Poetry

• elsewhere held and lingered by Conchitina Cruz
• Refusing Heaven by Jack Gilbert
• Modern Life by Matthea Harvey
• Radial Symmetry by Katherine Larson
• Or to Begin Again by Ann Lauterbach
• Mother Quiet by Martha Rhodes
• The Long Lost Startle by Joel Toledo
• The Collapse of What Separates Us by Vincenz Serrano
• One with Others by C.D. Wright

Short Fiction

• Severance by Robert Olen Butler
• How We Are Hungry by Dave Eggers
• Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace

Novels

• The Fall by Albert Camus
• Tree of Codes by Jonathan Safran Foer
• The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon
• Light Boxes by Shane Jones
• The Castle by Franz Kafka
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
• Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
• One Day by David Nicholls
• Blindness by Jose Saramago
• Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday
• Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson

Non-fiction

• The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton
• The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton
• Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton
• What the Dead Remember by Gretel Ehrlich
• Awkwardness by Adam Kotsko
• Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space by Carl Sagan

Theory

• The Resistance to Poetry by James Longenbach