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Chronological list of Books I've Read Since September 1997(An asterix indicates excerpts were read.) 
2007/2006/2005/2004/2003/2002/2001/2000/1999/1998/1997

July 2008

Waiting, Hai Jin

June 2008

Harry Potter y la Camera secreta, J.K. Rowling

May 2008

The Good Husband of Zebra Drive, Alexander McCall Smith
Bmore Careful, Shannon Holmes
Gang Leader for a Day, Sudhir Venkatesh
The Future of the Past, Alexander Stilleto

April 2008

A Problem fro Hell- America and the Age of Genocide, Samantha Power
Azarel,
Karoly Pap

March 2008

Remembering Tomorrow, Michael Albert
1,000 Splendid Suns,
Khaled Hosseni

February 2008

Games for Actors and Non-actors, Agosto Boal
Playback,
Raymond Chandler

January 2008

Lisey's Story, Stephen King
Never Let Me Go,
Kazuo Ishiguru
Secret Lives of Circus Animals,
ChristopherBram
Pattern Recognition
, William Gibson
The Rise of Eliza Lynch,
Anne Enright

December 2007

Anarchism and other Essays, Emma Goldman*
Fast Food Nation,
Eric Schlosser

November 2007

Dream: Re-imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy, Stephen Dunscome
Rebecca,
Daphne DuMaurier

October 2007

Takes One to Know One, Kate Allen
Fire in the Lake,
Frances FitzGerald

September 2007

La Reina del Sur, Arturo Perez-Reverte
Indefensible
, David Feige
Lies My Teacher Told Me,
James Loewen

August 2007

The Return of Jeeves, PG Wodehouse

July 2007

Dead Man's Folly, Agatha Christie

June 2007

The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,
Jonathan Safran Foer
Freakanomics,
Steven Levit and Stephen Dubner

May 2007

Adios, Hemingway, Leonardo Padura
Digging to America,
Anne Tyler
Amrita,
Banana Yoshimoto

April 2007

Self's Punishment, Bernhard Schlink
Nombre de Torero,
Luis Sepulveda

March 2007

The Send in the Idiots, Kamran Nazeer
Anil's Ghost,
Michael Ondaatje

February 2007

The Old Maid, Edith Wharton
Things Fall Apart,
Chinua Achebe
Imperium,
Richard Harris
No Longer At Ease,
Chinua Achebe

January 2007

Transmission, Hari Kunzru
Judge and Jury,
James Patterson and Andrew Gross
Are prisons obsolete?
Angela Davis

December 2006

The Power Broker, Robert Caro

August 2006

Cianura Espumoso, Agatha Christie
No Pity, Joseph Shapiro
Marco Polo's Adventures in China, Milton Rugoff

July 2006

Prodigal Summer, Barbara Kingsolver
Voyage of the Narwhl, Andrea Barrett
Miss Manners on (Painfully Proper) Weddings, Judith Martin
Mystery of the Blue Train, Agatha Christie

June 2006

La Parabola de Pablo, Alonso Salazar
Autograph Man, Zadie Smith
Beirut Blues, Hanan Al-Shaykh

March 2006

Demons, Fyodor Dostoevsky

February 2006

The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Elizabeth George Speare
Law and Justice in Everyday Life, Andy Thibault

January 2006

The Trial: A History from Socrates to O.J. Simpson, Sadakat Kadri

December 2005

White Noise, Don Delillo
The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. DuBois
Motherless Brooklyn, Jonathan Lethem
The Giver, Lois Lowry

Herzog, Saul Bellow

November 2005

Delirio, Laura Restrepo
Bertie Sees it Through, P.G. Woodehouse

October 2005

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, Anthony Bourdain

September 2005

Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from The Baffler, Thomas Frank & Matt Weiland
The Nanny Diaries
, Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus
A People's History of the United States,
Howard Zinn

