Bedside stack of books & wishlist

Here are the contents of my bedside bookshelf.  The to-do list for reading in no particular order.

Please make suggestions as to books I must add to the list.
  1. Infidel, Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  2. The Shack, Young
  3. The Stranger, Albert Camus
  4. The Memory of Water, Karen White
  5. Drowning Ruth, Christina Schwarz
  6. The Photograph, Penelope Lively
  7. Plainsong, Haruf
  8. Toujours Provence, Peter Mayle
  9. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, Maggie O’Farrell
  10. Mudbound, Hillary Jordan
  11. A Passage to India, Forster
  12. Alice Water and Chez Panisse, Thomas McNamee
  13. A First Zen Reader, Leggett
  14. The Third Angel, Alice Hoffman
  15. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
  16. A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
  17. Spook, Mary Roach
  18. The Inn at Lake Devine, Elinor Lipman
  19. The Three Martini Playdate, Mellor
  20. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
  21. Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller
  22. The Daughter of Time, Josephine Tey
  23. Palestine – Peace, Not Apartheid, Jimmy Carter
  24. Our Endangered Values, Jimmy Carter
  25. The Fall of The House of Bush, Craig Unger
  26. The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman
  27. Never Let Me Go, Kazyo Ishiguro
  28. Falling Leaves, Adeline Yen Mah
  29. Silk, Barrico
  30. World War Z, Max Brooks
  31. The 100 Thing Challenge
  32. The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
  33. Cutting for Stone
  34. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
  35. The 19th Wife; A Novel
  36. The Blessings of a Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children
  37. Some Girls: My Life in a Harem
  38. Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain, Portia de Rossi
  39. Awakening the Buddha Within:Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World
  40. Virals, Kathy Reichs
  41. The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
  42. Bossypants, Tina Fey
  43. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - Annie Dillard
  44. A Lion in the White House - Aida Donald
  45. State of Wonder - Ann Patchett
  46. Blue Nights - Joan Didion
  47. The Paris Wife: A Novel (In progress)
  48. 1491 - Charles C Mann (In progress)
  49. Genghis Khan - Jack Weatherford (In progress)
  50. Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin (In progress)
And that is just scratching the surface.  I am hesitant to mention all the classics I’d like to re-read or read since I never read them properly in school.

5 comments:

  1. AnonymousMay 4, 2011 at 7:34 AM

    Mennonite in a Little Black Dress is good. A quick read and enjoyable. I'm reading Bossypants right now and it is laugh out loud funny. I prefer memoirs, biographies and non-fiction. If you read something good in those genres, pass it along. I'm always looking for good reads. Thank goodness for the Kindle!

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  2. AnonymousMay 5, 2011 at 9:52 AM

    You MUST read 16 and 17. Like right now. Go start. It won't take you long. They are both absolutely wonderful. I hear 48 is unbelievably funny, for when you need to just laugh your behind off. :)

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  3. StaciMay 5, 2011 at 9:56 AM

    I know - Steve read them and said that they were fabulous, but for some reason, I am fearful of the downer side of the abuse. Maybe I will tackle on vacation when I have some mental time to devote to it.

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  4. Thomas HogglestockMay 1, 2012 at 11:09 AM

    Have you still not red The Inn at Lake Devine?! And you call yourself a friend of Kelli? You need to put that one at the top of your list. It will take you two seconds to read and you will love it.

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    1. StaciMay 1, 2012 at 11:27 AM

      I know! I am such a schmuck. I read My Latest Grievance and loved it. Definitely on the list, but have been distracted by pre-reading some 'young adult' stuff that Margaret wants to read. Seriously need to update the list though - it is woefully out of date. Have also joined a formal book club that is lovely, but keeping me busy reading 'assigned' reading, which is a new thing for me.

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