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 :)