July 2005

Reality, Beatriz Vignoli
Las Drogas Entre el Fracaso y los Daños de la Prohibición, Escohotado, Neuman, Inchaurraga eds.*

June 2005

Oposicion Obrera a la Dictadura, Pablo Pozzi*
La Doctrina de la Seguridad Nacional,
Salvador Lozadad, Carlos Zamorano, et. al.
De Amor y De Sombra,
Isabel Allende

April 2005

Por la Memoria, Por la Justicia, Por un Sueño*
Juicio al Mal Absoluto
, Carlos Nino

March 2005

Nunca Mas, Comisión Nacional Sobre la Desaparición de Personas*
Testigo de Cargo, Agatha Christie
Drogas: Haciendo Posible lo Imposible Experiencia de Reducción de Daños en Argentina

January 2005

El Vampiro Vegetariano, Carlo Frabetti
The Heart that Bleeds, Alma Guillermoprieto

Open Viens of Latin America, Eduardo Galeano


December 2004

Repression, Resistance and Democratic Transition in Central America, Thomas Walken and Ariel Armory
Historia de Una Gaviota y el Gato que le Enseño a Volar, Luis Sepúlveda

November 2004

Cuentos Latinos
The Left Stikes Back, James Petras*

October 2004

Liberation Theology: The Essential Facts About the Revolutionary Movement in Latin America & Beyond, Phillip Berryman*
World Hunger 10 Myths, Frances Moore Lappe & Joseph Collins

September 2004

Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number, Jacobo Timerman
The General In His Labrynth, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ways of Seeing, John Berger*

August 2004

Now and Then: From Coney Island to Here, Joseph Heller

July 2004

Tangled Routes: Women, Work, and Globalization on the Tomato Trail, Deborah Barndt
Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire
The Kalahari Typing School for Men, Alexader McCall Smith

June 2004

The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd

May 2004

Tournament of Shadows:The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia , Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac
Life of Pi, Yann Martel
Strong Motion, Jonathan Franzen
South America on a Shoestring, The Lonely Planet*

April 2004

Crime and Literature, Vincenzo Ruggiero
Double Indemnity, James M. Cain

March 2004

The Life and Death of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs
Martha Quest, Doris Lessing

February 2004

Confessions of Felix Krull Confidence Man, Thomas Mann 

January 2004

Derrida, Christopher Johnson
Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
The Beach, Alex Garland
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides



December 2003

New York Stories: Too True Tales of Urban Trauma, Danny Drennan
Fixed Ideas: American Since 9.11, Joan Didion
Addiction from Biology to Drug Policy, Avram Goldstein

November 2003

The New York Trilogy, Paul Auster
The Bialy Eaters, Mimi Sheraton
The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen

October 2003

My Ántonia, Willa Cather
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, Al Franken

September 2003

John Adams, David McCollough
Ethan Frome, George Elliott

August 2003

White Teeth, Zadie Smith
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Helen Fielding
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, Greg Palast
Ellen Foster, Kaye Gibbons
The Kestrel, Lloyd Alexander
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, William H. Whyte

July 2003

Straight on till Morning: The Biography of Beryl Markham, Mary S. Lovell

June 2003

The Little Friend, Donna Tartt

May 2003

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Aledander McCall Smith
West With the Night, Beryl Markham

March 2003

The Butler Did It!, P.G. Woodehouse

January 2003

Gould's Book of Fish, Richard Flanagan
Blood and Belonging, Michael Ignatieff
Transitional Justice, Ruti Teitel*

November 2002

The Hottest State, Ethan Hawke
Ash Wednesday, Ethan Hawke
The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold


September 2002

The Thirty-Nine Steps
How to be Good, Nick Hornby

August 2002

The Bridge Over the Drina, Ivo Andric

July 2002

Bosnia: A Short History, Noel Malcolm

May 2002

Under the Frog, Tibor Fischer

April 2002

Plainsong, Kent Haruf
The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
Narratives in Popular Culture, Media and Everyday Life, Arthur Aja Berger*
A Concise History of Hungary, Miklos Molnar

