home  select a topic arts & literature education & learning history & culture home & how-to kids & family local focus news & public affairs science & nature highlights forum reading lists summer 2007 winter 2006 spring 2006 winter 2005 summer 2005 spring 2005 holidays 2004 summer 2004 holidays 2003 summer 2003 holidays 2002 pacific time music home videos & DVDs   about KQED   support KQED   the guide online   email newsletters   DTV transition   KQED store   help & FAQ   contact info Forum Reading Lists Forum Summer 2004 Reading List On June 21, 2004, Forum listeners shared their reading suggestions for Summer 2004. If you are interested in buying one of these books, you can support KQED by clicking on the title below, which will take you to that book on Amazon.com. A portion of the profit will go to KQED. Misdemeanor Man -- Dylan Schaffer Love in the Time of Cholera -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency -- Alexander McCall Smith Blacklist: A V.I. Warshawski Novel -- Sara Paretsky The World of Normal Boys -- K. M. Soehnlein Murdered by Capitalism: A Memoir of 150 Years of Life and Death on the American Left -- John Ross The Snow Leopard -- Peter Matthiessen Tropic of Night -- Michael Gruber The Master Butchers Singing Club : A Novel -- Louise Erdrich The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies -- Richard Heinberg Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America -- Firoozeh Dumas The Quran -- M.H. Shakir The Arab Mind -- Raphael Patai To the White Sea -- James Dickey The Autobiography of Mother Jones -- Mother Jones Buddha's Dogs -- Susan Browne Mountains Beyond Mountains: Healing the World: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer -- Tracy Kidder The Vet's Daughter -- Barbara Comyns and Kathryn Davis Our Spoons Came from Woolworths -- Barbara Comyns Locked in the Cabinet -- Robert B. Reich Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk -- Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain I Don't Know How She Does It -- Allison Pearson Straight Man -- Richard Russo English Creek -- Ivan Doig In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex -- Nat Philbrick The Fortress of Solitude -- Jonathan Lethem The Virgin Blue -- Tracy Chevalier Falling Angels -- Tracy Chevalier Reclaiming San Francisco: History, Politics, Culture : A City Lights Anthology -- City Lights Books Patience and Fortitude -- Nicholas A. Basbanes Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit -- Daniel Quinn Bear in Mind: The California Grizzly -- Susan Snyder Sea of Light -- Miguel Balle Interior With Sudden Joy -- Brenda Shaughnessy Into the Blue: A Father's Flight and a Daughter's Return -- Susan Edsall The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey -- Ernesto Che Guevara Marathon: You Can Do It! -- Jeff Galloway Going to the Sun -- James McManus The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America -- Erik Larson World's Fair -- E. L. Doctorow Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers -- Daniel Ellsberg April 1865: The Month That Saved America -- Jay Winik The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch, 1743-1933 -- Amos Elon Sacred Therapy : Jewish Spiritual Teachings on Emotional Healing and Inner Wholeness -- Estelle Frankel Al-Jazeera: The Story of the Network That Is Rattling Governments and Redefining Modern Journalism -- Mohammed El-Nawawy and Adel Iskandar Use of Weapons -- Iain M. Banks Caravans -- James A. Michener A Day No Pigs Would Die -- Robert Newton Peck The Great Divide -- Studs Terkel Bel Canto: A Novel -- Ann Patchett The Piano Tuner -- Daniel Mason Blood from Stones: The Secret Financial Network of Terror -- Douglas Farah Integrity Matters -- James F. Bracher and Daniel E. Halloran The Magician's Wife -- Brian Moore The Vampire Tapestry -- Suzy McKee Charnas Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods -- Gary Paul Nabhan This Organic Life: Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader -- Joan Dye Gussow Liquid Gold: A Short History of Urine Use (And Safe Ways to Use It to Grow Plants) -- Carol Steinfeld Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books -- Azar Nafisi Gulag, A History -- Anne Applebaum