| Title | Author | Recommended by | Department |
| 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl | Daniel Pinchbeck | Max Goldberg | Theatre 2007 |
| 2666 | Roberto Bolano | Will Myers | WLP 2009 |
| 14,000 Things to be Happy About | Barbara Ann Kipfer | Alysia Eggerman | Theatre Ed. 2011 |
| About a Boy | Nick Hornby | Kerry Gleason | Writing for Film/Television 2009 |
| The Abstinence Teacher | Tom Perrotta | Libby Erlbaum-Rumelt | WLP 2010 |
| Absurdistan | Gary Shteyngart | Kristina Ten | WLP 2011 |
| The Aleph and Other Stories | Jorge Luis Borges | Rachel Stevenson | WLP 2011 |
| American Pastoral | Philip Roth | Gina Davison | Global Marketing 2009 |
| An American Trilogy: Death, Slavery, & Dominion on the Banks of the Cape Fear River | Steven M. Wise | Henry Santoro | VMA |
| American Wife | Curtis Sittenfeld | Lindsay Macher-Katz | MA IMC 2010 |
| An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England | Brock Clarke | Marc Weinberg | VMA |
| An Invisible Sign of My Own | Aimee Bender | Scott Wheeler | Performing Arts |
| Angela's Ashes | Frank McCourt | Gina Tyler-Richards | Studio Television 2012 |
| Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: a Year of Food Life | Barbara Kingsolver | Rachel Alexander | Media Studies 2010 |
| Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior | Temple Grandin & Catherine Johnson | Jacquleine Romeo | Institute |
| Asian American Dreams | Helen Zia | Paul Niwa | Journalism |
| Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand | Mary Ann Cicala | Public Relations |
| The Average American Male | Chad Kultgen | Stacey Subject | GMCA 2009 |
| Beach Road | James Patterson | Kathleen Duggan | Purchasing & Risk Management |
| The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears | Dinaw Mengestu | Tom Hanold | Corprate and Foundation Relations |
| Becoming Strangers | Louise Dean | Rhea Becker | Public Affairs |
| Being There | Jerzy Kosinski | Michael Truppi | MA Theatre Ed 2009 |
| Blankets | Craig Thompson | Will Sandercock | Film Production 2012 |
| Blankets | Craig Thompson | Kara Mae Brown | MFA Creative Writing 2009 |
| Blink | Malcolm Gladwell | Brad Bush | Television Production 2011 |
| Blink | Malcolm Gladwell | Carrie Sheffield | Communications & Marketing |
| Blink | Malcolm Gladwell | Julia Reed | Film 2009 |
| Blood Dazzler | Patricia Smith | Maxwell R. Kessler | Writing for Film/Television 2009 |
| The Blue Bistro | Elin Hilderbrand | Anna Fleiss | Studio Television Production 2011 |
| The Book of Laughter and Forgetting | Milan Kundera | Katherine Burwood | WLP 2009 |
| The Book Thief | Markus Zusak | Jean Stawarz | VMA |
| The Book Thief | Markus Zusak | Ron Ludman | Dean of Students |
| The Brief History of the Dead | Kevin Brockmeier | E. Jeanne Harnois | MA WLP 2009 |
| The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | Junot Diaz | Chelsie Kerrington | MA, WLP 2009 |
| The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | Junot Diaz | Elena O'Malley | Iwasaki Library |
| The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | Junot Diaz | Justin Bourguignon | WLP 2012 |
| Brooklyn: a Novel | Colm Toibin | Deirdre Conlon | Institute |
| Burning Your Boats: the Collected Short Stories | Angela Carter | Dara Continenza | WLP 2010 |
| The Cardboard Universe: a Guide to the World of Phoebus K. Dank | Christopher Miller | Brad Verter | Journalism |
| The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger | Jacquelynn Hartsoe | WLP 2012 |
| The Chosen | Chaim Potok | Channah Barkhordari | WLP 2012 |
| Chroma | Derek Jarman | Peg Aloi | VMA |
| Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio | Amara Lakhous | Gian Lombardo | WLP |
| Color of the Sea | John Hamamura | Robyn Kievit | Center for Health & Wellness |
| Common Ground: a Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families | J. Anthony Lukas | Laureano Ibanez | Facilities Management |
