Books I'm Reading

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)