The botany of desire: a plant's-eye view of the world
Michael Pollan
The Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book
V. S. Naipaul
The Hotel New Hampshire
John Irving
The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston; Edwidge Danticat
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou