Books to read:

• ✔ The Virtue of Selfishness
• The Secret History
• The Gold Finch
• Atlas Shrugged
• ✔ Lolita
• The Picture of Dorian Gray
• The Sun Also Rises
• Nightwood
• ✔ Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
• ✔ The Unbearable Lightness of Being
• The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
• Heart of Darkness
• The Count of Monte Cristo
• Middlesex
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
• The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain
• Tender is the Night
• Under Milk Wood (Dylan Thomas)
• A Lover’s Discourse (Roland Barthes)
• My Beautiful Laundrette (Hanif Kureishi)
• The Bluest Eye (Toni Morrison)
• Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
• ✔ Franny and Zooey (J.D Salinger)
• Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)
• A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again (David Foster Wallace)
• Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)
• Atonement (Ian McEwan)
• Bluets (Maggie Nelson)
• The House on Mango Street (Sandra Cisneros)
• Waiting For Godot (Samuel Beckett)
• The Convent of Pleasure (Margaret Cavendish)
• ✔ The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
• Lullabies For Little Criminals (Heather O’Neil)
• A Complicated Kindness (Miriam Toews)
• This is How You Lose Her (Junot Diaz)
• Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Joan Didion)
• ✔ The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
• ABCs of Political Economy
• ✔ This Is How You Lose Her (Junot Diaz)
• This Is Water