Books I've read (for entertainment) since moving to Australia: 19) The Pentateuch from the Oxford NRSV Bible -- currently reading 18) The Fourth Hand, John Irving -- currently reading 17) re-read The Brothers Karamozov, Fyodor Dostoevsky 16) The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz 15) Nausea, Jean-Paul Sartre 14) Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Gabriel Garcia Marquez 13) Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon 12) The Story of Art, E.H. Gombrich 11) The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, Haruki Murakami 10) The Age of Turbulence, Alan Greenspan 9) Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami 8) Dead Souls, Nikoli Gogol 7) Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe 6) In a Sunburned Country, Bill Bryson 5) Widow for One Year, John Irving 4) Lip Service, M.J. Rose 3) The Kite Runner, Kaled Hossenini 2) One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez 1) Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden To Read (this list is largely just a supplement to my memory): - Dreams of My Father, Barack Obama - The Federalist Papers, Madison, et alii - Queer, William S. Burroughs - Australia, Bill Bryson - The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene - Naked Lunch, Wiliam Burroughs - Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut - Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel Garcia Marquez - The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka - Night, Elie Wiesel - Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov - Speak, Memory, Vladimir Nabokov - The Stranger, Albert Camus - A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig - The Way the World Works, Jude wanniski - What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Haruki Murakami - Economic Facts and Fallacies, Thomas Sowell - Same Kind of Different As Me, Ron Hall and Denver Moore - My Stroke of Insight, Jill Taylor