Exhibit 4.22

Post-Gre Lit Reading List.

So, I'd more or less been reading for the Literature Subject Exam for about a year. I knew it wouldn't really help me on the test--of all the classic literature I read only one question about the Iliad and one about Wuthering Heights came up--but I wanted to fill in some holes in my education anyway. I learned I like Dickens. Not so much Melville (at some point I'm going to have to explore why this is before I start crying the next time someone says Moby Dick changed their life. I used to feel this way when my parents said they loved cantaloupe). Also, I discovered the The Good Soldier which squared the GRE and I.

I'm now going back to contemporary fiction. I figure I'll start with some of the recent big hits and then work my way into some more obscure things. If anyone has any thoughts on these or suggestions for other books, please let me know:

Haruki Murakami, After Dark (and the stories I haven't read in Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman)
Marisha Pessl, Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Michael Chabon, Yiddish Policeman's Union
Steven Hall, The Raw Shark Texts
David Mitchell, Black Swan Green
Gary Shteyngart, Absurdistan

Of course, before that I have to finish The Tin Drum which I've been reading on and off for approximately as long as it took to write it. And yesterday I bought Ben Marcus's Age of Wire and String, this in addition to quite a few other books I purchased during my hiatus. I can barely keep myself from smirking at all the Henry James on my bookshelf.