Joseph Roth's The Radetsky March and The Emperor's Tomb
Shirley Hazzard's The Great Fire and The Transit of Venus
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead and Home
Deborah Eisenberg, Twilight of the Superheroes
Zadie Smith, On Beauty (which should be read simultaneously with E.M. Forster's Howard's End.)
Bohumil Hrabel, I Served the King of England
Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Ian McEwen, Atonement and Saturday and On Chesil Beach
Isaac Babel, The Complete Works
Jane Austen, Emma and Pride and Prejudice
Harriet Doerr, Stones for Ibarra
Kazuo Ishiguo, The Remains of the Day
Willa Cather, My Antonia and Death Comes for the Archbishop
Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
J.L. Carr, A Month in the Country
Glenway Wescott, A Pilgrim Hawk
William Trevor, The Collected Stories, The Hill Bachelors, and Two Lives, in particular the novella Reading Turgenev
Alice Munro, in particular the collections Friend of My Youth and Selected Stories
Anton Chekhov, the stories collected by Richard Ford with Ford's introduction
Patrick O'Brien, Testimonies
Iris Murdoch, An Accidental Man
Anne Tyler, An Accidental Tourist and The Accidental Marriage
Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
Sandor Marai, Embers
Vladimir Nabokov, his memoir Speak Memory
Ha Jin, Waiting
Peter Taylor, A Summons to Memphis
Mary Oliver's poetry collection White Pine
E. Annie Proulx, The Shipping News
Andrea Barrett, Ship Fever
Daniel Alercon, War by Candlelight
Yiyun Li, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
Eudora Welty, particularly The Optimist's Daughter
Flannery O'Connor, particularly A Good Man is Hard to Find and Habit of Being, her collected letters
Elizabeth Bishop, her poetry and her collected letters, One Art
M.F.K Fisher, great non-fiction, especially about food, particularly How to Cook a Wolf
Ted Hughes, poetry, Tales from Ovid
Penelope Fitzgerald, The Blue Flower and The Bookshop
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude
Anita Brookner, Providence and Hotel du Lac
Chang Rae Lee, A Gesture Life
Bernardo Atxaga, Obabakoak
Katherine Mansfield, Stories
Elizabeth Spencer, The Stories of Elizabeth Spencer
E.M. Forster, A Passage to India and Howards End
Alice McDermott, Charming Billy and After This
Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse
Michael Cunningham, The Hours (his response to Mrs. Dalloway)
Pat Barker, The Ghost Road, The Eye in the Door, and Regeneration, a trilogy of novels about WWI
Paul West, Love's Mansion
Adam Zagajewski, poems, Without End
Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart
Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake and Interpreter of Maladies
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
