100 Book Reading List, Take 2

A Passage to India by E.M. Forrester Canterbury Tales by Chaucer Walden by Thoreau Plato's "The Republic Milton's "Paradise Lost" T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland" Ice Bound by Jerri Nielsen The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior: The Intersecting Lives of Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped by Paul Strathern The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas L. Friedmam The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century Sunrise With Seamonsters The Plant Hunters: Tales of the Botanist-Explorers Who Enriched Our Gardens by Tyler Whittle The Plant Hunters: True Stories of Their Daring Adventures to the Far Corners of the Earth by Anita Silvey Arctic Dreams Paperback by Barry Lopez About This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory by Barry Lopez Annapurna: A Woman's Place by Arlene Blum Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer Running the Amazon by Joe Kane Touching the Void by Joe Simpson Life on Ice by Lonnie Dupre North to the Night: A Spiritual Odyssey in the Arctic by Alvah Simon Future Arctic: Field Notes from a World on the Edge by Edward Struzik The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen by Stephen R. Bown Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone by Martin Dugard A Ride Into the Neon Sun by Josie Dew The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time by Simon Winchester Black Holes and Quantum Cats by Jennifer Ouellette The Emperor Far Away: Travels at the Edge of China by David Eimer The Father by Alfred Habegger Health and the Rise of Civilization by Mark Nathan Cohen Citizen Soldiers by Stephen Ambrose Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali Dragon Lady by Sterling Seagrave The Lost by Daniel Mendelsohn The Judgment of Paris by Ross King Grand Centaur Station by Larry Frolick German Boy by Wolfgang W.E. Samuel A History of Egypt by Jason Thompson. Shogun by James Clavell Tai-Pan by James Clavell King Rat by James Clavell Noble House by James Clavell Gai-Jin by James Clavell Whirlwind by James Clavell Black Mass by DIck Lehr and Gerard O'Neill Union Atlantic by Adam Haslett Kissinger: A Biography by Walter Isaacson Red China Blues by Jan Wong Notes From a Small Island by Bill Bryson The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise by Michael Grunwald The Fifth Book of Peace by Maxine Hong Kingston Einstein's Miraculous Year Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic by Neil deGrasse Tyson A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking Cosmos by Carl Sagan God Created the Integers by Stephen Hawking Mistress of Modernism: The Life of Peggy Guggenheim by Mary V. Dearborn Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs A Thousand Days in Venice by Marlena De Blasi Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum by Richard Fortey Oleander, Jacaranda by Penelope Lively Stuart Little by E.B. White The Lost Heart of Asia by Colin Thubron A Gringa in Guanaja by Sharon Lee Collins Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Sheba: Through the Desert in Search of the Legendary Queen by Nicholas Clapp The Lost Colony of the Templars by Steven Sora The Search for the Pink-Headed Duck by Rory Nugent Gifted Grownups by Marylou Kelly Strzenewski Fresh Air Fiend by Paul Theroux Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux Billions and Billions by Carl Sagan The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan Broca's Brain by Carl Sagan Gandhi's autobiography Video Night in Kathmandu by Pico Iyer Color: A Natural History of the Palette by Victoria Finlay/li> Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Stargazer: The Life and Times of the Telescope by Fred Watson Is Journalism Worth Dying For?: Final Dispatches by Anna Politkovskaya and Arch Tait The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History by Don Oberdorfer and Robert Carlin Blue Willow by Doris Gates The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum Road Fever by Tim Cahill Jackson Pollock: An American Saga by Steven Naifeh and Gregory Smith Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion by Alan Burdick The Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki Beowulf by Seamus Heaney Europe: A History by Norman Davies Chasing Matisse: A Year in France Living My Dream by James Morgan Fun Home by Alison Bechdel Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie The Happy Isles of Oceania by Paul Theroux The Mathers: Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 1596-1728 by Robert Middlekauff

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