March 2002

New Jack, Ted Conover
Shopgirl, Steve Martin
Norweigan Wood, Haruki Maurikami

February 2002

Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen, Joanne Rowling
Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crowe Justice, David Oshinsky

January 2002

The Old Reliable, P.G. Woodehouse
Clockers, Richard Price

December 2001

Catch-22, Joseph Heller
My Wide World of Sports, Jim McKay

August 2001

The Hours, Michael Cunningham
When We Were Orphans, Kazuo Ishiguro
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers 

July 2001

War Crimes, Aryeh Neier
Hope for Rwanda, Andre Sibomana

June 2001

Vineland, Thomas Pynchon

May 2001

The Sandman: The Dream Hunters, Neil Gaiman and Yoshitaka Amano
The Lady in the Lake, Raymond Chandler
The Burgermeister's Daughter: Scandal in a Sixteenth Century German Town, Steven Ozment 

April 2001

Seasons of Blood, Fergal Keane

March 2001

We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will be Killed with our Families, Phillip Gourevitch

December 2000

Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey
The Flanders Panel, Arturo Perez-Reverte

November 2000

Angel of Darkness, Caleb Carr
Bridget Jones Diary, Helen Fielding

September 2000

The Ages of American Law, Grant Gilmore
 

August 2000

Tender to the Bone, Ruth Reichl
The Oresteia, Aeschlus

July 2000

Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
Depth Takes a Holiday, Sandra Tsing Loh
The Old Gringo, Carlos Fuentes
Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
Death in Venice, Thomas Mann
 

June 2000

The Will of Zeus, Stringfellow Barr
Fools Die, Mario Puzzo
Alfred Hitchcock und die Drei ???: Auf die Geist Insel, Alfred Hitchcock
God Bless You Dr. Kevorkian, Kurt Vonnegut
Persuasion, Jane Austen

May 2000

May You be the Mother of A Hundred Sons, Elizabeth Bumiller
The Fourth Estate, Jeffrey Archer
Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
India, My Love, Osho

April 2000

India: A Wounded Civilization, V.S. Naipal
Seasons, Jacklyn Singh
Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson
??A History of the Maharajas???
Three Continents, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

March 2000

Cromartrie Vs. The God Shiva Acting Through the Government of India, Rumer Godden
Einstein's Dreams, Alan Lightman
Double Double, Ellery Queen
Goldfinger, Ian Fleming
H is for Homicide, Sue Grafton
The Alienist, Caleb Carr

February 2000

More Bread or I'll Appear, Emer Martin
The Sky Fisherman, Craig Lesley
Inside the Golden Triangle, ??
Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk

January 2000

Antibodies, Kevin J. Anderson
The Postmark Murder, Mignon Eberhart
Passage to India, E.M. Forster

December 1999

Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
The Gunseller, Hugh Laurie
Kept Women Can't Quit, Earl Stanley Gardner

November 1999

Play it as it Lays, Joan Didion
Monkeys, Susan Minot
Woman in the Dark, Dashell Hammet

October 1999

L.A. Confidential, James Ellroy
King Leopold's Ghost, Adam Hochschild

September 1999

That Same Flower, Jostein Gaardner
State and Revolution, V.I. Lenin
Los Alamos, Joseph Kanon

August 1999

State Violence in Guatemala: A Quantitiave Reflection, Patrick Ball, Paul Kobrak, and Herb Spirer
I Never Read Thoreau, Karen Saum
Blue Hearts, Jim Lehrer
Annam, Christophe Bataille

July 1999

The Corner, David Simon and Edward Burns
Spring Fever, P.G. Woodehouse

June 1999

Beyond L.A. Law: Breaking the Lawyer Mold, ???
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
Dealing Crack: The Social World of Streetcorner Selling, Bruce Jacobs

