Summer Reading List (now stickied for great justice)
Street of a thousand blossoms / Gail Tsukiyama.
Teahouse fire / Ellis Avery.
Ramayana : a dramatic retelling of the great Indian epic / David Farr.
Mahabharata : a shortened modern prose verion of the Indian epic / by R.K. Narayan
Cheops : a cupboard for the sun / by Paul West.
Tea with Osiris / Paul West.
Death of Vishnu / Manil Suri. (read the first third, it was eh)
Sea of poppies / Amitav Ghosh
Hungry tide / Amitav Ghosh.
Ladies coupé / Anita Nair.
Obedient father / Akhil Sharma
La cucina : a novel of rapture / Lily Prior. (lol I forgot it at home and now its overdue)
Black marks : a novel / by Kirsten Dinnall Hoyte.
Girl in the tangerine scarf : a novel / Mohja Kahf.
Adventures of Amir Hamza : lord of the auspicious planetary conjunction / [original Urdu text compiled by] Ghalib Lakhnavi and Abdullah Bilgrami
Sultan in Palermo / Tariq Ali.
Rock : a tale of seventh-century Jerusalem / Kanan Makiya.
River of fire = Aag kar darya / Qurratulain Hyder.
Madras on rainy days / Samina Ali.
Children of God : a novel / Mary Doria Russell.
Sparrow / Mary Doria Russell.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell / Susanna Clarke
Dreaming in the world's religions : a comparative history / Kelly Bulkeley.
All over creation / Ruth L. Ozeki.
Secrets of Sant'Angelo / Jeff Shapiro.
Book of salt / Monique Truong
Five quarters of the orange / Joanne Harris.
Gorky Park / Martin Cruz Smith.
Half of a yellow sun / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Q & A : a novel / Vikas Swarup.
Yacoubian building / Alaa Al Aswany
Cairo trilogy / Naguib Mahfouz
Dreams / Naguib Mahfouz ; translated by Raymond Stock.
Three novels of ancient Egypt : Khufu's wisdom ; Rhadopis of Nubia ; Thebes at war / Naguib Mahfouz
Voices from the other world : Ancient Egyptian tales / Najīb Maḥfūẓ
Things fall apart : authoritative text, contexts and criticism / Chinua Achebe
Shame / Salman Rushdie.
Palace of illusions : a novel / Chitra Lekha Banerjee Divakaruni.
Mistress of spices / Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Perfect Jesuit / Furio Monicelli
Friendly fire : a duet / A.B. Yehoshua
Girls of Riyadh / Rajaa Alsanea
Shahnameh : the Persian book of kings / Abolqasem Ferdowsi
Revolutions : a worldwide introduction to political and social change / Stephen K. Sanderson
Personal days : a novel / Ed Park.
Creation : a novel / Gore Vidal
Last of the wine / Mary Renault.
End of the American century / David S. Mason.
Shaolin monastery : history, religion, and the Chinese martial arts / Meir Shahar.
Brothers / Yu Hua
Cryptonomicon / Neal Stephenson.
Appetite for self-destruction : the spectacular crash of the record industry in the digital age / Steve Knopper.
There are no children here : the story of two boys growing up in the other America / Alex Kotlowitz.
Camphor flame : popular Hinduism and society in India / C.J. Fuller.
Energy victory : winning the war on terror by breaking free of oil / Robert Zubrin.
Riding toward everywhere / William T. Vollmann.
Age of American unreason / Susan Jacoby.
Yiddish policemen's union : a novel / Michael Chabon.
Middlesex / Jeffrey Eugenides.
The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts / Louis de Bernieres
Bastard of Istanbul / Elif Shafak (acquired at used book store)
Harmony Silk Factory / Tash Aw (bought on clearance from B&N)
Twilight Watch / Sergei Lukyanenko
Last Watch / Sergei Lukyanenko
Alexander / Valerio Massimo Manfredi
Post-American world / Fareed Zakaria.
