The fountainhead
Ayn Rand
Sole Survivor
Dean Koontz
Rage
Stephen King
The Grand Design
Stephen Hawking;Leonard Mlodinow
Walden, or, Life in the woods: and, "On the duty of civil disobedience"
Henry David Thoreau
The glass castle: a memoir
Jeannette Walls
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Malcolm Gladwell
Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist
Michael J. Fox