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.