Copypasta'd from my library account.
Teahouse fire / Ellis Avery.
Ramayana : a dramatic retelling of the great Indian epic / David Farr.
Mahabharata : a shortened modern prose verion of the Indian epic / by R.K. Narayan
Cheops : a cupboard for the sun / by Paul West.
Tea with Osiris / Paul West.
Death of Vishnu / Manil Suri. (read the first third, it was eh)
Sea of poppies / Amitav Ghosh
Hungry tide / Amitav Ghosh.
Ladies coupé / Anita Nair.
Obedient father / Akhil Sharma
La cucina : a novel of rapture / Lily Prior. (lol I forgot it at home and now its overdue)
Black marks : a novel / by Kirsten Dinnall Hoyte.
Girl in the tangerine scarf : a novel / Mohja Kahf.
Adventures of Amir Hamza : lord of the auspicious planetary conjunction / [original Urdu text compiled by] Ghalib Lakhnavi and Abdullah Bilgrami
Sultan in Palermo / Tariq Ali.
Rock : a tale of seventh-century Jerusalem / Kanan Makiya.
River of fire = Aag kar darya / Qurratulain Hyder.
Madras on rainy days / Samina Ali.
Children of God : a novel / Mary Doria Russell.
Sparrow / Mary Doria Russell.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell / Susanna Clarke
Dreaming in the world's religions : a comparative history / Kelly Bulkeley.
All over creation / Ruth L. Ozeki.
Secrets of Sant'Angelo / Jeff Shapiro.
Book of salt / Monique Truong
Five quarters of the orange / Joanne Harris.
Gorky Park / Martin Cruz Smith.
Half of a yellow sun / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Q & A : a novel / Vikas Swarup.
Yacoubian building / Alaa Al Aswany
Cairo trilogy / Naguib Mahfouz
Dreams / Naguib Mahfouz ; translated by Raymond Stock.
Three novels of ancient Egypt : Khufu's wisdom ; Rhadopis of Nubia ; Thebes at war / Naguib Mahfouz
Voices from the other world : Ancient Egyptian tales / Najīb Maḥfūẓ
Things fall apart : authoritative text, contexts and criticism / Chinua Achebe
Shame / Salman Rushdie.
Palace of illusions : a novel / Chitra Lekha Banerjee Divakaruni.
Mistress of spices / Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Perfect Jesuit / Furio Monicelli
Friendly fire : a duet / A.B. Yehoshua
Girls of Riyadh / Rajaa Alsanea
Shahnameh : the Persian book of kings / Abolqasem Ferdowsi
Revolutions : a worldwide introduction to political and social change / Stephen K. Sanderson
Personal days : a novel / Ed Park.
Creation : a novel / Gore Vidal
Last of the wine / Mary Renault.
End of the American century / David S. Mason.
Shaolin monastery : history, religion, and the Chinese martial arts / Meir Shahar.
Brothers / Yu Hua
Cryptonomicon / Neal Stephenson.
Appetite for self-destruction : the spectacular crash of the record industry in the digital age / Steve Knopper.
There are no children here : the story of two boys growing up in the other America / Alex Kotlowitz.
Camphor flame : popular Hinduism and society in India / C.J. Fuller.
Energy victory : winning the war on terror by breaking free of oil / Robert Zubrin.
Riding toward everywhere / William T. Vollmann.
Age of American unreason / Susan Jacoby.
Yiddish policemen's union : a novel / Michael Chabon.
Middlesex / Jeffrey Eugenides.
The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts / Louis de Bernieres
Bastard of Istanbul / Elif Shafak (acquired at used book store)
Harmony Silk Factory / Tash Aw (bought on clearance from B&N)
Twilight Watch / Sergei Lukyanenko
Last Watch / Sergei Lukyanenko
Alexander / Valerio Massimo Manfredi
Post-American world / Fareed Zakaria.
Copypasta'd from my library account.