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)