Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Peace Corps Book List

Peace Corps Book list (Started July 22nd 2006)

  1. Diary – Chuck Palahniuck
  2. Starship Galactic – Terry Jones
  3. Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuck
  4. Mountains Beyond Mountains – Tracy Kidder
  5. The Little Price – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  6. The Life of Pi – Yann Martel
  7. The Viceroy of Ouidah – Bruce Chatwin
  8. Island of the Sequenced Love Nun – Christopher Moore
  9. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera
  10. Narcissus and Goldmund – Hermann Hesse
  11. Bringing Down the House – Ben Mezrich
  12. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
  13. Jarhead – Anthony Swofford
  14. Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer
  15. The Greatest Nation Speaks – Tom Brokaw
  16. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind – Chuck Barris
  17. Nine Hills to Nambonkaha – Sarah Erdman
  18. Ishmael – Daniel Quinn
  19. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
  20. Welcome to the Monkey House – Kurt Vonnegut
  21. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkein
  22. Cats Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
  23. Money Secrets – Dave Barry
  24. The World at Night – Alan Furst
  25. Red Gold – Alan Furst
  26. Skinny Dip – Carl Hiaasen
  27. PIMP – Iceberg Slip (Robert Beck)
  28. Don’t lets go to the Dogs Tonight – Alexandra Fuller
  29. Timequake – Kurt Vonnegut
  30. One the Road – Jack Kerouac
  31. Girl with the Pearl Earring –Tracy Chevalier
  32. Animal Farm – George Orwell
  33. Stiff – Mary Roach
  34. Slapstick – Kurt Vonnegut
  35. King Lear – Shakespeare
  36. The Rules of Attraction – Bret Easton Ellis
  37. Show Me the Magic – Annie Caulfield_
  38. Little Angles – Phra Peter Pannapadipo
  39. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time – Mark Haddon
  40. Nickel and Dimed – Barbara Ehrenreich
  41. Pictor’s Metamorphoses and Other Fantasies – Hermann Hesse
  42. The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
  43. Beasts – Joyce Carol Oats
  44. The Celestine Prophecy - James Redfield_
  45. Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
  46. Waiting for Gordot – Samuel Becket
  47. Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
  48. Naked Pictures of Famous People – Jon Stewart
  49. Galapagos – Kurt Vonnegut
  50. Its not easy being Green – Jim Henson
  51. Screw it, Lets Do It – Richard Branson
  52. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
  53. Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
  54. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
  55. Bobby Fisher Teaches Chess – Bobby Fisher
  56. What am I Doing Here – Bruce Chatwin
  57. The Old Patagonia Express – Paul Theroux
  58. The Tao of Pooh – Benjamin Hoff
  59. The Island of Dr Moreou – H.G. Wells

Feel free to comment on books i should read or books you are going to send me...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Michael,
That's quite a list. Your high school Engish teachers would be quite proud. Lucian survived our trip to Nicaragua. It was wonderful. I'll send you the yahoo link so you can view all 200 pictures. I can include a book in your care package if you send me a title.
Stay happy and safe,
Irene