Children’s/Young Adult
- Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
- Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
- Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
- Books by Madeline L’Engle
- A Little Princess by Francis Hodgson Burnett
- The Secret Garden by Francis Hodgson Burnett
- Books by Enid Blyton
- Paddington Bear books by Michael Bond
Fiction
- The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
- Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman
- Richard Russo books
- Ship Fever by Andrea Barrett
- Tintin comics by Hergé
- Raymond Carver stories
Non-Fiction
- This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland by Gretel Ehrlich
- Henry Moore’s Sheep Sketchbook by Henry Moore
- If You Want to Write by Brenda Ueland
- The Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas
- All About Weeds by Edwin Rollin Spencer
- 365 Tao: Daily Meditations by Deng Ming-Dao
- The Chronicles of Tao: The Secret Life of a Taoist Master by Deng Ming-Dao
- The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
- Fifth Chinese Daughter by Jade Snow Wong
- The Contrary Farmer by Gene Logsdon
- Georgia O’Keefe: A Life by Roxana Robinson
- Andrew Wyeth by Richard Merryman