Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey
Ironweed, William Kennedy
The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
Cathedral, Ray Carver
Walden, Henry Thoreau
Trailer Park, Russell Banks
Symbols of Transformation, Carl Jung
The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto, 1941-1944, Lucjan Dobroszycki
Birds of America, Lorrie Moore
The Voice of the Coyote, Frank J. Dobie
White Noise, Don Delillo
Where I'm Calling from, Raymond Carver (stories)
The Fool’s Progress, Edward Abbey
The Things they Carried, Tim O’Brien (stories)
Blue Highways, William Least-Heat Moon
A Good Man is Hard to Find, Flannery O’Connor (stories)
The History of Luminous Motion, Scott Bradfield
The Butcher Boy, Patrick McCabe
The Anatomy of Melancholy, Robert Burton
Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift
The Gulag Archipelago, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Night Shift at the Crucifix Factory, Philip Dacey
Lost in the Funhouse, John Barth (stories)
A Wolverine is Eating my Leg, Tim Cahill
Something Happened, Joseph Heller
Bastard out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison
Love Medicine, Louise Erdrich (stories)
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown
The Necessity of Empty Places, Paul Gruchow
Blood Orchid, Charles Bowden
The Art of Fiction, John Gardner
Candide, Voltaire
Great Plains, Ian Frazier
Main Street, Sinclair Lewis
This Boy’s Life, Tobias Wolff
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers
The Journey Home, Edward Abbey
Lord Grizzly, Fredrick Manfred
In the Garden of the North American Martyrs, Tobiass Wolff (stories)
The End of the Road, John Barth
Abbey’s Road, Edward Abbey
Pricksongs and Descants, Robert Coover (stories)
Self-Help, Lorrie Moore (stories)
Lame Deer: Seeker of Visions, John "Fire" Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes
1984, George Orwell
Black Sun, Edward Abbey
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
A Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Sherman Alexie (stories)
The Liar’s Club, Mary Karr
Rock Springs, Richard Ford (stories)
It can’t Happen Here, Sinclair Lewis
Grand Opening, John Hassler
The Black Veil, Rick Moody
Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, Robert Olen Butler (stories)
Slouching Toward Fargo, Neal Karlen
Wilderness and the American Mind, Roderick Nash
Desierto, Charles Bowden
Tabloid Dreams, Robert Olen Butler (stories)
Steppenwolf, Herman Hesse
Dubliners, James Joyce (stories)
An American Childhood, Annie Dillard
The Trickster, Paul Radin
Winesburg, Ohio; Sherwood Anderson (stories)
The Snow Leopard, Peter Mathiessen
Black Elk Speaks, John G. Neihardt
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky
A Gravestone Made of Wheat, Will Weaver
Jaguars Ripped my Flesh, Tim Cahill
Running the Amazon, Joe Kane
The Air Conditioned Nightmare, Henry Miller
In Our Time, Ernest Hemingway (stories)
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
Borrowed Hearts, Rick DeMarinis (stories)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, Mark Haddon
Red Earth, White Earth, Will Weaver
Seeing the Raven, Peter Leschak
Coming Home Crazy, Bill Holm
Land of the Spotted Eagle, Luther
Standing Bear
The Night in Question, Tobias Wolff (stories)
The Monkey Wrench Gang, Edward Abbey
The Year of the Zinc Penny, Rick DeMarinis
The Pugilist at Rest, Thom Jones (stories)
All the Right Places, Brad Newsham
The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Brooks Atkinson, Ed.
Deadeye Dick, Kurt Vonnegut
The Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu
Believers, Charles Baxter (stories)
Demonology, Rick Moody (stories)
Into the Wild, John Krakauer
Boundary Waters: the Grace of the Wild, Paul Gruchow
Out of the Woods, Chris Offut (stories)
Continental Drift, Russell Banks
Running with Scissors, Augusten Burroughs
Recent books to add into the mix:
Some Fun, Antonya Nelson (Stories)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
No One Belongs here More than You, Amanda July (Stories)
Everything that Rises Must Converge, Flannery O'Connor (Stories)