To Read: Nonfiction

1. "Water Wars" by Vandana Shiva
2. "When the Rivers Run Dry" by Fred Pearce
3. "Country Driving" by Peter Hessler
4. "Oracle Bones" by Peter Hessler
5. "This Bridge Called My Back" by Gloria A
6. "Dangerous Liasons" by Anne McClintock
7. "Scattered Hegemonies" by Inderpal Grewal
8. "Decentering the Center" by Uma Narayan
9. "Global Critical Race Feminism" by Adrien Wing
10. "Descent Into Chaos" by Ahmed Rashid
11. "The Year That Changed the World" by Michael Meyer
12. "Gender Violence" by Sally Engle Merry
13. "Global Feminisms" by Aili Mari Tripp

To Read: The "Classics"

1. "Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert
2. "Fathers and Sons" by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
3. "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
4. "Animal Farm" by George Orwell
5. "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
6. "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
7. "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka
8. "The Outsider" by Albert Camus
9. "Don Quixote" by Miguel Cervantes

To Read: Literature

1. "Invisible Cities" by Italo Calvino
2. "If on a Winter's Night a Traveler" by Italo Calvino
3. "Kafka on the Shore" by Haruki Marukami
4. "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" by Haruki Marukami
5. "The White Tiger" by Aravind Adiga
6. "The Inheritance of Loss" by Kiran Desai
7. "The Promise" by Chaim Potok
8. "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
9. "Waiting" by Ha Jin
10. "The Life and Times of Michael K" by JM Coetzee
11."Let the Great World Spin" by Colum McCann
12. "Zoli" by Colum McCann
13."The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
14. "The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz
15. "Diary of a Madman" by Lu Xun
16. "Say You're One of Them" by Uwem Akpan