The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama

The Story of Zahra by Hanan al-Shaykh

The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy

The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea

One Hundred Years of Solitude  by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson  (non fiction)

Secret Life of Bees  by Sue Monk Kidd

Death In Venice  by Thomas Mann
The Razor's Edge  by W. Sommerset Maugham
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi  (non fiction)
Underworld  by Don Delillo
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Henvy V by Shakespeare
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth
West with the Night by Beryl Markham (non fiction)
The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
Shalimar The Clown by Salman Rushdie
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Waiting by Ha Jin
The Dining Room by A. R. Gurney (play)
Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen
All The King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie