Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl (by Anne Frank)
 Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (by Eric Schlosser)
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (by Mitch Albom)
 Me Talk Pretty One Day (by David Sedaris)
The Last Lecture (by Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow)
 Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog (by John Grogan)
Memoirs of a Geisha (by Arthur Golden)
 Running with Scissors: A Memoir (by Augusten Burroughs)
Girl with a Pearl Earring (by Tracy Chevalier)
 The Art of War (by Sun Tzu)
Into the Wild (by Jon Krakauer)
 Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything across Italy, India and Indonesia (by Elizabeth Gilbert)
Night (by Elie Wiesel)
 Angela's Ashes: A Memoir (by Frank McCourt)
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (by Jon Krakauer)
 Walden, or Life in the Woods (by Henry David Thoreau)
Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking (by Malcolm Gladwell)
 The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (by Thomas L. Friedman)
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America (by Barbara Ehrenreich)
 In Cold Blood (by Truman Capote)