What Should Kester Read? (June)

This month's What Should Kester Read? looks a few selections too long, but with good reason. When my friend and co-worker, Jenn, made her picks for June, she asked if she might have two collections of poetry, given how short each collection was. I was happy to make this concession. She also assigned me Joan Didion, but left it to me to decide which work I would read. I narrowed it down to two and decided that I would begin both and finish one (maybe both). And so...
What Should Kester Read?

• Averno by Louise Gluck
• The City In Which I Love You by Li-Young Lee
• The Oresteia by Aeschylus
• Underworld by Don DeLillo
• The White Album by Joan Didion
• Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson
• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

What else is Kester reading?

• The Daily Bible: NIV Version (daily devotional)
• Moby Dick by Herman Melville (Required Reading Revisited book club)