The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Alexie), 55
Ackroyd, Peter, 18
Age of Bronze (Shanower), 75, 116, 117
Alexander, Caroline, 85
Alexie, Sherman, 55
Alice in Wonderland (Carroll), 15–16
All Creatures Great and Small (Herriot), 87
All Over but the Shoutin’ (Bragg), 76
All Souls (Schutt), 12
All the Pretty Horses (McCarthy), 12–13, 115
All Things Bright and Beautiful (Herriot), 87
All Things Wise and Wonderful (Herriot), 87
Almost a Woman (Santiago), 113
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (Chabon), 13–14, 115
American Girl series, 32
American Shaolin (Polly), 76
American Voyeur (Denizet-Lewis), 76–77, 117
Americans’ Favorite Poems (ed. Pinsky), 86–87
Anansi Boys (Gaiman), 62
And the Pursuit of Happiness (Kalman), 77, 116, 117
The Angel of Darkness (Carr), 12
Angela’s Ashes (McCourt), 77–78, 116
Angelou, Maya, 91
Anne Frank (Prose), 78
Antarctica (Robinson), 54
Anthill (Wilson), 14
Ants (Wilson), 14
As Simple as Snow (Galloway), 14–15, 23, 60, 117
At Home (Bryson), 108
Atonement (McEwan), 15
The Audacity of Hope (Obama)
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (Gaines), 37
Awkward and Definition (Schrag), 79
Beah, Ishmael, 96
Beauchard, Pierre-François, 86
Beautiful Boy (Scheff), 79, 110
Benchley, Robert, 98
Bender, Aimee, 46
Berger, Thomas, 67
The Big Book of Adventure Stories (ed. Penzler), 16
Black Swan Green (Mitchell), 16–17, 115
Blink (Gladwell), 111
Blood Meridian (McCarthy), 12
Blue Angel (Prose), 43
Blue Mars (Robinson), 54
The Blue Star (Earley), 34
Border Trilogy (McCarthy), 12–13
Boylan, James Finney, 26
Boylan, Jennifer Finney, 106–107, 118
Bradbury, Ray, 57
The Bradbury Report (Polansky), 44
Bragg, Rick, 76
Breakfast of Champions (Vonnegut)
Breashears, David, 90
The Bridge (Remnick), 80
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (Fielding), 18
Bridget Jones’s Diary (Fielding), 17–18
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Díaz), 18, 115
Brooks, Albert, 67
Brown, Dan, 55
Buckhanon, Kalisha, 68
Building the Book Cathedral (Macaulay), 48
Butterfly Boy (González), 81
The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book (Watterson), 81, 116
Canada, Geoffrey, 88
The Canterbury Tales (Chaucer and Ackroyd), 18
Capote, Truman, 102
Caramelo (Cisneros), 19
Carr, Nicholas, 106
Carrie (King), 27
Cash, Johnny, 94
The Catcher in the Rye (Salinger), 56
Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction (Macaulay), 48
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Dahl), 82
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 18
Chbosky, Stephen, 46–47, 115, 117
Cisneros, Sandra, 19
Cities of the Plain (McCarthy), 12–13
Citrus County (Brandon), 19–20, 117
The Clerkenwell Tales (Ackroyd), 18
Cline, Ernest, 53
The Coalwood Way (Hickam)
Codex (Grossman), 40
Cofer, Judith Ortiz, 40
Coffee Will Make You Black (Sinclair), 20–21
The Comics (Walker)
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes (Watterson), 81
A Complicated Kindness (Toews), 21, 115
Conception (Buckhanon), 68
Confessions of Georgia Nicholson series (Rennison), 18
Cormier, Robert, 44
Cox, Lynne, 109
The Crossing (McCarthy), 12–13
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Haddon), 21–22, 37, 115, 117
D’Orso, Michael, 83
The Da Vinci Code (Brown), 23, 55
Dandelion Wine (Bradbury), 57
The Dante Club (Pearl), 49
Dante [Alighieri], 50
Days of Obligation (Rodriguez), 81
The Dead Fathers Club (Haig), 53, 62
Denizet-Lewis, Benoit, 76–77, 117
Detective Comics, 15
The Devil in the White City (Larson), 83, 116
Diamond Dogs (Watt), 22