May 1999

The Intuitionist, Colson Whitehead
The Creation of a Feminist Consciousness, Gerda Lerna

April 1999

The Poetry of Mathematics and Other Essays, David Eugene Smith
From Zero to Infinity, Constance Reid
The High Window, Raymond Chandler

March 1999

Between the Acts, Virgina Wolf
Pere Goriot, Honore deBalzac

February 1999

Ship Fever, Andrea Barrett
Earth and High Heaven, Gwendolyn Graham
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, Jerome K. Jerome

January 1999

Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, David Simon
The Rise of Globalism, Stephen Ambrose and Douglas Brinkley
Miss Henrietta Stralson, Marquis DeSade
Curtain, Agatha Christie
Evening, Susan Minot

December 1998

The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich, Gogol

November 1998

The Discoverers, Daniel Boorstein

October 1998

Twilight, Elie Wiesel
Summer of Fear, Lois Duncan

September 1998

Spider Boys, Ming Chen
Where Angels Fear to Tread, E.M. Forester
What will Become of Us?, Julian Gregson
The Man Who Turned into Himself, David Ambrose

August 1998

Crimes of the Capitalist State, Greg Barak*
Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor
1993 Project Censored Yearbook
Daughters of the House, Indrani Aikath-Gyalsten
Naked Came the Manatee, Various authors from Miami, FL
House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros  

July 1998

Dancing After Hours, Andre Debus*
NP, Banana Yoshimoto
Other Voices, Other Rooms, Truman Capote
Newton's Clock: Chaos in the Solar System, Ivars Peterson

 June 1998

Vitamin Power, Rita Aero and Stephanie Rick
The Real War on Crime, Steven Donziger (ed.)
The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith
Greenleaf, Flannery O'Connor

May 1998

The Color Purple, Alice Walker
All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes, Maya Angelou
K is for Killer, Sue Grafton
Black Betty, Walter Mosely

April 1998

The Little Sister, Raymond Chandler
Transforming Knowledge, Elizabeth Minnich

March 1998

In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
A History of Contraception, ??
Wall Street Guide to Understanding Money and Investing, Kenneth Morris,Virginia Morris, Alan Siegel

February 1998

Boxed In, Mark Crispin Miller
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace*


January 1998

Lizard, Banana Yoshimoto
??, John Bellairs
??, Lois Duncan

December 1997

Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy

November 1997

Miss Manners Rescues Civilization, Judith Martin
A Wild Sheep Chase, Haruki Maurikami
Agent 13: The Midnight Avenger, Flint Dille

October 1997

Kiss of the Spider woman, Manuel Puig
The Creators, Daniel Boorstein
Big Trouble, J. Anthony Lewis

September 1997

Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence
Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 


 


 

January 2003

Gould's Book of Fish, Richard Flanagan
Blood and Belonging, Michael Ignatieff
Transitional Justice, Ruti Teitel*
 

March 2003

The Butler Did It!, P.G. Woodehouse
 

May 2003

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Aledander McCall Smith
West With the Night, Beryl Markham
 

June 2003

The Little Friend, Donna Tartt
 

July 2003

Straight on till Morning: The Biography of Beryl Markham, Mary S. Lovell

August 2003

White Teeth, Zadie Smith
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Helen Fielding
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, Greg Palast
Ellen Foster, Kaye Gibbons
The Kestrel, Lloyd Alexander
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, William H. Whyte
 

September 2003

John Adams, David McCollough
Ethan Frome, George Elliott
 

October 2003

My Ántonia, Willa Cather
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, Al Franken
 

November 2003

The New York Trilogy, Paul Auster
The Bialy Eaters, Mimi Sheraton
The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
 

December 2003

New York Stories: Too True Tales of Urban Trauma, Danny Drennan
Fixed Ideas: American Since 9.11, Joan Didion
Addiction from Biology to Drug Policy, Avram Goldstein