The Century

As you all know, I’ve had a lot of time to read while being in the Peace Corps. I recently reached a goal I had set for myself two years ago…to read 100 books. Some of the were long (War and Peace), some of them were boring (anything by Proust), and some of them I loved (The Lonesome Dove series). Here is a list of all the books I read…

1) The Civil War; A Narrative. Vol. III. Red River to Appomattox – Shelby Foote
2) The Devil in the White City – Erik Larson
3) Walden and Civil Disobedience – Henry david Thoreau
4) Galápagos – Kurt Vonnegut
5) The Brothers Karamazov – Fydor Dostoyevsky
6) Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes
7) Guns, Germs, and Steel – Jared Diamond
8) A Room with a View – E.M. Forster
9) Collapse – Jared Diamond
10) The Mousetrap – Agatha Christie
11) The Panama Hat Trail – Tom Miller
12) Airframe – Michael Crichton
13) Frankenstein – Mary Shelly
14) The Conquerors – Michael Beschloss
15) The Communist Manifesto – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
16) Murder in Three Acts – Agatha Christie
17) Blackhawk Down – mark Bowden
18) Mayflower – Nathaniel Philbrick
19) Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut
20) Pudd’nhead Wilson – Mark Twain
21) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
22) Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
23) The Prophet – Kahlil Gibram
24) Poirot Investigates – Agatha Christie
25) The Iliad – Homer
26) The Odyssey – Homer
27) Ulysses – James Joyce
28) Ulysses Annotated – Don Gifford
29) Jurassic Park – Michael Crichton
30) Sleeping Murder – Agatha Christie
31) The Hunt for Red October – Tom Clancy
32) The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad
33) War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
34) Goodbye Columbus & Five Short Stories – Philip Roth
35) A Dollhouse – Henrik Ibsen
36) A Bridge Too Far – Cornelius Ryan
37) Grant and Sherman: the Friendship that Won the Civil War – Charles Bracelen Flood
38) The Book of Useless Information – The Useless Information Society
39) The Lost World – Michael Crichton
40) The Great Adventure of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
41) Remembrance of Things Past: Swann’s Way – Marcel Proust
42) Remembrance of Things Past: Within a Budding Grove – Marcel Proust
43) Remembrance of Things Past: The Guermantes Way – Marcel Proust
44) Remembrance of Things Past: Cities of the Plain – Marcel Proust
45) Remembrance of Things Past: The Captive – Marcel Proust
46) Remembrance of Things Past: The Sweet Cheat Gone – Marcel Proust
47) Remembrance of Things Past: The Past Recaptured – Marcel Proust
48) The Anatomy of Fascism – Robert O. Paxton
49) The Carolina Way – Dean Smith
50) Beyond Belief: Islamic excursions among the converted peoples – V.S. Naipaul
51) Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling - Ross King
52) The Ultimate Book of Useless Information – The Useless Information Society
53) Women in Love – D. H. Lawrence
54) Bush at War – Bob Woodward
55) The Best American Short Stories: 2001 – Various Authors
56) Girl with the Pearl Earring – Tracey Chevalier
57) Top Secret Tales of World War II – William B. Breuer
58) Private Parts – Howard Stern
59) Great Book of Whodunit Puzzles – Falcon Travis
60) The Catcher in the Rye – J. D. Salinger
61) I Am America ( And So Can You!) – Stephen Colbert
62) The Omnivore’s Dilemma – Michael Pollan
63) Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
64) Lonesome Dove – Larry McMurtry
65) Peter the Great: His Life and His World – Robert k. Massic
66) The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
67) Nemesis – Agatha Christie
68) Living Poor: A Peace Corps Chronicle – Moritz Thomsen
69) As I lay Dying – William Faulkner
70) Diary: A Novel – Chuck Palahniuk
71) The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O’Neil’s America – Joe Posnanski
72) Exodus – Leon Uris
73) Dead Man’s Walk – Larry McMurtry
74) The Shining – Stephen King
75) The Devine Comedy: Hell – Dante Alighieri
76) Alexander Hamilton: American – Richard Brookhiser
77) An Enemy of the State – Henrik Ibsen (Adapted by Arthur Miller)
78) Comanche Moon – Larry McMurtry
79) Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs – Chuck Klosterman
80) God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
81) Confessions – Saint Augustine
82) The Tin Drum – Günter Grass
83) The Last of the Mohicans – James Fennimore Cooper
84) East of Eden – John Steinbeck
85) The Bourne Identity – Robert Ludlum
86) The Devine Comedy: Purgatory – Dante Alighieri
87) Villa Incognito – Tom Robbins
88) Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
89) Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic – Tom Holland
90) Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith – Jon Krakauer
91) The Conscience of a Conservative – Barry Goldwater
92) Operation Shylock: A Confession – Philip Roth
93) The Devine Comedy: Paradise – Dante Alighieri
94) Stolen Season: A Journey Through America & baseball’s Minor Leagues – David Lamb
95) An Ordinary Man – Paul Ruseabagina
96) Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
97) Sanctuary – William Faulkner
98) Resurrection – Leo Tolstoy
99) True History of the Kelly Gang – Peter Carey
100) Scoop – Evelyn Waugh
101) Mere Christianity – C.S. Lewis
102) One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez