Updated Book List 2009 June

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This is what the book list looks like now:

Book List 2009

1. A History of Cambodia - David Chandler
   
2. A History of Modern Indonesia - M.C. Ricklefs
   
3. A House in Gross Disorder - Cynthia B. Herrup
   
4. A Point of Light - Zhou Mei
   
5. A Spy's Revenge - Richard V. Hall
   
6. A Will For Freedom - Romen Bose
   
7. Agnes Smedley - J.R. & S.R. MacKinnon
   
8. Armed Communist Movements in Southeast Asia - Lim Joo Jock, Vani S., Eds.
   
9. Asian Labour In The Japanese Wartime Empire - Paul Kratoska, Ed.
   
10. Beating the Blues - Thase & Lang
    
11. Between Two Oceans - Murkett, Miskic, Farrell, & Chiang
    
12. Bird by Bird - Anne Lamott
    
13. Blood On The Golden Sands - Lim Kean Siew
    
14. Captains of Consciousness - Stuart Ewen
    
15. Chinese Customs - Henri Dore
    
16. Clay Walls - Kim Ronyoung
    
17. Colonial Masculinity - Mrinalini Sinha
    
18. Daniel Deronda - George Eliot
    
19. Dictionary of the Khazars - Milorad Pavic
    
20. Extraordinary Popular Delusions - Charles Mackay
    
21. Finnegan's Wake - James Joyce
    
22. First Person Singular - Joyce Carol Oates
    
23. Folklore of Tamil Nadu - S.M.L. Lakshman Chettiar
    
24. Force 136:Story of A Resistance Fighter in WWII - Tan Chong Tee
    
25. From Pacific War to Merdeka - James Wong Wing On
    
26. Gaijin - James Clavell
    
27. Gandhi's Truth — On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence - Erik H. Erikson
    
28. How I Adore You - Mark Pritchard
    
29. I Am America (And So Can You) - Stephen Colbert
    
30. In Pursuit of Mountain Rats - Anthony Short
    
31. In The Grip of a Crisis - Rudy Mosbergen
    
32. Kempeitai:The Japanese Secret Service Then And Now - Richard Deacon
    
33. Kempeitai - Raymond Lamont Brown
    
34. Krait:The Fishing Boat That Went To War - Lynette Ramsay Silver
    
35. Kranji - Romen Bose
    
36. Labour Unrest in Malaya - Tai Yuen
    
37. Lest We Forget - Alice M. Coleman & Joyce E. Williams
    
38. Life As The River Flows - Agnes Khoo
    
39. Living Hell - Goh Chor Boon
    
40. Luntaya Acheiq: An Illustrated Book of Burmese Court Textiles - Punvasa Kunlabutr
    
41. Malaya and Singapore During the Japanese Occupation - Paul H. Kratoska, Ed.
    
42. Meena, Heroine of Afghanistan - Melody Ermachild Chavis
    
43. Modern Japan, A Historical Survey - Hane Mikiso
    
44. My Island in the Sun - Khor Cheang Kee
    
45. Nakshi Kantha of Bengal - Sila Basak
    
46. Niels Lyhne - Jens Peter Jacobsen
    
47. Nonsense - Robert J. Gula
    
48. No Cowardly Past - James Puthucheary
    
49. Operation Matador - Ong Chit Chung
    
50. Orientalism - Edward W. Said
    
51. Outwitting the Gestapo - Lucie Aubrac
    
52. Pearl S. Buck, A Cultural Biography - Peter Conn
    
53. People's War, People's Army - Vo Nguyen Giap
    
54. Primitive Art - Frank Boas
    
55. Prometheus Rising - Robert Anton Wilson
    
56. Raffles - Maurice Collins
    
57. Reading Lolita In Teheran - Azar Nafisi
    
58. Red Star Over Malaya - Cheah Boon Kheng
    
59. Rehearsal for War - Ban Kah Choon & Yap Hong Kuan
    
60. Rethinking Raffles - Syed Muhd. Khairudin Aljunied
    
61. Revolt in Paradise - K'tut Tantri
    
62. Rosie - Anne Lamott
    
63. Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye (The Biography Of A Master Film-Maker - Andrew Robinson
    
