contemplative- The Bible
- Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
- The Koran
- Arabian Nights
- Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
- Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
- Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (Prologue)
- Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
- The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
- Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
- Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
- Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
- Essays by Michel de Montaigne
- Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
- Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
- Candide by Voltaire
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Analects by Confucius
- Dubliners by James Joyce
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
- Red and the Black by Stendhal
- Das Kapital by Karl Marx
- Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire
- Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - I may have completed this, but I can't remember
- Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- Jungle by Upton Sinclair
- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
- Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Diary by Samuel Pepys
- Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
- Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
- Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
- Color Purple by Alice Walker
- Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
- Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
- Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau
- Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
- The Talmud
- Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau
- Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
- Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
- American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
- Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
- Separate Peace by John Knowles
- Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- Red Pony by John Steinbeck
- Popol Vuh
- Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
- Satyricon by Petronius
- James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Black Boy by Richard Wright
- Spirit of the Laws by Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu
- Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
- Metaphysics by Aristotle
- Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin
- Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
- Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
- Sanctuary by William Faulkner
- As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
- Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
- Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
- Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
- Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Alexander Brown
- Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burges
- Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
- Emile Jean by Jacques Rousseau
- Nana by Emile Zola
- Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
- Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
- Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
- Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
- Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
EDIT: Missed a couple
