Books I'm Reading

One of the biggest personal perks of Peace Corps is the amount of free time I have to read! Keeping a list here, with some impressions, summaries, etc...

1. The Brothers Karamazov- Fyodor Dostoyevksy
2. The Lost World- Arthur Conan Doyle 
3. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe- C S Lewis
1. Actually read all seven. About how I remembered them from when I was a kid.
4. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn- Betty Smith
5. The Autobiography of Charles Darwin- Charles Darwin
1. SO BORING   
6. Valley of the Wild Horses- Zane Grey
7. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz- Frank L Baum
8.  Crome Yellow- Aldous Huxley
9.  28 Stories of AIDS in Africa- Stephanie Nolen
10.  Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte
11.  Snow- Orhan Pahmuk
12. Gargoyle- David Anderson
13.  Pillars of the Earth- Ken Follett
1. This book is way, way overrated 
14. The Glass Castle- Jeannette Walls
15. The Phantom of the Opera- Gaston Leroux
1. Spoiler alert: everyone dies   
16. The Inconvenient Duchess- Christine Merrill
17. Anthem- Ayn Rand
18. The Invisible Man- H G Wells
19. The Time Machine- H G Wells
20.  Uncle Tom's Cabin- Harriet Beecher Stowe
1. For an abolitionist, this lady was really racist.  
   
21. A Tale of Two Cities- Charles Dickens
22. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake- Aimee Bender
23. Hyperion- Dan Simmons
1. Listened to this on audiotape together    
24.  Middlesex- Jeffrey Eugenides
25. The Poisonwood Bible- Barbara Kingsolver
26. The Prestige- Christopher Priest
27. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
28. The Screwtape Letters- C  S   Lewis
29. The Thirteenth Tale- Diane Setterfield
30.  String Theory- Andrew Zimmerman
31. The Picture of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde
32. Moby Dick- Herman Melville
33. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay- Michael Chabon
34. Toby Alone- Timothée de Fombelle
35.  Little Women- Louisa May Alcott
36.  Interview with the Vampire- Anne Rice
37.  The Little Prince- Antoine de Saint-Expurey
38.  The Red Tent- Anita Diamant
39.  Eat, Pray, Love- Elizabeth Gilbert
40.  Mere Christianity- C. S. Lewis
41. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory- Roald Dahl
42. Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand- Helen Simonson
43. The House on Mango Street- Sandra Cisneros
44. The Accused- Harold R Daniels
45.  The Ugly American- Eugene Burdick & William J   Lederer
46. A Hunger Artist- Franz Kafka
47. The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare- G  K   Chesterton
48. Dark Places- Gillian Flynn
49. Fathers and Sons- Ivan Turgenev
50. The Glass Castle- Jeanette Walls
51. Just Kids- Patti Smith
52.  Mirror Mirror- Gregory Maguire
53.  Children of Men- P. D. James
54.  Food Rules- Michal Pollack
55.  Something Wicked This Way Comes- Ray Bradbury
56.  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo- Stieg Larson
57. Flatland- Edwin Abbott

 

If you have suggestions, please let me know in the comments, and I'll try to get it on Kindle or as an audiobook!