10 books:
- Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, Barbara Demick
- The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides
- Some Ether, Nick Flynn
- Eating Animals, Jonathan Safran Foer
- We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families, Philip Gourevitch
- Othello, William Shakespeare
- Song and Dance: Poems, Alan Shapiro
- The Man Who Loved Children, Christina Stead
- Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, David Foster Wallace