The French Lieutenant's Woman
John Fowles
Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I
Herman Melville
Burmese Days
George Orwell
In Search of Lost Time, Volume V
Marcel Proust
A walk in the woods: rediscovering America on the Appalachian ...
Bill Bryson
A short history of nearly everything
The demon-haunted world: science as a candle in the dark
Carl Sagan
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
David Sedaris
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary
I Drink for a Reason
David Cross
Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
Flannery O'Connor & Sally Fitzgerald & Robert Fitzgerald
Walden, or, Life in the woods: and, "On the duty of civil disobedience"
Henry David Thoreau
Once there was a war
John Steinbeck
The Necessary Angel, Essays on Reality and the Imagination
Wallace Stevens
I Am America (And So Can You!)
Stephen Colbert
Bossypants
Tina Fey
A Man Without a Country
Kurt Vonnegut
Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays
David Foster Wallace
The Modern Element: Essays on Contemporary Poetry
Adam Kirsch