Fiction
- The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner
- The Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
- What is the What by Dave Eggers
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
- The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
- Persuasion by Jane Austen
- Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Non-fiction
- King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild
- "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power
- The Empathic Civilization by Jeremy Rifkin
- Just and Unjust Wars by Michael Walzer
- The Lost City of Z by David Grann
- Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
- In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
- Not on Our Watch by John Prendergast and Don Cheadle
- Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
- Linchpin by Seth Godin
During the summer of 2008, Adrianna Groth interned here at NAS. Since then she has worked in various capacities with San Diego-based nonprofit Invisible Children, which is concerned with ending a 25-year conflict and the use of child soldiers in central east Africa. She is currently working as a writing and communications consultant.