Books I Read in 2013
To understand the list:
G = Horace Greeley High School English [AP English Literature and Literature of Childhood]
100 = Modern Library's Choices (why Modern Library? explanation here!!!!)
SR = Summer Reading
D = Dartmouth [The Global Politics of Soccer, the Cold War & American Life, and Spanish Culture & Conversation]
WR = Winter Reading
Hyperlinked titles go to my blog post on the book
Happy New Year!!
List after the break (it's sort of long...)
To understand the list:
G = Horace Greeley High School English [AP English Literature and Literature of Childhood]
100 = Modern Library's Choices (why Modern Library? explanation here!!!!)
SR = Summer Reading
D = Dartmouth [The Global Politics of Soccer, the Cold War & American Life, and Spanish Culture & Conversation]
WR = Winter Reading
Hyperlinked titles go to my blog post on the book
Happy New Year!!
List after the break (it's sort of long...)
- The Spy Who Came in From the Cold - John Le Carré
- Hard Times - Charles Dickens (G)
- Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys (100)
- A Room With a View - E.M. Forester (100)
- The People of Forever Are Not Afraid - Shani Boianjiu
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (G)
- Charlotte's Web - E. B. White (G)
- The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
- Beloved - Toni Morrison (G)
- Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? - Mindy Kaling
- Pale Fire - Vladmir Nabokov (100)
- A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning - Lemony Snicket (G)
- The Agency - Y.S. Lee
- Cosmopolitan Greetings - Allen Ginsberg (G)
- The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad (100)
- Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone - Rajiv Chandrasekaran
- The Loved One - Evelyn Waugh (G)
- Cleopatra: A Life - Stacy Schiff
- Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone - J. K. Rowling (G)
- Henderson The Rain King - Saul Bellow (100)
- GraceLand - Chris Abani
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce (G) (100)
- Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie (G)
- Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan - Rajiv Chandrasekaran
- Montana 1948 - Larry Watson (G)
- A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen (G)
- Howard's End - E.M. Forester (100)
- Of Mice and Men - John Steinback
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder (G) (100)
- The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
- The Pearl - John Steinback
- East of Eden - John Steinback (G)
- The Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene (100)
- The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton (100)
- The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake - Aimee Bender
- Mister Pip - Lloyd James
- House of Mirth - Edith Wharton (100) (SR)
- Tales from 1,001 Nights - Anonymous (translated by Malcom & Ursula Lyons) (SR)
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid (SR)
- The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights - John Steinbeck (SR)
- Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
- Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
- Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand (SR)
- The Tourist - Olen Steinhauer
- HIVE: Escape Velocity - Mark Walden
- The Unknowns - Gabriel Roth
- The Cuckoo's Calling - Robert Galibrath (J. K. Rowling)
- Crónica de una muerte anunciada - Gabriel García Márquez (D)
- Divergent - Veronica Roth
- On The Beach - Nevil Shute (D)
- The Specter of Communism: The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1917 – 1953 - Melvyn P. Leffler (D)
- Insurgent - Veronica Roth
- Goals for Galilee: The Triumphs and Traumas of the Sons of Sakhnin - Jerrold Kessel (D)
- Cold War Civil Rights - Mary Dudziak (D)
- Suburban Warriors - Lisa McGirr (D)
- The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer by David Goldblatt (D)
- Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
- The Light Between Oceans - M. L. Stedman (WR)
- Scoop - Evelyn Waugh (WR)
- Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion - Gregory Boyle (WR)
- Hiroshima - John Hersey (WR)
- This Is How You Lose Her - Junot Diaz (WR)
- Tell The Wolves I'm Home - Carol Rifka Brunt (WR)
- People of the Book - Geraldine Brooks (WR)
- The Interestings - Meg Wolitzer
- Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh (100)
- A Passage to India - E. M. Forester (100)
- The Language of Flowers - Vanessa Diffenbaugh
- The Goldfinch - Donna Tart
- Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Nostromo - Joseph Conrad (100)
- A High Wind in Jamaica - Richard Hughes (100)
- Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser (100)