• Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi: Americanah
• Atwood, Margaret: The Handmaiden's Tale
• Camus, Albert: L'Étranger
• Heller, Joseph: Catch-22
• Hemingway, Ernest: The Sun Also Rises
• Jamison, Kay Redfield: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
• Laing, R. D.: The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
• Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird
• Ovid: Metamorphoses
• Sáenz, Benjamin Alire: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
• Taylor, Jill Bolte: My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
• Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina
• Vonnegut, Kurt: Slaughterhouse Five
• Whitaker, Robert: Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America

• Beethoven, Ludwig: Violin Sonata No. 9 "Kreutzer Sonata", Op. 47
• Brahms, Johannes: Piano Sonata No. 3 in f minor, Op. 5 (II. Andante espressivo)
• Brahms, Johannes: Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Major, Op. 78
• Dvorak, Antonin: Piano Quintet A Major, Op. 81
• Elgar, Edward: Piano Quintet in a minor, Op. 84
• Liszt, Franz: Sonata in b minor, S. 178
• Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Rondo in a minor, K. 511
• Schubert, Franz: 4 Impromputs, Op. 90
• Schubert, Franz: Piano Trio in E-flat Major, Op. 100
• Schumann, Robert: Carnaval, Op. 9
• Shostakovich, Dmitri: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Major, Op. 102
• Smetana, Bedrich: Trio for piano, violin, and violoncello, Op. 15

books

• Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi: Americanah
• Hosseini, Khaled: A Thousand Splendid Suns
• Murakami, Haruki : Absolutely on Music: Conversations (with Seiji Ozawa)

music

• figure out grad school audition rep
• start learning chamber music rep

skills

• learn R
• learn MATLAB
• start learning web design skills
• become more comfortable with using Photoshop

misc.

• start reviewing for MCAT
• go to the Baltimore Museum of Art

art

• Bernini, Gian Lorenzo: The Abduction of Proserpina (1621-22)
• Canova, Antonio: Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss (1793)
• Van Gogh, Vincent: Sunflowers (1888)

books

• Hosseini, Khaled: A Thousand Splendid Suns
• Márquez, Gabriel García: Love in the Time of Cholera
• Murakami, Haruki: Kafka on the Shore
• Zusak, Markus: The Book Thief

music

• Arctic Monkeys : Favourite Worst Nightmare (2007)
• Bach, Johann Sebastian: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
• Baker, Chet: Chet Baker Sings (1954)
• Bill Evans Trio: Waltz for Debby (1962)
• Brahms, Johannes: Piano Concerto No. 1 in d mino...