Society Books

Absalom, Absalom! (1936)
by William Faulkner

Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base (2012)
by Annie Jacobsen

Beat Not the Bones (1952)
by Charlotte Jay

A Bend in the River (1979)
by V.S. Naipal

The Big Sleep (1939)
by Raymond Chandler

Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux (1932)
by Black Elk and John G. Neihardt

The Book Thief (2006)
by Markus Zuzak

The Bureau and the Mole: The Unmasking of Robert Philip Hanssen, the Most Dangerous Double Agent in FBI History (2002)
by David A. Vise

The Cage (1983)
by Kenzo Kitakata

Captain Bligh and Mister Christian: The Men and the Mutiny (1973)
by Richard Alexander Hough

The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier (2004)
by Scott Zesch

The Chicago Way (2007)
by Michael Harvey

The Children of Henry VIII (1996)
by Alison Weir

Cinnamon Skin (1982)

by John G. MacDonald

The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child (1997)
by Francisco Jimenez

Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany (1997)
by Stephen E. Ambrose

City of Scoundrels (2012)
by Gary Krist

Collapse (2005)
by Jared Diamond

Consequence: A Memoir (2016)
by Eric Fair

Cosmopolitan: A Bartender’s Life (2003)
by Toby Cecchini

The Crying of Lot 49 (1988)
by Thomas Pynchon

Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy (2020)
by Talia Lavin

Dark Voyage (2004)
by Alan Furst

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (2015)
by Erik Larson

The Depositions: New and Selected Essays on Being and Ceasing to Be (2019)
by Thomas Lynch

Disgrace (1999)
by J. M. Coetzee

Fat City (1969)

by Leonard Gardner

The Fugitive Eye (1953)
by Charlotte Jay

The Ghost of Cleopatra:  Edmonia Lewis and Her Lost Masterpiece (2019)
by John Rice and Gail Tanzer

Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission (2001)
by Hampton Sides

The God of Small Things (1997)
by Arundhati Roy

The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
by John Steinbeck

The Great Gatsby (1925)
by F. Scott Fitzgerald

HHhH: A Novel (2012)
by Laurent Binet

Hillbilly Elegy (2016)
by J.D. Vance

The Illustrated Man (1951)
by Ray Bradbury

An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America (2003)
by Henry Wiencek

The Innocent Killer: A True Story of a Wrongful Conviction and its Astonishing Aftermath (2014)
by Michael Griesbach

I Was Dora Suarez (1990)
by Derek Raymond

The Kite Runner (2003)
Khaled Hosseini

Life of Pi (2001)
by Yann Martel

Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II (2011)
by Mitchell Zuckoff

The Maltese Falcon (1929)
by Dashiell Hammett

Man Without a Gun (1999)
by Giandomenico Picco

The Martian Chronicles (1950)
by Ray Bradbury

Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America (2019)
by Christopher Wylie

The Murder of Napoleon (1982)
by David Hapgood

One Summer: America, 1927 (2013)
by Bill Bryson

Out (2003)
by Natsuo Kirino

People of the Book (2008)
by Geraldine Brooks

The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
by John Millington Synge

Ray (1980)
by Hannah Barry

Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party (2009)
by Max Blumenthal

The Russian Debutante’s Handbook (2002)
by Gary Shteyngart

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (2019)
by Patrick Radden Keefe

The Secret Scripture (2008)
by Sebastian Barry

Seven Years in Tibet (1953)
by Heinrich Harrer

Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death (1969)

by Kurt Vonnegut

Slaves in the Family (1998)
by Edward Ball

Small Things Like These (2020)
by Claire Keegan

Stones from the River (1994)
by Ursula Hegi

The Third Policeman (1967)
by Fann O'Brien

The Three Musketeers (1844)
by Alexandre Dumas

Thunderstruck (2006)
by Erik Larson

True Grit (1968)
by Charles Portis

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: A Tour of the Underwater World (1870)
by Jules Verne

Two Years Before the Mast (1840)
by Richard Henry Dana Jr.

Unbroken: A WWII Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (2010)
by Laura Hillenbrand

We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962)

by Shirley Jackson

The White Devil (1612)
by John Webster

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1997)
by Haruki Murakami

The Wings of the Dove (1902)
by Henry James