FICTION

• ✔The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
• In the Skin of a Lion, Michael Ondaatje
• If Beale Street Could Talk, James Baldwin
• Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michaels
• The Winter Vault, Anne Michaels
• ✔Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
• One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
• ✔1984, George Orwell
• In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust
• Flesh and Blood, Michael Cunningham
• The Hours, Michael Cunningham
• ✔Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
• The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
• As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
• Written on the Body, Jeanette Winterson
• The People of Paper, Salvador Plascencia
• Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
• ✔The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
• The Princess Bride, William Goldman
• Crapalachia: A Biography of Place, Scott McClanahan
• A Burnt Out Case, Graham Greene
• The Tenth Man, Graham Greene
• ✔White Oleander, Janet Fitch
• ✔Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
• The Short Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
• Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson
• On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan
• The Collector, John Fowles
• ✔The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
• Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
• The Woman in the Dunes, Kobo Abe
• Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, Patrick Suskind
• The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera
• ✔The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
• A Convergence of Birds, edited by Jonathon Safran Foer
• Translations, Brian Friel

POETRY / ON THE SUBJECT OF POETRY

• No, Ocean Vuong
• Love, an Index, Rebecca Lindenberg
• The City in Which I Love You, Li-Young Lee
• Everything Begins Elsewhere, Tishani Doshi
• Radical Symmetry, Katherine Larson
• Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman
• Heavy Petting, Gregory Sherl
• The Oregon Trail is the Oregon Trail, Gregory Sherl
• i will never be beautiful enough to make us beautiful together, mira gonzalez
• ✔Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth, Warsan Shire
• Duino Elegies, Rainer Maria Rilke. Translated by Stephen Mitchell
• Here, Wislawa Szymborska
• Bluets, Maggie Nelson
• The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
• ✔Crush, Richard Siken
• The Cinnamon Peeler, Michael Ondaatje
• The Dream of a Common Language, Adrienne Rich
• The Weight of Oranges / Miners Pond / Skin Divers, Anne Michaels
• Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
• The Poet’s Companion, Kim Addonizio & Dorianne Laux
• The Making of a Poem, Eavan Boland & Mark Strand

NONFICTION

• Just Kids, Patti Smith
• Running in the Family, Michael Ondaatje
• Truth & Beauty: A Friendship, Ann Patchett
• The Glass Castle, Jeanette Walls
• Half Broke Horses, Jeanette Walls
• Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans, Ronald Takaki
• Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion
• A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Rebecca Solnit
• The Faraway Nearby, Rebecca Solnit
• The Book of Disquiet, Fernando Pessoa
• Henry and June, Anaïs Nin