1. The Great Failure: A Bartender, A Monk, and My Unlikely Path to Truth by Natalie Goldberg m#
2. Ricochet River by Robin Cody n+
3. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri n+#*
4. The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession by Susan Orlean nf+#
5. Reasons for Moving (manuscript) by Stephanie Eden Lenz n#
6. Star Gazing: Charting Feminist Literary Criticism by Andrea Lebowitz nf+
7. Grasshopper by Barbara Vine n#
8. The Journal Project: Dialogues and Conversations Inside Women’s Studies edited by Dana Putnam, Dorothy Kidd, Elaine Dornan & Patty Moore nf+
9. Contemporary Verse 2, 27.3 (Winter 2005), “The Poetics of Space: Where Poetry Lives” p
10. Anonymous Lawyer by Jeremy Blachman n+#
11. The Moon is Always Female by Marge Piercy p#
12. Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver n#
13. Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival by Anderson Cooper m+#
14. S is for Silence by Sue Grafton n
15. The Untelling by Tayari Jones n+#
16. The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell e#
17. Skin Divers by Anne Michaels p#
18. Writing a Woman’s Life by Carolyn Heilbrun nf+
19. The Mirror and the Veil by Viviane Serfaty nf+
20. The Last Good Day by Gail Bowen f+
21. Birds of America by Lorrie Moore s+#
22. Man Walks into a Room by Nicole Krauss n+#

Ratings Code:

a anthology
e essays
m memoir
n novel
nf non-fiction
p poetry
s short stories
+ first book by this author
# will read more by this author
* best on this list

And also:

Read/skimmed 40+ books for my directed reading course this summer. The two that stand out (aside from Bakhtin & Kristeva) were Carolyn Heilbrun’s Writing a Woman’s Life & Viviane Serfaty’s The Mirror and the Veil: An Overview of American Online Diaries and Blogs.