Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Speaking of Books

I keep meaning to list some of my other favorite books. These are culled from a list of 181 books that I have read in the past 5 years - kept in a spreadsheet on my computer of course. Within each section they are listed in the order I read them.
Fiction:
Hosseini, Khaled - The Kite Runner
Hosseini, Khaled - A Thousand Spendid Suns
Cross, Donna Woolfolk - Pope Joan
Gimenez, Mark - The Color of Law
Adiga, Aravind - The White Tiger
Grisham, John - The Appeal
Haddam, Jane - Hardscrabble Road
Adamson, Gil - The Outlander
Schwartz, John Burnham - The Commoner
Larsson, Stieg - all 3 Millenium books
Gruen, Sara - Water for Elephants
Morton, Kate - The Forgotten Garden
Quindlen, Anna - Every Last One
Stockett, Kathryn - The Help
De Rosnay, Tatiana - Sarah's Key
Ford, Jamie - Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

Non-Fiction:
Kingsolver, Barbara - Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Mortenson, Greg & Relin, David Oliver - Three Cups of Tea
Schneider, Paul - Brutal Journey
Johnson, Steven - The Ghost Map
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher - The Life of Martha Ballard
Roberts, Cokie - Founding Mothers
Winchester, Simon - Krakatoa
Royte, Elizabeth - The Tapir's Morning Bath
Goodwin, Doris Kearns - Team of Rivals
Chang, Leslie T - Factory Girls
Forsyth, Adrian; Miyata, Ken - Tropical Nature
Boorstin, Daniel - The Americans: The Colonial Experience
Hackett Fischer, David - Albion's Seed
Pepperberg, Irene - Alex & Me
Horwitz, Tony - A Voyage Long and Strange
Meacham, Jon - American Lion
Conant, Jennet - Tuxedo Park
Conant, Jennet - 109 East Palace
Hessler, Peter - Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory
Johnson, Steven - The Invention of Air
Standage, Tom - A History of the World in Six Glasses
Phillips. Jonathan - Holy Warriors: A Modern History of the Crusades
Bryson, Bill - At Home: A Short History of Private Life
Kimball, Kristin - Dirty Life
Campbell, David G - A Land of Ghosts: The Braided Lives of People and the Forest in Far Western Amazonia
Mukherjee, Siddhartha - The Emperor of All Maladies - A Biography of Cancer

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