russian

• morphine, bulgakov
• master and margarita, bulgakov
• a daughter of the nobility, natasha borovsky

american

• negative space, b.r. yeager (horror)
• last days, brian evenson (horror)
• house rules, heather lewis
• answered prayers, truman capote
• other voices, other rooms, truman capote
• go tell it on the mountain, james baldwin
• a rose for emily, faulkner (short story)
• sometimes a great notion, ken kesey

japanese

• out, natsuo kirino (crime)
• kokoro, shoseki

british

• the servant, robin maugham
• the shooting party, isabel colegate
• flesh, the snow ball, palace without chairs, brigid brophy
• the hearing trumpet, leonora carrington
• margaret kennedy
• what a carve up, jonathan coe
• concluding, henry green
• In This House of Brede, Rumer Godden
• box hill, adam mars-jones
• enemies of promise, cyril connolly (public school)
• the stepmother, caroline blackwood
• stella benson
• Grace and favour, Noelia Ponsonby

irish

• george moore

french

• La Mare au Diable, François le Champi, La Petite Fadette, George Sand
• Journey to the End of the Night, Louis-Ferdinand Céline
• lie with me, philippe besson

chinese

• Last Words from Montmartre, Qiu Miaojin
• winter love, han suyin
• 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth, Xiaolu Guo

classics

• the pharsalia, lucan

mentioned by edward said

• The river between, james Ngugi
• The other side of the medal, edward Thompson
• season of migration to the north, Tayeb Salih
• english august, upamanyu Chatterjee
• Maharani, Ruskin Bond
• Twilight in Delhi, Ahmed Ali

misc fiction

• the oppermanns, Lion Feuchtwanger
• Sacrificio, Ernesto Mestre-Reed (AIDS, Cuba)
• The Degenerates, Raeden Richardson

nonfiction

• no future, lee edelman
• desert solitaire, edward abbey
• apollo's angels, jennifer homans (ballet)
• The Bullet, Tom Lee (psychiatric hospital)
• Stiff Upper Lip: Secrets, Crimes and the Schooling of a Ruling Class, Alex Renton
• rural, rebecca smith (rural uk)
• the meaning of treason, rebecca west
• more equal than others, lord montagu of beaulieu
• In the Service of the Peacock Throne: The Diaries of the Shah's Last Ambassador to London, Parviz C. Radji
• the rise and fall of the british nanny, jonathan gathorne-hardy
• catholics and sex, kate saunders and peter stanford
• Incidents in the life of a slave girl, harriet jacobs
• Heterosexuality as a Threat to Medieval Studies, James A. Schultz

plays

• Quaint Honour, Roger Gellert (public school)