Reading List

Note: Books are listed in the order I read them, starting with the most recent.

 A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson
The Swan Thieves - Elizabeth Kostova
A Game of Thrones - George R. R. Martin
The Emperor's Children - Claire Massud
Travels with Myself and Another - Martha Gellhorn
Wild - Cheryl Strayed
The Buddha in the Attic - Julie Otsuku
Lost Memory of Skin - Russell Banks
Skinny Legs and All - Tom Robbins 
Salvage the Bones - Jesmyn Ward
The Electric Michelangelo - Sarah Hall
Breakfast with Buddha - Roland Merullo
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
The Art of Fielding - Chad Harbach
The Lacuna - Barbara Kingsolver
The Tiger's Wife - Tea Obreht
State of Wonder - Ann Patchett
Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down - Anne Faidman
Maps and Legends - Michael Chabon
Rules of Civility - Amor Towles
The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
Tomorrow River - Lesley Kagen
A Gate at the Stairs - Lorrie Moore
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers
The Paris Wife - Paula McLain
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star - Paul Theroux
Bossypants - Tina Fey
All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren
On Beauty - Zadie Smith
Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
Outlander - Diana Gabaldon
Three Dollars - Elliot Perlman
Freedom - Jonathan Franzen
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
Leaving Microsoft to Change the World - John Wood
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears - Dinaw Mengestu
Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters - Jason Stearns
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - Raymond Carver
My Other Life - Paul Theroux
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Loita - Vladimir Nabokov
Let the Great World Spin - Colm McCann
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Wolf
Brooklyn - Colm Toibin
The Elephanta Suite - Paul Theroux
Women of the Silk - Gail Tsukiyama
Zeitoun - Dave Eggars
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
Life with Picasso - Francois Gilot
The Mermaid Chair - Tracy Kidd
Wonder Boys - Michael Chabon
Ah, Sweet Mysteries of Life - Roald Dahl
Things I've Been Silent About - Azar Nafisi
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Little Bee - Chris Cleave
The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid
Anna Karenena - Leo Tolstoy
Not on Our Watch - John Prendergast and Don Cheadle
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
Country Driving - Peter Hessler
Going Solo - Roald Dahl
The Help - Kathryn Stockett
The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai
1984 - George Orwell
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Ginger Tree - Oswald Wynd
Dark Star Safari - Paul Theroux
The Siege of Krishnapur - J.G. Farrell
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Marry Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Haroun and the Sea of Stories - Salman Rushdie
Baking Cakes in Kigali - Gaile Parkin
Julie and Julia - Julie Powell
Suite Francaise - Irene Nemerovsky
Dreams of My Father - Barack Obama
Rumors of Savages - Carrie Regan
Finding George Orwell in Burma - Emma Larkin
Burmese Days - George Orwell
River Town - Peter Hessler
Saving Fish From Drowning - Amy Tan
The Poet of Baghdad - Jo Tatchell
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Peace Like a River - Leif Enger
The Shadow Catcher - Marianne Wiggins
The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
Lost on Planet China - J. Maarten Troost
The Perfect Mile - Neal Bascomb
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
U.S. Africa Policy Beyond the Bush Years edited by Jennifer G. Cooke and J. Stephen Morrison
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver
When A Crocodile Eats the Sun by Peter Godwin
My Life In France by Julia Child and Alex Prud'Homme


OTHER READING RESOURCES:
Young Adult Fiction Challenge

1 comment:

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