Books

Reading:
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
Diary - Chuck Palahniuk
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie

And after:

Fiction
Ulysses - James Joyce
The Tin Drum - Guenter Grass
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks
Everything is Illuminated or Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer (one or the other, both if I like the first one)


Picture books
Anything with Shaun Tan illustrations. (The Arrival was amazing.)
Maira Kalman's books