
by Christian Bök
- Winner of the 2002 Griffith Poetry Prize featuring poems that are univocalic, (words that are limited to a single vowel).
Persuasion (M)
by Jane Austen
- The author’s last novel in which Annie Elliot is mourning an old love and hoping for a second chance at life.

by Sylvia Plath
- a haunting American classic of Esther Greenwood’s descent into madness.
To Kill a Mockingbird (M)
by Harper Lee
- Classic novel of civil rights that everyone should read, or see the movie.

by Douglas Glover
- Governor General Award winner with historical fiction tale of Marguerite de la Rocque de Roberval, a French woman marooned off the coast of Quebec.
Martian Chronicles (M)
by Ray Bradbury
- Classic science fiction novel which influence everyone’s view of Mars.

by Nicholas Krauss
- 2006 Orange Prize finalist whose message is no matter how alone you are you are connected to someone else.
2001 : a Space Odyssey (M)
by Arthur C. Clarke
- a spacy (in more ways than one) history of evolution through time and space.
The Bell Jar has been on my "to read" list for years. Now is the time.
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