The grad school novel
- Lahiri’s The Lowland
- Cole’s Open City
- Kumar’s Immigrant, Montana
- Gessen’s A Terrible Country,
- Pirsig, Zen
- Stoner by john williams
- Irving, The Water-Method Man
- Lodge, The British Museum is Falling Down
- Amis, Lucky Jim
- Smiley, Moo
- The Book of Daniel by E L Doctorow
- 2666 by Roberto Bolaño
- “Anathem” by Neal Stephenson
- The Marriage Plot
- The Possessed by Elif Batuman
- Harad, Coming to My Senses
- Wang, Chemistry
- Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher
- The Book of Daniel by E L Doctorow
- You Must Be Very Intelligent by Karin Bodewits
- Save Your Own by Elisabeth Brink
- War of the Encyclopaedists by Christopher Robinson and Gavin Kovite
- Doctor’s Oral by George R. Stewart
- Eco??
- The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
- The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas
- A Jealous Ghost by A.N. Wilson .
- All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost by Lam Samantha Chang
- My Education by Susan Choi
- Real Life by Brandon Taylor
- Frankenstein by Shelley
- Borges, Library of Babel
- Borges, Tlon
- Borges, Fune the Memorious