Books Read
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 10:57 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.
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.