Diary of a Young Girl (Frank), 78
Doctorow, E. L., 12
Dominick, Andie, 99
Doonesbury and the Art of G. B. Trudeau (Walker), 84
Doxiadis, Apostolos, 95–96, 117
Doyle, Larry, 31
Dreams from My Father (Obama)
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (Packer), 22–23
A Drinking Life (Hamill), 60
Drown (Díaz), 18
The Duke of Deception (Wolff), 111
Dykes to Watch Out For (comic strip; Bechdel), 88
Eaarth (McKibben), 84
Eagle Blue (D’Orso), 83
Earley, Tony, 34
Eden’s Outcasts (Matteson), 97
The Eight (Neville), 23
Eire, Carlos, 112
El Bronx Remembered (Mohr), 113
Electric Universe (Bodanis), 106
Ellen Foster (Gibbons), 24
Elmer (Alanguilan), 24–25, 117
The End of Nature (McKibben), 84
The Endurance (Alexander), 85
English Passengers (Kneale), 72
Epileptic (B., David), 86, 116
Essential Pleasures (ed. Pinsky), 86–87
Eventide (Haruf), 49
Everest (film), 90
Every Living Thing (Herriot), 87
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Foer), 25, 85, 115, 117
The Eyre Affair (Fforde), 58, 66
Fast Food Nation (Schlosser), 87
Fight Club (Palahuik), 52
The Fire (Neville), 23
Fist Stick Knife Gun (Canada and Nicholas), 88
Flannery O’Connor: Collected Works, 20
Florida (Schutt)
Foer, Jonathan Safran, 25, 85, 115, 117
Fromm, Pete, 30
Fun Home (Bechdel), 88, 116, 117
Galloway, Gregory, 14–15, 60, 117
Geeks (Katz), 89
Generation X (Coupland), 35
Getting In (Boylan), 26
Gibbons, Kaye, 24
Gil’s All Fright Diner (Martinez), 26–27
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt (Bender), 46
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (King), 27, 115
Girl with a Pearl Earring (Chevalier), 27–28
Give Us a Kiss (Woodrell), 73
Gladwell, Malcolm, 111
The Glass Demon (Grant), 69
Go Mutants (Doyle), 31
The God of Animals (Kyle), 28
Going After Cacciato (O’Brien), 64
Golding, William, 48
González, Rigoberto, 81
Good-bye, Chunky Rice (Thompson), 80
Grass, Gunter, 25
Green Mars (Robinson), 54
Gritos (Gilb), 26
Gruen, Sara, 69
The Headmaster Ritual (Antrim), 28–29, 45
Henrichon, Niko (illus.), 51
Her Fearful Symmetry (Niffenegger)
Here on Earth (Hoffman), 65
Hernandez, Jaime, 39
Herriot, James, 87
High Exposure (Breashears), 90
High Fidelity (Hornby), 29
The Historian (Kostova), 29–30
Hoffman, Alice, 65
Hoot (Hiaasen), 61
Hornby, Nick, 29
The House on Mango Street (Cisneros),19
How All This Started (Fromm), 30
How Beautiful the Ordinary (Cart), 107
How I Live Now (Rosoff), 70
I Am an Emotional Creature (Ensler), 90, 117
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Angelou), 91
I Love You, Beth Cooper (Doyle), 31
I Shall Not Be Moved (Angelou), 91
The Ice Master (Niven), 91
Imani All Mine (Porter), 31–32
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Skloot), 91–92
In Cold Blood (Capote), 102
In Nueva York (Mohr), 113
In the Heart of the Sea (Philbrick), 34, 92
In the Time of the Butterflies (Alvarez), 18, 32
Inferno (Dante), 50
Into the Beautiful North (Urrea), 33
Into the Wild (Krakauer), 93
Into Thin Air (Krackauer), 85, 90, 92–93, 102, 116
Iron and Silk (Salzman), 109, 110
Jamrach’s Menagerie (Birch), 33–34, 117
Jane Eyre (Brontë), 58
Jekyll, Alias Hyde (Thomas), 40
Jerome, Jerome K. 66
Jesus Land (Scheeres), 93–94, 117
Jim the Boy (Earley), 34
Joe College(Perrotta), 24
Johnny Cash (Kleist), 94
Johnson, Samuel, 78
The Joy Luck Club (Tan), 35
Junger, Sebastian, 85, 92, 93, 102, 116
The Jungle (Sinclair), 87
Kafka, Franz, 58
Kampung Boy (Lat), 94–95, 116, 117
Katz, Jon, 89
Kelman, Stephen, 47
Kinder, Gary, 107
The King’s Speech (film), 17
Kingsolver, Barbara, 50
