The Reading List

Girl with Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier (Asha)
House of Sand and Fog, Andre Dubus III (Carl)
God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy (Linda)
Fox in the Attic, Richard Hughes (Dick)
Daughters of the Dust, Julie Dash (Jasmine)
Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole (Maria)
Broom of the System, David Foster Wallace (Scott)
White Teeth, Zadie Smith (Christine)
Promise of Rest, Reynolds Price (Vince)
The Keepers of Truth, Michael Collins (Asha)
Patty Jane's House of Curl, Lorna Landvik (Vicki)
Soul Mountain, Gao Xingjian (Rachel)
The Muse Asylum, David Czuchlewski (Linda)
Wisdom, Heather Neff (Jasmine)
Wicked: The Life & Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Gregory McGuire (Scott)
Perfume, Patrick Suskind (Christine)
The Hours, Michael Cunningham and Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf (Asha)
Pickup, Nadine Gordimer (Rachel)
Maus, Art Spiegelman (Heather)
100 Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Linda)
Bel Canto, Ann Patchett (Liz)
Life of Pi, Yann Martel (Scott)
Autobiography of My Mother, Jamaica Kincaid (Jasmine)
Empire Falls, Richard Russo (Asha)
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller (Christine)
The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd (Lori)
Russian Debutante’s Handbook, Gary Shteyngart (Rachel)
The Archivist, Martha Cooley and the Wasteland, T.S. Elliot (Linda)
Book of Salt, Monique Truong (Scott)
Troll: A Love Story, Johanna Sinisalo (Heather)
Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri (Jasmine)
Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon (Asha)
Roaches Have No King, Daniel Evan Weiss (Christine)
Atonement, Ian McEwen (Liz)
Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon (Chris)
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates, Tom Robbins (Linda)
Fountainhead, Ayn Rand (Scott)
Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco (Scott, Guilty Pleasure selection)
The Voyage, Philip Caputo (Rachel)
Running with Scissors, Augusten Burroughs (Sunni)
Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (Christine)
Seven Types of Ambiguity, Elliot Perlman (Liz)
Girl Who Played Go, Shan Sa (Hera)
Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee (Danica)
Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami (Linda)
When We Were Orphans, Kazuo Ishiguro (Scott)
All the Names, Jose Saramago (Wayne)
Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell (Sunni)
I Lucifer, Glen Duncan (Jasmine)
Inheritence of Loss, Kiran Desai (Rachelle)
Double Bind: A Novel, Chris Bohjalian (Melissa)
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Mark Haddon (John)
Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates (Christine)
Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon (Hera)
No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy (Liz)
Lamb: A Gospel According to Biff, Christopher Moore (Matt)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig (Scott)
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler, Italo Calvino (Linda)
Lullaby, Chuck Palahniuk (Wayne)
A Gracious Plenty, Sherri Reynolds (Missy)
The God of Animals, Aryn Kyle (Sunni)
Human Stain, Phillip Roth (Stacey)
Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz (Jamila)
Polished Hoe, Austin Clarke (Jonathan)
Choke, Chuck Palahniuk (Rachelle)
A Supposedly Fun Thing, David Foster Wallace (Scott)
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Robert A. Heinlein (Melissa (I) Moroney)
Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury (Christine)
Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery (Linda)
Egalia’s Daughters, Gerd Brantenberg (Nesha)
Lucky One, Nicholas Sparks (Sunni)
Cane River, Lalita Tademy (Angela)
Say You Are One of Them, Uwem Akpan (Phyllis)
Unburnable, Marie-Elena John (Mia)
Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson(Calli)

Updated March 5, 2010