eric Scholosser
    - Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote -> this also has 3 short stories including A Christmas Memory
    - The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
    - The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments by George Johnson
    - Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides
    - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) by J. K. Rowling
    - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) by J. K. Rowling -- again :)
    - Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life by Steve Martin -- Steve Martin essentially was researching comedy by doing comedy...kinda like physics research :)
    - Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
    - The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J. K. Rowling
    - Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents by Minal Hajratwala
    - Catch 22 by Joseph Heller