most recent first + read the original unless * = english translation

• Gold Boy, Emerald Girl - Li Yiyun
• La frontera de cristal - Carlos Fuentes (short story)
• The Sea Close By - Albert Camus (story + essay) *
• La pena - Carlos Fuentes (short story)
• A Tale for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki
• The Purloined Letter - Edgar Allan Poe (short story)
• Emma Zunz - Jorge Luis Borges (short story)
• Rip Van Winkle - Washington Irving (short story)
• A Thousand Years of Good Prayers - Li Yiyun
• The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
• number9dream - David Mitchell
• Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami *
• Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
• To the End of the Land - David Grossman *
• Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (annotated edition)
• Mother of Pearl - Mary Morissy
• An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro
• Eclipse - John Banville
• Fall on Your Knees - Ann-Marie MacDonald
• Cathleen ni Houlihan - W.B. Yeats (play)
• Riders to the Sea - J.M. Synge (play)
• Dubliners - James Joyce (only four of the short stories)