1984 – George Orwell

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne

A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking

A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess

A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole

A Doll’s House – Henrik Ibsen

A Fighter’s Heart: One Man’s Journey Through the World of Fighting – Sam Sheridan

A Man For All Seasons – Bolt

A Man on the Moon: Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts – Andrew Chaikin

A Patriot’s History of the United States – Larry Schweikart

A People’s History of the United States – Howard Zinn

A River Runs Through It – Norman F. MacLean

A Roving Commission, My Early Life – Winston Churchill

A Separate Peace – John Knowles

A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies – Bartolome de las Casas

A Strenuous Life – Theodore Roosevelt

A Tree That Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith

A Walk in the Woods – Bill Bryson

Abraham Lincoln – Carl Sandburg

Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea – Steven Callahan

Alas Babylon – Pat Frank

Alive – Piers Paul Read

Alliluyeva Memoirs – Svetlana Alliluyeva

American Psycho – Brett Easton Ellis

An American Tragedy – Theodore Dreiser

An Enemy of the People – Henrik Ibsen

Animal Farm – George Orwell

Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

Annapurna – Maurice Herzog

Another Roadside Attraction – Tom Robbins

Arabian Sands – Wilfred Thesiger

Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne

As a Man Thinketh – James Allen

Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand

Autobiography – Benjamin Franklin

Ayesha: The Return of She – H. Rider Haggard

Battle Royale – Koushun Takami

Between a Rock and Hard Place – Aron Ralston

Beyond Good and Evil – Freidrich Nietzsche

Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West – Cormac McCarthy

Bluebeard – Kurt Vonnegut

Book of the Seven Seas – Peter Freuschen

Bound for Glory – Woody Guthrie

Boy Wonder – James Robert Baker

Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

Brazilian Adventure – Peter Fleming

Cabeza de Vaca’s Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America – Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca

Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham

Candide – Voltaire

Cannery Row – John Steinbeck

Captain Blood – Rafael Sabatini

Captains Courageous – Rudyard Kipling

Caribbean – James A. Michener

Catch-22 – Joseph Heller

Centennial – James A. Michener

Chesapeake – James A. Michener

Conquest of Mexico – William H. Prescott

Covenant – James A. Michener

Crime and Punishment – F. Dostoyevsky

Cyrano de Bergerac – Rostand

David Copperfield – Charles Dickens

Dead Souls – Nikolai Gogol

Death Comes for the Archbishop – Willa Cather

Death in the Long Grass – Peter Hathaway Capstick

Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire – Edward Gibbon

Dharma Bums – Jack Kerouac

Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank

Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes

Dr. Zhivago – Boris Pasternak

Dracula – Bram Stoker

East of Eden – John Steinbeck

El Filibusterismo – Jose Rizal

Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Journey – Alfred Lansing

Essay on Man – Alexander Pope

Essential Manners for Men – Peter Post

Exodus – Leon Uris

Fables – Aesop

Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury

Familiar Quotations – John Bartlett

Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook – Martin Dugard

Faust – Goethe

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson

Fear and Trembling – Soren Kierkegaard

Fight Club – Chuck Palahniuk

Fire in the Belly – Sam Keen

For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway

Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco

Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly

Freakonomics – Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner

From Here to Eternity – James Jones

Genghis Kahn – Harold Lamb

Ghosts – Henrik Ibsen

Gift from the Sea – Anne Morrow Lindberg

Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell

Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies – Jared Diamond

Hatchet – Gary Paulsen

Hawaii – James A. Michener

Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

Henry Esmond – William Thackeray

High Adventure – Edmund Hillary

High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places – David Breashears

History of the English Speaking Peoples – Winston Churchill

Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives – Alan Bullock

House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne

How to Shit in the Woods – Kathleen Meyer

How to Win Friends and Influence People – Dale Carnegie

Iliad – Homer

In Harm’s Way: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors – Doug Stanton

