Book List June 2006-August 2008

This is my first attempt to update my blog after my Peace Corps service. This is just my book list so another update will be forthcoming. This is the list of all the books I completed during my service from June 06-August 08. Don't judge me by the books I read. If you've ever spent two years in an African village where no one speaks English and it sometimes rains for 3 straight days, you would also have a book list that includes authors that will never win a Pulitzer. In other words, sometimes I didn't have alot of options and read anything I could to pass the time.

So here it is in the order they were finished...

-Angels and Demons --Dan Brown
-A Long Way Down --Nick Hornby
-A Beautiful Mind --Sylvia Nasar
-The Prayer of Jabez
-Running with Scissors --Augusten Burroughs
-Lost in Translation --Nicole Mones
-The Breathren --John Grisham
-Chromosome 6 --Robin Cook
-The Secret Life of Bees --Sue Mond Kidd
-The Mermaid Chair --Sue Monk Kidd
-The Taking --Dean Koontz
-The Poinsonwood Bible --Barbara Kingsolver
-Reading Lolita in Tehran --Azar Nafasi
-Tuck Everlasting --Natalie Babbitt
-The Sun Also Rises --Ernest Hemingway
-The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios --Yann Martel
-Aphrodite --Russell Andrews
-Heat Shock --Robert Greer
-Prior Bad Acts --Tami Hoag
-Like A Charm, A Novel in Voices --Edited by Karin Slughter
-Dry --Augusten Burroughs
-Made in America --Bill Bryson
-8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter --Bruce Cameron
-The Historian --Elizabeth Kostova
-A Walk in the Woods --Bill Bryson
-Drinking Coffee Elsewhere --ZZ Packer
-Courtroom 302 --Steve Bogira
-A Killing on Wall Street --Derrick Niederman
-The Night Listener --Armistead Maupin
-The Things They Carried --Tim O'Brien
-The Rum Diary --Hunter S. Thompson
-The Cruelest Miles --Gay & Laney Salisbury
-A Child Called 'It' --Dave Pelzer
-Hello Bunny Alice --Laura Wilson
-The Tao of Health, Sex, and Longevity --Daniel P. Reid
-Wolves Eat Dogs --Martin Cruz Smith
-The Rescue --Nicholas Sparks
-Power Lines --Jason Carter
-The Lost Boy --Dave Pelzer
-Hornet's Nest --Patricia Cornwell
-Prey --Michael Crichton
-Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight --Alexandra Fuller
-Little Scarlet --Walter Mosley
-The Great Adventure --Peace Corps Stories
-All Creatures Great and Small --James Herriot
-Black Notice --Patricia Cornwell
-London Bridges --James Patterson
-The Language Instinct --Steven Pinker
-Honeymoon --James Patterson
-The List --Steve Martini
-The Bourne Identity --Robert Ludlum
-Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil --John Berendt
-Animal Farm --George Orwell
-The River --Edward Hooper
-American Shaolin --Matthew Polly
-A Seperate Peace --John Knowles
-Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister --Gregory Maguire
-A Cry in the Night --Mary Higgins Clark
-N is for Noose --Sue Grafton
-The Street Lawyer --John Grisham
-The Pelican Brief --John Grisham
-The Memory Keepers Daughter --Kim Edwards
-The Maltese Falcon --Dashiel Hammett
-The Cider House Rules --John Irving
-Our Town --Thornton Wilder
-The Testament --John Grisham
-Of Beetles & Angels --Mawi Asgedom
-The Awakening --Kate Chopin
-Velocity --Dean Koontz
-The Time Traveler's Wife --Audrey Niffenegger
-The Snows of Kilimanjaro --Ernest Hemingway
-Forever Odd --Dean Koontz
-The Bookseller of Kabul --Asne Seierstad
-Fury --Salman Rushdie
-The Human Factor --Graham Greene
-Into the Wild --Jon Krakauer
-Schindler's List --Thomas Keneally
-East of Eden --John Steinbeck
-Cosmicomics --Italo Calvino
-Travels with Charley in Search of America --John Steinbeck
-The Second Time Around --Mary Higgins Clark
