Appendix
Master Checklist

• 84, Charing Cross Road (1970) by Helene Hanff
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (2007) by Sherman Alexie
• The Accident Man (2007) by Tom Cain, read by John Lee
• Almost Like Being in Love (2004) by Steve Kluger
• An Age of License: A Travelogue (2014) by Lucy Knisley
• American Gods (2001) by Neil Gaiman
• The Art of Racing in the Rain (2008) by Garth Stein
• The Art of the Steal (2004) by Christopher Mason
• August: Osage County (2007) by Tracy Letts
• The Awakening (1899) by Kate Chopin
• The Bad Seed (1954) by William March
• The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (2007) by Dinaw Mengestu
• Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast (1978) by Robin McKinley
• Bee Season (2000) by Myla Goldberg
• Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison
• The Best of Roald Dahl (1978) by Roald Dahl
• Beyond Belief: The Secret Lives of Women in Extreme Religions (2013) by Susan Tive and Cami Ostman
• The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man (1940) by David W. Maurer
• Black Like Me (1961) by John Howard Griffin
• Blue Pills: A Positive Love Story (2001) by Frederik Peeters
• Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life (2007) by Steve Martin
• Bossypants (2011) by Tina Fey
• The Bottoms (2000) by Joe R. Lansdale
• Brothel: Mustang Ranch and Its Women (2001) by Alexa Albert
• Calling Dr. Laura: A Graphic Memoir (2013) by Nicole J. Georges
• Cancer Vixen (2006) by Marisa Acocella Marchetto
• Cane River (2001) by Lalita Tademy
• Can’t We Talk about Something More Pleasant? (2014) by Roz Chast
• Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake (1980) by Frank W. Abagnale
• Charlotte’s Web (1952, 1980) by E.B. White, read by the author
• The Children of Men (1992) by P.D. James
• Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter (1999) by Adeline Yen Mah
• Chocolat (1999) by Joanne Harris
• The Chronology of Water (2011) by Lidia Yuknavitch
• The Cider House Rules (1985) by John Irving
• Cold Hands, Warm Heart (2009) by Jill Wolfson
• The Collector (1963) by John Fowles
• A Confederacy of Dunces (1980, 1997) by John Kennedy Toole, read by Barrett Whitener
• The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (1857) by Herman Melville
• The Cutting Season (2012) by Attica Locke
• Dangerous Liaisons (1782) by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
• The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks (2008) by E. Lockhart
• Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood (2001) by Alexandra Fuller
• Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker
• Eleanor & Park (2012) by Rainbow Rowell
• Ella Minnow Pea: A Progressively Lipogrammatic Epistolary Fable (2001) by Mark Dunn
• Every Day (2012) by David Levithan, read by Alex McKenna
• The Executioner’s Song (1979) by Norman Mailer
• Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic (1999) by Martha Beck
• Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment (1972) by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston
• Fences (1983) by August Wilson
• Flowers for Algernon (1959) by Daniel Keyes
• Forbidden (2010) by Tabitha Suzuma
• A Free Life (2007) by Ha Jin, read by Jason Ma
• Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (1987) by Fannie Flagg
• Full Dark, No Stars (2010) by Stephen King
• The Gentle Grafter (1907) by O. Henry
• Geography Club (2003) by Brent Hartinger
• Ghostman (2013) by Roger Hobbs, read by Jake Weber
• A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana (2001) by Haven Kimmel
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2005) by Stieg Larsson
• Give Me My Father’s Body: The Life of Minik, the New York Eskimo (1986) by Kenn Harper
• The Godfather (1969) by Mario Puzo
• González and Daughter Trucking Co.: A Road Novel with Literary License (2005) by María Amparo Escandón
• The Good Lord Bird (2013) by James McBride, read by Michael Boatman
• The Good Thief (2008) by Hannah Tinti
• Griffin and Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence (1991) by Nick Bantock
• The Grifters (1963) by Jim Thompson
• A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty (2012) by Joshilyn Jackson
• The Gum Thief (2007) by Douglas Coupland
• The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray (2001) by Chris Wooding
• The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940) by Carson McCullers
• Hell at the Breech (2003) by Tom Franklin
• High Fidelity (1995) by Nick Hornby
• The Hotel New Hampshire (1981) by John Irving
• House of Sand and Fog (1999) by Andre Dubus III
• The House on Mango Street (1984) by Sandra Cisneros
• How to Be a Heroine: Or, What I’ve Learned from Reading Too Much (2014) by Samantha Ellis
• How to Breathe Underwater (2003) by Julie Orringer
• How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less (2010) by Sarah Glidden
• Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened (2013) by Allie Brosh
• Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress: Tales of Growing Up Groovy and Clueless (2005) by Susan Jane Gilman
• The Idiot Girls’ Action-Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life (2002) by Laurie Notaro
• If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler (1979) by Italo Calvino
• The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People (1895) by Oscar Wilde
• In the Time of the Butterflies (1994) by Julia Alvarez
• The Internet Is a Playground: Irreverent Correspondences of an Evil Online Genius (2011) by David Thorne
• Interpreter of Maladies (1999) by Jhumpa Lahiri
• Invisible (2009) by Paul Auster
• The Invisible Bridge (2010) by Julie Orringer
• Isadora Duncan: A Graphic Biography (2008) by Sabrina Jones
• It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living (2011) by Dan Savage and Terry Miller
• Jellicoe Road (2006) by Melina Marchetta
• Jesus Land (2005) by Julia Scheeres
• Johnny Got His Gun (1939) by Dalton Trumbo
• King Dork (2006) by Frank Portman
• Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins (1997) by Emma Donoghue
• Knockemstiff (2008) by Donald Ray Pollock
• Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings (1962) by Jorge Luis Borges
• Ladies and Gentlemen (2011) by Adam Ross
