Things fall apart
Chinua Achebe
High Five
Janet Evanovich
Beach Road
James Patterson
Blood and Gold
Anne Rice
The glass castle: a memoir
Jeannette Walls
Walden, or, Life in the woods: and, "On the duty of civil disobedience"
Henry David Thoreau
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Malcolm Gladwell
Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist
Michael J. Fox