Updated Book List Part 1

Book review to follow.

So in January of this year, I posted a book list of 101 books. Here it is, in its original and (somewhat) pristine glory.

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

So, naturally, at the end of 8 months, I have acquired another boatload or two of books and upon reinspecting the list and the number of books read and the general topics, I find that I am, once again, rushing ahead of myself.

I mean, how could I possibly read about WWII and its effects on the European colonies of the Far East without first reading the histories of the various countries involved, political, economic, social, cultural. Oh, my.

So much to read, so little time.

At any rate, by my count, I have added 70 books to that list (at least), but of the original 101, I have read 84. Which leaves a mere 17 books in order to complete the assigned reading list. However, I now want to change the list itself and put some of my new acquisitions on it. Therefore, I will review the number of books I've read between the last review and the present, and will then publish the new list. It's quite long, but I don't expect to read more than perhaps 20 of the books on it, as I'm hoping to have surgery later this year. Cuts into one's reading time something dreadful.