The Reading List

Fiction
1. My Life as a Fake (2003) / Peter Carey 2. Veronica (2005) / Mary Gaitskill
3. The Travel Writer (2006) / Simone Lazaroo
4. The Garlic Ballads (1988; 1995) / Mo Yan (trans. from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt)
5. The Black Book (2006) / Orhan Pamuk (a new trans. from the Turkish by Maureen Freely)
6. The Thirteenth Tale (2006) / Diane Setterfield
7. The Ruby in Her Navel (2006) / Barry Unsworth

Nonfiction
1. Bamboo (2005) / William Boyd
2. The Year of Magical Thinking (2005) / Joan Didion
3. The Complete Polysyllabic Spree (2006) / Nick Hornby