top shelf: HIGH-CALIBRE reads

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena – Anthony Marra
A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing – Eimear McBride
A Tale for the Time Being – Ruth Ozeki
The Art of Racing in the Rain – Garth Stein
Atonement – Ian McEwan
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay – Michael Chabon
Being Mortal – Atul Gawande
Bird by Bird: Instructions on Writing and Life – Anne Lamott
The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan
Circe – Madeline Miller
The Child in Time – Ian McEwan
Chorus of Mushrooms – Hiromi Goto
City of Thieves – David Benioff
Dance Dance Dance – Haruki Murakami
The Door – Magda Szabó
Epitaph for a Peach – David Masumoto
The Giver – Lois Lowry
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
Half a Lifelong Romance – Eileen Chang
H is for Hawk – Helen Macdonald
Gathering Blue — Lois Lowry
Identity – Milan Kundera
The Immortalists – Chloe Benjamin
The Joke – Milan Kundera
The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan
The Kitchen God’s Wife – Amy Tan
The Lesser Bohemians – Eimear McBride
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
The Luminaries – Eleanor Catton
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness – Arundhati Roy
Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous – Ocean Vuong
Pachinko – Min Jin Lee
Parade – Shūichi Yoshida
The Soul of an Octopus – Sy Montgomery
South of the Border, West of the Sun – Haruki Murakami
Stoner – John Williams
The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
When We Were Orphans – Kazuo Ishiguro
Where the Red Fern Grows – Wilson Rawls
Why the Whales Came — Michael Morpurgo
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
The Woman in the Dunes – Kōbō Abe