In Search of the Castaways – Jules Verne

Intellectuals – Paul Johnson

Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone – Martin Dugard

Into the Heart of the Sea – Nathaniel Philbrick

Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer

Into Thin Air – Jon Krakauer

Iron John – Robert Bly

Ishmael – Daniel Quinn

Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott

Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte

Job: A Comedy of Errors – Robert Heinlein

Johnny Got His Gun – Dalton Trumbo

Joseph and His Brothers – Thomas Mann

Journey to the Center of the Earth – Jules Verne

Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Survival – Yossi Ghinsberg

K2: The Savage Mountain – Charles S. Houston and Robert H. Bates

Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson

Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson

King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard

Kon Tiki – Thor Heyerdahl

Last Days of Pompeii – Edward B. Lytton

Le Morte D’Arthur – Sir Thomas Malory

Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman

Lectures on Faith – Joseph Smith

Les Miserable – Victor Hugo

Leviathan – Thomas Hobbes

Light in August – William Faulkner

Lives – Plutarch

Lonesome Dove – Larry McMurty

Long Walk to Freedom – Nelson Mandela

Look Homeward Angel – Thomas Wolfe

Lord of the Flies – William Golding

Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert

Mawson’s Will: The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written – Lennard Bickel

Meditations – Marcus Aurelius

Moby Dick – Herman Melville

Modern Times – Paul Johnson

Mutiny on the Bounty – Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall

My Life as an Explorer – Sven Hedin

Noli Me Tangere – Jose Rizal

Odyssey – Homer

Of Human Bondage – W. Somerset Maugham

Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham

Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

Of Whales and Men – R.B. Robertson

Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens

On Horseback Through Asia Minor – Frederick Burnaby

On the Origin of Species – Charles Darwin

On the Road – Jack Kerouac

On the Shortness of Life – Seneca

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey

Our Town – Thornton Wilder

Out of Africa – Isak Dinesen

Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell

Over the Edge of the World: Magellan’s Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe – Laurence Bergreen

Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

Paradise Lost – John Milton

Peter Pan – J.M. Barrie

Pilgim’s Progress – John Bunyan

Plays – George Bernard Shaw

Plays – William Shakespeare

Poems – Robert Frost

Pop-splat – Ian Martin

Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

Profiles in Courage – John F. Kennedy

Red and the Black – Stendal

Redeeming the Time – Russell Kirk

Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy

Rise and Fall of the Great Powers – Paul Kennedy

Rise and Fall of the Third Reich – William Shirer

Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe

Roughing It – Mark Twain

Seek: Reports from the Edges of America and Beyond – Denis Johnson

Self-Reliance – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Seven Pillars of Wisdom – T.E. Lawrence

She – H. Rider Haggard

Shogun – James Clavell

Short Stories – Guy de Maupassant

Siddhartha – Herman Hesse

Silas Marner – George Eliot

Skeletons on the Sahara – Dean King

Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut

Slouching Towards Gomorrah – Robert H. Bork

Songs of Innocence – William Blake

South: The Endurance Expedition – Ernest Shackleton

Southern Mail/Night Flight – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Starship Troopers – Robert Heinlein

Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse

Story of Civilization – William Durant

Story of my Life – Helen Keller

Story of Philosophy – William Durant

Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein

Studies in Iconology – Erwin Panofsky

Survival in Auschwitz – Primo Levi

Swiss Family Robinson – J.R. Wyss

Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Adventures of Captain Hatteras – Jules Verne

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain

The Agony and the Ecstasy – Irving Stone

The American Language – H.L. Mencken

The Art of Warfare – Sun Tzu

The Autobiography of Malcolm X – Alex Haley and Malcolm X

The Beach – Alex Garland

The Bible

The Book of Deeds and Arms and of Chivalry – Christine De Pizan

The Boys of Summer – Roger Kahn

The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Caine Mutiny – Herman Wouk

The Call of the Wild – Jack London

The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer

The Captain’s Daughter – Alexander Pushkin

The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger

The Communist Manifesto – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

The Contours of American History – William Appleman Williams

The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

The Crisis – Winston Churchill

The Crucible – Arthur Miller

The Darkest Jungle: The True Story of the Darien Expedition and America’s Ill-Fated Race to Connect the Seas – Todd Balf

The Divine Comedy – Dante

The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons – John Wesley Powell

The Federalist Papers – Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison

The Four Voyages: Being His Own Log-Book, Letters, and Dispatches with Connecting Narratives – Christopher Columbus