| A Confederacy of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole | Paige Trubatch | WLP 2012 |
| Confessions of an Economic Hitman | John Perkins | Gabriela Duran-Munoz | Marketing 2009 |
| Consilience | Edward O. Wilson | Stuart Kurtz | Professional Studies 2010 |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas | Kerry Brookes | Film 2012 |
| The Curious Tale of Benjamin Button & Other Tales of the Jazz Age | F. Scott Fitzgerald | Katie Dinerman | Marketing Communication 2011 |
| The Damned Utd | David Peace | Ian Thistle | Iwasaki Library |
| Dandelion Wine | Ray Bradbury | Tess Fallon | Marketing Communication |
| The Dante Club | Matthew Pearl | Kate Andrews | Print/Multimedia Journalism 2009 |
| Das Kapital | Karl Marx | Raht Ketusingha | Performing Arts |
| The Day of the Jackal | Frederick Forsyth | Teodora Kaltcheva | Marketing Communication 2011 |
| Dear American Airlines | Jonathan Miles | Kristen Fritz | Marketing Communication 2010 |
| Delrium and Destiny: a Spaniard in Her Twenties | Maria Zambrano | Mirta Tocci | Institute |
| Deschooling Society | Ivan Illich | Benjamin Ellis Potrykus | WLP 2007 |
| A Dirty Job | Christopher Moore | Tim MacArthur | TRF |
| Disco for the Departed | Colin Cotterill | Lisa Diercks | WLP |
| Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States | Pete Jordan | Dianna Glinski | IDIP 2009 |
| The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Jean-Dominique Bauby | Chloe Medghalchi | Studio Television Production 2010 |
| Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | Philip K. Dick | Zander Fieschko | Film Production/Sociology 2010 |
| The Double Bind | Chris Bohjalian | Heidi Moser | CSD 2010 |
| Dreamland | Kevin Baker | Sydelle Gottfried | Writing for Film/Television 2011 |
| Dreams from My Father | Barack Obama | Tulasi Srinivas | Comm Studies |
| Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim | David Sedaris | Laura Schwebel | Marketing Communications 2008 |
| East of Eden | John Steinbeck | Lowell Meyer | Film Production 2011 |
| Eat, Pray, Love | Elizabeth Gilbert | Caitlin Linney | Acting 2011 |
| Eat, Pray, Love | Elizabeth Gilbert | Karen Lauffer | Communications Studies |
| Eight-Ball Chicks | Gini Sikes | Lynette Cornell | Print & Multimedia Journalism 2009 |
| El Penultimo Sueno | Angela Becerra | Ilana Spath | Broadcast Journalism 2011 |
| The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test | Tom Wolfe | Olivia Brownlee | Graduate Theatre Ed. |
| The Elegance of the Hedgehog | Muriel Barbery | Carolyn Jasinski | Institutional Advancement |
| Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close | Jonathan Safran Foer | Arielle Evans | Film Production 2012 |
| Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close | Jonathan Safran Foer | Maria Toce | TV/Video 2009 |
| The Eyre Affair | Jasper Fforde | Jason Allen-Forest | Performing Arts |
| Falling Through the Earth | Daniell Trussoni | Douglas Whynott | WLP |
| The Final Martyrs | Shusaku Endo | William Orem | WLP |
| Forever | Pete Hamill | Georgette Petraglia | Marketing Communication |
| Franny and Zooey | J.D. Salinger | Emily Whitman | WLP 2011 |
| Gardens of Water | Alan Drew | Cathy Waters | Marketing Communication |
| The Geography of Bliss | Eric Weiner | Cherylynn Tsushima | Print/Multimedia Journalism 2011 |
| The Geography of Bliss | Eric Weiner | Stella Plato | Marketing Communication 2011 |
| Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: on the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar | Paul Theroux | Mark Leccese | Journalism |
| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Steig Larsson | David Luterman | CSD Emeritus |
| Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon, and the Journey of a Generation | Sheila Weller | Laurie Edelman | Academic Advising |
| The Glass Castle | Jeannette Walls | Jessica Horvath | CSD 2009 |
