Suggested Reads

Fiction
1. A Golden Age (Hodder Murray, 2008) (first published by John Murray in 2007) / Tahmima Anam
2. Moral Disorder and Other Stories
(Anchor Books, 2008) (first published by Nan A. Talese in 2006) / Margaret Atwood
3. The Japanese Wife (HarperCollins India, 2008) / Kunal Basu
4. Notes from an Exhibition (HarperPerennial) / Patrick Gale
5. The Clothes on Their Backs (Virago/Little, Brown, 2008) / Linda Grant
6. The Transit of Venus (Macmillan, 1980/Virago Press, 1995) / Shirley Hazzard
7. Valentines (Anchor Books, 2008) (first published by Pantheon in 2007) / Olaf Olafsson

Nonfiction
1. Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton: An Autobiography (Fourth Estate, 2008) / J.G. Ballard
2. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Vintage, 2007) (first published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1997) / Jean-Dominique Bauby
3. Why Read the Classics? (Vintage, 2001) (first published by Pantheon in 1999) / Italo Calvino
4. Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China (Harper Perennial, 2007) (first published by HarperCollins in 2006 ) / Peter Hessler
5. A History of Reading (Penguin, 1997) (first published in the U.S. by Viking Penguin in 1996) / Alberto Manguel
6. The Elements of Style (first published in 1957) (Penguin, 2007) / William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White (with illustrations by Maira Kalman)
7. How Fiction Works (Jonathan Cape, 2008) / James Wood