Friday, May 27, 2011

Must Reads

Book Lists
Subjects:
-Nuremberg Trials
-WWII
-NATO strikes into Kosovo and Serbia/President Milosevic
-Alchemists
-Mary Sutter
-Sjogren's Disease
-Prosopagnosa
-Cleopatra
-Robert Hansen; cerial killer
-Elie Wiesel
-Chevy Chase
-Mother Teresa
-Gandhi
-Liu Xiaobo
-Politics in Burma and Guinea
-Jawaharlal Nehru
-Bipolar II

Fiction
Atwood: "Jambo Mama"
Balcita, Angela: "Moonface"
Campbell, Bonnie: "Once Upon a River"
Clark, Mary Higgins: "Where are the Children?"
Clark, Mary Higgins: "Loves Dancing, Loves to Sing"
Clinch, John: "Kings of the Earth"
Clinch, John: "Finn"
Culkin, J: “The Final Arc if Sky"
Dinesen: "Out of Africa"
Edwards, Kim: "The Memory Keeper's Daughter"
Fabiano, Laurie: "Elizabeth Street"
Falanga, Diane: "P.S.-I Hate It Here!"
Fossum, Karin: "Black Seconds"
Hammond, Diane: "Hannah's Dream"
Harkness, Deborah: “A Discovery of Witches”
Hoffman, Alice: "The Red Garden"
Kingsolver, Barbara: "Poisonwood Bible"
Kristof & WuDunn: "Half the Sky"
Lamoore, Lou: "The Last of the Breed"
Larson, Stieg: "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoos
Mortenson, Greg: "Stones into Schools"
Mukherjee: "The Emperor of all Maladies"
Oliveira, Robin: "My Name is Mary Sutter"
Parkhurst, Carolyn: "The Nobodies Album"
Patchett, Ann: "State of Wonder"
Paton, Alan: "Cry the Beloved Country"
Picoult, Jodi: “Sing You Home”
Schaffert, Timothy: “The Coffins of Little Hope”
Sparks, Nicholas: "A Bend in the Road"
Speare, Elizabeth George: "The Witch of Blackbird Pond"
Sternbach, Claudia: “Reading Lips”
Stevenson, Robert Lewis: "Treasure Island"
Styron: "Visible Darkness"
Vonnecut, Kurt: "Slaughterhouse"
Vonnecut, Kurt: "Cats Cradle"
Watson, Christie: "Tiny Sun Birds, Far Away"
Woolf, Virginia: "Mrs. Dalloway"
"Journey to Yesterday"

Non-Fiction:
Akpan, Uwem: "Say You're One of Them"
Barash, David P: "Approaches to Peace"
Cox, Harvey: "On Not Leaving It to the Snake"
De Brouwer, Anne-Marie, Sandra Ka Hon Chu, and Samer Muscati: "The Men Who Killed Me"
Dobkowski, Michael N. & Wallimann, Isidor: "On the Edge of Scarcity: Environment, Resources, Population, Sustainability, and Conflict"
Edgerton: "Africa's Armies"
Ehrlich, Paul: "The Population Bomb"
Emerson, Ralph Waldo: "Nature and Selected Essays"
French, Howard: "A Continent for the Taking"
Frey, James: "A Million Little Pieces"
Friedmann & Jacobson: "I Will Still be Moved"
Fuller: "Scribbling the Cat"
Goodwin, P: "Mukiwa" or " When a Crocodile Eats the Sun"
Gregorio: "Days or Atonement"
Hillenbrand, Laura: "Unbroken"
Homer-Dixon, Thomas: "Ecoviolence"
Klare, Michael T: "Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict"
Lewis Beverly: "The Shunning"
Malan: "My Traitor's Heart"
Mealer: "All Things Must Fight to Live"
Meldrum, A: "Where We Have Hope"
Mandela, Nelson: "In His Own Words"
Mandela, Nelson: "Conversations With Myself"
Mandela, Nelson: "Mandela: An Illustrated Autobiography"
Pollan, Michael: "The Omnivore's Dilemma"
Sampson, Anthony: "Mandela: The Authorized Biography"
Teague, Don & Barrak, Rafraf: "Saved by Her Enemy" Barrak
Tolle, Eckhart: "The Power of Now"
Tuhabony, G:"The Voice in my Heart"
Tutu, Desmond: "Made for Goodness: And Why This Makes All the Difference"
Tutu, Desmond: “The Rainbow People of God"

-Check out books by William Faulkner and John Steinbeck
-Oprah's Book Club

Movies:
-Murder By Numbers
-Blue Valentine
-Little Fockers
-The Next Three Days
-Conviction
-Tiny Furniture
-Inside Job
-Rent Buried
-The Fugitive
-Easy A
-The Hours
-A Beautiful Mind*
-Hang Over Part 2
-Midnight in Paris
-Something Borrowed
-Kung Fu Panda 2
-Rio
-Horrible Bosses
-The Help
-Pirates of the Caribbean 4
-Limitless
-King's Speech
-No woman, No cry
-Father of the Bride
-Insidious
-Life in a Day (documentary)
-The Frozen Ground
-Machine Gun Preacher

1 comment:

  1. You have never read The Witch of Blackbird Pond? It's really really good. Also, check out Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, I really enjoyed it.

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