| God in Your Body: Kabbalah, Mindfulness and Embodied Spiritual Practice | Jay Michaelson | Arinne Braveman | Center for Spiritual Life |
| God Jr. | Dennis Cooper | Alyssa Nolan | WLP 2009 |
| Good Omens | Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman | Helen Han | VMA 2010 |
| The Graveyard Book | Neil Gaiman | J'Aimie Graham | Theater Studies 2009 |
| The Graveyard Book | Neil Gaiman | Victoria Large | Undergraduate Admission |
| Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy | Leo Tolstoy | C.E. Courtney | VMA |
| Half of a Yellow Sun | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Emily Wood | Masters, WLP 2009 |
| Half of a Yellow Sun | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Nigel Gibson | Honors Program Director |
| The Handmaid's Tale | Margaret Atwood | Elizabeth Baeten | Communication Studies |
| The Happiness Myth | Jennifer Michael Hecht | Katie Egan | Communication Studies |
| The Historian | Elizabeth Kostova | Vanessa Willoughby | WLP 2009 |
| The History of Love | Nicole Krauss | Tracy Gallagher | Writing for Film/TV 2010 |
| Hood, Scarlet and Tuck (The King Raven Series) | Stephen R. Lawhead | Tierra Bonser | Acting 2012 |
| Hot, Flat and Crowded | Thomas L. Friedman | Jonathan Satriale | Journalism & Marketing |
| The Hours | Michael Cunningham | Alayne Bushey | Accounts Management |
| Housekeeping | Marilynne Robinson | Justine Tal Goldberg | WLP 2009 |
| How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone | Sasa Stanisic | Tom Haines | Journalism |
| How to Win Friends and Influence People | Dale Carnegie | Rachael Levy | CSD |
| I Capture the Castle | Dodie Smith | Anna Umbreit | Career Services |
| I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell | Max Tucker | Edward Sturm | Television Production 2011 |
| I Love You,Beth Cooper | Larry Doyle | Kenneth Gagne | MA WLP 2011 |
| I Was Told There'd Be Cake | Sloane Crosley | Abbie Rickard | WLP 2010 |
| The Incredibly Famous Willy Rivers | Stephen Metcalfe | Lacey Gutekunst | Musical Theatre 2011 |
| Island of the Sequined Love Nun | Christopher Moore | Cynthia Miller | Institute |
| Jitterbug Perfume | Tom Robbins | Benjamin Wood | WLP 2010 |
| Kafka on the Shore | Haruki Murakami | Hannah Lauterback | Undergraduate Admission |
| Kafka on the Shore | Haruki Murakami | Nicole Brown | Iwasaki Library |
| Keeping Faith | Jodi Picoult | Rheanna Bellomo | Print Journalism 2012 |
| Killing Yourself to Live | Chuck Klosterman | David Weaver | Film 2012 |
| A Kiss from Maddalena | Christopher Castellani | Jenn Brandel | Counseling Center |
| Kitchen Confidential | Anthony Bourdain | Leslie Humm Cormier | VMA |
| The Know-It-All | A.J. Jacobs | McKenzie Lawton | Marketing Communications 2012 |
| Lamb: the Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal | Christopher Moore | Anna Frearson | WLP 2010 |
| Little Children | Tom Perrotta | Brad Allen Wilde | Film 2009 |
| The Little Friend | Donna Tartt | Mark Fallon | MFA WLP 2011 |
| Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | Alyssa Ludwig | Media Studies 2012 |
| Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's | John Elder Robison | Amy Meyers | Institutional Advancement |
| Lunch Poems | Frank O'Hara | Amanda O'Connor | WLP 2010 |
| Magical Realist Fiction: An Anthology | David Young & Keith Hollman (eds.) | Amanda DaSilva | WLP 2010 |
| Me Talk Pretty One Day | David Sedaris | Molly Fraust | MA IMC 2010 |
| A Most Wanted Man | John LeCarre | Jerry Lanson | Journalism |
| Mother Night | Kurt Vonnegut | Josephine Gross | MS CSD |
| Motherless Brooklyn | Jonathan Lethem | Mark Gottleib | WLP 2009 |
| Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH | Robert C. O'Brien | Katie M'Sadoques | Theatre Education 2012 |
| Music Quickens Time | Daniel Barenboim | John Skoyles | WLP |
| My Custom Van | Michael Ian Black | Tom Neenan | Iwasaki Library |
