| 1 | Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi | George Devol | 1886 |
| 2 | Hunger: A Novel | Knut Hamsun | 1890 |
| 3 | Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son | John Graham | 1903 |
| 4 | Company K | William March | 1933 |
| 5 | Babbitt | Sinclair Lewis | 1922 |
| 6 | Losing The War | Lee Sandlin | 1997 |
| 7 | The Measure of My Days | Florida Scott-Maxwell | 1979 |
| 8 | The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, A Roman Slave | Publius Syrus | |
| 9 | Twelve Years a Slave | Solomon Northup | 1853 |
| 10 | Meditations | Marcus Aurelius | |
| 11 | Cryopaedia | Xenophon | |
| 12 | The Wind and Pillars of the Earth | Ken Follett | 1990 |
| 13 | Where the Wild Things Are | Maurice Sendak | 1963 |
| 14 | Sometimes a Great Notion | Ken Kesey | 1964 |
| 15 | I Ching | | ~300 BCE |
| 16 | Upanishads | | ~800–400 BCE |
| 17 | Tao Te Ching | | ~400 BCE |
| 18 | Avesta | | |
| 19 | Analects | Confucius | |
| 20 | Dhammapada | | |
| 21 | The Prince | Niccolò Machiavelli | 1513 |
| 22 | A Treatise of Human Nature | David Hume | 1740 |
| 23 | Common Sense | Thomas Paine | 1776 |
| 24 | Civil Disobedience | Henry David Thoreau | 1849 |
| 25 | Walden | Henry David Thoreau | 1854 |
| 26 | War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | 1869 |
| 27 | The Trial | Franz Kafka | 1925 |
| 28 | The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money | John Maynard Keynes | 1936 |
| 29 | The Feminine Mystique | Betty Friedan | 1963 |
| 30 | Quotations from Chairman Mao | Mao Tse-tung | 1976 |
| 31 | Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove | Marcel Proust | 1919 |
| 32 | Absalom, Absalom! | William Faulkner | 1936 |
| 33 | One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Márquez | 1967 |
| 34 | Love in the Time of Cholera | Gabriel García Márquez | 1985 |
| 35 | The Confessions | Saint Augustine | ~400 |
| 36 | Paradise Lost | John Milton | 1667 |
| 37 | Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | 1953 |
| 38 | Memoirs of a Geisha | Arthur Golden | 1997 |
| 39 | The Phantom Tollbooth | Norton Juster | 1961 |
| 40 | The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame | 1907 |
| 41 | Maus | Art Spiegelman | 1986 |
| 42 | The Glass Bead Game | Hermann Hesse | |
| 43 | The Tipping Point | Malcolm Gladwell | |
| 44 | Blink | Malcolm Gladwell | |
| 45 | Secret Life of Lobsters | Trevor Corson | |
| 46 | Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace | |
| 47 | Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World | Mark Kurlansky | 1998 |
| 48 | The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation | Mark Kurlansky | 2001 |
| 49 | The Giver | Lois Lowry | 1993 |
| 50 | Mein Kampf | Adolf Hitler | 1926 |
| 51 | Winnie-the-Pooh | A. A. Milne | |
| 52 | Maldoror and the Complete Works of the Comte de Lautrèamont | Comte de Lautrèamont | |
| 53 | Island of the Blue Dolphins | Scott O'Dell | 1960 |
| 54 | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | Philip K. Dick | |
| 55 | Snow Crash | Neal Stephenson | |
| 56 | 2666: A Novel | Roberto Bolaño | |
| 57 | The Road | Cormac McCarthy | |
| 58 | The Book Thief | Markus Zusak | |
| 59 | The Mabinogi | | |
| 60 | The Marriage of Heaven and Hell | William Blake | |
| 61 | Thinking with Type | Ellen Lupton | 2010 |
| 62 | Sync | Steven Strogatz | 2004 |
| 63 | The Fabric of the Cosmos | Greene | |
| 64 | The Road to Reality | Penrose | |
| 65 | House of Leaves | Mark Z. Danielewski | 2000 |
| 66 | Gravity's Rainbow | Pynchon | |
| 67 | Anti-Oedipus | D+G | |
| 68 | Envisioning Information | Tufte | 1990 |
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