Monday, January 28, 2008

Books: The Updated 2008 Book List

Gee, what a surprise. The list has changed because I started working on the book, and realized I don't really need to read some of these books. Anyway, here's the updated list. Some more items have been moved to 2009.

So here's the list (and stop lending me books, goddammit, you KNOW I can't say No).

  1. A Choice of Evils - Meira Chand
  2. A Cloistered War - Maisie Duncan
  3. A History of Malaysia - Barbara Watson Andaya & Leonard Andaya
  4. A History of Modern Indonesia - M.C. Ricklefs
  5. A History of Selangor - J. M. Gullick
  6. A House in Gross Disorder - Herrup
  7. A Point of Light - Zhou Mei
  8. A Spy's Revenge - Richard V. Hall
  9. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
  10. A Will For Freedom - Romen Bose
  11. Abraham's Promise - Philip Jeyaretnam
  12. Agnes Smedley - J.R. & S.R. MacKinnon
  13. Anthology of Japanese Literature - Donald Keene
  14. Asian Labour In The Japanese Wartime Empire - Paul H. Kratoska, Ed.
  15. Baba Nonnie Goes To War - Ron Mitchell
  16. Bang Bang in Ampang - Norman Cleaveland
  17. Beating the Blues - Thase & Lang
  18. Believer Book of Writers Talking To Writers - Vendela Vida
  19. Between Two Oceans - Murkett, Miskic, Farrell, & Chiang
  20. Bird by Bird - Anne Lamott
  21. Captains of Consciousness - Stuart Ewen
  22. Captives of Shanghai - David H. & Gretchen G. Grover
  23. Chandranath - Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay
  24. Chinese Blue & White - Ann Frank
  25. Chinese Customs - Henri Dore
  26. Clay Walls - Kim Ronyoung
  27. Colonial Masculinity - Mrinalini Sinha
  28. Daniel Deronda - George Eliot
  29. Dena-Paona - Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay
  30. Devdas - Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay
  31. Early Views of Indonesia/Pemandangan Indonesia di Masa Lampau - Annabel Teh Gallop
  32. Encyclopedia of China - Dorothy Perkins
  33. Extraordinary Popular Delusions - Charles Mackay, Andrew Tobias
  34. Fantasies of the Six Dynasties - Tsai Chih Chung
  35. Folklore of Tamil Nadu - S.M.L. Lakshman Chettiar
  36. Force 136:Story of A Resistance Fighter in WWII - Tan Chong Tee
  37. Fragile Things - Neil Gaiman
  38. From Pacific War to Merdeka - James Wong Wing On
  39. Gaijin - James Clavell
  40. Fu Lu Shou - Jeffery Seow
  41. Glory - Vladimir Nabokov
  42. Golden Boy and Other Stories From Burma - Saw Wai Lwin Moe
  43. Golden Gate - Vikram Seth
  44. Heart Politics - Fran Peavey
  45. How I Adore You - Mark Pritchard
  46. How To Write A Damn Good Novel - James N. Frey
  47. In Pursuit of Mountain Rats - Anthony Short
  48. In The Grip of a Crisis - Rudy Mosbergen
  49. Kempeitai - Raymond Lamont Brown
  50. Kempeitai:The Japanese Secret Service Then And Now - Richard Deacon
  51. King Rat - James Clavell
  52. Krait:The Fishing Boat That Went To War - Lynette Ramsay Silver
  53. Kranji - Romen Bose
  54. Labour Unrest in Malaya - Tai Yuen
  55. Lest We Forget - Alice M. Coleman & Joyce E. Williams
  56. Life As The River Flows - Agnes Khoo
  57. Living Hell - Goh Chor Boon
  58. Malay Folk Beliefs - Mohd Taib Osman
  59. Malaya and Singapore During the Japanese Occupation - Paul H. Kratoska, Ed.
  60. Malaysia - R. Emerson
  61. Modern Japan - Hane Mikiso
  62. Murder on the Verandah - Eric Lawlor
  63. Night Butterfly - Tan Guan Heng
  64. Niskriti - Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay
  65. No Cowardly Past - James Puthucheary
  66. No Dram of Mercy - Sybil Kathigasu
  67. Nonsense - Robert J. Gula
  68. Operation Matador - Ong Chit Chung
  69. Palli Samaj (The Homecoming) - Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay
  70. Pandit Moshai - Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay
  71. Power Politics - Arundhati Roy
  72. Prehistory of the Indo-Malayan Archipelago - Peter Bellwood
  73. Prometheus Rising - Robert Anton Wilson
  74. Reading Lolita In Teheran - Azar Nafisi
