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Here’s a list of books I’ve read recently. I’ve highlighted my favorites.
2013:
A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
Memories of my Ghost Brother, Heinz Insu Fenkl
Shamans, Housewives, and Other Restless Spirits, Laurel Kendall
Life and Hard Times of a Korean Shaman: Of Tales and the Telling of Tales, Laurel Kendall
After Dark, Haruki Murakami
Dance, Dance, Dance, Haruki Murakami
Chorus [slam poetry], Saul Williams, Dufflyn Lammers, and Aja Monet
2012:
Time and Chance, Alan Brennert
The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, Barbara Demick
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie
The Vagina Monologues, Eve Ensler
Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West, Blaine Harden
The Reluctant Communist, Charles Robert Jenkins
Korean Shamanism: the Cultural Paradox, Chongho Kim
Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lahiri
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Steig Larsson
The Girl Who Played with Fire, Steig Larsson
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, Steig Larsson
A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel, Haruki Murakami
Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami
Snuff, Chuck Palahniuk
The Help, Kathryn Stockett
Sophie’s Choice, William Styron
Around the World in 80 Days, Jules Verne
Korea: a Walk through the Land of Miracles, Simon Winchester
2011:
Chromophobia, David Batchelor
Molokai, Alan Brennert
Honolulu, Alan Brennert
The Fall, Albert Camus
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages, Guy Deutscher
Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love and Language, Deborah Fallows
The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan
Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche
The Antichrist, Friedrich Nietzsche
The Geography of Thought, Richard Nisbett
Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
Anthem, Ayn Rand
Sex at Dawn: the Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality, Christopher Ryan
Just Kids, Patti Smith
What are you reading? Any recommendations?
