To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Morris
The Last Lion: Alone, William Manchester
The Last Lion: Visions of Glory, William Manchester
American Caesar, William Manchester
The Child Buyer, John Hersey
Hiroshima, John Hersey
The Oxbow Incident, Walter Van Tilburg Clark
The Last Hurrah, Edwin O'Conner
Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler
Theodore Rex, Edmund Morris
Jefferson the President, Dumas Malone
The Chosen, Chaim Potok
Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner
Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
Hawaii, James Michener
Day of the Locust, Nathanael West
Gideon's Trumpet, Anthony Lewis
The Serpent's Coil, Farley Mowat
A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter Miller
The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus
Kennedy, Theodore Sorenson
Time and Again, Jack Finney
Stones for Ibarra, Harriet Doerr
Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom
I, Robot,  Isaac Aismov
Atonement, Ian McEwan
Practically anything by Ray Bradbury, but especially:
    The Foghorn (short story)
    The Martian Chronicles
    Something Wicked This Way Comes
    The October Country
Speaker for the Dead, Orson Scott Card
The Kiss (short story), Chekhov
My Uncle Oswald, Roald Dahl
The Boys of Summer, Roger Kahn
Practically anything by Timothy Ferris, esp. Seeing In the Dark
Middlesex, Eugenides
Advise & Consent, Allen Drury
Practically anything by Mark Twain, but esp. (short story)
    The $30,000 Bequest
Practically anything by William Faulkner, but esp.
    Turn About (short story)
    Sanctuary
    Absalom, Absalom
My Family and Other Animals, Gerald Durrell
Shogun, James Michener
Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
Catch 22, Joseph Heller
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
Steppenwolf, Hermann Hesse
Crime and Punishment,  Fyodor Dostoevsky
Job, Old Testament
Answer to Job, Carl Jung
The Making of a President 1960, Theodore White
The World at the End of Time, Frederick Pohl
Abbey's Road, Edward Abbey
Men at War, edited by Ernest Hemingway
The Fixer, Bernard Malamud
The Razor's Edge, Somerset Maugham
Truman, David McCullough
Lolita, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Never Cry Wolf, Farley Mowat
Appointment in Samarra, John O'Hara
Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
The Reader, Bernhard Schlink
A Rumor of War, Philip Caputo
Kate Vaiden, Reynolds Price
The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Richard Rhodes
The Ginger Man, J.P. Donleavy
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez