Novels
Daughter of Fortune by Isabelle Allende
In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster
The Wonder Spot by Melissa Bank
Irrational Doorways of Mr. Gerard by Nancy Luke Bauer ’56
Year of the Smoke Girl by Olivia Boler ’93
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Monkey Bridge by Lan Cao ’83
White Noise by Don DeLillo
Last Day of Paradise by Kiki Denis FP’94
Democracy by Joan Didion
The Mistress of Spices by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Mind-Body Problem by Rebecca Goldstein
The Binding Chair: Or, a Visit from the Foot Emancipation Society by Kathryn Harrison
The Empress of the Splendid Season by Oscar Hijuelos
The Secret Thief by Judith Jaeger ’95
Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Beatrice & Virgil by Yann Martel
The Last Life by Claire Messud
The Strangeness of Beauty by Lydia Minatoya
Ahab’s Wife: Or, the Star-Gazer by Sara Jeter Naslund
On Air by Maniza Naqvi ’83
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
Ruby River by Lynn Pruett ’82
A Page Out of Life by Kathleen Reid ’86
I Married a Communist by Philip Roth
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
The Fatigue Artist by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
A Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan
Ash by Holly Thompson ’81
Maryfield Academy by Carla J. Tomaso ’72
Meridian by Alice Walker
Short Story Collections
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
Willful Creatures by Aimee Bender
Come to Me by Amy Bloom
Secret Names of Women by Lynne Barrett ’72
MHC Professor of English
What Do We Mean When We Talk About Love? by Raymond Carver
History Lessons by Joan C. Connor ’76 (Winner of the AWP Award for Short Fiction)
Lives of Mapmakers by Alicia L. Conroy ’85
What We Save for Last by Corinne Demas (formerly Corinne Demas Bliss)
Drunk with Love by Ellen Gilchrist
Tumble Home by Amy Hempel
Dr. King’s Refrigerator & Other Bedtime Stories by Charles Johnson
Self-Help by Lorrie Moore
The Caprices by Sabina Murray ’89 (2003 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction)
A Good Man is Hard to Find & Other Stories by Flannery O’Connor
The Age of Grief by Jane Smiley
Delicate: Stories of Light & Desire by Mary Sojourner
