Books Worth Reading
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If you’re looking for a good book, particularly one that will stretch your horizons, try one of these. I’ll keep adding to it, but this is a good start.
Fiction
- Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
- The Housekeeper and the Professor by Ogawa Yoko
- The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
- A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Vibrator by Akasaka Mari
- Neuromancer by William Gibson
- With the Light by Keiko Tobe
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- On Basilisk Station by David Weber
Non-Fiction
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- Lost Japan by Alex Kerr
- Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
- Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
- Flaubert in Egypt translated by Frances Steegmuller
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
- Men, Women, and Chainsaws by Carol Clover
Poetry
- The Colossus and Other Poems by Sylvia Plath
- The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan, translated by Jane Hirshfield
- Light Verse from the Floating World, compiled and translated by Makoto Ueda
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I read and reviewed the Housekeeper and the Professor awhile ago – enjoyed it. Zeitoun is one of my favorite nonfictions.
Comment by RFW February 13, 2011 @ 10:01 pmI’ve never read Zeitoun, I’ll have to check it out. So far the list’s diversity lies mostly in female and Japanese authors, so your suggestion spreads it out a bit. Thank you, and welcome.
Comment by takingitoutside February 14, 2011 @ 12:59 pm