Forum Winter 2005 Reading List
Gilead -- Marilynne Robinson
The Street of Crocodiles -- Bruno Schulz
Is There No Other Way?: The Search for a Nonviolent Future -- Michael Nagler
Mom's Marijuana: Life, Love, and Beating the Odds -- Dan Shapiro
China Boy -- Gus Lee
What Painting Is -- James Elkins
Against All Odds -- Amalie Hedwig Langmueller
Fabric of the Cosmos -- Brian Greene
Spychips -- Katherine Albrecht, Liz McIntyre
We Need to Talk About Kevin -- Lionel Shriver
The Assassin's Gate: America in Iraq -- George Packer
Noah's Flood -- Walter Pitman, William Ryan
Class Matters -- Bill Keller
Black Elk Speaks -- John G. Neihardt
Cosmic Banditos -- A. C. Weisbecker
Crashing America -- Katia Noyes
The Burn Journals -- Brent Runyon
Pengey the Penguin -- John Burns (at www.pengey.com)
Crossing to Safety -- Wallace Stegner
Enchanted, Inc. -- Shanna Swendson
The Underdog: How I Survived the World's Most Outlandish Competitions -- Joshua Davis
Light on Life -- B. K. S. Iyengar
The Life of Pi -- Yann Martel
The Kite Runner -- Khaled Hosseini
The Professor's Daughter -- Emily Raboteau
Guns, Germs and Steel -- Jared Diamond
A Girl Named Zippy -- Haven Kimmel
Too Close to the Falls -- Catherine Gildiner
The Rule of Four -- Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason
Hungry Planet -- Peter Menzel, Faith D'Aluisio
Not Wanted on the Voyage -- Timothy Findley
The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology -- Ray Kurzweil
Artificial Intelligence for Computer Games: An Introduction. -- John David Funge
This Thing of Darkness -- Harry Thompson
The Discovery of Slowness -- Sten Nadolny
A Million Little Pieces -- James Frey
America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction -- John Stewart, the writers of The Daily Show
The War on Truth: 9/11 Disinformation and the Anatomy of Terrorism -- Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
The Phantom Tollbooth -- Norton Juster
Words to Live By: A Journal of Wisdom for Someone You Love -- Emily and Kate Marshall
Caught Stealing -- Charlie Huston
Giving from Your Heart -- Dr. Bob Rosenberg, Guy Lampard
A Different Universe -- Robert B. Laughlin
The Glory of Their Times -- Lawrence Ritter
Atrocity Archives -- Charles Stross
Declare -- Tim Powers
How to Argue and Win All the Time -- Gerry Spence
Birds Without Wings -- Louis De Bernieres
Complications -- Atul Gawande
Love's Executioner -- Irving D. Yalom
Case Histories -- Kate Atkinson
Behind the Scenes at the Museum -- Kate Atkinson
History of Love -- Nicole Krauss
The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian -- Nirad C. Chaudhuri
Cryptonomicon (a series) -- Neal Stephenson
Game of Shadows -- Mark Fainaru-Wada, Lance Williams
Death of Innocents -- Sister Helen Prejean
Class: A Guide Through the American Status System -- Paul Fussell
His Dark Materials Trilogy -- Philip Pullman
A Night in Lonesome October -- Roger Zelazny
Strange Saint -- Andrew Beahrs
Worrwood Forest: A Natural History of Chernobyl -- Mary Mycio
Little Beauties -- Kim Addonizio
Timely Insights Into Timely Truth -- Kenneth J. Brown
The Peace Finder: Riley McFee's Quest for World Peace -- Joan McWilliams
The Flickering Mind: The False Promise of Technology in the Classroom and How Learning Can Be Saved -- Todd Oppenheimer
If the River Was Whiskey -- T.C. Boyle
Fathers and Sons -- Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Maharinis: The Extraordinary Tale of Four Indian Queens and Their Journey from Purdah to Parliament -- Lucy Moore
In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching -- P.D. Ouspensky
The Historian -- Elizabeth Kostova
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal -- Christopher Moore
Censored 2006: The Top 25 Censored Stories -- Peter Phillips, Project Censored
Housekeeping -- Marilynne Robinson
The Case of the Seven of Calvary (out of print) -- Anthony Boucher
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction -- William Zinnser
The Pushcart Prize XXIX: Best of the Small Presses, 2005 Edition -- Bill Henderson, The Pushcart Prize Editors
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