Here are lists by members of some of their favorite books or books that they felt were important to them in some way. If a book is on more than one list, the number will be included after the title
| Dennis Murphy | |
|---|---|
Title | Author |
| In the American Grain | William Carlos Williams |
| Tristram Shandy (2) | Laurence Sterne |
| V | Thomas Pynchon |
| Borstal Boy | Brendan Behan |
| A Passage to India (2) | E. M. Forster |
| Jude the Obscure | Thomas Hardy |
| The Good Soldier | Ford Madox Ford |
| Flaubert's Parrot | Julian Barnes |
| The Baroque Trilogy (3) | Neal Stephenson |
| The Emperor of All Maladies (2) | Siddhartha Mukherjee |
| Dave Ross | |
|---|---|
Title | Author |
| King Lear | William Shakespeare |
| The Hunchback of Notre-Dame | Victor Hugo |
| War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy |
| Pudd'nhead Wilson | Mark Twain |
| Moby-Dick | Herman Melville |
| Man and Superman | George Bernard Shaw |
| The Gulag Archipelago | Alexandr Solzhenitsyn |
| The Last Temptation of Christ | Nikos Kazantzakis |
| People of the Deer | Farley Mowat |
| Guns Germs and Steel | Jared Diamond |
| Carl Hehmsoth | |
|---|---|
Title | Author |
| Cat's Cradle | Kurt Vonnegut |
| Siddhartha | Herman Hesse |
| Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values | Robert M. Pirsig |
| The Soul of a New Machine | Tracy Kidder |
| The Baroque Trilogy (3) | Neal Stephenson |
| Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid | Douglas Hofstadter |
| Tristram Shandy (2) | Laurence Sterne |
| Foundation Trilogy | Isaac Asimov |
| Rendezvous with Rama | Arthur C. Clarke |
| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams |
| Mel Oakes | |
|---|---|
Title | Author |
| The Big Picture | Sean Carroll |
| The Warmth of Other Suns (2) | Isabelle Wilkerson |
| Coming of Age in the Milky Way | Timothy Ferris |
| Clear Pictures | Reynolds Price |
| Rising Tide | John Barry |
| Nobody's Fool | Richard Russo |
| A Peace to End all Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East | David Fromkin |
| The New Jim Crow | Michelle Alexander |
| The Baroque Trilogy (3) | Neal Stephenson |
| The Emperor of All Maladies (2) | Siddhartha Mukherjee |
| Michael Hall | |
|---|---|
Title |
Author |
| The Iliad | Homer |
| The Metamorphoses | Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) |
| Essays | Michel de Montaigne |
| Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) |
| Middlemarch | George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) |
| Howards End (2) | E. M. Forster |
| Brave New World | Aldous Huxley |
| Nine Stories | J. D. Salinger |
| A Dance to the Music of Time (12 volumes) | Anthony Powell |
| Quartet in Autumn | Barbara Pym |
| Roger Bengtson | |
|---|---|
Title |
Author |
| The Warmth of Other Suns (2) | Isabelle Willkerson |
| Caste | Isabelle Wilkerson |
| My Struggle (8 books) | Karl Ove Knausgard |
| Praire Trilogy, among others | Willa Cather |
| Angela's Ashes, among others | Frank McCourt |
| Angle of Repose, among others | Wallace Stegner |
| Beloved, among others | Toni Morrison |
| The Joe Leaphorn Mysteries, among others | Tony Hillerman |
| Jim Keeler | |
|---|---|
Title |
Author |
| How to Talk so Kids Will Listen and How to Listen so Kids Will Talk | Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish |
| Siddhartha | Hermann Hesse |
| Shantaram | Gregory David Roberts |
| The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness | Michelle Alexander |
| Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything | Steven D. Levitt &Stephen J. Dubner |
| The Martian | Andy Weir |
| Doubt and Certainty | Tony Rothman & George Sudarshan |
| Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman | Richard. P. Feynman |
| Rich Dad, Poor Dad | Robert T. Kiyosaki |
| The Bottoms | Joe R. Lansdale |