Suggested Reading

A truncated list of texts that have affected my writing:

Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
Malgudi Days, R.K. Narayan
The Mahabharata
Our Arcadia, Robin Lippincott
Women in Love, D.H. Lawrence
The Home and the World, Rabindranath Tagore
Ice Skating at the North Pole, Sena Jeter Naslund
Where the Road Bottoms Out, Victoria Redel
All about H.Hatterr, G.V. Desani
A Good Man is Hard to Find, Flannery O'Connor
Coming Through Slaughter, Michael Ondaatje
Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson
I, etc., Susan Sontag
Baltasar and Blimunda, Jose Saramago
Collected Stories, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Collected Stories, Grace Paley
The White Bone, Barbara Gowdy
Midnight's Children and Imaginary Homelands, Salman Rushdie
Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
Little Kingdoms, Steven Millhauser
Rooms Are Never Finished, Agha Shahid Ali
The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Lucy, Jamaica Kincaid
Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner
Sleepless Nights, Elizabeth Hardwick
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Anne Fadiman
The Palm Wine Drinkard, Amos Tutuola
Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
World Hotel, Reetika Vazirani
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
The City and the House, Natalia Ginzburg