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 May 10: Preface: The Voyage Out

              Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

   Xavier de Maistre, Voyage Around My Room

   Harold Bloom, The Western Canon

9. July 6-10: Kolkata: Rewriting Empire                        

Rudyard Kipling, Kim

Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World

Salman Rushdie, East, West

Jamyang Norbu, The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes

Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

1. May 11-15: London: Inventing a City

             Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

             Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

             Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes

             P. G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh

             Arnold Bennett, Riceyman Steps

10. July 13-17: Shanghai-Beijing: Journeys to the West                        

Wu Cheng'en, Journey to the West

Lu Xun, The Real Story of Ah Q and Other Stories

Eileen Chang, Love in a Fallen City and Other Stories

Mo Yan, Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out

Bei Dao, The Rose of Time

2. May 18-22: Paris: Writer's Paradise

             Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time

             Djuna Barnes, Nightwood

             Marguerite Duras, The Lover

             Julio Cortázar, End of the Game

Georges Perec, W, or the Memory of Childhood

11. July 20-24: Tokyo-Kyoto: The West of the East                       

Higuchi Ichiyō, In the Shade of Spring Leaves

Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji

Matsuo Bashō, The Narrow Road to the Deep North

James Merrill, Prose of Departure 

Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow

3. May 25-29: Kraków: After Auschwitz

             Primo Levi, The Periodic Table

             Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis and Other Stories

Paul Celan, Poems

Czeslaw Milosz, Selected Poems

Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

12. July 27-31: Brazil-Colombia: Utopias and Dystopias

             More, Utopia

Voltaire, Candide

Machado de Assis, Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

Clarice Lispector, Family Ties

Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

4. June 1-5: Venice-Florence: Invisible Cities

             Marco Polo, Travels

Dante, The Divine Comedy

Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron

Donna Leon, By Its Cover

Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

13. August 3-7: Mexico-Guatemala: The Pope's Blowgun                        

Cantares Mexicanos: Songs of the Aztec Nobility

The Popol Vuh

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Poems

Miguel Ángel Asturias, The President 

Rosario Castellanos, The Book of Lamentations

5. June 8-12: Cairo-Istanbul-Muscat: Stories within Stories

Love Songs of Ancient Egypt

The Thousand and One Nights

Naguib Mahfouz, The Arabian Nights and Days

Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

Jokha Alharthi, Celestial Bodies

14. August 10-14: The Caribbean and Beyond: Island Poetry                        

Derek Walcott, Omeros

James Joyce, Ulysses

Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad

Judith Schalansky, Atlas of Remote Islands

6. June 15-19: The Congo-Nigeria: (Post)Colonial Encounters

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart

Wole Soyinka, Death and the King's Horseman

Georges Ngal, Giambatista Viko: or, The Rape of African Discourse

Chimamanda Adichie, The Thing Around Your Neck

15. August 17-21: New York: Migrant Metropolis                        

E. B. White, Stuart Little

Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time 

Saul Steinberg, The Labyrinth 

James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son 

Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King

7. June 22-26: Israel/Palestine: Strangers in a Strange Land

The Hebrew Bible

The New Testament

D. A. Mishani, The Missing File 

Emile Habiby, The Secret Life of  Saeed the Pessoptimist

Mahmoud Darwish, The Butterfly's Burden

16. August 24-28: Bar Harbor: The World on a Desert Island                        

Robert McClosky, One Morning in Maine

Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country of Pointed Firs

Hugh Lofting, The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle

Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

8. June 29- July 3: Tehran-Shiraz: A Desertful of Roses

Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis

Faces of Love: Hafiz and the Poets of Shiraz

Farid ud-Din Attar, The Conference of the Birds 

Ghalib, A Desertful of Roses

Agha Shahid Ali, Call me Ishmael Tonight