in chronological order:

• past perfect, present tense by richard peck
• after the quake by haruki murakami
• taft by ann patchett
• return to paris by colette rossant
• shangai girls: uncensored and unsentimental by mina hanbury-tenison
• the prophet by kahlil gibran
• haiku by andrew vachss
• holes by louis sachar
• big fish by daniel wallace
• frank: the true story that inspired the movie by jon ronson
• instructions for a heatwave maggie o'farrell
• janus silang at ang tiyanak ng tábon by edgar calabia samar