Books Read While In Benin

 Goal: To read 100 books during my Peace Corps service. Ready, set, go!

  1. My Life in Heavy Metal -- Almond
  2. The Satanic Verses -- Rushdie
  3. Love in a Time of Cholera -- Marquez
  4. The Virgin Suicides -- Eugenides
  5. Skinny Legs and All -- Robbins
  6. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down -- Fadiman
  7. Twenties Girl -- Kinsella
  8. Count of Monte Cristo -- Dumas
  9. On the Road -- Kerouac
  10. Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) -- Cleland
  11. Show Me the Magic -- Caulfield
  12. Ciderhouse Rules -- Irving
  13. Persepolis -- Satrapi
  14. Annie John -- Kincaid
  15. Pride & Prejudice* -- Austen
  16. The Poisonwood Bible -- Kingsolver
  17. The 5 People You Meet in Heaven -- Albom
  18. Their Eyes Were Watching God -- Hurston 
  19.  A Tale of Two Cities -- Dickens
  20. The Funny Thing Is...-- DeGeneres
  21. Prodigal Summer -- Kingsolver
  22. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man -- Joyce
  23. Life, the Universe, and Everything -- Adams
  24. Things Fall Apart -- Achebe
  25. Oliver Twist -- Dickens
  26. Sense & Sensibility -- Austen
  27. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay -- Chabon
  28. Jazz -- Morrison
  29. Unbowed -- Maathai
  30. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest -- Kesey
  31. How Did You Get This Number -- Crosley
  32. They Poured Fire On Us From The Sky -- Deng, Deng, &
  33. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings -- Angelou
  34. A Fine Balance -- Mistry
  35. Breakfast at Tiffany's -- Capote
  36. Darwin Awards: The Next Generation
  37. No Country For Old Men -- McCarthy
  38. Shantaram -- Roberts
  39. The Jungle Book -- Kipling
  40. East of Eden -- Steinbeck
  41. The Red Tent -- Diament
  42. The Shadow of the Sun -- Kapuscinski (15,000 pages read!)
  43. Delusions of Gender -- Fine
  44. On Her Majesty's Secret Service -- Fleming
  45. GRANTA 106 (Literary Magazine) -- Various
  46. Till We Have Faces -- Lewis
  47. The Great American Novel -- Roth
  48. Blink -- Gladwell
  49. The Salmon of Doubt -- Adams
  50. The Grapes of Wrath -- Steinbeck
  51. The Green Mile -- King
  52. The Best American Essays -- Gopnik (editor)
  53. Dreams of Trespass -- Mernessi
  54. I Know This Much Is True -- Lamb
  55. The Namesake -- Lahiri
  56. Catcher in the Rye -- Salinger
  57. Luka and the Fire of Life -- Rushdie
  58. Zeitoun -- Eggers
  59. Breakfast of Champions -- Vonnegut
  60. The Year of Living Biblically -- Jacobs
  61. Timequake -- Vonnegut
  62. The Three Musketeers -- Dumas
  63. The Fever -- Shah
  64. Race Against Time -- Lewis
  65. Grimm's Fairy Tales -- The Grimm Brothers
  66. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul -- Adams
  67. Price of Honor -- Goodwin
  68. Of Mice and Men -- Steinbeck
  69. The Unbearable Lightness of Being -- Kundera
  70. The Old Man and the Sea -- Hemingway
  71. Suttree -- McCarthy
  72. Perfume: Story of a Murderer -- Suskind
  73. R2: The Rice Review (2011 ed.) -- Various
  74. Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight -- Fuller
  75. Dracula -- Stoker*
  76. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim -- Sedaris
  77. The Trouble with Africa -- Calderisi
  78. The Final Solution -- Chabon
  79. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test -- Wolfe
  80. Infidel -- Ali
  81. Crime and Punishment -- Dostoyevski
  82. Armageddon in Retrospect -- Vonnegut
  83. Half the Sky -- Kristof and WuDunn
  84. The Winter of Our Discontent -- Steinbeck
  85. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo -- Larsson
  86. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish -- Adams
  87. Cry, the Beloved Country -- Patton
  88. The Girl Who Played with Fire -- Larsson
  89. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest -- Larsson
  90. My Horizontal Life -- Handler
  91. What Is The What -- Eggers
  92. The Sex Lives of Cannibals -- Troost
  93. The Great Gatsby -- Fitzgerald
  94. Tortilla Flat -- Steinbeck
  95. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
  96. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao -- Diaz\
  97. In Defense of Food -- Pollan
  98. Under the Banner of Heaven -- Krakauer
  99. The Sirens of Titan -- Vonnegut
  100. The Brothers Karamazov -- Dostoyevski
  101.  A Study in Scarlet -- Doyle
  102. Cutting for Stone -- Verghese
  103. Unbearable Lightness -- de Rossi
  104. Absalom, Absalom! -- Faulkner
  105. All the Pretty Horses -- McCarthy
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Updated: 7/29/12