SWE-CD Book Club

Potential Books List

Here is the list of books that we are considering reading. The list of books we have already read can be found on our homepage. Note that the published dates are of the most recent paperback edition unless otherwise noted.

Nonfiction

Infidel (2008), by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (rec'd 3/07)
Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia (2004), by Tom Bissell
The Women's Great Lakes Reader (2000), edited by Victoria Brehm (rec'd 9/06)
The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century (2008), by Edward Dolnick (may only be hardcover. Rec'd 7/08 by JG)
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (2006), by Timothy Egan (rec'd 7/08)
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (2006), by Doris Kearns Goodwin (rec'd 7/08)
Autobiography of a Face (2003), by Lucy Grealy (rec'd 3/05)
Ganga: A Journey Down the Ganges River, by Julian Crandall Hollick (rec'd 7/08 by CLM; may only be hardcover)
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (2003), by Tony Horowitz (rec'd 7/08)
The Last Place on Earth (1979) by Roland Huntford (rec'd 7/08) -- the race to the South Pole
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (reprinted 2004), by Barack Obama (rec'd 12/04)
Ladies of Liberty by Cokie Roberts (rec'd 5/08)
A History Of The World In Six Glasses (2005), by Tom Standage (rec'd 5/06)
Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years by David Talbot
The Google Story: Inside the Hottest Business, Media, and Technology Success of Our Time (2006), by David Vise and Mark Malseed (rec'd 9/06)
The Plug-In Drug: Television, Computers, and Family Life (2002) by Marie Winn (rec'd 6/07)

Fiction

Harbor (2005), by Lorraine Adams (rec'd 12/05)
Sneaky Pie Brown mystery novels (various), by Rita Mae Brown
Kindred (2004, 25th anniv. edition), by Octavia E. Butler (rec'd 6/06)
Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai (rec'd 8/08)
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (rec'd 8/08)
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (rec'd 4/08)
The Ritual Bath by Faye Kellerman (rec'd 4/08)
Four Spirits (2004), by Sena Jeter Naslund
Silent in the Grave (2007), by Deanna Raybourn (rec'd 6/08)
Evening is the Whole Day: A Novel by Preeta Samarasan (rec'd 8/08)
Sea Glass: A Novel (2003), by Anita Shreve (rec'd by PS, 7/03)
Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story, by Leonie Swann (rec'd 7/08)
Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan (rec'd 8/08)
The Optimist's Daughter (1973 Pulitzer Prize), by Eudora Welty
The Age of Innocence (1921 Pulitzer Prize), by Edith Wharton

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11/11/08 dmt