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I have a lot of spare time here. Also, I like to read. So, here’s a list of books I’ve read in Tanzania. Most recently read books are at the top.

(Note: if there’s something you want me to read, mail it to me–or buy me an Amazon gift certificate so I can download it for my Kindle–and I’ll definitely read it…)

  • Riding the Iron Rooster, Theroux
  • Sunshine, McKinley
  • The Angel’s Game, Zafon
  • Murder at the Vicarage, Christie
  • Jill the Reckless, Wodehouse
  • Gai-Jin, Clavell
  • The Cardturner, Sachar
  • The Singing Sands, Tey
  • Peeps, Westerfield
  • The Demon’s Covenant, Brennan
  • City of Glass, Clare
  • City of Ashes, Clare
  • Providence, Quinn
  • Ishmael, Quinn
  • The Algebraist, Banks
  • The Murder at Hazelmoor, Christie
  • Knucklehead, Scieszka
  • The Bonfire of the Vanities, Wolfe
  • A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bryson
  • Goldfinger, Fleming
  • On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Fleming
  • Collapse, Diamond
  • The Book Thief, Zusak
  • Towards Zero, Christie
  • Providence, Quinn
  • Ishmael, Quinn
  • The Algebraist, Banks
  • The Murder at Hazelmoor, Christie
  • Knucklehead, Scieszka
  • The Bonfire of the Vanities, Wolfe
  • A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bryson
  • Goldfinger, Fleming
  • On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Fleming
  • Collapse, Diamond
  • The Book Thief, Zusak
  • Towards Zero, Christie
  • Farm City, Carpenter
  • Octopussy, Fleming
  • The Time Machine, Wells
  • Committed, Gilbert
  • The Spy Who Loved Me, Fleming
  • The Places in Between, Stewart
  • Casino Royale, Fleming
  • Sick Puppy Hiaasen
  • Banker to the Poor, Yunus
  • The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, Larsson
  • Outliers, Gladwell
  • Hotel du Lac, Brookner
  • Flygirl, Smith
  • Every Boy’s Got One, Cabot
  • March, Brooks
  • When the Air Hits Your Brain, Verotsick
  • The Tipping Point, Gladwell
  • Lord Edgware Dies, Christie
  • Shantaram, Roberts
  • Storm Front, Butcher
  • The Post-Birthday World, Shriver
  • Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows, Rowling
  • Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince, Rowling
  • The Girl who Played with Fire, Larsson
  • Right Ho, Jeeves, Wodehouse
  • The Honorable Schoolboy, le Carré
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Larsson
  • Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix, Rowling
  • Death by Black Hole, Tyson
  • Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire, Rowling
  • Into Thin Air, Krakauer
  • Shades of Grey, Fforde
  • Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban, Rowling
  • The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Chabon
  • One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, Christie
  • Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets, Rowling
  • Harry Potter & the Philosopher’s Stone, Rowling
  • The Gone-Away World, Harkaway
  • Tai-Pan, Clavell
  • The Secret Adversary, Christie
  • Sad Cypress, Christie
  • Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science, Gawande
  • The False Inspector Dew, Lovesey
  • Dry, Burroughs
  • Noble House, Clavell
  • A Pocket Full of Rye, Christie
  • A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian, Lewycka
  • The Demon’s Lexicon, Brennan
  • Operating Instructions, Lamott
  • The Magicians, Grossman
  • Running with Scissors, Burroughs
  • The Weekenders, Various
  • Lean Mean Thirteen, Evanovich
  • Eat Pray Love, Gilbert
  • Thoughtcrime Experiments, Various
  • Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Clarke
  • The Night Manager, le Carré
  • The Grand Finale, Evanovich
  • Twelve Sharp, Evanovich
