Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in the Promised Land
David K. Shipler

Two Gentlemen of Verona
William Shakespeare
Act V, Scene IV is not satisfying. Valentine's offering up of Silvia during the reconcillation of Valentine and Proteus is abrupt and bizarre.

The Aeneid
Virgil
Translated from the Latin by Allen Mandelbaum.

Food and Loathing
Betsy Lerner

The Trials of Socrates: Six Classic Texts
C.D.C. Reeve
Gadfly!

Stick Figure: A Diary of My Former Self
Lori Gottlieb
Not a trace of self-pity. Very funny.

Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World
Greg Critser

The Best Little Girl in the World
Steven Levenkron

Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Marya Hornbacher
At this point, I must have become fatigued by the topic at hand. Hornbacher's book struck me, at times, as self-indulgent and dull.

Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America
Firoozeh Dumas
Utterly hilarious.

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
Marjane Satrapi
This has been called inbetween Art Spiegelman and Lynda Barry, but really quite unique.

Snake Hips: Belly Dancing and How I Found True Love
Anne Thomas Soffee
Fun! Belly dancing and identity politics.

All's Well That Ends Well
William Shakespeare
Bertram and Helena are both insipid in their separate ways.

Classical Mythology
Mark P.O. Morford, Robert J. Lenardon
A good overview, extensive enough for the general reader. Especially interesting was the end chapter on classical mythology in popular culture.

Collected Short Stories
Edith Wharton
Artful and well-written, but some of the ghost stories are a tad absurd.