The Reading List

Fiction
1. Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchid (1998) / Kiran Desai
2. Thirteen Moons (2006) / Charles Frazier
3. Dark Places (1994) / Kate Grenville
4. A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (2005) / Yiyun Li
5. Heir to the Glimmering World (2004) / Cynthia Ozick
6. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer [trans. from the German, Das Parfum (1985), by John E. Woods) (1986) / Patrick Süskind

Stories
1. A Winter Book: Selected Stories by Tove Jansson [(trans. from the Swedish by Silvester Mazzarella, David McDuff and Kingsley Hart)] (2006) / Tove Jansson
2. Varieties of Exile (2003) / Mavis Gallant
3. Paris Stories (2002) / Mavis Gallant
4. The Blue (2006) / Maggie Gee
5. Either Side of Winter (2005) / Benjamin Markovits
6. Good Women (2005) / Jane Stevenson
7. Mothers and Sons (2006) / Colm Tóibín

Nonfiction
1. We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction (2006) / Joan Didion
2. Dangerous Knowledge: Orientalism and Its Discontents (2006) / Robert Irwin
3. The God Delusion (2006) / Richard Dawkins
4. How Novels Work / John Mullan
5. Orientalism (1978) / Edward W. Said