  • The Secret Servant, Silva
  • The Big Four, Christie
  • Art and Fear, Bayles & Orland
  • The Boomerang Clue, Christie
  • Into the Wild Nerd Yonder, Halpern
  • Wife for Hire, Evanovich
  • Plum Lovin’, Evanovich
  • The Game, Strauss
  • The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, Bradley
  • Plum Spooky, Evanovich
  • Garlic and Sapphires, Reichl
  • Eleven On Top, Evanovich
  • Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective, Christie
  • The Mysterious Mr. Quin, Christie
  • The Gift of the Magi and Other Stories, Henry
  • Elizabeth Costello, Coetzee
  • The Geography of Bliss, Weiner
  • The Adventures of Sally, Wodehouse
  • The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, Bryson
  • Empire Falls, Russo
  • Westmark, Alexander
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge, Hardy
  • Cowboys Are My Weakness, Houston
  • East Is East, Boyle
  • The Bonesetter’s Daughter, Tan
  • The Zanzibar Chest, Hartley
  • The Birth of Venus, Dunant
  • Smashed, Zailckas
  • Peony In Love, See
  • Livingstone’s Tribe, Taylor
  • True Confections, Weber
  • Shogun, Clavell
  • Portrait in Sepia, Allende
  • The Importance of Being Earnest & Other Plays, Wilde
  • Undercurrents, Manning
  • Return to Paradise, Michener
  • Einstein’s Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps, Galison
  • Fear of Flying, Jong
  • Waiting for Snow in Havana, Eire
  • Fieldwork, Berlinski
  • Ladder of Years, Tyler
  • Magical Thinking, Burroughs
  • All About Love: New Visions, hooks
  • The Soloist, Lopez
  • The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, Lofting
  • The Second Assistant, Naylor & Hare
  • Nation, Pratchett
  • Wuthering Heights, Brontë
  • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Bauby
  • The Witch of Portobello, Coelho
  • Lamb, Moore
  • Eiger Dreams, Krakauer
  • Hot Stuff, Evanovich & Banks
  • The Return of the King, Tolkien
  • The Savage My Kinsman, Eliott
  • The Robber Bridegroom, Welty
  • All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes, Angelou
  • Ruth, Gaskell
  • After Dachau, Quinn
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread, Forster
  • Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Verne
  • Live and Let Die, Fleming
  • House of Sand and Fog, Dubus
  • People of the Book, Brooks
  • Catch-22, Heller
  • Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear, Weber
  • A Michener Miscellany, Michener
  • The Two Towers, Tolkien
  • The God of Small Things, Roy
  • The Nine, Toobin
  • A Piano in the Pyrenees, Hawks
  • Hammerfall, Cherryh
  • Looking for Jake and Other Stories, Miéville
  • Notes from Underground, Dostoevskyk
  • Getting Stoned with Savages, Troost
  • The House of Mirth, Wharton
  • The Five Love Languages, Chapman
  • The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader, Abbey
  • D is for Deadbeat, Grafton
  • Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine, Wolfe
  • Dr. No, Fleming
  • Fluke, Moore
  • Ella Minnow Pea, Dunn
  • A Moveable Feast, Hemingway
  • The Franchise Affair, Tey
  • Ethan Frome, Wharton
  • Belong to Me, de los Santos
  • Evil Under the Sun, Christie
  • Peking Picnic, Bridge
  • In Arabian Nights, Shah
  • The Bean Trees, Kingsolver
  • The Neon Bible, Toole
  • The Lost Continent, Bryson
  • Moonraker, Fleming
  • Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Marquez
  • Carpe Jugulum, Pratchett
  • Unsent Letters, Bradbury
  • The Invention of Everything Else, Hunt
  • The Unlikely Disciple, Roose
  • The Third Chimpanzee, Diamond
  • The Fellowship of the Ring, Tolkien
  • Love in the Time of Cholera, Marquez
  • Telling Secrets, Buechner
  • Stardust, Gaiman
  • Thanksgiving, Evanovich
  • Fearless Fourteen, Evanovich
  • The Sex Lives of Cannibals, Troost