• Last Night at the Lobster (2007) by Stewart O’Nan
• Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls (2013) by David Sedaris
• Letters from a Nut (1997) by Ted L. Nancy
• The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006) by Scott Lynch
• Little Failure (2014) by Gary Shteyngart
• Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s (2007) by John Elder Robison
• Lost in the City (1992) by Edward P. Jones
• The Lover’s Dictionary (2010) by David Levithan
• Lucky (1999) by Alice Sebold
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (1985) by Oliver Sacks
• Man’s Search for Meaning (1946) by Viktor E. Frankl
• The Mark Inside: A Perfect Swindle, a Cunning Revenge, and a Small History of the Big Con (2012) by Amy Reading
• Matchstick Men: A Novel about Grifters with Issues (2002) by Eric Garcia
• Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History (1986) by Art Spiegelman
• MemoraBEALEia: A Private Scrapbook about Edie Beale of Grey Gardens, First Cousin to First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (2008) by Walter Newkirk
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1994) by John Berendt
• Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (1938) by Winifred Watson
• Monster (1999) by Walter Dean Myers
• Mop Men: Inside the World of Crime Scene Cleaners (2004) by Alan Emmins
• Motherless Brooklyn (1999, 2001) by Jonathan Lethem, read by Frank Muller
• Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore (2012) by Robin Sloan
• Mudbound (2008) by Hillary Jordan
• My Heart Laid Bare (1998) by Joyce Carol Oates
• My Year of Meats (1998) by Ruth L. Ozeki
• The Namesake (2003) by Jhumpa Lahiri
• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (2001) by Barbara Ehrenreich
• On Such a Full Sea (2014) by Chang-rae Lee, read by B.D. Wong
• Ordinary People (1976) by Judith Guest
• Orientation and Other Stories (2011) by Daniel Orozco
• Out Stealing Horses (2003, 2008) by Per Petterson, read by Richard Poe
• Outer Dark (1968) by Cormac McCarthy
• The Outlaw Album: Stories (2011) by Daniel Woodrell
• The Outsiders (1967) by S.E. Hinton
• Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books (2004) by Aaron Lansky
• Parlor Games (2013) by Maryka Biaggio
• Passing (1929) by Nella Larsen
• Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (2000, 2007) by Marjane Satrapi
• The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano (2006) by Margarita Engle
• The Polysyllabic Spree (2004) by Nick Hornby
• PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives (2005) by Frank Warren
• Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas (2013) by Jim Ottaviani and Maris Wicks
• The Principles of Uncertainty (2007) by Maira Kalman
• The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (2001) by Terry Ryan
• Prodigal Summer (2000) by Barbara Kingsolver, read by the author
• Push (1996) by Sapphire
• The Quiet American (1955) by Graham Greene
• A Quiet Belief in Angels (2007) by R.J. Ellory
• Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout (2010) by Lauren Redniss
• The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (1997) by Iris Chang
• Rats Saw God (1996) by Rob Thomas
• Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (2003) by Azar Nafisi
• The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared (2011) by Alice Ozma
• Requiem for a Dream (1978) by Hubert Selby Jr.
• Revolutionary Road (1961) by Richard Yates
• The Rise and Fall of Great Powers (2014) by Tom Rachman
• The Road (2006) by Cormac McCarthy
• Room (2010) by Emma Donoghue, read by various readers
• Runaway: Stories (2004) by Alice Munro
• S. (2013) by Doug Dorst (created by J.J. Abrams)
• Schindler’s List (1982) by Thomas Keneally
• The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright (2004) by Jean Nathan
• Serena (2008) by Ron Rash
• The Shadow of the Wind (2001) by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• The Shiniest Jewel: A Family Love Story (2008) by Marian Henley
• The Shipping News (1993) by Annie Proulx
• Sh*t My Dad Says (2010) by Justin Halpern
• Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood (2003) by Julie Gregory
• Squashed (1992) by Joan Bauer
• Stargirl (2000) by Jerry Spinelli
• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (2003) by Mary Roach
• Stitches: A Memoir (2009) by David Small
• The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (2014) by Gabrielle Zevin
• The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (2011) by Stephen Greenblatt
• Tell the Wolves I’m Home (2012) by Carol Rifka Brunt
• Then We Came to the End (2007) by Joshua Ferris
• They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967 (2003) by David Maraniss
• Three Little Words: A Memoir (2008) by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
• The Time Traveler’s Wife (2003) by Audrey Niffenegger
• Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar (2012) by Cheryl Strayed, read by the author
• To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) by Harper Lee
• True Grit (1968) by Charles Portis
• Twelfth Night; or, What You Will (1623) by William Shakespeare
• Typical American (1991) by Gish Jen
• The Uncommon Reader (2007) by Alan Bennett
• Vanished (2009, 2010) by Joseph Finder, read by Holter Graham
• A Walk on the Wild Side (1956) by Nelson Algren
• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration (2010) by Isabel Wilkerson
• Water for Elephants (2006) by Sara Gruen
• We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda (1998) by Philip Gourevitch
• What I Saw and How I Lied (2008) by Judy Blundell
• The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring (2007) by Richard Preston
• Winter’s Bone (2006) by Daniel Woodrell
• Wise Blood (1952) by Flannery O’Connor
• A Woman of Independent Means (1978) by Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
• The Women of Brewster Place (1982) by Gloria Naylor
• World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (2006, 2014) by Max Brooks, read by various readers
• The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (2006) by Timothy Egan
• A Yellow Raft in Blue Water (1987) by Michael Dorris
• Yes Man (2005) by Danny Wallace
• Youth in Revolt: The Journals of Nick Twisp (1993) by C.D. Payne