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Forum Winter 2004 Reading List

On December 6, 2004, Forum listeners shared their ideas for great holiday book gifts.

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The Quiet American -- Graham Greene
The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley's Game -- Patricia Highsmith
In the Night Room -- Peter Straub
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror -- Stephen Kinzer
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books -- Azar Nafisi
Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror -- Michael Scheuer
The Green Age Of Asher Witherowe -- M. Allen Cunningham
The Kite Runner -- Khaled Hosseini
Jean De Florette and Manon of the Springs -- Marcel Pagnol
America the Vulnerable: How Our Government Is Failing to Protect Us from Terrorism -- Stephen Flynn
The Darling -- Russell Banks
The Plot Against America: A Novel -- Philip Roth
A Tale of Love and Darknessle -- Amos Oz
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Neste -- Ken Kesey
Plagues and Peoples -- William McNeill
The Plague -- Albert Camus
A Military History of the Western World (three volumes) -- J.F.C Fuller
The Master and Margarita -- Mikhail Bulgakov
The Known World -- Edward P. Jones
The Dante Club -- Matthew Pearl
The Blue Nile -- Alan Moorehead
Amusing Ourselves to Death -- Neil Postman
Funny in Farsi -- Firoozeh Dumas
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle -- Haruki Murakami
When Elephants Dance -- Tess Uriza Holthe
When Elephants Weep -- Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Susan McCarthy
Palestinian and Jewish Recipes for Peace (available from traubman.igc.org/recipes.htm)
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny -- Robert Wright
Mountains Beyond Mountains : Healing the World: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer -- Tracy Kidder
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time -- Mark Haddon
High Spirits -- Robertson Davies
A Short History of Nearly Everything -- Bill Bryson
The Complete Sylvie and Bruno -- Louis Carroll, Renee Flower
The Red Tent -- Anita Diamant
This Man's Army: A Soldier's Story from the Frontlines of the War on Terrorism -- Andrew Exum
The American Axis: Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and the Rise of the Third Reich -- Max Wallace
The Life and Times of the Last Kid Picked -- David Bejamin
Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood -- William Pollack
The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad -- Fareed Zakaria
Oryx and Crake -- Margaret Atwood
The Line of Beauty -- Alan Hollinghurst
The Octopus -- Frank Norris
The Mind of God (available at: www.themindofgod.net) -- Paul Cochrane
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency -- Alexander McCall Smith
Miracle Life of Edgar Mint -- Brady Udall
Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon -- Tom Spanbauer
Odd Thomas -- Dean R. Koontz
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer -- Patrick Suskind
Obsidion Butterfly (Anita Blake Vampire Hunter #9) -- Laurell K. Hamilton
The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States -- National Commission on Terrorist Attacks (Also available for free at: www.9-11commission.gov)
The Book of Mormon -- Joseph Smith
Dreamtigers -- Jorge Luis Borges
The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11 -- David Ray Griffin
The Painting -- Nina Schuyler
Pillars of the Earth -- Ken Follett
Fly Boys: A True Story of Courage -- James Bradley
Woman of the Inner Sea -- Thomas Keneally
Darkness Visible: A Memoir Of Madness -- William Styron
The Jeeves Series -- P.G. Wodhouse
The Dog Fighter -- Marc Bojanowski

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