Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
Welcome to Hard Times
E.L. Doctorow
Hyperion
Dan Simmons
The Civil War, a Narrative: Fort Sumter to Perryville
Shelby Foote
A thousand splendid suns
Khaled Hosseini
Under the banner of heaven: a story of violent faith
Jon Krakauer
Mere Christianity
C. S. Lewis