Foot Notes in Gaza, by Joe Sacco; Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel; Fordlandia by Greg Grandin; the embers by hyatt bass; The Calligrapher's Daughter by Eugenia Kim; invisible by paul auster; The Girl with Glass Feet by Ali Shaw; Our Boys by Joe Drape; mennonite in a little black dress by Rhoda Janzen; The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande and The Shaking Woman or a History of My Nerves by Siri Hustvedt