  • The Big Sleep, Chandler
  • Blue Latitudes, Horowitz
  • Postcards, Proulx
  • The Last Battle, Lewis
  • Close Range, Proulx
  • A People’s History of the United States, Zinn
  • Love Walked In, De los Santos
  • The Silver Chair, Lewis
  • The Ghost in Love, Carroll
  • The Long Goodbye, Chandler
  • The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Lewis
  • Into the Wild, Krakauer
  • Aya, Abouet & Oubrerie
  • The Shadow of the Wind, Zafon
  • By the Pricking of My Thumbs, Christie
  • The Razor’s Edge, Maugham
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Haddon
  • The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Boyle
  • Ten Big Ones, Evanovich
  • To the Nines, Evanovich
  • Seven Up, Evanovich
  • Hard Eight, Evanovich
  • High Five, Evanovich
  • Tourist Season, Hiaasen
  • Memoirs of a Geisha, Golden
  • The Glass Castle, Walls
  • The Zahir, Coelho
  • Pride and Prejudice, Austen
  • The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Shaffer and Barrows
  • Prince Caspian, Lewis
  • Two for the Dough, Evanovich
  • One for the Money, Evanovich
  • The Horse and His Boy, Lewis
  • The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Lewis
  • The Magician’s Nephew, Lewis
  • The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, Feynman
  • Southern Mail, St. Exupery
  • The Stories of Edith Wharton, Vol. 1, Ed. Brookner
  • The Accidental Anthropologist, Jackson
  • Brighton Rock, Greene
  • A is for Alibi, Grafton
  • Zorro, Allende
  • The Alchemist, Boyd
  • The Golden Compass, Pullman
  • Murder in Mesopotamia, Christie
  • The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Pollan
  • Divorcing Jack, Bateman
  • Appointment with Death, Christie
  • Nemesis, Christie
  • Waiter Rant, Waiter
  • Breaking Dawn, Meyer
  • A Caribbean Mystery, Christie
  • The House of the Spirits, Allende
  • The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Barbery
  • The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevsky
  • Hot Six, Evanovich
  • Double Whammy, Hiaasen
  • Jeeves and the Tie that Binds, Wodehouse
  • The Witches of Eastwick, Updike
  • The Dispossessed, Le Guin
  • A Woman Alone: Travel Tales from Around the Globe, Various
  • Wickford Point, Marquand
  • I Am Charlotte Simmons, Wolfe
  • Jeeves in the Morning, Wodehouse
  • The Color of Magic, Pratchett
  • The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax, Gilman
  • Four to Score, Evanovich
  • Full Blast, Evanovich & Hughes
  • In A Sunburned Country, Bryson
  • Sabriel, Nix
  • Three to Get Deadly, Evanovich
  • Mammoth, Varley
  • A Man in Full, Wolfe
  • The Deptford Trilogy, Davies
  • Feersum Endjinn, Banks
  • A Glass of Blessings, Pym
  • Three Cups of Tea, Mortensen
  • Skinny Dip, Hiaasen
  • Eclipse, Meyer
  • Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, Perkins
  • Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, Sedaris
  • The Graveyard Book, Gaiman
  • The Monk in the Garden, Henig
  • From Russia With Love, Fleming
  • Hickory Dickory Dock, Christie
  • A Primate’s Memoir, Sapolsky
  • New Moon, Meyer
  • Anathem, Stephenson

Comments

Comment from Lisa
Time February 19, 2009 at 10:56 am

I sent Breaking Dawn. Did it ever arrive? I don’t see it on your list.

Comment from Lisa
Time February 19, 2009 at 10:57 am

I also sent Pratchett’s Nation. Did that arrive?

Comment from Jan
Time March 14, 2009 at 1:19 pm

Wow Marie, you are inhaling books! Wish I could read books as fast as you can. Ron can inhale them at a very fast rate too. It must be a Davies family trait me thinks, cos I sure haven’t got it! Do you want us to send you any books? How about Obama’s two books? I bought them for Ron for Valentines day. Let me know as I would be happy to send you any books you may want.