48. B. B. Lal, The Sarasvati Flows On: The Continuity of Indian CultureA short, easy-to-read (except for one chapter which seems to come from another book entirely) pop non-fiction summary of the Indus or Harappan Civilization, a Bronze Age culture located in the modern countries of India and Pakistan, which had its own writing system, cities, and ( Read more... )

5. Women who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype, Clarissa Pinkola-Estes

Okay, maybe I shouldn't include this one here, since I started it before I started the 50-book challenge, but I've been reading it in little sips between other books and I only now finished it. (This is my second reading of it, by the way--I got a ( Read more... )