| My Name is Red | Orhan Pamuk | Joseph Ketner | VMA |
| My Sister's Keeper | Jodi Picoult | Nora Jordan | Marketing Communications 2012 |
| The Name of the Wind | Patrick Rothfuss | Seth Sprague | VMA 2012 |
| The Namesake | Jhumpa Lahiri | Meena Ganesan | Journalism 2012 |
| The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps and Bobes | Anthony Bourdain | Christina Harrington | Cutler Majestic Theatre |
| Needful Things | Stephen King | Jennifer Bertha | Theatre Design & Technology 2011 |
| The Neverending Story | Michael Ende | Kelsey Mariani | Digital Post Production 2011 |
| Netherland | Joseph O'Neill | Paul Twist | Iwasaki Library |
| Neverwhere | Neil Gaiman | Emil Lamprecht | Marketing Communication 2009 |
| Not the Religious Type | Dave Schmelzer | Gary Ratliff | Professional Studies |
| Now Is the Hour | Tom Spanbauer | Marissa Giambelluca | Theatre Studies 2011 |
| On Beauty | Zadie Smith | Rick Reiken | WLP |
| Outliers | Malcolm Gladwell | Sherry Lin | CSD 2010 |
| A Painted House | John Grisham | Annie Denenberg | Marketing 2011 |
| Paladin of Souls | Louis McMaster Bujold | Ibba Armancas | Film 2012 |
| Perfume | Patrick Susskind | Carrie Rudzinski | Film 2009 |
| The Philosoophy of Andy Warhol (from A to B and Back Again) | Andy Warhol | Cami Bravo | Marketing 2012 |
| A Photographer's Life 1990-2005 | Annie Leibovitz | Jill Lagana | Office of the Dean of Students |
| The Pirates! In an Adventure with Communists | Gideon Defoe | Zoe Bercovici | MA, WLP 2010 |
| The Poisonwood Bible | Barbara Kingsolver | Sara Jacques | Academic Advising |
| The Power of Now | Eckhart Tolle | Andrew Nigrosh | Film Production 2011 |
| The Profits of Religion | Upton Sinclair | Joshua Turner Jackson | Iwasaki Library |
| The Purpose Driven Life | Rick Warren | Tom Cooper | VMA |
| The Raw Shark Texts | Steven Hall | Scott Clayton | Writing for Film/Television 2011 |
| The Red Pony | John Steinbeck | Frank Agrama | Film 2009 |
| Requiem, Mass. | John Dufresne | Steve Grossman | WLP |
| Resistance, Rebellion and Death | Albert Camus | Steven Swyryt | Political Communications 2012 |
| Rhapsody: Child of Blood | Elizabeth Haydon | Keisha Shippy | Marketing Communiation 2010 |
| The Road | Cormac McCarthy | Henry Dane | VMA |
| The Road | Cormac McCarthy | Holly Griffith | WLP 2012 |
| The Road | Cormac McCarthy | Meaghan Alfier | WLP 2009 |
| A Sandhills Ballad | Ladette Randolph | DeWitt Henry | WLP |
| Sarajevo, Marlboro | Miljenko Jergovic | Meaghan Corson | Broadcast Journalism 2010 |
| Scott Pilgrim (Vols. 1-5) | Brian Lee O'Malley | Jon Gabso | Radio 2010 |
| Sea of Poppies | Amitav Ghosh | Priyanka Sarkar | Global Marketing 2008 |
| The Secret Life of Bees | Sue Monk Kidd | Tia Marie Kemp | IMC Grad Student 2008 |
| Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen | Emma Krause | Communication Studies 2012 |
| The Shadow of the Wind | Carlos Ruiz Zafon | Anna Reischl | IMC 2009 |
| Shah of Shahs | Ryszard Kapuscinski | Jeffrey Seglin | WLP |
| Sharp Teeth | Toby Barlow | Jessica D'Arbonne | WLP 2009 |
| She's Come Undone | Wally Lamb | Rachel Moritz | CSD 2009 |
| She's Not There | Jennifer Finney Boylan | Matthew Small | Career Services |
| The Shining | Stephen King | Jenna Di Quarto | Sound Design/Audio Post Production |
| Silence | Shusaku Endo | Eiki Satake | CSD |
| The Sirens of Titan | Kurt Vonnegut | Joseph Ruscio | BFA Acting 2009 |
| Skinny Dip | Carl Hiassen | Colleen Kelly | Film Production 2012 |
| Skinny Legs and All | Tom Robbins | Joe Moran | CSD |
| Snow Crash | Neal Stephenson | Justina White | Graduate Admission |
| Snow Falling in Spring | Moying Li | Flora Gonzalez | WLP |
| Snow Flower and the Secret Fan | Lisa See | Satenik Karapetyan | Broadcast Journalism 2012 |
| Snuff | Chuck Palahniuk | Emily Holden | Print and Multimedia Journalism 2010 |
