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Christopher's "Personal Reading List 2007"

This was a good guide for me last year, so maybe planning ahead will help me get even further.

These things never pan out as planned, though.

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1.
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The Search
by Naguib Mahfouz
 
2. The Cost of Living
by Arundhati Roy
 
3. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Italo Calvino
 
4. Waiting: A Novel
by Ha Jin
 
5. Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water
by Maude Barlow
 
6. The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
by Michael Pollan
 
7. Jorge Luis Borges: Ficciones (BCP Spanish Texts)
by Jorge Luis Borges
 
8. The Garneau Block
by Todd Babiak
 
9. He Drown She in the Sea: A Novel
by Shani Mootoo
 
10. The In-Between World of Vikram Lall
by M.G. Vassanji
 
11. The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslim's Call for Reform in Her Faith
by Irshad Manji
 
12. Rogue Diamonds: Northern Riches On Dene Land
by Ellen Bielawski
 
13. Sozaboy (Longman African Writers Series)
by Ken Saro-Wiwa
 
14. Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope
by Shirin Ebadi
 
15. Soul Mountain
by Gao Xingjian
 
16. Development as Freedom
by Amartya Sen
 
17. Shalimar the Clown: A Novel
by Salman Rushdie
 
18. Bitter Chocolate: Investigating the Dark Side of the World's Most Seductive Sweet
by Carol Off
 
19. A Blade of Grass: A Novel (P.S.)
by Lewis DeSoto
 
20. A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories
by Yiyun Li
 
21. Selections from the Prison Notebooks
by Antonio Gramsci
 
22. The Mixquiahuala Letters
by Ana Castillo
 
23. The Inheritance of Loss
by Kiran Desai
 
24. Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
 
25. Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit
by Vandana Shiva
 
26. The Violence of Green Revolution: Third World Agriculture, Ecology and Politics
by Vandana Shiva
 
27. Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings
by Abolqasem Ferdowsi
 
28. Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
 
29.
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The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
by Ernesto Che Guevara
 
30. A Small Place
by Jamaica Kincaid
 
31. Somanatha: The Many Voices of a History
by Romila Thapar
 
32. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
by Dai Sijie
 
33. The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
 
34.
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The Culture of Nature: North American Landscape from Disney to the Exxon Valdez
by Alexander Wilson
 
35.
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Heat: How to Stop the Planet From Burning
by George Monbiot
 
36. The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann
 
37. The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
 
38. Londonstani
by Gautam Malkani
 
39. Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea  
40. The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
by John Vaillant
 
41. Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon
by Patrick Tierney
 
42. The People's Act of Love
by James Meek
 
43. Paradiso.
by Jose Lezama Lima
 
44. Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
 
45. The Lost Salt Gift of Blood (New Canadian Library)
by Alistair Macleod
 
46. Obasan
by Joy Kogawa
 
47. China's Water Crisis (Voices of Asia)
by Jun Ma
 
48.
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The Periodic Table (Essential.penguin)
by Primo Levi
 
49.
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The Prophet
by Kahlil Gibran
 
50. Saturday
by Ian Mcewan
 
This is Christopher's list. Only Christopher can edit it. You can make your own version of this list.
Created by Christopher on Oct 29, 2006.