Appearing as a numbered list with no particular priority:
1. Finish James Wood's How Fiction Works
2.
Shake Terribly the Earth: Stories from an Appalachian Family (Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia) by Sarah Beth Childers (available October 2013!!!)
3.
Charle's Baxter's Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction
4.
Richard Hugo's The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing
5 To Tell the Truth: Practice and Craft in Narrative Nonfiction anthology
6. Revisit Barthes'
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
7. Dawn Lonsinger's new poetry book Whelm
8. Perhaps on the plane ride home: Khaled Hosseini's work, including A Thousand Splendid Suns
9. Richard Wright's Native Son
10. Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence
12. Forster's Howards End + Aspects of the Novel
14. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
15. Poetry (to be read in full collections) by Lisa Olstein, Carl Phillips, Hayden Carruth, Marianne Moore, Donald Ray Polluck, & Marianne Boruch
16. Claire Messud's new novel The Woman Upstairs
17. Dave Perry's In Those Days
18. Lorrie Moore's Anagrams
19. Alice Munro's Dear Life
20. Charles Baxter's Gryphon