• zadie smith - "joy" (2012) (1/2)
• atwood - "attitude" (1983) (1/2)
• auster - "the accidental rebel" (2008) (1/2)
• eggers - the heartbreaking work (2000) (1/5)
• orwell - "politics & the english language" (1946) (1/5)
• orwell - "books vs. cigarettes" (1946) (1/5)
• wallace - "shipping out" (1996) (1/5)
• gladwell - "the science of shopping" (1996) (1/5)
• gladwell - "getting in" (2005) (1/6)
• nabokov - "signs & symbols" (1948) (1/6)
• murakami - "the second bakery attack" (1/6)
• murakami - "on seeing the 100% perfect girl..." (1/8)
• jackson - "the lottery" (1948) (1/8)
• wallace - "ticket to the fair" (1995) (1/8)
• updike - "lifeguard" (1932) (1/9)
• atwood - "kat" (1990) (1/13)
• woolf - jacob's room (1922) (1/13)
• carver - "so much water so close to home" (1/16)
• cisneros - the house on mango st (1984) (1/18)
• hemingway - the old man & the sea (1952) (1/18)
• salinger - "the laughing man" (1949) (1/23)
• williams - the glass menagerie (1945) (1/25)
• a.m. homes - "a real doll" (1990) (2/5)
• parker - "the standard of living" (1942) (2/5)
• hurston - their eyes were watching god (1937) (2/8)
• mccarthy - the road (2006) (2/18)
• kafka - "a little fable" (1931) (2/23)
• bukowski - hot water music (1983) (2/24)
• hemingway - "a clean, well-lighted place" (1933) (2/25)
• proulx - "brokeback mountain" (1997) (2/27)
• barthelme - "the school" (1974) (3/2)
• wallace - "all that" (2009) (3/3)
• chekhov - "gooseberries" (1898) (3/4)
• lahiri - "a temporary matter" (1991) (re) (3/10)
• chekhov - "the looking glass" (1885) (3/10)
• machado - "especially heinous..." (2013) (3/11)
• zadie smith - white teeth (2000) (3/12)
• gladwell - outliers (2008) (3/16)
• mansfield - "the fly" (1922) (3/16)
• wiesel - night (1956) (3/17)
• austen - pride and prejudice (1813) (3/24)
• conrad - heart of darkness (1899) (3/25)
• grossmith - the diary of a nobody (1888) (3/30)
• kosinski - steps (1968) (4/5)
• klosterman - eating the dinosaur (2009) (4/7)
• murakami - ...when i talk abt running (2007) (4/17)
• smith - the book of other people (2008) (4/23)
• gladwell - the tipping point (2000) (5/28)
• wallace - both flesh & not (2012) (5/30)
• percy - the moviegoer (1961) (6/13)
• mccarthy - no country for old men (2005) (6/18)
• morrison - sula (1974) (6/25)
• kaling - is everyone hanging out w/t me? (2013) (6/30)
• franzen - freedom: a novel (2010) (7/10)
• leyner - my cousin, my gastroenterologist (1990) (7/16)
• kunitz - 1928-1978 poems (1979) (7/19)
• mccullers - the heart is a lonely hunter (1940) (8/2)
• wallace/costello - signifying rappers: rap & race in the urban present (1990) (8/8)
• franzen - the corrections (2001) (9/13)
• maxx - every love story is a ghost story (2012) (9/24)
• brown - decorations in a ruined cemetery (1994) (10/1)
• cisneros - loose woman (1994) (10/3)
• kundera - the festival of insignificance (2015) (10/7)
• hemingway - a farewell to arms (1929) (10/12)
• murakami - the elephant vanishes (1993) (10/23)
• dostoevsky - the brothers karamazov (1880) (12/5)
• smith - nw (2012) (12/18)
• wallace - consider the lobster (essays) (2005) (12/27)

books: 39/100

misc. pieces of lit: 67/100