Susan Choi Flashlight's Reading List

"I had started reading Amity Gaige's absolutely riveting new novel, "Heartwood," and I literally could not put it down."

"I just finished André Alexis' new collection, "Other Worlds," and true to the title I was transported. It's incredible."

"It's one of the most beautiful and most harrowing books I've ever read, as well as one of the best."

"Austin Kelley's novel "The Fact Checker." I was a New Yorker fact checker, as was Kelley, and it was such a pleasure to return to that subculture."

"One of the less well known first-person accounts of getting out of North Korea that I found so moving was Masaji Ishikawa's "A River in Darkness.""

"One I love is a story collection by Hisaye Yamamoto called "Seventeen Syllables." … her writing, which is beautiful and luminous like the work of Chekhov."