Dancing in Odessa (Ilya Kaminsky), The Satanic Verses (Salman Rushdie), The Writing Life (Annie Dillard), Autobiography of a Face (Lucy Grealy), Truth and Beauty (Ann Patchet), Love Poems (Nikki Giovanni), Fierce Attachments (Vivian Gornick), One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia-Marquez), The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini), Dear Mr. Kawabata (Rashid Al-Daif), Une Femme Rompue (Assia Djebar), La Femme Rompue (Simone de Beauvoir), The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy), Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston), The Color Purple (Alice Walker), The Black Notebooks (Toi Dericotte), Sun on a Cloudy Day (Hanna Mina), Catch 22 (Joseph Heller)

Histoire de Beyrouth (Samir Kassir)

My couch, Saturday afternoon, taking cat naps with my cat between chapters

Ursula from One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Salman Rushdie
Arundhati Roy
Vivian Gornick
Khaled Husseini
Toi Dericotte
Nikki Giovanni
Hanna Mina