Books: Updated List for 2008

Because of the plethora of books on this year's book list, we're doing monthly reviews instead of annual reviews. This will continue until we are, once again, painfully employed.

Having succeeded at taking some 30 books off the list so far, we've added a few more to make sure we don't slack off.

This is the updated list. If we win our bet, that we can read, review, and incorporate these books into the ongoing Book Project, we hope some decent soul offers us a fine meal of sushi and sake to celebrate.

Pretty cheeky, huh?

1. A Cloistered War - Maisie Duncan
   
2. A History of Malaysia - Barbara Watson Andaya & Leonard Andaya
   
3. A History of Modern Indonesia - M.C. Ricklefs
   
4. A History of Selangor - J. M. Gullick
   
5. A Map of the World - Jane Hamilton
   
6. A Place Where The Sea Remembers - Sandra Benitez
   
7. A Point of Light - Zhou Mei
   
8. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
   
9. A Will For Freedom - Romen Bose
   
10. Abraham's Promise - Philip Jeyaretnam
    
11. Agnes Smedley - J.R. & S.R. MacKinnon
    
12. Anthology of Japanese Literature - Donald Keene
    
13. Art & Fear - David Bayles & Ted Orland
    
14. Asian Labour In The Japanese Wartime Empire - Paul H. Kratoska, Ed.
    
15. Baba Nonnie Goes To War - Ron Mitchell
    
16. Between Two Oceans - Murfett, Miskic, Farrell, & Chiang
    
17. Bird by Bird - Anne Lamott
    
18. Captives of Shanghai - David H. & Gretchen G. Grover
    
19. Chandranath - Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay
    
20. Chinese Customs - Henri Dore
    
21. Clay Walls - Kim Ronyoung
    
22. Daniel Deronda - George Eliot
    
23. Finnegan's Wake - James Joyce
    
24. From Pacific War to Merdeka - James Wong Wing On
    
25. Golden Gate - Vikram Seth
    
26. How I Adore You - Mark Pritchard
    
27. In Pursuit of Mountain Rats - Anthony Short
    
28. In The Grip of a Crisis - Rudy Mosbergen
    
29. Kempeitai, Japan's Dreaded Military Police - Raymond Lamont-Brown
    
30. Kempei Tai: The Japanese Secret Service Then And Now - Richard Deacon
    
31. Kim - Rudyard Kipling
    
32. Krait: The Fishing Boat That Went To War - Lynette Ramsay Silver
    
33. Kranji - Romen Bose
    
34. Labour Unrest in Malaya - Tai Yuen
    
35. Lest We Forget - Alice M. Coleman & Joyce E. Williams
    
36. Life As The River Flows - Agnes Khoo
    
37. Living Hell - Goh Chor Boon
    
38. Malay Folk Beliefs - Mohd Taib Osman
    
39. Malaya and Singapore During the Japanese Occupation - Paul H. Kratoska, Ed.
    
40. Malaysia - R. Emerson
    
41. Modern Japan, A Historical Survey - Hane Mikiso
    
42. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
    
43. Night Butterfly - Tan Guan Heng
    
44. No Cowardly Past - James Puthucheary
    
45. Operation Matador - Ong Chit Chung
    
46. Orlando - Virginia Woolf
    
47. Outwitting the Gestapo - Aubrac
    
48. Palli Samaj (The Homecoming) - Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay
    
49. Power Politics - Arundhati Roy
    
50. Prehistory of the Indo-Malayan Archipelago - Peter Bellwood
    
51. Red Star Over Malaya - Cheah Boon Kheng
    
52. Revolt in Paradise - K'tut Tantri
    
53. Rosie - Anne Lamott
    
54. Rouge of the North - Chang Ai Ling
    
55. Shanghai Refuge, A Memoir of the WWII Jewish Ghetto - Ernest G. Heppner
    
56. Shantung Compound - Langdon Gilkey
    
57. Singapore & The Many-Headed Monster - Joe Conceicao
    
58. Sisters and Strangers (Women in the Shanghai Cotton Mills) - Honig
    
59. Sisters in the Resistance - Margaret Collins Weitz
    
60. Soldiers Alive - Ishikawa Tatsuzo
    
61. Strangers Always A Jewish Family in Wartime Shanghai - Rena Krasno
    
62. Taming the Wind of Desire - Carol Laderman
    
63. The Age of Diminished Expectations - Paul Krugman
    
64. The Art of the Novel - Milan Kundera
    
65. The Bafut Beagles - Gerald Durrell
    
66. The Book of Tea - Okakura Kazuko
    
67. The Crippled Tree - Han Suyin
    
68. The Double Tenth Trial - C. Sleeman, S.C. Sillein, Eds.
    
69. The End of the War - Romen Bose
    
70. The Gift - Lewis Hyde
    
71. The Life of an Amorous Woman - Saikaku Ihara
    
72. The Makioka Sisters - Junichiro Tanizaki
    
73. The Malay Archipelago - Alfred Russell Wallace
    
74. The Malayan Union Controversy, 1942-1948 - Albert Lau
    
75. The Marquis - A Tale of Syonan-To - S.J.H. Conner
    
76. The Nanking Massacre - Katsuichi Honda
    
77. The Origins of The Second World War in Asia and the Pacific - Akira Iriye
    
78. The Pacific War - Ienaga Saburo
    
79. The Plague - Albert Camus
    
80. The Price of Peace - Foong Choon Hon, Ed.
    
81. The Rape of Nanking - Iris Chang
    
82. The Tin Drum - Gunther Grass
    
83. The War in Malaya - A.E. Percival
    
84. The Way of All Flesh - Samuel Butler
    
85. The World of the Shining Prince - Ivan Morris
    
86. Three Came Home - Agnes Newton Keith
    
87. To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
    
88. Tokyo Rose - Masayo Duus
    
89. War & Memory in Malaysia & Singapore - P. Lim Pui Huen, Diana Wong, Eds.
    
90. Women in the Holocaust - Dalia Ofer, Lenore J. Weitzman, Eds.
    
91. Women of China - Bobby Siu
    
92. Women, Outcastes, Peasants & Rebels - Kalpana Bardhan
    
93. Writers' Workshop in a Book - Cheuse and Alvarez
    
94. You'll Die in Singapore - Charles McCormac
    
95. A Choice of Evils - Meira Chand
    
96. Force 136:Story of A Resistance Fighter in WWII - Tan Chong Tee
    
97. King Rat - James Clavell
    
98. Murder on the Verandah - Eric Lawlor
    
99. No Dram of Mercy - Sybil Kathigasu
    
100. Rehearsal for War - Ban Kah Choon, Yap Hong Kuan
     
101. Singa, Lion of Malaya - Gurchan Singh
     
102. Singapore The Pregnable Fortress - Peter Elphick
     
103. Sinister Twilight - Noel Barber
     
104. Sold For Silver - Janet Lim
     
105. Syonan - My Story (The Japanese Occupation of Singapore) - Mamoru Shinozaki
     
106. The Fall of Shanghai - Noel Barber
     
107. The Jungle is Neutral - F. Spencer Chapman
     
108. The War Of The Running Dogs - Noel Barber
     
109. You'll Never Get Off The Island - Keith Wilson