Some books I’ve read:

2010
Steig Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Steig Larsson, The Girl who Played with Fire
Steig Larsson, The Girl who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
Scott O’Dell, Island of the Blue Dolphins
Francesca Lia Block, Weetzie Bat
Patricia MacLachlin, Sarah, Plain and Tall
Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion
Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
Stephen Elliott, The Adderall Diaries
Alan Lightman, Einstein’s Dreams
Geshe Tashi Tswering, Buddhist Psychology
William Faulkner, Light in August
Trans. Coleman Barks, Rumi: The Book of Love
Richard Yates, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
David Shields, Reality Hunger
Terri Senft, Camgirls: Celebrity and Community in the Age of Social Networks
Karen Armstrong, The Spiral Staircase
Tao Lin, Richard Yates
Mary Karr, Lit

2009
Toni Morrison, Beloved
Marilynne Robinson, Home
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
Pauline Réage, Story of O
Ed. Sara Jaffe & Mia Clarke, The Art of Touring
Toni Weschler, Taking Charge of Your Fertility
Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Jaimal Yogis, Saltwater Buddha
Trans. John Moyne and Coleman Barks, Unseen Rain: Quatrains of Rumi
Henry Drummond, The Greatest Thing in the World
Mary Robison, 1 D.O.A., 1 On the Way
Claus Hoie, Log of the Whaler Helena
Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
Thich Nhat Hanh, Essential Writings 
Vergil, Aeneid (in Latin this time!)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

2008
Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father
Jhumpa Lahiri, Unaccustomed Earth 
Art Spiegelman, Maus 1 & 2
Cicero, In Catilinam & Pro Murena
Trevor Leggett, Encounters in Yoga and Zen
Ed. Rosemary Magee, Conversations with Flannery O’Connor
Victoria Lancelotta, Here in the World
Ed. Robert Ellsberg, Flannery O’Connor: Spiritual Writings
David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames
Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Richard Braudigan, Willard and His Bowling Trophies
Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons, Watchmen
Philip Roth, The Ghost Writer
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier
William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
St. Therese of Lisieux, The Story of a Soul
The Rule of St. Benedict in English
Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ
Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies
Raymond Brown, Responses to 101 Questions on the Bible
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
John Updike, Rabbit, Run
Cynthia Ozick, The Shawl

2007
Deborah Garrison, A Working Girl Can’t Win
Vincent Lam, Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
Trans. Stephen Mitchell, Tao Te Ching
Elaine Pagels, Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas
Ajahn Passano & Ajahn Amaro, Broad View, Boundless Heart
Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory
Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island
Francine du Plexis Gray, Simone Weil
Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
Simone Weil, Waiting for God
Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain
Thornton Wilder, The Woman of Andros
Willa Cather, Shadows on the Rock
Tony Hoagland, Donkey Gospel
Sharon Olds, The Wellspring
Raymond Carver, Where I’m Calling From
The Cloud of Unknowing
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
Radindranath Tagore, Gitanjali
Chogyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
Thomas Merton, The Inner Experience
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You
Hafiz, The Gift
D. T. Suzuki, Mysticism
The Life of St. Teresa of Avila
Emilie Griffin, Turning
Plato, The Symposium
Rumi, Selected Poems
Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
Trans. Fagels, Virgil, Aeneid
Willa Cather, My Antonia
St. Augustine, Confessions
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
Fernando Pessoa, A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe
Samuel Beckett, Molloy
J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace
Henry James, Eight Tales From the Major Phase
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
Yasunari Kawabata, Beauty and Sadness
Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country
Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly
Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis
Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

Recommendations:

Stories & essays

Carver (Raymond), “A Small, Good Thing”
Didion (Joan), “Goodbye to All That”
Didion (Joan), “Why I Write” (excerpts)
García Marquéz (Gabriel), “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings”
Hemingway (Ernest), “Hills Like White Elephants”
July (Miranda), “The Shared Patio”
Kafka (Franz), “A Hunger Artist”
Mishima (Yukio), “Patriotism”
O’Connor (Flannery), “A Good Man is Hard To Find”
Salinger (J. D.), “For Esme – With Love and Squalor”

Books: Fiction & memoir
(Only one title is listed per author, though many have published several wonderful things.)

Baldwin (James), Giovanni’s Room
Banks (Russell), The Sweet Hereafter 
Bellow (Saul), Herzog
Colette, The Vagabond
Cunningham (Michael), The Hours
Didion (Joan), Play It as It Lays
Dillard (Annie), Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Dostoevsky (Fyodor), Crime and Punishment
Duras (Margueritte), The Lover
Ernaux (Annie), Happening
Eugenides (Jeffrey), Middlesex
Faulkner (William), Light in August
Fitzgerald (F. Scott), The Great Gatsby
Flaubert (Gustave), Madame Bovary
Foer (Jonathan Safran), Everything is Illuminated
Franzen (Jonathan), The Corrections 
Gogol (Nikolai), The Overcoat
Greene (Graham), The End of the Affair
Hemingway (Ernest), A Moveable Feast
Irving (John), The Cider House Rules
Jelinek (Elfrieda), The Piano Teacher
Kundera (Milan), The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Lahiri (Jhumpa), Interpreter of Maladies
Marquez (Gabriel Garcia), Innocent Erendira
Miller (Henry), Tropic of Cancer
Nabokov (Vladimir), Lolita
Nin (Anais), Henry and June
O’Connor (Flannery), The Complete Stories
Olmstead (Robert), Stay Here With Me
Ondaatje (Micheal), The English Patient
Patchett (Ann), Bel Canto
Plath (Sylvia), The Bell Jar
Proulx (E. Annie), The Shipping News
Robbins (Tom), Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Robinson (Marilynne), Housekeeping
Robison (Mary), Why Did I Ever
Roy (Arundhati), The God of Small Things
Salinger (J. D.), Franny and Zooey
Sartre (Jean-Paul), Nausea
Sedaris (David), Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim 
Smith (Lee), The Fair and Tender Ladies
Tolstoy (Leo), Anna Karenina
Winterson (Jeanette), The Passion
Woolf (Virginia), Mrs. Dalloway