100 Book Reading List

ach: An Eternal Golden Braid Lise Meitner and the Dawn of the Nuclear Age by Patricia Rife, J.A. Wheeleer Le Ton Beau De Marot: In Praise Of The Music Of Language by Douglas R. Hofstadter I am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter The Mind's I by Douglas Hofstadter The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman, Robert K. Massie Our Life in Gardens by Joe Eck, Wayne Winterrowd With Their Backs to the World: Portraits from Serbia by Asne Seierstad The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seirstad Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West, Christopher Hitchens Letters from Burma by Aung San Suu Kyi, Fergal Keane The Sacred Willow: Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family by Duong Van Mai Elliott John Adams by David McCullough Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough The Wright Brothers by David McCullough Truman by David McCullough Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age by Arthur Herman Health and the Rise of Civilization by Mark Nathan Cohen The Irrational Journey by Pauline de Rothschild In Xanadu by William Dalrymple White Mughals by W. Dalrymple From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium by William Dalrymple The Age of Kali: Travels and Encounters in India (Text Only) by William Dalrymple From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East by William Dalrymple Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42 by William Dalrymple City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi by William Dalrymple Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India by William Dalrymple Tsvetaeva by Viktoria Schweitzer and Robert Chandler The Father a biography of Bronson Alcott Ska: An Oral History by Heather Augustyn The Strangest Man: Paul Dirac Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks Oaxaca by Oliver Sacks My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks Wild Swans Dante's Inferno Illiad Odyssey Orchid Fever by Eric Hansen The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean The Scent of Scandal: Greed, Betrayal, and the World's Most Beautiful Orchid by Craig Pittman A Brief History of Everything by Bill Bryson Neither Here Nor There by Bill Bryson The Blue Nile by Alan Moorehead The White Nile by Alan Moorehead Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan The Korean War: A History by Bruce Cumings Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin River Town by Peter Hessler Oracle Bones by Peter Hessler The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose An Unexpected Light by Jason Elliot Mirrors of the Unseen: Journeys in Iran Hyperspace Michio Kaku Parallel Worlds by Michio Kaku Einstein's Magical Year The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos by Brian Greene The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene The Brother Gardeners: A Generation of Gentlemen Naturalists and the Birth of an Obsession by Andrea Wulf Memory Maps by Lisa St. Aubin De Teran River-Horse: The Logbook of a Boat Across America by William Least Heat-Moon Prairy Erth: A Deep Map by William Least Heat-Moon Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon Motoring With Mohammed by Eric Hansen Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal by Conor Grennan Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe by Laurence Bergreen Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light by Leonard Shlain The Reformation by Diarmaid MacCulloch The Sewing Circles of Herat The Prince of the Marshes Flower Hunters Warped Passages Unpacking the Boxes: A Memoir of a Life in Poetry Paperback by Donald Hall Euler's Gem: The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology Paperback by David S. Richeson Stolen Voices: Young People's War Diaries, from World War I to Iraq Paperback – December 26, 2006 by Zlata Filipovic Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma by Michael Peppiatt The Normal Christian Life by Watchman Nee The Koran The Flute Book: A Complete Guide for Students and Performers by Nancy Toff Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics by William Dunham Euler: The Master of Us All by William Dunham Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and the world he made up by K. C. Cole Bella Tuscany by Frances Mayes Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes A Year in the World by Frances Mayes Ghost Train to the Eastern Star by Paul Theroux The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson The Island of the Colorblind by Oliver Sacks Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik

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