Doing this in the comments to avoid looking as though I'm bragging or fishing for a ghetto pass. I'm reading Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz and I have Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan in the queue (I want to compare it to the movie). I also want to get my hands on the movie The Business of Fancydancing (recommended by qthewetsprocket IIRC) and to re-read The Chosen, the Chaim Potok book I studied in high school. I need to add some Australian stuff to the list - I've snagged a collection of Aboriginal short films from the library.

My eyes are always bigger than my stomach when it comes to reading and watching, so we'll see how much I actually manage to consume by August. :-)