64. Screenwriting 434 - Lew Hunter
    
65. Shanghai Refuge, A Memoir of the WWII Jewish Ghetto - Ernest G. Heppner
    
66. Sherpas Through Their Rituals - Sherry B. Ortner
    
67. Singapore & The Many-Headed Monster - Joe Conceicao
    
68. Singapore The Air-Conditioned Nation - Cherian George
    
69. Singapore The Pregnable Fortress - Peter Elphick
    
70. Sisters in the Resistance - Margaret Collins Weitz
    
71. Soldiers Alive - Ishikawa Tatsuzo
    
72. Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce Vol. I - Anthony Reid
    
73. Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce Vol. II - Anthony Reid
    
74. Strangers Always A Jewish Family in Wartime Shanghai - Rena Krasno
    
75. Stress and Mental Health in Malaysian Society - Tan Chee Khuan
    
76. The Art of the Novel - Milan Kundera
    
77. The Autobiography of An Unknown Indian - Nirad C. Chaudhary
    
78. The Bengal Muslims 1871 - 1906 - Ahmed
    
79. The Birth of Vietnam - Keith Weller Taylor
    
80. The British Humiliation of Burma - Terence R. Blackburn
    
81. The Devil Finds Work - James Baldwin
    
82. The Discourses - Niccolo Machiavelli
    
83. The Double Tenth Trial - C. Sleeman, S.C. Sillein, Eds.
    
84. The Dutch Seaborne Empire 1600 - 1800 - C.R. Boxer
    
85. The Emergence of Modern Turkey - Bernard Lewis
    
86. The End of the War - Romen Bose
    
87. The Eye Over The Golden Sands - Lim Kean Siew
    
88. The Gift - Lewis Hyde
    
89. The Gravedigger's Daughter - Joyce Carol Oates
    
90. The Jungle is Neutral - F. Spencer Chapman
    
91. The Lives of Agnes Smedley - Ruth Price
    
92. The Old Wine Shades - Martha Grimes
    
93. The Malayan Union Controversy 1942-1948 - Albert Lau
    
94. The Mak Nyahs Malaysian Male to Female Transexuals - Teh Yik Koon
    
95. The March of Folly From Troy To Vietnam - Barbara W. Tuchman
    
96. The Mind's I - Hofstadter & Dennett
    
97. The Nanjing Massacre - Honda Katsuichi
    
98. The Origins of The Second World War in Asia and the Pacific - Iriye Akira
    
99. The Plague - Albert Camus
    
100. The Political Economy of Social Control in Singapore - Christopher Tremewan
     
101. The Price of Peace - Foong Choon Hon, Ed.
     
102. The Rape of Nanking - Iris Chang
     
103. The Remembered Village - M.N. Srinivasan
     
104. The Right To Die - Humphry-Wickett
     
105. The Rise & Fall of the Knights Templar - Gordon Napier
     
106. The Scents of Eden, A History of the Spice Trade - Charles Corn
     
107. The Sky Book - Richard Misrach
     
108. The Tin Drum - Gunther Grass
     
109. The Ugly Chinaman - Bo Yang
     
110. The War in Malaya - A.E. Percival
     
111. The Way of All Flesh - Samuel Butler
     
112. Three Came Home - Agnes Newton Keith
     
113. Time Bombs in Malaysia - Lim Kit Siang
     
114. Tokyo Rose - Masayo Duus
     
115. Virtual Reality - Howard Rheingold
     
116. War & Memory in Malaysia & Singapore - P. Lim Pui Huen, Diana Wong, Eds.
     
117. Who Won The Malayan Emergency - Herbert Andrew
     
118. Wilt on High - Tom Sharpe
     
119. Witness to an Era - Frank Moraes
     
120. Women in the Holocaust - Dalia Ofer, Lenore J. Weitzman, Eds.
     
121. Writers' Workshop in a Book - Cheuse and Alvarez
     
122. You'll Die in Singapore - Charles McCormac
     
123. You'll Never Get Off This Island - Keith Wilson
     
124. Your Memory: A User's Guide - Alan Baddeley

The astute reader will notice that, as usual, quite a few new titles have crept it. While I would never refer to any reader of mine as a fart (ass-toot?), I will admit to being a creep when it comes to books. Slow, creeping accretions to my book lists abound. I admit it, and hang my head, if only to read a little faster (it's a great angle if you adjust the light right). In the event, I will publish an updated list at the beginning of July, since I've read enough to brag a little and hint to any friends who might read this that they could, without shame, think of getting me pizza, or a cheeseburger, or cake, even, to congratulate me for my efforts.

Although, quite frankly, the current reading is mostly pretty grisly WW II Pacific Theatre material. Why do I read this stuff? Leave a comment. It'll keep me from eating chocolate till I pass out, or something.

Oh, yeah, check the previous book list and reviews.