Reading

I like reading other people's book lists so I thought I'd share mine.

I started keeping a book list in September 2012, when I went to Georgia and started having a lot more free time. I've bolded the books that I enjoyed the most, either because they made me think and I often come back to them in my head, or were just an enjoyable read.

2017

• Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany, and Jack Thorne
• The Favorite Game by Leonard Cohen
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• The Martian by Andy Weir
• A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
• Still Alice by Lisa Genova
• The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
• Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson
• A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Fifty Shades of Grey by EL James
• The Battle for Room 314: My Year of Hope and Despair in a New York City High School by Ed Bolond
• Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas
• World Without End by Ken Follett
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan
• The Summer of the Bear by Bella Pollen
• Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
• Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
• The Queen of the South by Arturo Perez-Reverte
• Sophie's World: An Adventure in Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder
• How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
• The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
• Vagina: A New Biography by Naomi Wolf
• On Solid Ground: Strategies for Teaching Reading K-3 by Sharon Taberski
• After You by Jojo Moyes
• Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
• Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery
• Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery
• A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tayler
• PS, I Love You by Cecelia Ahern
• Shopping for a Billionaire #1 by Julia Kent
• Anne of Windy Poplars by L.M. Montgomery
• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking  by Malcolm Gladwell
• The Timekeeper by Mitch Albom
• An Unproductive Woman by Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali
• The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Olympics by Daniel James Brown
• Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
• About a Boy by Nick Hornby
• Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

2016 

• The Born Frees: Writing with the Girls of Gugulethu by Kimberly Burge
• Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times by Jennifer Worth
• Call the Midwife: Shadows of the Workhouse by Jennifer Worth
• Call the Midwife: Farewell to the East End  by Jennifer Worth
• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
• Naked by David Sedaris
• Under a Wide and Starry Sky by Nancy Horan
•  Servents of the Map by Andrea Barrett
•  Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
• River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler
• The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter and How to Make the Most of Them by Meg Jay, PhD
• The Man Who Tried to Save the World: The Dangerous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Fred Cuny by Scott Anderson
• Yes Please by Amy Poehler
• Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
• Dead Aid: Why Aid is not Working and How There is Another Way for Africa by Dambisa Moyo
• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett 
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling
• Bastard Tongues: A Trailblazing Linguist Finds Clues to Our Common Humanity in the World's Lowliest Languages by Derek Bickerton
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
•  Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
•  Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire  by J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
•  Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows by J.K. Rowling
• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
•  Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market by Eric Schlosser
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
• What I Know Now: Letters to My Younger Self Edited by Elenore Smith Bowen
• Lexican by Max Barry
• The Fermata by Nicholson Baker
• I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had by Tony Danza
• The Giver by Lois Lowry
• Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari
• Don't Know Much About History:Everything You Need to Know About American History But Never Learned by Kenneth C. Davis
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
• The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
• Rethinking Vanuatu Education Together
• I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away by Bill Bryson
•  The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
•  Manwhore by Katy Evens
•  The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
• 44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith
• All the Light We Cannot See by Anothony Doerr
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
• Bossypants by Tina Fey
• Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
• Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers by Harry Bernstein

2015

• The Diary of Ma Yan by Ma Yan and Pierre Haski
• I am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood Ali and Delphine Minoui
• Things I’ve Been Silent About by Azar Nafisi
• Wandering Star by J. M. G. Le Clézio
• Outcasts United by Warren St. John
• War Trash by Ha Jin
• Red Azalea by Anchee Min
• The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
• The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
• Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
• Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays by George Orwell
• The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
• The O.Henry Prize Stories: The Best Stories of the Year 2008 by Multiple Authors
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
• Holidays On Ice by David Sedaris
• Women by Charles Bukowski
• Hiroshima by John Hersey
• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
• Lost on Planet China by J. Maarten Troost
• My Accidental Jihad by Krista Bremer
• Bone Worship by Elizabeth Eslami
• What Is the What by Dave Eggers
• The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific by J. Maarten Troost
• Getting Stoned With Savage: A Trip Through The Islands of Vanuatu and Fiji by J. Maarten Troost
• Living Poor: A Peace Corps Chronicle by Moritz Thomsen
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• Headhunters on My Doorstep: A True Treasure Island Ghost Story by J. Maarten Troost
• I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala     Yousafzai with Christina Lamb
• A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League by Ron Suskind
• The Village of Waiting by George Packer
• Flat Broke With Children: Women in the Age of Welfare Reform by Sharon Hays
• Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder
• Notes from the Hyena’s Belly: Memories of My Ethiopian Boyhood by Nega Mezleki
•  Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
• Marriage on the Street Corners of Tehran by Nadia Shahram
• Raising the Curve: A Year Inside One of America’s 45,000 Failing Public Schools by Ron Berler
• Please Look After Mom by Shin Kyung-sook
• The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk
• Confessions of a Bad Teacher: The Shocking Truth from the Front Lines of American Public Education by John Owens
• Anthem  by Ayn Rand
• Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World by Rita Golden Gelman
•  The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books by Azar Nafisi
• Word Nerd: Dispatches from the Games, Grammar, and Geek Underground by John D. Williams, Jr
•  A Nation of Nations: A Great American Immigration Story by Tom Gjelten

2014

• First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung
• Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind by Loung Ung
• Burmese Days by George Orwell
• The Road of Lost Innocence by Somaly Mam
• A Tale For the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
• Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Little Princes by Conor Grennan
• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kunderera
• Blind Willow, Sleeping Women by Haruki Murakami
• Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
• Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
• The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez
• When Heaven and Earth Changed Places by Le Ly Hayslip
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
• Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie T. Chang
• Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan
• Escape From Camp 14 by Blaine Harden
• The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

2013

• The Unbearable Lightness of Scones by Alexander McCall Smith
• Big Backpack, Little World by Donna Morang
• Buffalo Gals by Amy J. Strychasz
• Cruise Quarters by Cara Bertoia
• City of Light by Lauren Belfer
• Cocktails, Caviar, and Diapers by Renee Duke
• Sleeping in the Houses of Strangers: A Month-Long Journey of Trust by Mark C. Dickinson
• A Song of Africa by Ronald Wheatley
• Spirits Rebellious by Kahlil Gibran
• Never Mind the Balkans, Here’s Romania by Mike Ormsby
• There Is No Long Distance Now: Very Short Stories by Naomi Shihab Nye
• Nowhere Like Home by Jamie Alexander
• Emergency Sex (and Other Desperate Measures): True Stories from a War Zone by Kenneth Cain, Heidi Postlewait, and Andrew Thomson
• Speak Swahili, Dammit! By James Penhaligon
• My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
• The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates
• A Russian Journal by John Steinbeck
• Mrs. Tuesday’s Departure by Suzanne Anderson
• Snow by Orhan Pamuk
• The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coehlo
• City on the Edge: Buffalo, New York 1900-Present by Mark Goldman
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
• This Burns My Heart by Samuel Park
• Left to Tell by Immacylee Ilibagiza
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin
• The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
• When God Was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman
• The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman
• The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri

2012

• Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin
• Little Bee by Chris Cleave
• Running with Scissors by Augustan Buroughs
• Stuck in the Middle by Virginia Smith
• To Travel Hopelessly by English Teacher X
• Almost a Bride by Patricia McLinn
• Little Woman by Louisa May Alcott
• Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
• Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Jo’s Boys by Louisa May Alcott
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson
• Rose in Bloom by Louisa May Alcott
• Our House in Arusha by Sara Tucker
• Buffalo Lockjaw by Greg Ames
• Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney