Saturday, October 29, 2011

14 months…50 books!

After promising numerous people numerous times that I would post a list of all the books I have read since arriving in Mali, I am finally doing it!  I figure, why not wait til the number is pretty impressive right?!  I also think that after giving myself some time to digest them all I am able to provide a pretty solid Top 10 List.  I’ll start with that and then move on from there in Alphabetical order by Author’s last name, here we go:

  1. Middlesex – J. Eugenides
  2. Kafka on the Shore – H. Murakami
  3. The Fountainhead – A. Rand
  4. East of Eden – J. Steinbeck
  5. Anil’s Ghost – M. Ondaatje
  6. Love in the Time of Cholera – G. Marquez
  7. Island – A. Huxley
  8. The Autobiography of Malcolm X – as told to A. Haley
  9. Everything is Illuminated – J.S. Foer
  10. The Kite Runner – K. Housseni
  11. Islam – K. Armstrong
  12. Sense and Sensibility – J. Austen
  13. When the Rainbow Goddess Wept – C. Brainard*
  14. Wuthering Heights – E. Bronte
  15. Palestine, Peace not Apartheid – J. Carter*
  16. A Plato and Platypus Walk Into a Bar – T. Cathart & D. Klein
  17. What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day – P. Cleage
  18. The Valkeries – P. Coehlo
  19. The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao – J. Diaz
  20. Drown – J. Diaz
  21. The Count of Monte Cristo – A. Dumas
  22. The Rules of Attraction – B.E. Ellis
  23. Nine Hills to Nambonkaha – S. Erdman
  24. The Corrections – J. Franzen*
  25. The Twenty-Seventh City – J. Franzen
  26. Dove – R.L. Graham
  27. Beneath the Wheel – H. Hesse
  28. Jonah’s Gourd Vine – Z.N. Hurston
  29. Brave New World – A. Huxley
  30. The Liar’s Club – M. Karr*
  31. Strength in What Remains – T. Kidder
  32. The Poisonwood Bible – B. Kingsolver
  33. The Girl Who Played with Fire – S. Larrson
  34. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – S. Larrson
  35. Big Machine – V. Lavalle*
  36. Wicked – G. Maguire
  37. ‘Tis – F. McCourt
  38. The English Patient – M. Ondaatje*
  39. Cry the Beloved Country – A. Paton
  40. The Tenth Circle – J. Picoult
  41. My Ishmael – D. Quinn
  42. Story of B – D. Quinn*
  43. Fieldnotes on Democracy, Listening to Grasshoppers – A. Roy*
  44. The Reader – B. Schlink
  45. The Grapes of Wrath – J. Steinbeck
  46. The Help – K. Stockett*
  47. Anna Karenina – L. Tolstoy
  48. The War of the Worlds – H. G. Wells
  49. Eureka Street – R. Wilson
  50. Native Son – R. Wright*

My two least favorites I would have to say were Anna Karenina and The Grapes of Wrath, sorry, I thought they were both terribly boring.  I have put a (*) mark next to the books that would be included in a top 20!  Hope you enjoy :)

2 comments:

  1. Glad to see a few of my books made it on your top 20 ;) Miss you, sending lots of love from Detroit.

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  2. Alyssa, This is a great list. I am going to print it out and share it with my book club that your mom is in! I wish that I could say that I have read 50 books in 14 months! You are wonderful. I wish that I had had more time to spend with you when you were home. Miss you and I cannot wait to talk to you more when you come home again!

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