Vile Bodies

Evelyn Waugh

The Wild Iris

Louise Glück

The Little Horses of Tarquinia

Marguerite Duras

Sex and Rage

Eve Babitz

The Dud Avocado

Elaine Dundy

Talk

Linda Rosenkrantz

The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)

Patricia Highsmith

The Razor’s Edge

W. Somerset Maugham

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

The Light Years (Cazalet Chronicles, #1)

Elizabeth Jane Howard

The Last September

Elizabeth Bowen

Hear the Wind Sing

Haruki Murakami

Kusamakura (Penguin Classics)

Natsume Sōseki

All Passion Spent

Vita Sackville-West

French Exit

Patrick deWitt

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Muriel Barbery

A Sport and a Pastime

James Salter

Life: A User's Manual

Georges Perec

Good Morning, Midnight

Jean Rhys

The Stranger

Albert Camus

Against Nature

Joris-Karl Huysmans

Nausea

Jean-Paul Sartre

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

Giorgio Bassani

The Beautiful Summer

Cesare Pavese

Mansfield Park

Jane Austen

Rudin

Ivan Turgenev

A Hero of Our Time

Mikhail Lermontov

Eugene Onegin

Alexander Pushkin

Planet Work: Rethinking Labor and Leisure in the Anthropocene

Ryan Hediger

Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence

Kristen R. Ghodsee