Reading List 2010

Cover to cover, from 1 January 2010 – 31 December 2010

  • “Motherless Brooklyn,” Jonathan Lethem
  • “Arabian Nights: The Marvels and Wonders of The Thousand and One Nights,” adapted from Richard Burton’s unexpurgated translation by Jack Zipes
  • “Heartburn,” Nora Ephron
  • “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” Gabriel García Márquez
  • “The Sound of Paper: Starting from Scratch,” Julia Cameron
  • “Hideous Kinky,” Esther Freud
  • “Ice Bound: A Doctor’s Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole,” Dr Jerri Nielsen with Maryanne Vollers
  • “View from the Summit,” Sir Edmund Hillary
  • “The Princess of Burundi,” Kjell Eriksson
  • “The Giver,” Lois Lowry
  • “The Pilgrimage,” Paulo Coelho
  • “Eat, Pray, Love,” Elizabeth Gilbert (a re-read)
  • “The Valkyries,” Paulo Coelho
  • “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle,” Barbara Kingsolver w/ Steven L Hopp & Camille Kingsolver
  • “Touching the Void,” Joe Simpson
  • “To The Lighthouse,” Virginia Woolf
  • The Holy Qur’an, English translations by Drs Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din Al-Hilali and Muhammad Muhsin Khan (Ramadan read-through)
  • “Dear Theo: The Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh,” edited by Irving Stone (incomplete; lost in the move)
  • “Among the Believers,” V.S. Naipaul
  • “English, August,” Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • “Heart So White,” Javier Marias (translated by Margaret Jull Costa)
  • “Pastoralia,” George Saunders