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A list of the books my students and I have read and discussed in my classes since 2003:
Chimamanda Adichie, Purple Hibiscus
Bernardo Atxaga, Obabakoak
Bernardo Atxaga, Two Brothers
Sijie Dai, Balzac and The Little Chines Mistress
Nuruddin Farah, Links
Cristina Garcia, Dreaming in Cuba
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
Myla Goldberg, Bee Season
Moses Isegawa, Snakepit
Moses Isegawa, Abyssinian Chronicles
Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
Ha Jin, Waiting
Yasunari Kawabata, Thousand Cranes
Yasmina Khadra, The Swallows of Kabul
Elizabeth McCracken, The Giant's House
Zakes Mda, Ways of Dying
Zakes Mda, Cion
Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow
Steven Milhauser, Martin Dressler
Tierno Monénembo, The Oldest Orphan
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Caryl Phillips, Higher Ground
Tom Piazza, My Cold War
Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie, Fury
José Saramago, Blindness
Ken Saro-Wiwa, A Forest of Flowers
Edward Schwarzschild, Responsible Men
Manil Suri, The Death of Vishnu
Manil Suri, The Age of Shiva
Yvonne Vera, The Stone Virgins
Yvonne Vera, Butterfly Burning
Hanan al-Shaykh, I Sweep the Sun Off Rooftops
Elisa Albert, How This Night Is Different
Jorge Luis Borges, Collected Fictions
Robert Olen Butler, A Good Scent from A Strange Mountain
Robert Olen Butler, Tabloid Dreams
Ethan Canin, Emperor of the Air
Ethan Canin, The Palace Thief
Raymond Carver, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Raymond Carver, Where I'm Calling From
Emma Donoghue, The Woman Who Gave Birth To Rabbits
Richard Ford, Rock Springs
Amy Hempel, Collected Stories
Karl Iagnemma, On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction
Michael Jaime-Becerra, Every Night Is Ladies' Night
Ha Jin, The Bridegroom
Yasunari Kawabata, House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories
Etgar Keret, The Nimrod Flipout
Milan Kundera, Laughable Loves
Rattawut Lapcharoensap, Sightseeing
Elizabeth McCracken, Here's Your Hat, What's Your Hurry?
Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes
Haruki Murakami, After the Quake
Julie Orringer, How To Breathe Underwater
ZZ Packer, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
Mary Robison, Tell Me: Thirty Stories
Salman Rushdie, East, West
Edward Schwarzschild, The Family Diamond
Joan Silber, Ideas of Heaven
Hannah Tinti, Animal Crackers
Tobias Wolff, Collected Stories