- The Secret Adversary – Agatha Christie (England, 1922)
- Far From the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy (England, 1874)
- Tales of Beedle the Bard – JK Rowling (England, 2008)*
- Shakespeare on Toast – Ben Crystal (England, 2016 ed.)
- Blue Lightning – Ann Cleeves (England, 2010)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – JK Rowling (England, 2007)*
- Poirot Investigates – Agatha Christie (England, 1924)
- Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina, 1956 ed.)
- Digital Minimalism – Cal Newport (US, 2019)
- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – JK Rowling (England, 2016)*
- The Man in the Brown Suit – Agatha Christie (England, 1924)
- Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell (England, 1851-53)
- Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen (England, 1811)*
- The Nibelungenlied – Anonymous (Germany, c. 1200)
- 67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence – Howard Means (US, 2016)
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain (US, 1876)
- So Good They Can’t Ignore You – Cal Newport (US, 2012)
- The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien (England, 1937)*
- The Color of Law – Richard Rothstein (US, 2018)
- The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe (England, 1794)
- The New Jim Crow – Michelle Alexander (US, 2012)
- The Secret of Chimneys – Agatha Christie (England, 1925)
- The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame (Scotland, 1908)
- The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes – Suzanne Collins (US, 2020)
- Appointment in Samarra – John O’Hara (US, 1934)
- Shop Class as Soulcraft – Matthew B. Crawford (US, 2009)
- The Turn of the Screw – Henry James (US, 1898)
- The Fellowship of the Ring – J.R.R. Tolkien (England, 1954)*
- The Decameron – Giovanni Boccaccio (Italy, 1350-53)
- Dragons in the Waters – Madeleine L’Engle (US, 1976)
- Piranesi – Susanna Clarke (England, 2020)
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie (England, 1926)
- “Nutcracker and Mouse King” – E.T.A. Hoffman (Germany, 1816) and “The Tale of the Nutcracker” – Alexandre Dumas, père (France, 1844)
- “The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle” – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Scotland, 1892)*
- Native Son – Richard Wright (US, 1940)
- Wheesht – Kate Davies (Scotland, 2019)
* indicates a reread