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Forum Spring 2005 Reading List

On April 12, 2005, Forum listeners shared their ideas for great Spring reading.

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The Haunted Fifties, 1953-1963 (Nonconformist History of Our Times) -- I. F. Stone
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed -- Jared Diamond
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies -- Jared Diamond
The Hard Goodbye (Sin City, Book 1: Second Edition) -- Frank Miller
Epileptic -- David B.
A Short History of Nearly Everything -- Bill Bryson
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal -- Eric Schlosser
Cosmic Command -- Vernon Howard
The Second World War -- Winston S. Churchill, John Keegan
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams
Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) -- Neal Stephenson
Cryptonomicon -- Neal Stephenson
The Diamond Age : Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer -- Neal Stephenson
Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving With Grace -- Gordon MacKenzie
Revolting Youth: The Further Journals of Nick Twisp -- C. D. Payne
The Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles To Timbuktu -- Kira Salak
The Immense Journey : An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature -- Loren Eisiley
The Fall -- Albert Camus
The Plague -- Albert Camus
Going Postal: A Novel of Discworld -- Terry Pratchett
The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China, including The Art of War -- Ralph D. Sawyer
The Persian Puzzle : The Conflict Between Iran and America -- Kenneth Pollack
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again : Essays and Arguments Tag: Author of Infinite Jest -- David Foster Wallace
Oblivion : Stories -- David Foster Wallace
Guji Guji -- Chih-Yuan Chen
Double Duce -- Aaron Cometbus
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle -- Haruki Murakami
The Starship Diaries: Two Years Exploring The Planet In The Last Aircraft Of Its Kind -- Dallas Kachan
The Secret Knowledge of Water : Discovering the Essence of the American Desert -- Craig Childs
A Fine Balance -- Rohinton Mistry
The Gift of Fear -- Gavin De Becker
Engineers of Dreams : Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America -- Henry Petroski
Headlong -- Michael Frayn
The Idiot -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Cloud Atlas : A Novel -- David Mitchell
Feeding a Yen : Savoring Local Specialties, from Kansas City to Cuzco -- Calvin Trillin
Ceremony -- Leslie Marmon Silko
Midair -- Frank Conroy
The Heart Of The World: A Journey To The Last Secret Place -- Ian Baker, Dalai Lama (Introduction)
Just So Stories -- Rudyard Kipling, Barry Moser (Illustrator)
The Jungle Book -- Rudyard Kipling
His Dark Materials Trilogy -- Philip Pullman
To Kill a Mockingbird -- Harper Lee
Cook: The Extraordinary Voyages of Captain James Cook -- Nicholas Thomas
For Love of Insects -- Thomas Eisner
Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich - and Cheat Everybody Else -- David Cay Johnston
Paris Journal: 1965-1970 -- Janet Flanner
How Yoga Works: The Yoga Sutra -- Michael Roach, Christie McNally
Flaubert's Parrot -- Julian Barnes
Journey To The Motherland -- John Watusi Branch
What, Where, When, How, Why, and Who To Remember To Be Happy -- Ruchira Avatar Adi Da Samraj, Jaja Van Der Veer (Illustrator)
The Eyre Affair -- Jasper Fforde
Sightseeing -- Rattawut Lapcharoensap
The Left Hand of Darkness -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell -- Susanna Clarke
Grass -- Sheri S. Tepper

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