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

• The Pillowman - Martin McDonagh (play)
• Endgame - Samuel Beckett (play)
• The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams (play)
• A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen (play)
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Díaz
• Dead Man's Cell Phone - Sarah Ruhl (play)
• If Beale Street Could Talk - James Baldwin
• The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
• For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
• The Bees - Carol Ann Duffy (poetry volume)
• Saving Fish from Drowning - Amy Tan
• Going to Meet the Man - James Baldwin (short story)
• Nothing to Envy - Barbara Demick
• Howl - Allen Ginsberg (long-ass poem)
• Drown - Junot Díaz (short story)
• Sexy - Jhumpa Lahiri (short story)
• Lullaby - Leslie Marmon Silko (short story)
• Everyday Use - Alice Walker (short story)
• Sultana's Dream - Rokeya Sakhawat Hussain (short story)
• The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Cat's Table - Michael Ondaatje
• The Man Who Was Almost a Man - Richard Wright (short story)
• Fern - Jean Toomer (short story)
• The Gilded Six-Bits - Zora Neale Hurston (short story)
• As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
• Mrs. Spring Fragrance - Sui Sin Far (short story)
• A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams (play)
• Trifles - Susan Glaspell (play)