Forum Summer 2003 Reading List
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide -- Samantha Power
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail -- Bill Bryson
Abandon -- Pico Iyer
Anna in the Afterlife -- Merrill Joan Gerber
Angle of Repose -- Wallace Earle Stegner
Atlas of the Human Heart -- Ariel Gore
Black Dog of Fate: A Memoir -- Peter Balakian
Black Water -- Joyce Carol Oates
Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative -- David Brock
Blonde -- Joyce Carol Oates
Botticelli Blue Skies: An American in Florence -- Merrill Joan Gerber
Call of the Wild -- Jack London
China Dawn: The Story of a Technology and Business Revolution -- David Sheff
Day of the Locust -- Nathanael West
Domino -- Ross King
Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper -- Nicholson Baker
Dune -- Frank Herbert
E.T. 101: The Cosmic Instruction Manual for Planetary Evolution/Emergency Remedial Earth Edition -- Zoev Jho
Fidelity: Five Stories -- Wendell Berry
Gould's Book of Fish -- Richard Flanagan
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies -- Jared Diamond
Heaven's Edge -- Romesh Gunesekera, Fomesh Gunesekera
Herzog -- Saul Bellow
His Dark Materials Trilogy: The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass -- Philip Pullman
House Made of Dawn -- N. Scott Momaday
In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World -- Wendell Berry
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 -- Simon Winchester
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal -- Christopher Moore
Library: An Unquiet History -- Matthew Battles
Life of Pi -- Yann Martel
Light in August -- William Faulkner
Like a Hole in the Head -- Jen Banbury
Locomotion -- Jacqueline Woodson
Long Life, Honey in the Heart -- Martin Prechtel
Looking for the Lost: Journeys Through a Vanishing Japan -- Alan Booth
Maltese Falcon -- Dashiell Hammett
Maniac Magee -- Jerry Spinelli
777 Mathematical Conversation Starters -- John De Pillis
Middle Age: A Romance -- Joyce Carol Oates
Nature and Psyche -- David W. Kidner
Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order -- Robert Kagan
Patience and Fortitude: A Roving Chronicle of Book People, Book Places, and Book Culture -- Nicholas A. Basbanes
Pattern Recognition -- William Gibson
Portrait in Sepia -- Isabel Allende
Prodigal Summer -- Barbara Kingsolver
Proof Through the Night/Music and the Great War -- Glenn Watkins
Rabbit Boss -- Thomas Sanchez
Secrets of the Talking Jaguar: Memoirs from the Living Heart of a Mayan Village -- Martin Prechtel, Robert Bly
Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind -- Suzanne Fisher Staples
Shroud -- John Banville
Sisterhood is Forever: The Women's Anthology for a New Millenium -- Robin Morgan
Sleep Toward Heaven -- Amanda Eyre Ward
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers -- Mary Roach
Stupid White Men... and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation! -- Michael Moore
Sunset Boulevard/Cruising the Heart of Los Angeles -- Amy Dawes
The Angel of Darkness -- Caleb Carr
The Coffee Trader -- David Liss
The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror -- Bernard Lewis
The Da Vinci Code -- Dan Brown
1000 Days in Siberia/Odyssey of a Japanese-American POW -- Peter Sano
The Dante Club: A Novel -- Matthew Pearl
The Emperor of Ocean Park -- Stephen L. Carter
The Fortunate Fall -- Raphael Carter
The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad -- Fareed Zakaria
The Gangster We Are All Looking for -- Le Thi Diem Thuy
The Guru of Love : A Novel -- Samrat Upadhyay
The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo -- Paula Huntley
The High Sierra: Peaks, Passes, and Trails -- R.J. Secor
The Locklear Letters: A Novel -- Michael Kun
The Marriage of the Sea: A Novel -- Jane Alison
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency -- Alexander McCall Smith
The Only Dance There Is: Talks Given at the Menninger Foundation, Topeka, Kansas, 1970, and at Spring Grove Hospital, Spring Grove, Maryland, 1972 -- Ram Dass
The Orphans of Normandy: A True Story of World War II Told Through Drawings by Children -- Nancy Amis
The Point of Return : A Novel -- Siddhartha Deb
The Poisonwood Bible -- Barbara Kingsolver
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of The Oxford English Dictionary -- Simon Winchester
The Roads to Sata: A 2000-Mile Walk Through Japan -- Alan Booth
The Rooster and the Fox -- Helen Ward
The Secret Life of Bees -- Sue Monk Kidd
The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber -- Nicholson Baker
The Songs of the Kings: A Novel -- Barry Unsworth
The Sonnets: A Novel -- Lennard J. Davis
The Wedding -- Dorothy West
The Wounded Body: Remembering the Markings of Flesh -- Dennis Patrick Slattery
To Kill a Mockingbird : The 40th Anniversary Edition -- Harper Lee
James Joyce's Ulysses -- James Joyce
Walking Drum -- Louis L'Amour
White Rabbit: A Mystery -- David Daniel
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