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

• Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic - Alison Bechdel
• The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran
• NW - Zadie Smith
• The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
• Hiroshima - John Hershey
• A Raisin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansberry (play)
• Doubt - John Patrick Shanley (play)
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
• 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami
• Gooseberries - Anton Chekhov (short stories)
• Come close - Sappho (poetry)