includes new reads and re-reads

• paul mccartney: many years from now | barry miles
• the parable of the sower | octavia butler
• charlotte temple | susanna rowson
• kim | rudyard kipling
• narrative of the life of frederick douglass | frederick douglass
• incidents in the life of a slave girl | harriet jacobs
• the death of ivan ilych | leo tolstoy
• edgar huntly; or, memoirs of a sleep-walker | charles brockden brown
• haroun and the sea of stories | salman rushdie
• the last of the mohicans | james fenimoore cooper
• the english patient | michael ondaatje
• wide sargasso sea | jean rhys
• maud martha | gwendolyn brooks
• clotel: or, the president's daughter | william wells brown
• our nig | harriet e. wilson
• the country of the pointed firs | sarah orne jewett
• annie john | jamaica kincaid
• slaves In algiers | susanna rowson
• the house on mango street | sandra cisneros
• the house of mirth | edith wharton
• wise blood | flannery o'connor
• the boy next door | irene sabatini
• the yellow wallpaper | charlotte perkins gilman
• giovanni's room | james baldwin
• the taming of the shrew | william shakespeare
• contending forces | pauline hopkins
• passing | nella larsen
• a midsummer's night dream | william shakespeare
• madame de treymes | edith wharton
• making sex | thomas laqueur
• the coupling convention: sex, text, and tradition in black women's fiction | ann ducille
• the rape of lucrece | william shakespeare
• plum bun: a novel without a moral | jessie fauset
• norwegian wood | haruki murakami
• the handmaid's tale | margaret atwood
• the merchant of venice | william shakespeare
• sula | toni morrison
• king henry iv | william shakespeare
• loving her | ann shockley
• dawn (xenogenesis 1) | octavia butler
• captured | beverly jenkins
• never let me go | kazuo ishiguro
• the hunger games | suzanne collins
• the road | cormac mccarthy