Holy War Inc -- Peter Bergen The Magic of Hanalei Bay (at zakzaikine.com) -- Zak Zaikine Taxi Tales -- Lou Solitske Listeners also sent in the following book recommendations via email, but time constraints did not allow for them to be shared on air: Living on the Wind, Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds -- Scott Weidensaul Serious as a Heart Attack -- Louisa Luna Good Natured -- Frans de Waal Pattern Recognition -- William Gibson Integrity Matters -- Jim Bracher and Dan Halloran In the Heart of the Sea -- Nathaniel Philbrick Palestine -- Joe Sacco Early Morning; Remembering my Father, William Stafford -- Kim Stafford Eye of the Albatross -- Carl Safina Fat Land -- Greg Critser Reservation Blues -- Sherman Alexie Huckleberry Finn -- Mark Twain The Monkey Wrench Gang -- Edward Abbey Mister Roberts -- Thomas Heggen I, Robot -- Isaac Asimov The Dream of Scipio -- Ian Pear The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down; a Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the Colision of Two Cultures -- Anne Fadiman The Jasmine Trade -- Denise Hamilton Candyfreak -- Seve Almond Basketball on Paper -- Dean Oliver The Sleeping Father -- Mathew Sharpe A Man on the Moon -- Andrew Chaikin Rumors of Peace -- Ella Leffland I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company, Novel of Lewis and Clark -- Brian Hall The Kite Runner -- Khaled Hosseini Girl in Landscape -- Jonathan Lethem Obliviously On He Sails; The Bush Administration in Rhyme -- Calvin Trillin 1968: The Year That Rocked The World -- Mark Kurlansky William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Revolution -- Alan Taylor Faster Than the Speed of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation -- Joao Magueijo Necroscope; Invaders -- Briam Lumley Kitchen -- Banana Yoshimoto The God of Small Things -- Arundhati Roy How to Travel with a Salmon -- Umberto Eco Rise of the Vulcans; The History of Bush's War Cabinet -- James Mann An Invisible Sign of My Own -- Aimee Bender The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories -- Aimee Bender Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories -- Alice Munro Giovanni's Room -- James Baldwin You're Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger -- Roger Hall Double Play -- Robert B Parker Crashing the Party; How to Tell the Truth and Still Run for President -- Ralph Nader The Adventures and Misadventures of Magroll -- Alvaro Mutis The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts -- Louis de Bernieres Empire Falls -- Richard Russo Sugar Skull: An Eve Diamond Novel -- Denise Hamilton Last Lullaby: An Eve Diamond Novel -- Denise Hamilton Evolution's Rainbow; Diversity, Gender and Sexuality in Nature and People -- Professor Joan Roughgarden The Miner's Canary; Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy -- Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres Life of Pi -- Yann Martel The Little Friend -- Donna Tartt Any Human Heart -- William Boyd 1984 -- George Orwell The Founding Fish -- John McPhee Enemies; A Love Story -- I.B Singer The Exception to the Rulers -- Amy Goodman Independent People -- Halldor Laxness The Kristin Lavransdattern, Bridal Wreath, The Mistress of Husaby, The Cross -- Sigrid Undset Subtereanian -- James Rollins Kalki -- Gore Vidal Carter Beats the Devil -- Glen David Gold Wildlife of the Tibetan Steppe -- George Schaller The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic -- Chalmers Johnson Legacy : A Step-By-Step Guide to Writing Personal History -- Linda Spence Collected Poems -- Thom Gunn The Moon is a Harsh Mistress -- Robert A. Heinlein Legend of the Drena -- David Gemmel Bushwacked: Life in George Bush's America -- Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose Stupid White Men and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation -- Michael Moore Coraline -- Neil Gaiman The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams Browse Forum book lists... Summer 2007 Winter 2006 Spring 2006 Winter 2005 Spring 2005 Holidays 2004 Summer 2004 Holidays 2003 Summer 2003 Holidays 2002 back to top site map | terms of service | privacy policy Copyright © 1994-2008 KQED. All Rights Reserved.		SPONSORED BY: