2005 READING LIST

"When one reads these strange words of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once......."
from "Ulysses" by James Joyce

1. "Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert
2. "Snow" by Orhan Pamuk
3. "World Light" by Haldor Laxness
   
4. "Chain of Command" by Seymour Hersh
5. "I Am Charlotte" by Tom Wolfe
6. "Sons & Lovers" by D.H. Lawrence
7. "Dude, Where's My Country" by Michael Moore
8. "Raj" by Gita Mehta
9. "Study in Scarlet" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
10. "The Footprint of God" by Greg Iles
11. "King Leopold's Ghost" by Adam Hochschild
12. "Iceland's Bell" by Haldor Laxness
13. "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
14. "Tears of the Giraffe" by Alexander McCall Smith
15. "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
16. "Alias Grace" by Margaret Atwood
17. "Evidence of Things Unseen" by Marianne Wiggins
18. "The Island of the Day Before" by Umberto Eco
19. "Blue Horse Dreams" by Melanie Wallace
20. "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down" by Anne Fadima
21. "The Master" by Colm Toibin
22. "A Suitable Boy" by Vikram Seth
23. "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
24. "At Swim, Two Boys" by Jamie O'Neill
25. "Had A Good Time: Stories from American Postcards" by Robert Olen Butler
26. "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
27. "Love in the Driest Season" by Neely Tucker
28. "To Sleep With The Angels: The Story of A Fire" by David Cowen & John Knester
29. "The Club Dumas" by Arturo Perez-Reverte
30. "A Fine Balance" by Rohinton Mistry
31. "In The Lake of the Woods" by Tim O'Brien
32. "The Bookseller of Kabul" by Asme Sierstad
33. "A Conspiracy of Paper" by David Liss
34. "Reading Lolita in Tehran" by Azar Nafisi
35. "The Turtle Warrior" by Mary Ellis
36. "In The Time of Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
37. "Gilead" by Marilynne Robinson
38. "Paradise of the Blind" by Duong Thu Huong
39. "Year of Wonder" by Geraldine Brooks
40. "Ex-Libris" by Ross King
41. "The Sixth Lamentation" by William Brodrick
42. "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
43. "Shalimar The Clown" by Salman Rushdie
44. "Beasts of No Nation" by Uzodinma Iwenla
45. "Torrents of Spring" by Ivan Turgenev
46. "The Romantic" by Barbara Gowdy
47. "Specimen Days" by Michael Cunningham
48. "The Time Traveler's Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger
49. "The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana" by Umberto Eco
50. "In the Heart of The Sea; The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex" by Nathaniel Philbrick
51. "The Book of Disquiet" by Fernando Pessoa
52. "I Capture The Castle" by Dodie Smith
53. "War Talk" by Arundhati Roy
54. "My Sister's Keeper" by Jodi Picoult
55. "Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy" by Irwin D. Yalom
56. "The Disobedience of Water" by Sara Jeter Naslund
57. "The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas
58. "Ragtime" by E.L. Doctorow
59. "The Sea" by John Banville
60. "Bone" by Fae Nynne Ng
61. "The Year of Magical Thinking" by Joan Didion
62. "Oryx & Crake" by Margaret Atwood
63. "The Name of the Rose" by Umberto Eco
64. "Son of a Witch" by Gregory McGuire
65. "Bel Canto" by Ann Patchett
66. "The Mapmaker's Wife" by Robert Whitaker
67. "Lakota Woman" by Mary Crow Dog
68. "The Master of Ballantrae", by Robert Louis Stevenson
69. "A Maggot" by John Fowles
70. "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe
71. "The March" by E.L. Doctorow
72. "The Runaway: Stories" by Alice Munro
73. "The Icarus Girl" by Helen Oyeyemi
74. "The Known World" by Edward P. Jones
75. "Fahranheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
76. "Too Loud A Solitude" Bohumil Hrabal
77. "Istanbul: Memories & The City" by Orhan Pamuk
78. "The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character" by Thomas Hardy
79. "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
80. "Planets" by Dava Sobel
81. "Adrift" by Steven Callahan
82. "City Room" by Arthur Gelb
83. "The History of Love" by Nicole Krauss
84. "The Right Hand of Sleep" by John Wray
85. "Far From The Madding Crowd" by Thomas Hardy
86. "Independence Day" by Richard Ford
87. "Buffalo Girls" by Larry McMurtry
88. "Young Men & Fire" by Norman McLean