- Eat Cake: A Novel by Jeanne Ray
Eat Cake: A Novel by Jeanne Ray
- Out Stealing Horses: A Novel by Per Petterson
Out Stealing Horses: A Novel by Per Petterson
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Book of the Dead by Patricia Cornwell
Book of the Dead by Patricia Cornwell
- Run by Ann Patchett
Run by Ann Patchett
- The Serpent's Tale by Ariana Franklin
The Serpent's Tale by Ariana Franklin
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
- The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
- 1984 by George Orwell
1984 by George Orwell. A prescient novel that describes a dystopian society eerily similar to today's world. See Carla Hedstrom's blog Prescient Author.
- Coastliners by Joanne Harris
Coastliners by Joanne Harris. See Nancy Jelinek's review of Coastliners.

