Books, books, and talking about them.
Books, books, and talking about them,
and trolleying home to a third floor
walk-up and looking out the window
---Elizabeth Alexander
    from American Sublime

Bookshelf
 

fiction
The Last Days of Ptolemy Gray by Walter Mosley
The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill

non-fiction
The Lost Art of Walking by Geoff Nicholson

plays/theatre
God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris
Things of Dry Hours by Naomi Wallace
Letters To A Young Artist by Anna Deavere Smith

poetry
Tracy K. Smith's Life on Mars
Ross Gay's Bringing The Shovel Down
Jean Valentine's  Break The Glass