Book list:


Fiction:
The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
This Side of Brightness by Colum McCann
Joe College by Tom Perrotta
The Ciderhouse Rules by John Irving
Cinderella Man
Water for Elephants
The Bean Trees
The Great Gatsby, 1925, Fitzgerald
The Grapes of Wrath, 1938, Steinbeck
Ironweed, 1983, Kennedy
The Natural, 1952, Malamud

Non-fiction:
Devil in the White City by Eric Larson
This Boy's Life, 1989, Wolff
Nickel and Dimed, Ehrenreich
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
Without a Net by Michelle Kennedy
In Praise of Famous Men, Agee
The High Price of Materialism, 2002, Kasser
The World is Flat, 2005, Friedman
Class Matters, 2005, Keller