literature

• The Namesake -Jhumpa Lahiri
• Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
• The Little Mermaid - Hans Christian Andersen
• The Wisdom Of Yoga - Stephen Cope
• Adulting:  How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps - Kelly Williams
• Sold 
• White Tiger
• Kapuchinsqui
• The Shadow of the Wind
• Veronika Decides to Die
• The Book of Negro
• The Catcher and The Rye
• The Old Man and The Sea
• A Fine Balance
• The Iron Lady
• The Hitch-hikers Guide To The Galaxy
• Memoirs Of A Geisha
• Infinite Test
• Snow Flower and The Secret Fan 
• The Fault in Our Stars
• Cider House Rules
• Widow For A Year
• The Red Tent
• The Dress Maker of Khair Khana - Gayle Lemmon 
• Lolita
• If the Buddha Dated
• If The Buddha Married
• The Hatchet
• The Outsiders
• Walk Two Moons
• Sperm Wars
• Minpins - Roald Dahl
• Lord of the Flies - William Golding
• Tracks - Robyn Davidson
• The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran
• How To Travel The World For Free - Michael Wigg
• The Four Agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz
• The Celestine Prophecy - James Redfield
• Living The Wisdom of the Tao - Dr. Wayne  Dyer
• The Power of Now - Eckert Tolle
• Spirit Junkie - Gabrielle Bernstein
• One Day My Soul Just Opened Up - Iyanla Vazant
• Autobiography of a Yogi - Paramahansa Yogananda
• A Grief Observed - C.S. Lewis
• Love The One You're With -Emily Griffin
• Objects of My Affection - Jill Smolinski, Xe Sands
• The Price of Life - Nigel Brennan 
• Number the Stars - Lois Lowry 
• The Girl Who Fell From the Sky - Heidi Duro
• Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
• Little Women - Louisa Alcott
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
• Herland - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone - Eric Klinenberg
• The Ethical Slut - Dottie Easton and Janet Hardy
• Autobiography of Red - Anne Carson
• Buddha Walks Into A Bar
• And The Band Played On
• My Horizontal Life - Chelsea Handler

'65 Books You Need To Read In Your 20's'

"The books that will move you, inspire you, make you cry, make you think, make you laugh."

• The Emperor's Children - Claire Messud
• What She Saw... - Luncinda Rosenfeld
• The Deptford Trilogy - Robertson Davies
• The Secret History - Donna Tartt
• Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin
• A Visit from the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
• The Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Juno diaz
• Lucy - Jamaica Kincaid
• The Moviegoer - Walker Percy
• White Teeth - Zadie Smith
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon
• Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
• Bright Lights, Big City - Jay McInerney
• The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
• Call Me by Your Name - Andre Aciman
• The Rachel Papers - Martin Amis
• Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
• The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemmingway
• Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
• A Home at the End of the World - Michael Cunningham
• The Sandman Series - Neil Gaiman
• The Group - Mary McCarthy
• Quicksand and Passing - Nella Larsen
• Pastoralia - George Saunders
• Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
• A Heartbreaking Wok of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers
• The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
• Main Street - Sinclair Lewis
• His Dark Materials trilogy - Philip Pullman
• Generation X - Douglas Coupland
• The Fortress of Solitude - Jonathan Lethem
• Housekeeping  - Marilynne Robinson
• I Love Dick - Chris Kraus
• On the Road - Jack Kerouac
• Even Cowgirls Get the Blues - Tom Robbins
• Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami
• Bossypants - Tina Fey
• Kitchen Confidential - Anthony Bourdain
• How to Lose Friends and Alienate People - Toby Young
• The Dirt - Motley Crue and Neil Strauss
• Lunar Park - Bret Easton Ellis
• Just Kids - Patti Smith
• The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
• Another Bullshit Night in Suck City - Nick Flynn
• Oh the Glory of it All - Sean Wilsey
• I Don't Care About Your Band - Julie Klausner
• Wild - Cheryl Strayed
• Lit - Mary Karr
• I'm with the Band - Pamela Des Barres
• Dear Diary - Lesley Arfin
• The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton
• Actual Air - David Berman
• The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch
• Alien vs. Predator - Michael Robbins
• The Collected Poems of Audre Lord
• Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
• How to Be a Woman - Caitlin Moran
• My Misspent Youth - Meghan Daum
• Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Joan Didion
• Up in the Old Hotel - Joseph Mitchell
• How to Cook Everything - Mark Bittman
• How's Your Drink? - Eric Felten
• The Elements Of Style - Strunk and White
• Letters to a Young Contrarian - Christopher Hitchens
• Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain - Betty Edwards
• He's Just Not That Into You - Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo