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1. America, The Book by Jon Stewart

2. Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

3. In Defense of Food, by Michael Pollan

4. Jesus' Son, by Denis Johnson

5. The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown

6. Kaaterskill Falls, by Allegra Goodman

7. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser

8. A Thousand Acres, by Jane Smiley

9. Presumed Innocent, by Scott Turow

10. Random Family, by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

11. Comfort Me With Apples, by Ruth Reichl

12. Close Range, by Annie Proulx

13. High Fidelity, by Nick Hornby

14. The Ruins, by Scott Smith

15. And the Band Played On, by Randy Shilts

16. Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson

17. Holes, by Louis Sachar

18. The Stone Diaries, by Carol Shields

19. Atonement, by Ian McEwan

20. The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano

21. Bright Lights, Big City, by Jay McInerney

22. The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell

23. Eat Pray Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert

24. Without a Doubt, by Marcia Clark

25. A Sight for Sore Eyes, by Ruth Rendell

26. No Impact Man, by Colin Beavan

27. Food Rules, by Michael Pollan

28. A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving

29. Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen

30. Black Water, by Joyce Carol Oates

31. Life on a Refrigerator Door, by Alice Kuipers

32. Rush Home Road, by Lori Lansens

33. The Piano Man's Daughter, by Timothy Findley

34. The Romantic, by Barbara Gowdy

35. On Writing, by Stephen King

36. Moody Food, by Ray Robertson

37. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

38. Great Leaps Forward, by Cyrus Veeser

39. The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway

40. Hitler, by Ian Kershaw

41. Heroes and Saints & Other Plays, by Cherrie Moraga

42. Theory into Practice, by Ann B. Dobie

43. The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger

44. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, by Mordecai Richler

The Worst Thing She Ever Did, by Alice Kuipers

The Road, by Cormac McCarthy

Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1818 edition)