The Book Escape's Most Wanted
The following is a list of authors and titles that we have trouble keeping in stock because they are so popular. If just the author is listed, then we can use any of their books. If author and titles are listed, then those are the only titles that we really need. When we buy books, these are some of the titles and authors that we are looking for.
- Any book in a current top 100 bestselling list from sites like nytimes.com, usatoday.com, amazon.com, etc.
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- Recent travel guides (last 2 years)
- Recent Foreign Language Reference, Novels and Dictionaries
- Ansel Adams
- Sherman Alexie
- Thomas Aquinas
- St. Augustine
- Ishmael Beah
- A Long Way Gone
- Madison Smartt Bell
- Roberto Bolano
- Daniel J. Boorstin
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Ray Bradbury
- Richard Brautigan
- Bill Bryson
- Charles Bukowski
- Mikhail Bulgakov
- Master and Margarita; The White Guard
- Anthony Burgess
- William S. Burroughs
- Italo Calvino
- Albert Camus
- Truman Capote
- Lewis Carroll
- Rachel Carson
- Silent Spring
- Miguel de Cervantes
- Don Quixote
- Michael Chabon
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- The Canterbury Tales
- Julia Child
- Mastering the Art of French Cooking
- Noam Chomsky
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
- The Beautiful Struggle
- Colette
- Daniel Clowes
- E. E. Cummings
- Roald Dahl
- Charles Darwin
- On the Origin of Species
- Jacques Derrida
- Jared Diamond
- Guns, Germs, and Steel; Collapse
- Junot Diaz
- Philip K. Dick
- Emily Dickinson
- Emma Donoghue
- Room
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Katherine Dunn
- Geek Love
- Albert Einstein
- Dave Eggers
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
- T. S. Eliot
- Bret Easton Ellis
- Jeffrey Eugenides
- Middlesex
- William Faulkner
- As I Lay Dying; Intruder in the Dust; Light in August; The Sound and the Fury; The Unvanquished
- M. F. K. Fisher
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Great Gatsby; Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and the Damned
- Gillian Flynn
- E. M. Forster
- Michel Foucault
- Anne Frank
- Diary of a Young Girl
- Thomas L. Friedman
- Neil Gaiman
- Jean Genet
- Allen Ginsberg
- Malcolm Gladwell
- Nikolai Gogol
- William Golding
- Lord of the Flies
- Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Team of Rivals
- Edward Gorey
- John Green
- Graham Greene
- The Power and the Glory
- Ernesto "Che" Guevara
- Knut Hamsun
- Martin Heidegger
- Joseph Heller
- Catch-22
- Ernest Hemingway
- Herodotus
- The Histories
- bell hooks
- Nick Hornby
- Khaled Hosseini
- Aldous Huxley
- Jane Jacobs
- Shirley Jackson
- Edward P. Jones
- The Known World
- James Joyce
- Finnegan's Wake; Ulysses; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Dubliners
- Franz Kafka
- Immanuel Kant
- Yasnunari Kawabata
- John Keegan
- The American Civil War
- Jack Kerouac
- Ken Kesey
- Chuck Klosterman
- The Koran
- Jon Krakauer
- Into the Wild; Where Men Win Glory
- Milan Kundera
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Jhumpa Lahiri
- Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
- Freakonomics; SuperFreakonomics
- C. S. Lewis
- Michael Lewis
- The Big Short
- Laura Lippman
- H. P. Lovecraft
- Gregory Maguire
- Wicked; A Lion Among Men; Son of a Witch
- Thomas Mann
- The Magic Mountain; Buddenbrooks
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- 100 Years of Solitude; Love in the Time of Cholera
- Yan Martel
- George R. R. Martin
- Cormac McCarthy
- Jon Meacham
- American Lion
- H. L. Mencken
- Herman Melville
- Moby Dick
- Thomas Merton
- James Michener
- Chesapeake
- Henry Miller
- Yukio Mishima
- Haruki Murakami
- Alan Moore
- Watchmen; V for Vendetta
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Anais Nin
- George Orwell
- Camille Paglia
- Chuck Palahniuk
- Sylvia Plath
- Edgar Allen Poe
- Michael Pollan
- Beatrix Potter
- Marcel Proust
- Ayn Rand
- Jean Rhys
- Mary Roach
- Stiff; Bonk; Spook
- Tom Robbins
- J. K. Rowling
- Salman Rushdie
- Richard Russo
- Oliver Sacks
- J. D. Salinger
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Arther Schopenhauer
- Eric Schlosser
- Fast Food Nation
- David Sedaris
- Maurice Sendak
- Shel Silverstein
- David Simon
- Adam Smith
- C. Fraser Smith
- Here Lies Jim Crow
- Zadie Smith
- Garth Stein
- The Art of Racing in the Rain
- John Steinbeck
- Donna Tartt
- Dylan Thomas
- Hunter S. Thompson
- Leo Tolstoy
- War and Peace; Anna Karenina
- John Kennedy Toole
- A Confederacy of Dunces
- Mark Twain
- Sun Tzu
- The Art of War
- Sudhir Venkatesh
- Gang Leader for a Day
- Kurt Vonnegut
- David Foster Wallace
- Jeanette Walls
- Chris Ware
- Andy Warhol
- James D. Watson
- The Double Helix
- Max Weber
- Irvine Welsh
- Oscar Wilde
- Tom Wolfe
- The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
- P. G. Wodehouse
- Richard Wright
- Black Boy; Native Son
- Malcolm X
- Richard Yates
- Revolutionary Road
- Fareed Zakaria
- Yevgeny Zamyatin
- We
- Howard Zinn
- A People's History of the United States
- Emile Zola
- Germinal
- Markus Zusak
- The Book Thief
