Reading List

I took on a personal reading challenge in an attempt to read 100 books this year. And I'm very happy to say that I made it!

Attached is a list of the best books that I've read this year. Not all of them are recent. Most of them have been out for years, some for centuries, but this is something I feel is worth sharing.

1. Above all Things, Tanis Rideout
2. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richter
3. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
4. Eastward to Tartary by Robert D Kaplan
5. Jan Wong’s China by Jan Wong
6. Red China Blues by Jan Wong
7. This Earth of Mankind by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
8. When we were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
9. The Plague by Albert Camus
10. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
11. The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
12. Burmese Lessons by Karen Connelly
13. The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
14. The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King
15. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
16. Years of Sorrow, Years of Shame: The Story of Japanese Canadians in World War II by Barry Broadfoot
17. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
18. Beyond Belief by V.S. Naipaul
19. The Great Railway by Pierre Berton
20. Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon
21. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
22. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
23. Banana Boys by Terry Woo
24. Alliterasian: 20 Years of Ricepaper Magazine
25. L’Amour by Marguerite Duras
26. The Old Garden by Hwang Sok-Yong
27. Child of All Nations by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
28. Footsteps by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
29. Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris
30. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
31. Unruly Places by Alastair Bonnett
32. The Symposium by Plato
33. The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
34. Fixi Novo’s The Little Basket, Heat, Flesh, Trash trilogy
35. Alias Chin Peng, by Chin Peng
36. Letters from Burma by Aung San Suu Kyi
37. The Enormous Room by EE Cummings
38. The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh
39. The Quiet American by Graham Greene
40. The Year of Living Dangerously by CJ Koch
41. What Your Teacher Didn’t Teach You by Farish Noor
42. The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek by Hannah Pakula
43. Rojak by Amir Muhammad
44. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
45. The Dream Palace of the Arabs: A Generation’s Odyssey by Fouad Ajami
46. On Writing Well by William Zinsser
47. The Places In Between by Rory Stewart
48. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
49. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
50. The Big Thaw by Ed Struzik
51. The Great Shark Hunt by Hunter S Thompson
52. Obasan by Joy Kogawa
53. Ru by Kim Thuy
54. Memory of Fire: Genesis by Eduardo Galleano
55. On the Proper Use of Stars by Dominique Fortier
56. There is a World Elsewhere by F Gonzalez-Crussi
57. An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks
58. A Negro Explorer at the North Pole by Matthew Henson
59. Simple Recipes by Madeleine Thien
60. Meet me in Venice by Suzanne Ma
61. All the Names by Jose Saramago
62. Saltwater City by Paul Yee
63. Fresh Girls and Other Stories by Evelyn Lau
64. The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe
65. The Frontiers of Love by Diana Chang
66. The Disappeared by Kim Echlin
67. The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
68. Origins of the Chinese Revolution, 1915-1949 by Lucien Bianco
69. A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
70. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
71. The Making of Asian America by Erika Lee
72. Two-Gun and Sun by June Hutton
73. The Tin Flute by Gabrielle Roy
74. The Autobiography of Malcolm X, as told to Alex Haley

My favourite bookstore in Nanjing.