A Revolution in Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America - James McWilliams

The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane

The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield

Moveable Feasts: From Ancient Rome to the 21st Century, the Incredible Journeys of the Food We Eat - Sarah Murray

Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser

The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities -- From Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museums - Peter Watson and Cecelia Todeschini

Empire Falls - Richard Russo

The Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan

Emma - Jane Austen

Onward!: 25 Years of Advice, Exhortation, and Inspiration from America's Best Commencement Speeches - Peter Smith

The Darwin Conspiracy - John Darnton

A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson

Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

I Am Charlotte Simmons - Tom Wolfe

Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen

The Road - Cormac McCarthy

The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy

The Art of Mending - Elizabeth Berg

No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories - Miranda July

Old Creole Days - George W. Cable