1984 by George Orwell

On Revolution by Hannah Arendt

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

Chemistry Imagined: Reflections on Science by Roald Hoffmann, Vivian Torrence, Carl Sagan

Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud

The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman

The Ascent of Science by Brian L. Silver

The Most Beautiful Molecule by Hugh Aldersey-Williams

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!'" edited by Edward Hutchings

The Hot Zone by Richard Preston

The Ego and the Id by Sigmund Freud

Moral Man and Immoral Society by Reinhold Niebuhr

The Enigma by Andrew Hodges

First and Second Discourses by Jean Jacques Rousseau

Breaking the Code by Hugh Whitemore

Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality by Sigmund Freud

An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver W. Sacks

The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

The Book of Daniel: A Novel by E. L. Doctorow

Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges

Relativity: The Special and the General Theory by Albert Einstein

Faust, Parts 1 and 2 by Johann Wolfgang von   Goethe

Dr Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

Arcadia by Tom Stoppard

King Lear by William Shakespeare

A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen

Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes by Tony Kushner

Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; and Antigone by Sophocles

Immortal Poems of the English Language, edited by Oscar Williams

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Walden and Resistance to Civil Government by Henry David Thoreau

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner

The Best American Poetry 1998, edited by John Hollander

Great Modern European Short Stories, edited by Douglas Angus