-The Alienist --Caleb Carr
-Before I Say Goodbye --Mary Higgins Clark
-Triggerfish Twist --Tim Dorsey
-Split Second --David Baldacci
-Around the World in 80 Days --Jules Verne
-The Shackled Continent --Robert Guest
-Lamb (The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal) --Christopher Moore
-If I Die in a Combat Zone (Box Me Up and Ship Me Home) --Tim O'Brien
-In Cold Blood --Truman Capote
-Tomcat in Love --Tim O'Brien
-Love in the Time of Cholera --Gabriel Garcia Marquez
-Speaking in Tongues --Jeffery Deaver
-The Ghost Writer --Philip Roth
-Zuckerman Unbound --Philip Roth
-The Last Precinct --Patricia Cornwell
-Red Azalea --Anchee Min
-Water for Elephants --Sara Gruen
-The Pilot's Wife --Anita Shreve
-Bel Canto --Ann Patchett
-The Arraignment --Steve Martini
-One Hundred Years of Solitude --Gabriel Garcia Marquez
-Emergency Sex (and other desperate measures) --Kenneth Cain, Heidi Postlewait, Andrew Thompson
-The Bone Collector --Jeffery Deaver
-Electric Universe (how electricty switched on the modern world) --David Bodanis
-Ragtime --E.L. Doctorow
-The Client --John Grisham
-For One More Day --Mitch Albom
-Five Patients (The Hospital Explained) --Michael Crichton
-The Unheard --Josh Swiller
-The Web --Jonathan Kellerman
-Charlie Wilson's War --George Crile
-Sad Cypress --Agatha Christie
-The Buffalo Creek Disaster --Gerald M. Stein
-The Day of the Jackal --Frederick Forsyth
-Sleeping Murder --Agatha Christie
-The Hound of the Baskervilles --Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
-The Mouse That Roared --Leonard Wibberley
-The Murder in the Vicarage --Agatha Christie
-Murder in Georgetown --Margaret Truman
-Murder at the Kennedy Center --Margaret Truman
-Candide --Voltaire
-Over the Edge --Jonathan Kellerman
-The White Masai --Corinne Hofmann
-A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius --Dave Eggers
-Provinces of Night --Willam Gay
-Wicked --Gregory Maguire
-The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency --Alexander McCall Smith
-When the Bough Breaks --Jonathan Kellerman
-WITSEC: Inside the Federal Witness Protection Program --Pete Earley & Gerald Shur
-A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters --Julian Barnes
-A Fine and Pleasant Misery --Patrick F. McManus
-K is for Killer --Sue Grafton
-O is for Outlaw --Sue Grafton
-Never Sniff a Gift Fish --Patrick F. McManus
-The Shoot Canoes, Don't They? --Patrick F. McManus
-Falling Leaves (The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter) --Adeline Yen Mah
-Adventures of Sherlock Holmes --Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
-The Best Democracy Money Can Buy --Greg Palast
-In Beautiful Disguises --Rajeev Balasubramanyam
-The Golden Compass --Philip Pullman
-Trouble in Paradise --Robert B. Parker
-The Subtle Knife --Philip Pullman
-The Amber Spyglass --Philip Pullman
-Apathy and Other Small Victories --Paul Neilan
-The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring --J.R.R. Tolkien
-Adventures of Sherlock Holmes --Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
-G is for Gumshoe --Sue Grafton
-Born Free --Joy Adamson
-The Island of Dr. Moreau --H.G. Wells
-Cracker: Best Boys --Gareth Roberts
-The Meaning of Everything (The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary) --Simon Winchester
-The End of Poverty --Jeffrey Sachs
-In the Last Analysis --Amanda Cross
-The James Joyce Murder --Amanda Cross
-Poetic Justice --Amanda Cross
-Lincoln --Gore Vidal
-The Anatomy Lesson --Philip Roth
-The Prague Orgy --Philip Roth

So there it is! 161 books in 26 months! Thank you to everyone who sent me books (Glenn, Maria, and Ian especially) and if you need a reading recommendation just ask me.