Sunday, August 16, 2009

Book List 2009 August Update

Photograph copyright K. Smokey Cormier

This is what the list looks like now:

Book List 2009

  1. A History of Cambodia - David Chandler
  2. A House in Gross Disorder - Cynthia B. Herrup
  3. A Point of Light - Zhou Mei
  4. A Spy's Revenge - Richard V. Hall
  5. A Will For Freedom - Romen Bose
  6. Agnes Smedley - J.R. & S.R. MacKinnon
  7. Apache Sunrise - Jerome Boyle
  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. Bird by Bird - Anne Lamott
  12. Black Dog of Fate - Peter Balakian
  13. Captains of Consciousness - Stuart Ewen
  14. Chinese Customs - Henri Dore
  15. Colonial Masculinity - Mrinalini Sinha
  16. Comet In Our Sky: Lim Chin Siong in History - Tan Jing Quee and Jomo K.S., Eds
  17. Daniel Deronda - George Eliot
  18. Dictionary of the Khazars - Milorad Pavic
  19. Extraordinary Popular Delusions - Charles Mackay
  20. Finnegan's Wake - James Joyce
  21. First Person Singular - Joyce Carol Oates
  22. Folklore of Tamil Nadu - S.M.L. Lakshman Chettiar
  23. From Pacific War to Merdeka - James Wong Wing On
  24. Gandhi's Truth — On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence - Erik H. Erikson
  25. How I Adore You - Mark Pritchard
  26. In Pursuit of Mountain Rats - Anthony Short
  27. In The Grip of a Crisis - Rudy Mosbergen
  28. Incursion: From America's Chokehold on the Nva Lifelines to the Sacking of the Cambodian Sanctuaries - J.D. Coleman
  29. Into Cambodia - Keith William Nolan
  30. Kinabalu Guerrillas - Maxwell Hall
  31. King Rat - James Clavell
  32. Kranji - Romen Bose
  33. Labour Unrest in Malaya - Tai Yuen
  34. Life As The River Flows - Agnes Khoo
  35. Living Hell - Goh Chor Boon
  36. Malaya and Singapore During the Japanese Occupation - Paul H. Kratoska, Ed.
  37. Meena, Heroine of Afghanistan - Melody Ermachild Chavis
  38. Minorities of the Sino-Vietnamese Borderland - Maurice Abadie
  39. Nakshi Kantha of Bengal - Sila Basak
  40. Niels Lyhne - Jens Peter Jacobsen
  41. Nonsense - Robert J. Gula
  42. No Cowardly Past - James Puthucheary
  43. Odd Man Out: The Story of the Singapore Traitor - Peter Elphick & Michael Smith
  44. Orientalism - Edward W. Said
  45. Outwitting the Gestapo - Lucie Aubrac
  46. Pearl S. Buck, A Cultural Biography - Peter Conn
  47. People's War, People's Army - Vo Nguyen Giap
  48. Primitive Art - Frank Boas
  49. Prometheus Rising - Robert Anton Wilson
  50. Raffles - Maurice Collins
  51. Reading Lolita In Teheran - Azar Nafisi
  52. Red Star Over Malaya - Cheah Boon Kheng
  53. Rethinking Raffles - Syed Muhd. Khairudin Aljunied
  54. Rosie - Anne Lamott
  55. Sabah Under The Rising Sun Government - Stephen R. Evans
  56. