copying Krista: Books Read in 2010

(not counting portions of textbooks)

January

1. The Best American Crime Reporting 2007, ed. Linda Fairstein (for ENG 206)

2. 20something Essays by 20something Writers, ed. Matt Kellogg (for ENG 206)

3. The Year of the Flood, by Margaret Atwood

4. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, by Malcolm Gladwell

5. Mother Night, by Kurt Vonnegut

February

1. Moral Disorder, by Margaret Atwood

2. Kafka on the Shore, by Haruki Murakami

3. Am Kurzen Ende der Sonnenallee, von Thomas Brussig (for GERM 210)

4. The Robber Bride, by Margaret Atwood

March

1. The Black Tulip, by Alexandre Dumas

2. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, by Barbara Demick (for ANSO 243)

3. The Good German, by Joseph Kanon

4. The Road, by Cormac McCarthy

5. The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity, by Philip Jenkins (for PS 265)

April

1. Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte

2. The Politics of the Veil, by Joan Scott (for PS 265)

3. Where the World Ended: Reunification and Identity in the German Borderland, by Daphne Berdahl (for ANSO 243)

4. Eclipse of the Sunnis, by Deborah Amos

5. Commanding Syria: Bashar al-Asad and the First Years in Power, by Eyal Zisser

May

1. Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence, by Mark Juergensmeyer (for PS 265)

2. Uneasy Reunions: Immigration, Citizenship, and Family Life in Post-1997 Hong Kong, by Nicole Newendorp (for ANSO 243)

June

1. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera

2. Superfreakonomics, by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner

3. War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, by Chris Hedges

4. The Autobiography of an Execution, by David R. Dow

5. Son of Hamas, by Mosab Hassan Yousef

6. The Bourne Ultimatum, by Robert Ludlum

7. Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell

July

1. Goodbye, Columbus, by Phillip Roth

2. Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson and David Relin

3. The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World, by A.J. Jacobs

4. Pirate Latitudes, by Michael Crichton (by far the worst book on this list)

5. Catch as Catch Can, by Joseph Heller

6. Q&A (Slumdog Millionaire), by Vikas Swarup

7. The Penelopiad, by Margaret Atwood

8. The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad, by Fareed Zakaria

9. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson

August

1. The Irrational Economist: Making Decisions in a Dangerous World, ed. Erwann Michel-Kerjan and Paul Slovic

2. War, by Sebastian Junger

3. The Girl Who Played With Fire, by Stieg Larsson

4. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, by Stieg Larsson

5. Rock Paper Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life, by Len Fisher

6. The Reluctant Fundamentalist, by Mohsin Hamid

7. Let the Great World Spin, by Colum McCann

8. The Art of War, by Sun Tzu

9. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, by Barbara Ehrenreich

10. Days of Fear: A Firsthand Account of Captivity Under the Taliban, by Daniele Mastrogiacomo

11. The Female of the Species, by Joyce Carol Oates

September

1. The Archivist, by Martha Cooley

2. Naked, by David Sedaris

3. The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx (for PS 295D)

4. The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli (for PS 342)

5. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (for PS 295D)

October

1. Second Treatise on Government, by John Locke (for PS 342)

2. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, by Milan Kundera

3. Issues in Economic Development, various (for ECON 373--actually read throughout the term, as this is a 1000some page tome, but October looked very sparse, so I put it here)

November

1. The First Discourse, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (for PS 342)

2. Look at the Birdie, by Kurt Vonnegut

3. Hell Island, by Matt Reilly

4. Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East, by Robin Wright

December

1. Freedom, by Jonathon Franzen

2. Fire, by Sebastian Junger

3. Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan, by Greg Mortenson

4. The Screwtape Letters, by C.S. Lewis

5. The Places in Between, by Rory Stewart

6. The Beautiful Miscellaneous, by Dominic Smith

7. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, by Dai Sijie

Books for class: 15

Books for pleasure: 52

Total: 67