The Frontier in American History – Frederick Jackson Turner

The Godfather – Mario Puzo

The Good Earth – Pearl Buck

The Good War – Studs Terkel

The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Railway Bazaar – Paul Theroux

The Greek Way – Edith Hamilton

The Histories – Herodotus

The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Innocents Abroad – Mark Twain

The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells

The Journals of Lewis and Clark – Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

The Jungle – Upton Sinclair

The Jungle Books – Rudyard Kipling

The Kid Who Climbed Everest – Bear Grylls

The Killer Angels – Michael Shaara

The Known World – Edward P. Jones

The Koran

The Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper

The Lighthouse at the End of the World – Jules Verne

The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The Long Exile: A Tale of Inuit Betrayal and Survival in the High Arctic – Melanie McGrath

The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler

The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom – Slavomir Rawicz

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon – David Grann

The Lost World – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Loved One – Evelyn Waugh

The Maltese Falcon – Dashielle Hammett

The Man Eaters of Kumaon – Jim Corbett

The Man Eaters of Tsavo – Col. Henry Patterson

The Man Who Would Be King – Rudyard Kipling

The Man Without a Country – Edward Everett Hale

The Marsh Arabs – Wilfed Thesiger

The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov

The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka

The Moon and Sixpence – W. Somerset Maugham

The Mysterious Island – Jules Verne

The Naked and the Dead – Norman Mailer

The Naked Communist – Cleon Skousen

The Nicomachean Ethics – Aristotle

The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway

The Ox-Bow Incident – Walter Van Tilburg Clark

The Pearl – John Steinbeck

The People of the Mist – H. Rider Haggard

The Perfect Storm – Sebastian Junger

The Phantom Tollbooth – Norton Juster

The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde

The Pirates of Malaysia – Emilio Salgari

The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver

The Politics – Aristotle

The Prisoner of Zenda – Anthony Hope

The Race for Timbuktu: In Search of Africa’s City of Gold – Frank Kryza

The Razor’s Edge – W. Somerset Maugham

The Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane

The Red Pony – John Steinbeck

The Renaissance – Walter Pater

The Republic – Plato

The Richest Man in Babylon – George S. Clason

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt – Edmund Morris

The Rough Riders – Theodore Roosevelt

The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Sea Around Us – Rachael Carson

The Sea Wolf – Jack London

The Second World War – Winston Churchill

The Shining – Stephen King

The Souls of Black Folk – W.E.B. DuBois

The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner

The Source – James A. Michener

The Stranger – Albert Camus

The Stranger – Albert Camus

The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness – Simon Wiesenthal

The Thin Red Line – James Jones

The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brian

The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan

The Tigers of Mompracem – Emilio Salgari

The Trial – Franz Kafka

The Two Tigers – Emilio Salgari

The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America – Anon.

The Wealth of Nations – Adam Smith

The Worst Journey in the World – Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Theodore Rex – Edmund Morris

Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe

Three Muskateers – Alexandre Dumas

Through the Brazilian Wilderness – Theodore Roosevelt

Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis

To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

Tortilla Flat – John Steinbeck

Touching My Father’s Soul: A Sherpa’s Journey to the Top of Everest – Jamling Tenzing Norgay

Touching the Void – Joe Simpson

Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh

Trashing the Planet – Dixy Lee Ray

Travels of Marco Polo – Marco Polo

Treasure Island – Robert L. Stevenson

Trespassers on the Roof of the World – Peter Hopkirk

Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller

Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller

True at First Light – Ernest Hemingway

True North: Peary, Cook, and the Race to the Pole – Bruce Henderson

Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom

Turn of the Screw – Henry James

Ulysses – James Joyce

Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe

Undaunted Courage – Stephen Ambrose

Unintended Consequences – John Ross

Vanity Fair – William M. Thackeray

Walden – Henry D. Thoreau

War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy

War is a Racket – Smedley Butler

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families – Philip Gourevitch

When Nietzche Wept – Irvin D. Yalom

White Noise – Don Delillo

Wind, Sand, and Stars – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert Pirsig