2.12.2009

Book Worm



I had an infinite amount of time to read.  I was one of the few volunteers without a computer.  Here's what I read during my time in Ukraine

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World- Murakami
The Secret History
Cradle to Cradle
Oryx and Crake- Margaret Atwood*
Geek Love
The Orchid Thief- Susan Orland
The TIpping Point- Gladwell
Lake Wobegon Summer 1965- Garrison Keiller
Make Lemonade- Wolfe
The Devil Wears Prada- Weisenberger
Skinny Legs and All- Tom Robbins*
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
The Red Pony- John Steinbeck*
White Teeth- Zadie Smith*
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down- Fadiman**
Regarding The Pain of Others- Susan Sontag
Killing Yourself to Live - Chuck Klosterman
The Namesake- Lahiri
Freakanomics- Levitt and Dubner
More of Paul Harvey's The Rest of the Story
My Horizontal Life- Handler
Beloved- Toni Morrison*
All the Pretty Horses- Cormac McCarthy**
High Fidelity- Nick Hornsby
1984- Orwell
On The Road- Kerouac
How to Make an American Quilt- Otto
Pickled, Potted, and Canned- Sue Shepard
If On a Winter's Night- Italo Calvino**
Cloud Atlas- David Mitchell**
Confessions of an Economic Hitman- Perkins**
Travels With Charlie: In Search of America- Steinbeck
Middlesex- Eugenides**
The Memory Keeper's Daughter- Kim Edwards
In Search of Stones- M. Scott Peck
A Brief History of the Dead- Brockmeier
The Count of Monte Christo- Dumas*
Death on the Nile- Agatha Christie
Dear Exile- Montgomery
The Doors of Perception- Huxley
Heaven and Hell- Huxley
There's a (slight) Chance I Might Be Going to Hell- Notaro
The Cave- Jose Saramago***
Seabiscuit- Hillenbrand
In Cold Blood- Capote
The Old Man and the Sea- Hemingway*
East of Eden- Steinbeck**
One Thousand White Woman- Fergus
The Road- McCarthy***
The Sun Also Rises- Hemingway**
A Separate Peace- Knowles
The Kite Runner- Hosseini
The Grapes of Wrath- Steinbeck**
To the Ends of the Earth- Paul Theroux
The Unbearable Likeness of Being- Kundera
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn- Smith
The Moon is Down- Steinbeck
How Soccer Explains the World- Foer
What Is the What- Eggers
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance- Pirsig
The Alchemist- Coehlo
Everything Is Illuminated- Safran Foer**
Invisible Monsters- Palahnuik
Charming Billy- McDermott
South of the Border, West of the Sun- Murakami*
The Secret Life of Bees- Monk Kidd
Mr. Maybe- Green
The Audacity of Hope- Obama
'Tis- McCourt
The House of Sand and Fog- Dubus III
Blood Meridian- McCarthy**
Catcher in the Rye- Salinger
The Great Gatsby- Fitzgerald
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer- Twain
The Know-it-all- Jacobs
Under the Banner of Heaven- Krakauer
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs- Klosterman
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn- Twain*
Inperial Ambitions- Noam Chomsky
Disgrace- Coetzee
The Company She Keeps- Mary McCarthy
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Geography- Gonzalez
Made of Information- Poster
The Way of the Peaceful Warrior- Millman
The Snow Leopard- Matthiessen***
White Fang- London
Crime and Punishment- Dostoyevsky*
Testing Kate- Gaskell
On Beauty- Zadie Smith
No Country For Old Men- McCarthy*
Snow Falling On Cedars- Guterson
Siddhartha- Hesse
Moby Dick- Melville*
The Jungle- Upton Sinclair**
Holidays on Ice- Sedaris




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