In reverse chronological order, the books I’ve read or am reading, from the classics to contemporary non-fiction and back again. Favorites (books and authors) get *s!
- The Shadow of the Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
- Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray)
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating currents of Electricity and Hope (William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer)
- Atonement (Ian McEwan)
- The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (William Easterly)
- A Walk in the Woods (Bill Bryson)
- Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West (Benazir Bhutto)
- Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
- Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
- Water for Elephants (Sara Gruen)
- Bombay Ice (Leslie Forbes)
- The Rum Diary (Hunter S. Thompson)
- North and South (Elizabeth Gaskell)
- The Lexus and the Olive Tree (Thomas L. Friedman)
- Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (John Perkins)
- Words Without Borders: the world through the eyes of writers (Ed. Samantha Schnee, Alane Salierno Mason, Dedi Felman)
- Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon (Jane Austen*)
- Et si c'était vrai... (Marc Levy)
- Jane Austen: A Life (Claire Tomalin)
- The Alchemist (Paulo Coehlo)
- Still Waters in Niger (Kathleen Hill)
- July's People (Nadine Gordimer)
- The Better Part of Darkness (Kelly Gay)
- Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time (Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin)
- Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town (Paul Theroux)
- House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski)
- The Barrios of Manta (Rhoda & Earle Brooks)
- A Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
- Les Misérables (Victor Hugo)
- The Eyre Affair (Jasper Fforde)
- Off the Map (Kika Kat & Hib Chickena)
- Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche (Ethan Watters)
- Mr. Darcy Takes A Wife (Linda Berdoll)
- The Ginger Man (J. P. Donleavy)
- Tortilla Flat (John Steinbeck*)
- Dear Exile: the True Story of Two Friends Separated (for a year) by an Ocean (Hilary Liftin and Kate Montgomery)
- Career Diplomacy: Life and Work in the U.S. Foreign Service (Harry W. Kopp and Charles A. Gillespie)
- Interpreter of Maladies (Jhumpa Lahiri*)
- But I Trusted You (Ann Rule)
- Cranford (Elizabeth Gaskell)
- A People’s History of the United States (Howard Zinn)
- The Namesake (Jhumpa Lahiri*)
- Possession: A Romance (A. S. Byatt)
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert M. Pirsig)
- Jeeves and the Tie that Binds (P. G. Wodehouse)
- The Inheritance: The World Obama Inherits and the Challenges to American Power (David E. Sanger)
- A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams)
- Dreams from my Father (Barack Obama)
- Candide (Voltaire)
- A Moveable Feast* (Ernest Hemingway)
- Into the Wild (Jon Krakauer)
- Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman (Jon Krakauer)
- The Ten Thousand (Michael Curtis Ford)
- The Fourth Bear (Jasper Fforde)
- Julie & Julia (Julie Powell)
- Entre les murs (François Bégaudeau)
- Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen*)
- Eugénie Grandet (Honoré de Balzac)
- Persuasion (Jane Austen*)
- My Antonia (Willa Cather)
- Emma (Jane Austen*)
- Ham on Rye (Charles Bukowski)
- Mansfield Park (Jane Austen*)
- The Famished Road (Ben Okri)
- Ruth (Elizabeth Gaskell)
- I am Charlotte Simmons (Tom Wolfe)
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera)
- Naomi and Ely’s No-Kiss List (Rachel Cohn and David Levithan)
- Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides)
- Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
- Le Compte de Monte Cristo* (Alexandre Dumas)
- The Pilgrimage (Paulo Coehlo)
- In Dubious Battle (John Steinbeck*)
- The Golden Compass (Philip Pullman)
- Twilight (Stephenie Meyer)
- Notre Dame de Paris or The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Victor Hugo*)
- The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Dave Eggers)
- Almost French: Love and a New Life in Paris (Sarah Turnbull)
- Scaramouche (Rafael Sabatini)
- Dies the Fire (S. M. Stirling)
- The Audacity of Hope (Barack Obama)
- The Gospel According to Sydney Welles (Susi Rajah)
