Reading list for 2006
Mitch Albom - 'The Five People You Meet in Heaven'
Louis de Bernieres - 'Captain Corelli's Mandolin'
John le Carré - 'The Constant Gardener' ***
Vikram Chandra - 'Love and Longing in Bombay: A Collection of Short Stories' ***|* [some stories better than others]
Jung Chang - 'Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China'
Roald Dahl - 'Matilda'
Angela Davis - 'Angela Davis: An Autobiography'
Angela Davis, Lennox S. Hinds and Assata Shakur - 'Assata : An Autobiography'
Anita Desai - 'Clear Light of Day'
Anita Desai - 'Voices of the City'
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - 'Love in the Days of Rage'
Jostein Gaarder - 'Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy'
Ernesto Che Guevara - 'The Motorcycle Diaries'
Mark Haddon - 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time'
Ann Hansen - 'Direct Action : Memoirs of an Urban Guerrilla'
Khalid Hosseini - 'The Kite Runner' **
Leila Khaled - 'My people shall live: The autobiography of a revolutionary'
Natsuo Kirino - 'Out' *
Naomi Klein - 'No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs'
Michael Muhammad Knight - 'The Taqwacores: A Novel'
C. S. Lewis - 'The Chronicles of Narnia' [Box Set]
Marina Lewycka - 'A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian' **
Gautam Malkani - 'Londonstani' **
Paul F. Maul, Crimethink Workers Collective - 'Days of War, Nights of Love: Crimethink For Beginners'
Daphne du Maurier - 'Rebecca'
Frank McCourt - 'Angela's Ashes' *****
Rohinton Mistry - 'A Fine Balance' ****
L. M. Montgomery - 'Anne of Green Gables'
Taslima Nasreen - 'Lajja' [means 'shame' in Bangla and Hindi]
John O'Farrell - 'Global Village Idiot'
John O'Farrell - 'May Contain Nuts' **
J. K. Rowling - 'Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone'
J. K. Rowling - 'Harry Potter and The Chamber Of Secrets'
J. K. Rowling - 'Harry Potter and The Prisoner Of Azkaban'
J. K. Rowling - 'Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire'
Arundhati Roy - 'An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire'
Arundhati Roy - 'The Cost of Living'
Arundhati Roy - 'The God of Small Things' ****
Arundhati Roy - 'War Talk'
Salman Rushdie - 'Midnight's Children'
Vikram Seth - 'Two Lives'
Zadie Smith - 'On Beauty'
Zadie Smith - 'White Teeth' ***
J. R. R. Tolkien - 'The Hobbit'
Lao Tsu - 'Tao Te Ching'
Ardashir Vakil - 'The Beach Boy'
Alice Walker - 'The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart'
Evelyn Waugh - 'Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder'
Banana Yoshimoto - 'Kitchen' ***
Feel free to add any.
Finished Carré's 'The Constant Gardener' last night, which brings the total number of books I've read this year to a pitiful five [though I must admit that's two more than last year]. I'm aiming to get through no fewer than fifteen or so by year end.
NB. those read post date are shown in italic.
Louis de Bernieres - 'Captain Corelli's Mandolin'
John le Carré - 'The Constant Gardener' ***
Vikram Chandra - 'Love and Longing in Bombay: A Collection of Short Stories' ***|* [some stories better than others]
Jung Chang - 'Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China'
Roald Dahl - 'Matilda'
Angela Davis - 'Angela Davis: An Autobiography'
Angela Davis, Lennox S. Hinds and Assata Shakur - 'Assata : An Autobiography'
Anita Desai - 'Clear Light of Day'
Anita Desai - 'Voices of the City'
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - 'Love in the Days of Rage'
Jostein Gaarder - 'Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy'
Ernesto Che Guevara - 'The Motorcycle Diaries'
Mark Haddon - 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time'
Ann Hansen - 'Direct Action : Memoirs of an Urban Guerrilla'
Khalid Hosseini - 'The Kite Runner' **
Leila Khaled - 'My people shall live: The autobiography of a revolutionary'
Natsuo Kirino - 'Out' *
Naomi Klein - 'No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs'
Michael Muhammad Knight - 'The Taqwacores: A Novel'
C. S. Lewis - 'The Chronicles of Narnia' [Box Set]
Marina Lewycka - 'A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian' **
Gautam Malkani - 'Londonstani' **
Paul F. Maul, Crimethink Workers Collective - 'Days of War, Nights of Love: Crimethink For Beginners'
Daphne du Maurier - 'Rebecca'
Frank McCourt - 'Angela's Ashes' *****
Rohinton Mistry - 'A Fine Balance' ****
L. M. Montgomery - 'Anne of Green Gables'
Taslima Nasreen - 'Lajja' [means 'shame' in Bangla and Hindi]
John O'Farrell - 'Global Village Idiot'
John O'Farrell - 'May Contain Nuts' **
J. K. Rowling - 'Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone'
J. K. Rowling - 'Harry Potter and The Chamber Of Secrets'
J. K. Rowling - 'Harry Potter and The Prisoner Of Azkaban'
J. K. Rowling - 'Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire'
Arundhati Roy - 'An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire'
Arundhati Roy - 'The Cost of Living'
Arundhati Roy - 'The God of Small Things' ****
Arundhati Roy - 'War Talk'
Salman Rushdie - 'Midnight's Children'
Vikram Seth - 'Two Lives'
Zadie Smith - 'On Beauty'
Zadie Smith - 'White Teeth' ***
J. R. R. Tolkien - 'The Hobbit'
Lao Tsu - 'Tao Te Ching'
Ardashir Vakil - 'The Beach Boy'
Alice Walker - 'The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart'
Evelyn Waugh - 'Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder'
Banana Yoshimoto - 'Kitchen' ***
Feel free to add any.
Finished Carré's 'The Constant Gardener' last night, which brings the total number of books I've read this year to a pitiful five [though I must admit that's two more than last year]. I'm aiming to get through no fewer than fifteen or so by year end.
NB. those read post date are shown in italic.