Primary:
- Anita Desai, Clear Light of Day (1980) (New York: First Mariner Books, 2000)
- Michael Ondatjee, The English Patient [1992] (London: Vintage, 1992)
- J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace [1999] (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2000)
- Toni Morrison, Beloved [1987] (New York: Knopf, 1998)
- Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children [1980] (London: Vintage, 2006)
Theory:
- Christopher Prendergast, Debating World Literature (London: Verso, 2004)
- David Damrosch, How to Read World Literature (Oxford: Blackwells, 2009)