- 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