Buzzfeed’s “The 65 Books You Need to Read in Your 20s”
- The Emperor’s Children- Claire Messud
- What She Saw…- Lucinda Rosenfeld
- The Deptford Trilogy- Robertson Davies
- The Secret History- Donna Tartt
- Giovanni’s Room- James Baldwin
- A Visit from the Goon Squad- Jennifer Egan
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao- Junot Diaz
- Lucy- Jamaica Kincaid
- The Moviegoer- Walker Percy
- White Teeth- Zadie Smith
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay- Michael Chabon
- Infinite Jest- David Foster Wallace
- Bright Lights, Big City- Jay McInerney
- The Namesake- Jhumpa Lahiri
- Call Me by Your Name- Andre Aciman
- The Rachel Papers- Martin Amis
- Song of Solomon- Toni Morrison
- The Sun Also Rises- Ernest Hemingway
- Never Let Me Go- Kazuo Ishiguro
- A Home at the End of the World- Michael Cunningham
- The Sandman Series- Neil Gaiman
- The Group- Mary McCarthy
- Quicksand and Passing- Nella Larsen
- Pastoralia- George Saunders
- Ready Player One- Ernest Cline
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius- Dave Eggers
- The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath
- Main Street- Sinclair Lewis
- His Dark Materials- Philip Pullman
- Generation X- Douglas Coupland
- The Fortress of Solitude- Jonathan Lethem
- House-Keeping- Marilynne Robinson
- I Love Dick- Chris Kraus
- On the Road- Jack Kerouac
- Even Cowgirls Get the Blues- Tom Robbins
- Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World- Haruki Murakami
- Bossypants- Tina Fey
- Kitchen Confidential- Anthony Bourdain
- How to Lose Friends and Alienate People- Toby Young
- The Dirt- Motley Crue and Neil Strauss
- Lunar Park- Bret Easton Ellis
- Just Kids- Patti Smith
- Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn
- Oh the Glory of it All- Sean WIlsey
- I Don’t Care About Your Band- Julie Klausner
- Wild- Cheryl Strayed
- Lit- Mary Karr
- I’m with the Band- Pamela Des Barres
- Dear Diary- Lesley Arfin
- The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton- Anne Sexton
- Actual Air- David Berman
- The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch- Kenneth Koch
- Alien vs. Predator- Michael Robbins
- The Collected Poems of Audre Lord- Audre Lord
- Me Talk Pretty One Day- David Sedaris
- How to be a Woman- Caitlin Moran
- My Misspent Youth- Meghan Daum
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem- Joan Didion
- Up in the Old Hotel- Joseph Mitchell
- How to Cook Everything- Mark Bittman
- How’s Your Drink?- Eric Felten
- The Elements of Style- Strunk & White
- Letters to a Young Contrarian- Christopher Hitchens
- Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain- Betty Edwards
- He’s Just Not That Into You- Liz Tuccillo
