- Douglas Adams | The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- Carol Adams | The Sexual Politics of Meat
- Naomi Alderman | The Power
- Clive Barker | Weave World
- James Barron | Author Page on The New York Times
- Samuel Beckett | Waiting for Godot
- Marcie Bianco | Breaking Free
- Charles Bukowski | Factotum
- Anthony Burgess | A Clockwork Orange
- William S. Burroughs | Naked Lunch
- Robert Olen Butler | Mr. Spaceman
- Raymond Carver | What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
- Ferdinand Celine | Journey to the End of the Night
- Michael Chabon | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
- Ernest Cline | Ready Player One
- ee cummings | The Enormous Room
- Fyodor Dostoevsky | Crime and Punishment
- Dave Eggers | A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius
- Ralph Ellison | Invisible Man
- F. Scott Fitzgerald | The Great Gatsby
- Neil Gaiman | American Gods
- Mark Haddon | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
- Joseph Heller | Catch-22
- Ernest Hemingway | A Moveable Feast
- Homer | The Odyssey
- James Joyce | Ulysses
- Stephanie Kelton | The Deficit Myth
- Jack Kerouac | On the Road
- Stephen King | On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft
- Natsuo Kirino | Grotesque
- Steve Krug | Don’t Make Me Think
- Milan Kundera | Immortality
- Norma J. Livo and Sandra A. Rietz | Storytelling: Process and Practice
- David Mamet | A Letter from David Mamet to the Writers of The Unit
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez | One Hundred Years of Solitude
- George R.R. Martin | Game of Thrones
- Cormac McCarthy | Blood Meridian
- Scott McCloud | Understanding Comics
- Robert McKee | Story
- Henry Miller | The Colossus of Maroussi
- Bharati Mukherjee | The Middleman and Other Stories
- Haruki Murakami | 1Q84
- Don Norman | The Design of Everyday Things
- Flannery O’Connor | A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
- Ada Palmer | Terra Ignota series
- Edgar Allen Poe | The Cask of Amontillado
- Richard Powers | The Overstory
- Marcel Proust | Remembrance of Things Past
- Maurice Sendak | Where the Wild Things Are
- Kim Stanley Robinson | The Years of Rice and Salt
- J.D. Salinger | Franny and Zooey
- R. A. Salvatore | The Icewind Dale Trilogy
- Jean-Paul Sartre | Being and Nothingness
- Shakespeare | Hamlet
- Hunter S. Thompson | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- John Kennedy Toole | A Confederacy of Dunces
- Chögyam Trungpa | Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
- Kurt Vonnegut | Breakfast of Champions and 8 Basics of Creative Writing (from Bagombo Snuff Box)
- Andy Warhol | The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)
- Robert Charles Wilson | Spin
- Tom Wolfe | I Am Charlotte Simmons