Nadezhda Mandelstam’s Hope Against Hope

George Eliot’s Middlemarch

Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises

The First American: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago

Shakespeare’s Hamlet

Søren Kierkegaard’s Fear & Trembling

Stefan Zweig’s The World of Yesterday

John Milton’s Paradise Lost

Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek & Henry David Thoreau’s Walden