NOVELS AND NOVELLAS
1984 (Harcourt Brace, 1949) by George Orwell
2666 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008) by Roberto Bolaño
After Dark (Knopf, 2007) by Haruki
Murakami
All Hallow's
Eve (Faber & Faber,
1945) by Charles Williams
The Animal
People by Henry Oso
Quintero
Atlas Shrugged (Random House, 1957) by Ayn Rand
Aztec (Atheneum, 1980) by Gary Jennings
Balún-Canán by Rosario Castellanos
Blue Water (Morrow, 2006) by A. Manette Ansay
Brideshead
Revisited (Little, Brown,
1945) by Evelyn Waugh
Bridge of
Sighs (Knopf, 2007) by
Richard Russo
Caramelo (Knopf, 2002) by Sandra Cisneros
Castle (Graywolf Press, 2009) by J. Robert Lennon
The Children's Hospital (McSweeney's Books,
2006) by Chris Adrian
The Chronicles
of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
A Confederacy
of Dunces (Louisiana
State University Press, 1980) by John Kennedy Toole
The Conqueror (Open Letter Books, 2009) by Jan Kjaerstad
Crash (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973) by J. G. Ballard
Deep Rivers (Waveland, 2002) by José María Arguedas
Dune (Chilton Books, 1965) by Frank Herbert
Empire Falls (Knopf, 2001) by Richard Russo
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Random House, 1971) by Hunter S. Thompson
Fire in the Blood (Knopf, 2007) by Irène Némirovsky
The First Man (Knopf, 1995) by Albert Camus
The Garden of Last Days (Norton, 2008) by Andre Dubus III
God Says No (McSweeney's Books, 2009) by James Hannaham
The Guernsey
Literary and Potato Peel Society (Dial, 2009) by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Half Asleep in
Frog Pajamas (Bantam, 1994) by Tom
Robbins
Home (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008) by Marilynne
Robinson
The House on Coliseum Street (Knopf, 1961) by Shirley Ann Grau
House on Mango
Street (Arte Publico
Press, 1983) by Sandra Cisneros
El Juego del
Ángel (Vintage, 2008) by
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Kafka on the Shore (Knopf, 2005) by
Haruki Murakami
Killer Karma: A Father Ananda
Mystery (Silkworm Books, 2008) by Nick Wilgus
Landscape in Concrete (Open Letter Books, 2009) by Jakov Lind
Lottery (Berkley Trade, 2008) by Patricia Woods
Lowboy (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009) by John Wray
The Mambo
Kings Sing Songs of Love (Farrar,
Straus and Giroux, 1989) by Oscar Hijuelo
The Mariposa Club (Alyson Books, 2009) by Rigoberto González
Mr. Mendoza's Paintbrush (Cinco Puntos Press, 2009) by Luis Alberto Urrea,
illustrated by Christopher Cardinale
A Mercy (Knopf, 2008) by Toni Morrison
Moloch: Or,
This Gentile World (Grove
Press, 1992) by Henry Miller
The New Valley (Grove Press, 2009) by Josh Weil
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Pantheon Books, 2005) by Alexander McCall Smith
Normal People Don't Live Like
This (Persea Books, 2009) by Dylan Landis
Norwegian Wood
(Vintage International,
2000) by Haruki Murakami
Novel Without a Name (Morrow, 1995) by Duong Thu Huong
Odd Thomas (Bantam Books, 2004) by Dean Koontz
Only Revolutions (Pantheon Books, 2006) by Mark Z. Danielewski
Oscar and Lucinda (Harper & Row, 1988) by Peter Carey
A Person of Interest (Viking, 2008) by Susan Choi
A Posturing of
Fools (River City, 2004)
by Brewster Milton Robertson
A Prodigal
Summer (HarperCollins,
2000) by Barbara Kingsolver
A Proper
Knowledge (Bellevue
Literary Press, 2008) by Michelle Latiolais
Prospero's
Cell (Dutton, 1960) by
Lawrence Durrell
Pygmy (Doubleday, 2009) by Chuck Palahniuk
The Reader (Pantheon Books, 1997) by Bernhard
Schlink
The Riddle of the Traveling
Skull (McSweeney's Books, 2005) by Harry
Stephen Keeler
Ruins (Akashic Books, 2009) by Achy
Obejas
Saints in
Limbo (WaterBrook Press,
2009) by River Jordon
Sag Harbor (Doubleday, 2009) by Colson Whitehead
The Secret of
Hurricanes (MacAdam/Cage,
2002) by Theresa Williams
The Selected Works of T. S.
Spivet (Penguin Press, 2009) by Reif
Larsen
Shark
Dialogues (Atheneum,
1994) by Kiana Davenport
The Signal (Viking, 2009) by Ron Carlson
Sinners (HarperCollins, 1971) by Jackie Collins
Specimen Days (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005) by Michael Cunningham
The Story of
Edgar Sawtelle (Ecco,
2008) by David Wroblewski
The Summer
Book (Pantheon Books,
1974) by Tove Jansson
The Tapestries
(Little, Brown, 2002) by Kien
Nguyen
Technology as
Symptom and Dream (Routledge,
1989) by Robert D. Romanyshyn
The Temple of Wild Geese (Dalkey Archive Press, 2008) by Tsutomu Mizukami
To the Wedding (Pantheon Books, 1995) by John Berger
Underworld (Scribner,
1997) by Don DeLillo
The Vagrants (Random House, 2009) by Yiyun Li
Vampire
Chronicles by Anne Rice
Voyage Along the Horizon (McSweeney's
Books, 2006) by Javier Marías
Watchmen (DC Comics, 1995) by Alan Moore
The Women (Viking, 2009) by T. C. Boyle
Yarwar Fiesta (Waveland, 2002) by José María Arguedas
The Year of
Fog (Delacorte Press,
2007) by Michelle Richmond
CLASSICS
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Golden Bowl by Henry James
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Julian by Gore Vidal
Les Misérables by
Victor Hugo
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Ulysses by James Joyce
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS
"A Dog Heaven" from Sweet Talk (Random House, 1990) by Stephanie Vaughn
Don't Cry (Pantheon Books, 2009) by Mary Gaitskill
Everything Ravaged, Everything
Burned (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009)
by Wells Tower
How It Ended (Knopf, 2009) by Jay McInerney
Legends of the
Fall (Delacorte/S.
Lawrence, 1979) by Jim Harrison
Lord Peter:
The Complete Lord Peter Wimsey Stories (Harper & Row, 1972) by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Magic of Blood (University of New Mexico Press, 1993) by Dagoberto Gilb
Oh, Don't You
Cry for Me (Jefferson Press, 2008) by Philip Shirley
Olive Kitteridge (Random House, 2008)
by Elizabeth Strout
Reckonings: Contemporary Short
Fiction by Native American Women (Oxford
University Press, 2008) edited by Hertha D. Sweet Wong, Lauren Stuart Muller,
Jana Sequoya Magdaleno
Romancer Erector (Dalkey Archive Press, 2001) by Diane Williams
The Stories of John Cheever (Knopf,
1978)
Tunneling to the Center of the
Earth (Harper Perennial, 2009) by Kevin
Wilson
The View From
Castle Rock (Knopf, 2006)
by Alice Munro
Woman
Hollering Creek (Random
House, 1991) by Sandra Cisneros
