- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Franny & Zooey by J.D. Salinger
- Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
- The Feast of All Saints by Anne Rice
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- Clock Without Hands by Carson McCullers
- Old School by Tobias Wolff
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
- Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
- If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
- Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- Raise High the Roofbeams, Carpenters by J.D. Salinger
- The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
- Ash Wednesday by Ethan Hawke
- The Funnies by J. Robert Lennon
- Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
- The Beginning and the End by Naguib Mahfouz
- The Jade Peony by Wayson Choy
- The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler
- The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
- A Separate Peace by John Knowles
- Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- The Favourite Game by Leonard Cohen
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
- The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
- A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
Forty Books I Would Rather Not Live Without.
KEVIN CRAIG 
The Great Gatsby is a book I love but I find difficult to read again. This book along with A Tale of Two Cities. Of all the books I’ve read, Gatsby and Sydney Carton are two characters that are haunting.