| Author |
Title |
Notes
and description |
| White,
Baily |
Mama
Makes Up Her Mind |
|
| Trillin,
Calvin |
Messages
from my Father |
|
| Hoffman,
Eva |
Lost
in Translation |
|
| TSing
Loh, Sandra |
Depth
Takes a Holiday |
|
| Hellenga,
Robert |
The
Sixteen Pleasures |
|
| Sedaris,
David |
Naked |
|
| Kundera,
Milan |
The
Book of Laughter and Forgetting |
|
| Canin,
Ethan |
The
Palace Thief |
Two
other books by Ethan Canin are also excellent, they are: The Emperor of
the Air (short stories) and for Kings and Planets (novel). |
| Card,
Orson Scott |
Enders
Game |
|
| Bradford,
Richard |
Red
Sky at Morning |
|
| Bryson,
Bill |
Neither
Here Nor There |
|
| Hawks,
Tony |
Round
Ireland with a Fridge |
|
| Sterling,
Bruce |
Islands
in the Net |
|
| Tanizaki,
Junchiro |
The
Makioka Sisters |
|
| Yehoshua,
A.B |
A
Late Divorce |
|
| Hellman,
Lillian |
An
Unfinished Woman |
|
| Bernstein,
Jeremy |
The
Life it Brings |
|
| Auster,
Paul |
Leviathan |
|
|
Iyer, Pico |
The
Lady and the Monk |
|
| Feynman,
Richard |
Surely
You're Joking Mr. Feynman |
|
| Rowling,
J.K. |
Harry
Potter and ... |
All
four books to date are recommended. |
| Johnson,
Diane |
le
Divorce |
|
| Reichl,
Ruth |
Tender
at the Bone |
|
| Fadiman,
Anne |
The
Spirit Catches you and you fall down |
|
| Jin,
Ha |
Waiting |
|
| Bronson, Po |
The Nudist on the Lateshift |
|
| Lahiri, Jhumpa |
The Interpreter of Maladies |
|
| Hessler, Peter |
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze |
|
| Gourevitch, Phillip |
We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda |
|
| Chabon, Michael |
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay |
|
| Sedaris, David |
Me Talk Pretty One Day |
|
| Horn, Stacy |
Waiting for My Cats to Die |
|
