- Helmet for My Pillow -- Robert Leckie
- With the Old Breed -- Eugene Sledge
- Never Let Me Go -- Kazuo Ishiguro [CURRENTLY READING]
- Blindness -- Jose Saramago
- The Satanic Verses -- Salman Rushdie
- Crush -- Richard Siken (poetry)
- A Fine Balance -- Rohinton Mistry
- Snow -- Orhan Pamuk
- Unaccustomed Earth -- Jhumpa Lahiri
- No Country for Old Men OR The Road -- Cormac McCarthy
- On Beauty -- Zadie Smith
- A Small Place -- Jamaica Kincaid (anything besides Lucy)
- Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays -- Zadie Smith
- Anna Karenina -- Leo Tolstoy [CURRENTLY READING]
- The Brothers Karamazov -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Waves -- Virginia Woolf
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao -- Junot Diaz
- The Savage Detectives -- Roberto Bolaño
- 2666 -- Roberto Bolaño
- Orlando -- Virginia Woolf
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley -- Malcolm X & Alex Haley
- The Handmaid's Tale -- Margaret Atwood [CURRENTLY READING]
- House of Leaves -- Mark Danielewski
- The Great Gatsby -- F. Scott Fitzgerald (REREAD)
- Black Skin, White Masks -- Frantz Fanon
- Disgrace -- J. M. Coetzee
- anything by Chinua Achebe (besides Things Fall Apart)
- Let the Great World Spin -- Colum McCann
- a collection of Kim Addonizio's poetry
- anything by Buchi Emecheta
- The Thing Around Your Neck -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Runaway -- Alice Munro
- Possession -- A.S. Byatt
- The Taqwacores: A Novel -- Michael Muhammad Knight
- The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge OR Letters to a Young Poet -- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Ficciones -- Jorge Luis Borges
- Slaughterhouse-Five -- Kurt Vonnegut
- The Little Prince -- Antoine Saint-Exupery (REREAD)
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being -- Milan Kundera
- The Book Thief -- Markus Zusak
- Veronika Decides to Die -- Paulo Coelho
- Orientalism -- Edward Said
- Cat's Eye -- Margaret Atwood (REREAD)
- a collection of Margaret Atwood's poetry
- anything by Wole Soyinka
- The Glass Menagerie -- Tennessee Williams
- anything by Bell Hooks ("All About Love: New Visions" or "The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love")
- Red -- John Logan
- anything (besides Disgrace) by J. M. Coetzee
- How Does It Feel To Be A Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America -- Moustafa Bayoumi
- Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid -- Jimmy Carter
dec 26 2010 ∞
feb 14 2011 +