Literary Linnea

(*): Highly suggested reads

Currently Reading:

• The Hunchback of Notre Dame -Victor Hugo

Books Read Since December 2011 –

• (1) The Two Kinds of Decay -Sarah Manguso
• (2) Running the Books -Avi Steinberg
• (3) The Book Thief -Markus Zusak
• (4) Kaffir Boy -Mark Mathabane
• (5) The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite -David A. Kessler
• (6) The Master and Margarita -Mikhail Bulgakov (reread)

Books Read During Service (Year 2): Goal – 75 by 1 Oct 2011

• (1) The Ugly American -William J. Lederer & Eugene Burdick
• (2) Ines of My Soul -Isabel Allende
• (3) O Pioneers! -Willa Cather (*)
• (4) The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World -Lewis Hyde
• (5) The Pillars of The Earth -Ken Follett
• (6) The Unbearable Lightness of Being -Milan Kundera (*)
• (7) The Assistant -Robert Walser
• (8) Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto -Chuck Klosterman (*)
• (9) The Land of Ulro -Czeslaw Milosz
• (10) I Am Legend -Richard Matheson
• (11) Never Let Me Go -Kazuo Ishiguro (*)
• (12) The Phantom of the Opera -Gaston Leroux (*)
• (13) Little Bee -Chris Cleave (*)
• (14) Eating the Dinosaur -Chuck Klosterman
• (15) Cosmopolis -Don DeLillo
• (16) The Story of Edward Sawtelle -David Wroblewski (*)
• (17) While I Was Gone -Sue Miller
• (18) The Girl Who Played with Fire -Stieg Larsson
• (19) The Count of Monte Cristo -Alexandre Dumas (*)
• (20) Henry’s Sisters -Cathy Lamb
• (21) The Quiet American -Graham Greene (*)
• (22) A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian -Marina Lewycka
• (23) A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl -Mariane Pearl (*)
• (24) Straight Man -Richard Russo
• (25) Me Talk Pretty One Day -David Sedaris
• (26) This Is How -M.J. Hyland
• (27) Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog -John Grogan
• (28) Fargo Rock City -Chuck Klosterman
• (29) A Week Like Any Other -Natalya Baranskaya
• (30) The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest -Stieg Larsson
• (31) The Hours -Michael Cunningham
• (32) Gone With the Wind -Margaret Mitchell (*)
• (33) The Fire Next Time -James Baldwin
• (34) Gourmet Rhapsody -Muriel Barbery (*)
• (35) Are You There, Vodka?  It’s Me, Chelsea -Chelsea Handler
• (36) The Pact -Jodi Picoult
• (37) Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed In America -Elizabeth Wurtzel (*)
• (38) Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman’s Skiff -Rosemary Mahoney
• (39) The Zookeeper’s Wife -Diane Ackerman (*)
• (40) The Virgin Suicides -Jeffrey Eugenides
• (41) A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail -Bill Bryson
  
• (42) Into Thin Air -Jon Krakauer
• (43) Tree of Codes -Jonathan Safran-Foer (*)
• (44) You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas -Augusten Burroughs (*)
• (45) The Remains of the Day -Kazuo Ishiguro
• (46) Uncle Tom’s Cabin -Harriet Beecher Stowe
• (47) The Shadow of the Wind -Carlos Ruiz Zafón (*)
• (48) The Inheritance of Loss -Kiran Desai
• (49) The Glass Castle -Jeannette Walls (*)
• (50) Middlesex -Jeffrey Eugenides (*)
• (51) The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol -Nikolai Gogol (*)
• (52) Eight Months on Ghazzah Street -Hilary Mantel (*)
• (53) The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks -Rebecca Skloot (*)
• (54) Vanity Fair -William Makepeace Thackeray
• (55) Three Cups of Tea -Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
• (56) A Thousand Splendid Suns -Khaled Hosseini (*)
• (57) The Age of Innocence -Edith Wharton (*)
• (58) Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother -Amy Chua
• (59) Suite Française -Irène Némirovsky (*)
• (60) Half Broke Horses -Jeannette Walls
• (61) Eating Animals -Jonathan Safran-Foer (*)