The Kitchen God’s Wife (Tan), 35
The Kite Runner (Hosseini), 35–36, 115
Kleist, Reinhard, 94
Krakauer, Jon, 85, 90, 92–93, 102, 116
Kyle, Aryn, 28
The Lady and the Unicorn (Chevalier),28
Lanier, Jaron, 112
The Last Boy (Leavy), 95
Learning to Die in Miami (Eire), 112
Leavy, Jane, 95
A Lesson before Dying (Gaines), 37, 115
Lewis, C. S., 58
Life of Pi (Martel), 21, 37–38, 115, 117
Likewise (Schrag), 79
A Lion among Men (Maguire), 72
Little Big Man (Berger), 67
The Little Friend (Tartt), 38
Locas (Hernandez), 39
Logicomix (Doxiadis), 95–96, 117
A Long Way Gone (Beah), 96
Loose Woman (Cisneros), 19
The Lord God Made Them All (Herriot), 87
Losing Battles (Welty), 19
Lost in Place (Salzman), 109, 110
Louisa May Alcott (Reisen), 96–97
The Lovely Bones (Sebold), 39, 115
Macaulay, David, 48
The Magic of Blood (Gilb), 26
The Magician King (Grossman), 40
The Magicians (Grossman), 39–40
Maguire, Gregory, 72, 116, 117
Makes Me Wanna Holler (McCall), 97
Mansfield, Katherine, 78
Mantle, Mickey, 95
Martin, Valerie, 40
Mary Reilly (Martin), 40
Matteson, John, 97
McCall, Nathan, 97
McCarthy, Cormac, 12–13, 15, 115
McEwan, Ian, 15
McKibben, Bill, 84
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Sedaris), 98, 116
The Meaning of Consuelo (Cofer), 40
Melville, Herman, 92
Michael Chabon Presents the Amazing Adventures of the Escapist (Chabon), 14
Miss New India (Mukherjee), 41
Moby Dick (Melville), 92
Mohr, Nicholasa, 113
Monster (Myers), 37
Montana 1948 (Watson), 42, 115
More Like Not Running Away (Shepherd), 42, 115
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (Chabon), 13
Mukherjee, Bharati, 41
My New American Life (Prose), 43
My Sister’s Keeper (Picoult), 44
Myers, Walter Dean, 37
Name All the Animals (Smith), 98
Needles (Dominick), 99
Never Let Me Go (Ishiguro), 43–44
Neville, Katherine, 23
Nicholas, Jamar, 88
Nickle and Dimed (Ehrenreich), 99, 116
Nineteen Minutes (Picoult), 44
Niven, Jennifer, 91
The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature (ed. Stavans), 100
O’Connor, Flannery, 20, 73, 78
Obama, Barack, 80
October Sky (film), 105
One Hundred Demons (Barry), 100–101, 116
Out of Oz (Maguire), 72
The Outside Boy (Cummins), 17, 45, 115
Over and Under (Tucker), 45–46
Packing for Mars (Roach), 101, 118
Papadimitriou, Christos H., 95–96, 117
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (Bender), 46
Paul Murray, 12
Payne, C. D., 74
Penzler, Otto, 16
The Perfect Storm (Junger), 85, 92, 93, 102, 116
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Chbosky), 46–47, 115, 117
Persepolis / Persepolis 2 (Satrapi), 102, 113, 116, 118
The Photographer (Guibert, Lefèvre, and Lemercier), 103
Picoult, Jodi, 44
Pigeon English (Kelman), 47
The Pillars of the Earth (Follett), 47–48
The Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver), 50
Polansky, Steven, 44
Polly, Matthew, 76
Porter, Katherine Anne, 19
Potential (Schrag), 79
Pride of Baghdad (Vaughan), 51
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Spark), 55
The Radioactive Boy Scout (Silverstein), 103–104
Ragtime (Doctorow), 12
Reading like a Writer (Prose), 78
Ready Player One (Cline), 53
Red Mars (Robinson), 54
The Remains of the Day (Ishiguro), 44
Remnick, David, 80
Rennison, Louise, 18
Reservation Blues (Alexie), 55
The Road (McCarthy), 12
Robinson, Kim Stanley, 54
Rodriguez, Richard, 81
Rosoff, Meg, 70
The Rule of Four (Caldwell and Thomason), 23, 55–56
Rule of the Bone (Banks), 56, 115
Sáenz, Benjamin Alire, 57
St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (Russell)
Salinger, J. D., 56
Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood (Sáenz), 57
Sandman graphic novel series (Gaiman), 61
Sandy Koufax (Leavy), 95
Santiago, Esmeralda, 113
Satrapi, Marjane, 103, 113, 116, 118
Sayers, Dorothy L., 66
Schlosser, Eric, 87
Schrag, Ariel, 79
Schutt, Christine, 12
Scott, Janny
The Secret Family (Bodanis), 105–106, 118
The Secret History (Tartt), 38
The Secret Life of Bees (Kidd), 57–58, 115
Serling, Rod, 15
Shades of Grey (Fforde), 58, 117
Shakespeare, William, 53
The Shallows (Carr), 106
She’s Not There (Boylan), 26, 106–107, 118
Shepherd, Paul, 42
Sherlock Holmes stories (Doyle), 11, 40
Ship of Fools (Porter), 19
Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea (Kinder), 107
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bryson), 107–108
Shortcomings (Tomine), 63
Sinclair, Upton, 87
A Singular Woman (Scott), 80
Skippy Dies (Murray), 12, 58–59
Slam (Hornby), 29
Small, David, 108–109, 116, 118
Smith, Alison, 98
Smith, Marc, 108
Snow Falling on Cedars (Guterson), 59, 71
Snow in August (Hamill), 59–60
Son of a Witch (Maguire), 72
Spanglish (Stavans), 100
Spark, Muriel, 55
Special Topics in Calamity Physics (Pessl), 60, 117
The Spire (Golding), 48
The Spoken Word Revolution (ed. Eleveld and Smith), 86–87, 108
Star Island (Hiaasen), 61
Stavans, Ilan, 100
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 40
Stiff (Roach), 101
Stitches (Small), 108–109, 116, 118
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (Wroblewski), 62, 115, 117
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Stevenson), 40
Sunday You Learn How to Box (Wright), 63, 111
Swamplandia! (Russell), 63–64, 117
The Swan Thieves (Kostova),30
Swimming to Antarctica (Cox), 109
Tan, Amy, 35
Tartt, Donna, 38
Taylor, Robert Lewis, 67
10th Grade (Weisberg), 64
The Things They Carried (O’Brien), 64, 115
The Third Angel (Hoffman), 65
This Boy’s Life (Wolff), 44, 45, 110–111, 116
Thomas, Donald, 40
The Thoreau You Don’t Know (Sullivan), 104
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hosseini), 36
The Time Traveler’s Wife (Niffenegger), 65–66
The Tin Drum (Grass)
The Tipping Point (Gladwell), 111
To Say Nothing of the Dog (Willis), 66, 116
Town Boy (Lat), 94
The Travels of Jamie McPheeters (Taylor), 67
Three Men in a Boat (Jerome), 66
Trudeau, Gary, 84
The True Account (Mosher), 66–67
True Notebooks (Salzman), 109–110
2030 (Brooks), 67
Twilight Zone (television series), 15
Unseen Academicals (Pratchett), 67–68
Upstate (Buckhanon), 68
Urrea, Luis Alberto, 33
The Vagina Monologues (play; Ensler)
The Vanishing of Katharina Linden (Grant), 68–69
Vaughan, Brian K., 51
Vonnegut, Kurt, 25
Waiting for Snow in Havana (Eire), 112
A Walk in the Woods (Bryson), 108
Walker, Brian, 84
War (Junger), 102
Water for Elephants (Gruen), 69, 73
Watt, Alan, 22
Weisberg, Joseph, 64
Welty, Eudora, 19
What Girls Learn (Cook), 69–70
What I Was (Rosoff), 70
When I Was Puerto Rican (Santiago), 113
When the Emperor Was Divine (Otsuka), 59, 70–71
When We Get There (Seliy), 71, 116
When We Were Romans (Kneale), 71–72
Wicked (Maguire), 72, 115, 117
Williams, J. H. III (illus.), 15–16
Wilson, Edward O., 14
Winter’s Bone (Woodrell), 72–73
The Wizard of Oz (Baum), 72
Wolff, Geoffrey, 110
Wolff, Tobias, 29, 44–45, 110–111, 116
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (Cisneros), 19
Wonder Boys (Chabon), 13
Wonder When You’ll Miss Me (Davis), 73, 117
World without End (Follett), 47–48
Wroblewski, David, 62, 115, 117
The Year of Ice (Malloy), 73–74
You Are Not a Gadget (Lanier), 112
Youth in Revolt (Payne), 74