Nonfiction
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee
Up In The Old Hotel: selected essays by Joseph Mitchell
Coming Into the Country by John McPhee
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Collected Essays of E.B. White by E.B. White
The Liar’s Club by Mary Karr
Speaking of Faith by Krista Tippett (of NPR)
The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
Great With Child by Beth Ann Fennelley
The Writer’s Life by Annie Dillard
Among Schoolchildren by Tracy Kidder
Fiction
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Liberated Bride by A.B. Yehoshua
The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Maytrees by Annie Dillard
Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Recommended Periodicals
Oxford American - The Literary South
The New Yorker – The Literary North
The New York Times
Narrative Magazine
Poets & Writers
The Economist
