## Nonfiction
- Jared Diamond
- ***Guns Germs and Steel***
- Ashlee Vance
- Elon Musk
- Julia Galef
- ***The Scout Mindset***
- William Zinsser
- On Writing Well
## Realistic Fiction
- Ernest Hemingway
- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- John Steinbeck
- Of Mice and Men
- ***The Grapes of Wrath***
- Harper Lee
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- S. E. Hinton
- The Outsiders
- Sylvia Plath
- The Bell Jar
## Science Fiction
- Orson Scott Card
- Ender's Game series:
- ***Ender’s Game***
- Speaker for the dead
- Xenocide
- Children of the Mind
- Ender's Shadow series:
- Ender’s Shadow
- Shadow of the Hegemon
- Shadow Puppets
- Shadow of the Giant
- Frank Herbert
- Dune
- George Orwell
- 1984
- Animal Farm
- Timothy Zahn
- Thrawn Trilogy (Star Wars)
- ***Heir to the Empire***
- Dark Force Rising
- The Last Command
- Star Wars: Thrawn
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Slaughterhouse-Five
- Jay Kristoff, Amie Kaufman
- The Illuminae Files
- Illuminae
- Gemina
- Obsidio
- Douglas Adams
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Andy Weir
- ***Project Hail Mary***
- The Martian
## Fantasy
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- Lord of the Rings trilogy
- ***The Fellowship of the Ring***
- ***The Two Towers***
- ***The Return of the King***
- The Hobbit
- George R. R. Martin
- A Song of Ice and Fire
- ***A Game of Thrones***
- ***A Clash of Kings***
- ***A Storm of Swords***
- ***A Feast of Crows***
- ***A Dance with Dragons***