  75. Red Star Over Malaya - Cheah Boon Kheng
  76. Rehearsal for War - Ban Kah Choon & Yap Hong Kuan
  77. Revolt in Paradise - K'tut Tantri
  78. Robert van Gulik - JanWillem van de Wetering
  79. Rosie - Anne Lamott
  80. Rouge of the North - Chang Ai Ling
  81. Shanghai Refuge, A Memoir of the WWII Jewish Ghetto - Ernest G. Heppner
  82. Shantung Compound - Langdon Gilkey
  83. Singa, Lion of Malaya - Gurchan Singh
  84. Singapore & The Many-Headed Monster - Joe Conceicao
  85. Singapore The Pregnable Fortress - Peter Elphick
  86. Sinister Twilight - Noel Barber
  87. Sisters in the Resistance - Margaret Collins Weitz
  88. Sold For Silver - Janet Lim
  89. Soldiers Alive - Ishikawa Tatsuzo
  90. Strange Tales of Liao Zhai - Tsai Chih Chung
  91. Strangers Always A Jewish Family in Wartime Shanghai - Rena Krasno
  92. Syonan - My Story (The Japanese Occupation of Singapore) - Mamoru Shinozaki
  93. Taming the Wind of Desire - Carol Laderman
  94. Tao Te Ching - Ursula K. LeGuin
  95. That Fellow Kanda - AUPE
  96. The Age of Diminished Expectations - Paul Krugman
  97. The Areas of My Expertise - John Hodgman
  98. The Art of Fiction - John Gardner
  99. The Art of the Novel - Milan Kundera
  100. The Audacity of Hope - Barak Obama
  101. The Book of Tea - Okakura Kazuko
  102. The Brooklyn Follies - Paul Aster
  103. The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole
  104. The Death of Woman Wang - Jonathan D. Spence
  105. The Devil Finds Work - James Baldwin
  106. The Double Tenth Trial - C. Sleeman, S.C. Sillein, Eds.
  107. The End of the War - Romen Bose
  108. The Fall of Shanghai - Noel Barber
  109. The Family:They Fuck You Up - Granta
  110. The Jungle is Neutral - F. Spencer Chapman
  111. The LiteratureSituation & The Story - Vivian Gornick
  112. The Makioka Sisters - Junichiro Tanizaki
  113. The Malay Archipelago - Alfred Russell Wallace
  114. The Malayan Union Controversy, 1942-1948 - Albert Lau
  115. The Marquis - A Tale of Syonan-To - S.J.H. Conner
  116. The Mind's I - Hofstadter & Dennett
  117. The Origins of The Second World War in Asia and the Pacific - Akira Iriye
  118. The Other Side of War - Zainab Salbi
  119. The Pacific War - Ienaga Saburo
  120. The Physics of Star Trek - Lawrence Krauss
  121. The Plague - Albert Camus
  122. The Price of Peace - Foong Choon Hon, Ed.
  123. The Rise & Fall of the Knights Templar - Gordon Napier
  124. The Sabahan: The Life and Death of Tun Fuad Stephens - P.J. Granville-Edge, Rajen Devadason
  125. The Singapore Grip - J.G. Farrell
  126. The Ugly Chinaman - Bo Yang
  127. The Unabomber Manifesto - Ted Kaczynski
  128. The War in Malaya - A.E. Percival
  129. The War Of The Running Dogs - Noel Barber
  130. The Way of All Flesh - Samuel Butler
  131. The World of the Shining Prince - Ivan Morris
  132. Tokyo Rose - Masayo Duus
  133. Three Came Home - Agnes Newton Keith
  134. Totto-Chan - Kuroyanagi Tetsuko
  135. Travels in Siam - Henri Mouhot
  136. Tripmaster Monkey His Fake Book - Maxine Hong Kingston
  137. War & Memory in Malaysia & Singapore - P. Lim Pui Huen, Diana Wong, Eds.
  138. Virtual Reality - Howard Rheingold
  139. Women in the Holocaust - Dalia Ofer, Lenore J. Weitzman, Eds.
  140. Women, Outcastes, Peasants & Rebels - Kalpana Bardhan
  141. Writers' Workshop in a Book - Cheuse and Alvarez
  142. Writing Past Dark - Bonnie Friedman
  143. You'll Die in Singapore - Charles McCormac
  144. Your Memory:A User's Guide - Alan Baddeley
  145. You'll Never Get Off The Island - Keith Wilson
Updated with correct book titles and authors' names. So there.

Remember how I said, "I think I need to read more fiction. Yargh." Well, I put a buttload more fiction on the list now. Happy?

Astute followers of this blog and our real, if pitiful, life will notice that many of these books have been read before. Our excuse is, we need background material for the book, dammit.

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