| Something Borrowed (and by the same author) Something Blue | Emily Griffin | Rachel Miller | Lighting Design |
| Still Life with Woodpecker | Tom Robbins | Chris Rand | WLP 2010 |
| The Story of Edgar Sawtelle | David Wroblewski | Cheryl Crounse | Institutional Advancement |
| The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mister Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson | Lance Eaton | Institute |
| Suite Francaise | Irene Nemirovsky | Michelle Ziomek | Property Management |
| A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again | David Foster Wallace | Jason Blanchard | Documentary Production 2009 |
| Taking Woodstock | Eliot Tiber, Tom Monte | Matthew Finn | Academic Affairs |
| Teaching a Stone to Talk | Annie Dillard | Sarah Hickler | Performing Arts |
| The Thing about Life is that One Day You'll Be Dead | David Shields | Jeannie Harrell | WLP 2011 |
| This Boy's Life | Tobias Wolff | Hannah Elder | TV/Video 2009 |
| Three Cups of Tea | Greg Mortenson | Lauren Shaw | VMA |
| Three Cups of Tea | Greg Mortenson | Nick Davidson | MA WLP 2009 |
| Three Junes | Julia Glass | Mary Wegmann | Housing & Residence Life |
| Threshold of Fire | Hella Haasse | Alissa Blechner | Orchestrating Political Theatre 2010 |
| Thunderstruck | Eric Larson | Jordan Baese | MA Media Arts 2009 |
| The Time Traveler's Wife | Audrey Niffenegger | Amanda Furrer | WLP 2010 |
| The Time Traveler's Wife | Audrey Niffenegger | Krista Buccellato | Musical Theatre 2010 |
| The Time Traveler's Wife | Audrey Niffenegger | Ron DeMarco | Performing Arts |
| A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Betty Smith | Melanie Cordova | WLP 2010 |
| Trout Fishing in America | Richard Brautigan | Shane Moore | Film/Cinematography |
| Unaccustomed Earth | Jhumpa Lahiri | Stefanie Le | Print Journalism/WLP |
| The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Milan Kundera | Alexandra Grange | Film Production 2012 |
| The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Milan Kundera | Bradford Krieger | Sound Design/Audio Post Production |
| The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Milan Kundera | Jordan Teicher | Print/Multimedia Journalism 2012 |
| The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Milan Kundera | Sarah Cadorette | WLP 2010 |
| Violin Dreams | Arnold Steinhardt | Douglas Smith | Institutional Advancement |
| Watchmen | Alan Moore | Rae Bourque | WLP 2012 |
| Water for Elephants | Sara Gruen | Morgan Dambergs | WLP 2009 |
| What is the What? | Dave Eggers | Lynsi Jennings | GMCA 2009 |
| What Was Lost | Catherine O'Flynn | Elizabeth Hagerty | Theatre Studies 2011 |
| The White Tiger | Aravind Adiga | Maria Mody | CSD |
| The White Tiger | Aravind Adiga | Nicole Miller | MFA WLP 2011 |
| The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle | Haruki Murakami | Lauren Smith | Information Services |
| Winkie | Clifford Chase | Alex Lizotte | Cinematography/Videography 2010 |
| Wizard's First Rule | Terry Goodkind | Joel M. Messier | Stage/Production Management 2009 |
| Wizard's First Rule | Terry Goodkind | Sarah Peterson | Career Services |
| The Woman Who Cut OffHer Leg at the Maidstone Club | Julia Slavin | Alden Jones | WLP |
| Words in Air: the Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell | Thomas Travisano with Saskia Hamilton | Jason Roush | Institute |
| The World to Come | Dara Horn | Kaitlin Walsh | Film Production 2010 |
| Words Under the Words | Naomi Shihab Nye | Joanna Vogel | WLP 2011 |
| World War Z | Max Brooks | Ted Marsden | Film Production 2012 |
| The Writing on My Forehead | Nafisa Haji | Monica Boland | Print Journalism 2009 |
| Year of the Dog | Shelby Hearon | Erica Skov | Communication Management 2009 |
| A Yellow Raft on Blue Water | Michael Dorris | Jared M. Gordon | VMA |
| You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train | Howard Zinn | Sarah Ginsburg | Film Production 2011 |
