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Literature


A Fine Balance
by Rohinton Mistry

Atonement
by Ian McEwan

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
by Dai Sijie

Being Dead
by Jim Crace

Bel Canto
by Ann Patchett

Beloved
by Toni Morrison

Chocolat
by Joanne Harris

Corelli's Mandolin
by  Louis de Bernières

Death in Summer
by William Trevor

Embers
by Sandor Marai

English Passengers
by Matthew Kneale

Girl in Hyacinth Blue
by Susan Vreeland

Homestead
by Rosina Lippi

Howards End
by E. M. Forster

Ignorance
by Milan Kundera

Last Orders
by Graham Swift

Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen
by Fay Weldon

Life of Pi
by Yann Martel

Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov

Loving Graham Greene
by Gloria Emerson

Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie

Moral Hazard
by Kate Jennings

Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf

My Name is Red
by Orhan Pamuk

Palace Walk
by Naguib Mahfouz

Plainsong
by Kent Haruf

Possession
by A. S. Byatt

Prague
by Arthur Phillips

Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen

Stones for Ibarra
by Harriet Doerr

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
by Michael Chabon

The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison

The Feast of Love
by Charles Baxter

The Good Soldier
by Ford Madox Ford

The Hours
by Michael Cunningham

The House of Mirth
by Edith Wharton

The Hunter
by Julia Leigh

The Last Samurai
by Helen DeWitt

The Minotaur Takes A Cigarette Break
by Steven Sherrill

The Namesake
by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Night Inspector
by Frederick Busch

The Palace Thief
by Ethan Canin

The Sea, The Sea
by Iris Murdoch

The Sheltering Sky
by Paul Bowles

The Story of Lucy Gault
by William Trevor

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by Milan Kundera

The Underpainter
by Jane Urquhart

Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston

Three Junes
by Julia Glass

Tortilla Curtain
by T.C. Boyle

True History of the Kelly Gang
by Peter Carey

Unless
by Carol Shields

White Teeth
by Zadie Smith

Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
by Lorrie Moore

Mystery


Fearless Jones
by Walter Mosley

Motherless Brooklyn
by Jonathan Lethem

Samaritan
by Richard Price

The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett

Science Fiction


Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus
by Mary Shelley

Red Mars
by Kim Stanley Robinson

Biography & Memoir


A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers

Off to the Side
by Jim Harrison

The Last American Man
by Elizabeth Gilbert

The Liars' Club
by Mary Karr

Other Non-Fiction


Culture Jam
by Kalle Lasn

Fast Food Nation
by Eric Schlosser

Maus: A Survivor's Tale, Parts I and II
by Art Spiegelman

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich

The Orchid Thief
by Susan Orlean

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