recommended reading

The following list of authors have reached Brian Leung as a writer, thinker, and as someone still searching for, and adding up, what it means to be human.

• Their Dogs Came With Them: A Novel,   Helena Maria Viramontes
• Edinburgh: A Novel,   Alexander Chee
• The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue,   Manuel Munoz
• A Place of Light, Mary Bucci Bush
• The Snow Garden,  Christopher Rice
• "The Day Lady Died," Frank O'Hara 
• Swimming the Witch,  Leilani Hall
• The History of Animation: Enchanted Drawings,  Charles Solomon
• Half-Life: A Novel,  Aaron Krach
• The Maytrees: A Novel,  Annie Dillard
• Faith for Beginners,  Aaron Hamburger
• You Remind Me of Me,  Dan Chaon
• In the Garden of Papa Santuzzu, Tony Ardizzone
• Cut Off the Ears of Winter,  Peter Covino
• Directions to the Beach of the Dead,  Richard Blanco
• A Private History of Awe,  Scott Russell Sanders
• American Woman: A Novel,  Susan Choi
• Averno,  Louise Glück
• Carrying the Torch: Stories,  Brock Clarke
• Gilead,  Marilynne Robinson
• The Nature of Longing: Stories, Alyce Miller
• Ship Fever,  Andrea Barrett
• Moll Flanders,  Daniel Defoe
• "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love,"  Raymond Carver
• Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon
• That Water, Those Rocks,  Katherine Haake
• Squandering the Blue,  Kate Braverman
• Paradise Lost, John Milton
• "Under the Pitons," Robert Stone