Reading List

My goal is to read 100 books during my 2 1/4 years of Peace Corps service, in addition to studying for the GMATs, brushing up on French, keeping up my weekly cover-to-cover reading of The Economist, and working on becoming fluent in Malagasy. In New York I was reading about a book a week, and because I'll have lots of free time on my hands, I think I can do this. Let's see how I do...

I've read....
  1. The Eighth Continent/Peter Tyson
  2. An Everlasting Meal/Tamar Adler
  3. Twilight/Katherine Mosby (not *that* Twilight, though I will probably read it at some point here...
  4. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake/Aimee Bender
  5. Living Poor/Moritz Thomsen
  6. The Blue Sweater/Jacqueline Novogratz
  7. Slaughterhouse-Five/Kurt Vonnegut
  8. Great Neck/Jay Kantor (this was a 700 page book so I feel like it counts as 2!)
  9. A Room with a View/E.M. Forster
  10. City of Thieves/David Benioff
  11. The Paris Review Issue #200 (thanks Jess & Claire for sending it!)
  12. Affluenza/John de Graaf, David Wann & Thomas Naylor
  13. The Aye-Aye and I/Gerald Durrell
  14. Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea/Chelsea Handler
  15. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone/J.K. Rowling (I have actually never read the series before!)
  16. [embarrassing book that shall remain nameless]
  17. St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves/Karen Russell
  18. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets/J.K. Rowling
  19. Interpreter of Maladies/Jhumpa Lahiri
  20. [embarrassing book that shall remain nameless]
  21. Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures: Funny Women Write From the Road/ed. Jennifer Leo
  22. [embarrassing book that shall remain nameless]
  23. A Place of Yes/Bethenny Frankel and Eve Adamson
  24. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban/J.K. Rowling
  25. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire/J.K. Rowling
  26. When the World Was Steady/Claire Messud
  27. Love Child/Sheila Kohler
  28. A Sunday By the Pool in Kigali/Gil Courtemanche
  29. Tender at the Bone/Ruth Reichl
  30. Amsterdam/Ian McEwan
  31. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix/J.K. Rowling
  32. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince/J.K. Rowling
  33. [embarrassing book that shall remain nameless]
  34. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows/J.K. Rowling
  35. [embarrassing book that shall remain nameless]
  36. [embarrassing book that shall remain nameless]
  37. [embarrassing book that shall remain nameless]
  38. Iron Butterflies: Women Transforming Themselves and the World/Birute Regine
  39. Frangipani/Celestine Vaite
  40. She May Not Leave/Fay Weldon
  41. Vanilla: The Cultural History of the World's Favorite Flavor and Fragrance/Patricia Rain
  42. How to Breathe Underwater/Julie Orringer
  43. Bossypants/Tina Fey
  44. [embarrassing book that shall remain nameless]
  45. On Chesil Beach/Ian McEwen
  46. Philanthrocapitalism: How Giving Can Save the World/Matthew Bishop and Michael Green
  47. Commencement/J. Courtney Sullivan
  48. The Forgotten Garden/Kate Morton
  49. The Far Pavilions/M.M. Kaye (955 pages!!!) 
  50. The Weird Sisters/Eleanor Brown
  51. Wait Till Next Year/Doris Kearns Goodwin
  52. The Pickup/Nadine Gordimer
  53. Beasts of No Nation/Uzodinma Iweala
  54. Oxford Blood/Antonia Fraser 
  55. Around Madagascar in My Kayak/Riaan Manser
  56. Lucia, Lucia/Adriana Trigiani
  57. The Pearl/John Steinbeck 
  58. The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science/Natalie Angier 
  59. Cloud Atlas/David Mitchell 
  60. Full Circle: How the Classical World Came Back to Us/Ferdinand Mount 
  61. The Taste of Conquest: The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice/Michael Krondl 
  62. The Birth of Venus/Sarah Dunant 
  63. Life After Death/Deepak Chopra 
  64. Know Your Power: A Message to America's Daughters/Nancy Pelosi 
  65. As Sweet As Honey/Indira Ganesan 
  66. VB6: Eat Vegan Before 6:00/Mark Bittman 
  67. The Red Pony/John Steinbeck 
  68. The Emperor's Children/Claire Messud 
  69. Chasing the Devil: A Journey Through Sub-Saharan Africa in the Footsteps of Graham Greene/Tim Butcher 
  70. Stealth of Nations: The Global Rise of the Informal Economy/Robert Neuwirth 
  71. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything/Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner 
  72. The Best American Travel Writing 2000/ed. Bill Bryson 
  73. Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of Global Food Supply/Vandana Shiva 
  74. [embarrassing book that shall remain nameless]
  75. Paris Spleen/Charles Baudelaire 
  76. Diet for a Small Planet/Frances Moore Lappé
  77. Franny and Zooey/J.D. Salinger 
  78. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet/David Mitchell 
  79. Lords and Lemurs/Alison Jolly 
  80. Madagascar: Island of the Ancestors/John Mack
  81. Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord/Louis de Bernieres
  82. The IntenSati Method/Patricia Moreno
  83. Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight/Alexandra Fuller 
  84. The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born/Ayi Kwei Armah 
  85. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier/Ishmael Beah 
  86. The Language of Flowers/Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  87. Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World/Tracy Kidder 
  88. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life/Barbara Kingsolver
  89. The Lexus and the Olive Tree/Thomas L. Friedman
  90. Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness/Alexandra Fuller 
  91. White Mischief/James Fox 
  92. Children of Jihad: A Young American's Travels Among the Youth of the Middle East/Jared Cohen 
  93. The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse 1509-1659/ed. H.R. Woudhuysen (756 pages!!!)
  94. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man/John Perkins 
  95. The World Is Flat/Thomas L. Friedman 
  96. Three Junes/Julia Glass
  97. Hot, Flat, and Crowded/Thomas L. Friedman