Literature

• Mayor of Casterbridge, by Thomas Hardy
• Hard Times, by Charles Dickens
• The Piano Lesson, by August Wilson
• The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton
• Ligeia, by Edgar Allan Poe
• Two Gentlemen of Verona, by William Shakespeare

Bestsellers

• The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
• The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold

Poetry

• Dream-Land, by Edgar Allan Poe
• Blackberry-Picking, by Seamus Heaney

Biography

• Charles Dickens

Music

• Billie Jean, by Michael Jackson
• A Boy Named Sue, by Johnny Cash
• Blitzkrieg Bop, by The Ramones
• London Calling, by The Clash
• A Change is Gonna Come, by Sam Cooke
• Bombs Over Baghdad, by OutKast
• You Can Call Me Al, by Paul Simon
• Help, I’m Alive, by Metric