Books Read During Service (Year 1): Goal – 50 by 1 Oct 2010

• (1) The Intuitionist -Colson Whitehead
• (2) Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers -Mary Roach
• (3) The Secret History -Donna Tartt (*)
• (4) Dead Souls -Nikolai Gogol

• (5) Unaccustomed Earth -Jhumpa Lahiri
• (6) Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa -Antjie Krog
• (7) Omnivore’s Dilemma -Michael Pollan (*)
• (8) Kafka on the Shore -Haruki Murakami
• (9) Under Western Eyes -Joseph Conrad
• (10) The Master and Margarita -Mikhail Bulgakov (*)
• (11) Moyers on Democracy -Bill Moyers
• (12) Away -Amy Bloom
• (13) Cutting for Stone -Abraham Verghese (*)
• (14) The City of Falling Angels -John Berendt
  
• (15) Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus -Robert D. Kaplan
• (16) The Sirian Experiments -Doris Lessing
• (17) Sailing Alone Around the World -Joshua Slocum
• (18) More Than A Skeleton -Paul L. Maier
• (19) The Elegance of the Hedgehog -Muriel Barbery (*)
• (20) The Palace of Dreams -Ismail Kadare (*)
• (21) Changes in Latitude: An Uncommon Anthropology -Joana McIntyre Varawa
• (22) Blink -Malcolm Gladwell
• (23) The Satanic Verses -Salman Rushdie (*)
• (24) A Man Without A Country -Kurt Vonnegut
• (25) A Million Little Pieces -James Frey
• (26) Coraline -Neil Gaiman
• (27) The House of Mirth -Edith Wharton (*)
• (28) No Country for Old Men -Cormac McCarthy
• (29) The Lace Reader -Brunonia Barry
• (30) The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary -Simon Winchester (*)
• (31) This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind -Ivan Doig
• (32) The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference -Malcolm Gladwell
• (33) Three Bags Full -Leonie Swann
• (34) The Audacity of Hope -Barack Obama
• (35) The Devil and Miss Prym -Paulo Coelho
• (36) The Persian Pickle Club -Sandra Dallas
• (37) White Guard -Mikhail Bulgakov
• (38) Love in the Time of Cholera -Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• (39) Bel Canto -Ann Patchett (*)
• (40) The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier -Thad Carhart
• (41) Glamorama -Bret Easton Ellis
  
• (42) The Space Between Us -Thrity Umrigar
• (43) The Wisdom of Crowds -James Surowiecki
• (44) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo -Stieg Larsson
• (45) Kabul Beauty School -Deborah Rodriguez
• (46) Zod Wallop -William Browning Spencer
• (47) Come Be My Light -Mother Teresa
• (48) Empire of Lies -Andrew Klavan
• (49) A Field of Darkness -Cornelia Read
• (50) After the Banquet -Yukio Mishima
• (51) Lavinia -Ursula K. LeGuin

Books Read Predeparture:

• Everything Is Illuminated -Jonathan Safran-Foer
• 10 Moral Paradoxes -Saul Smilansky (*)
• Les Miserables -Victor Hugo (*)
• If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home -Tim O’Brien
• Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana -Stephanie Elizondo Griest
• Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise -Ruth Reichl
• When You Are Engulfed in Flames -David Sedaris (*)
• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running -Haruki Murakami
• The Case For Christ: A Journalist’s Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus -Lee Strobel

Books Waiting to be Read:

• Underworld -Don DeLillo
• Mao II -Don DeLillo
• Notes from Underground -Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• The Woman in White -Wilkie Collins
• David Copperfield -Charles Dickens
• The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner -James Hogg
• Veronika Decides to Die -Paulo Coelho
• Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World -Haruki Murakami
• A Gentle Madness -Nicholas A. Basbanes
• Guns, Germs and Steel -Jared Diamond
• Move Your Shadow -Joseph Lelyveld
• Not Me -Michael Lavigne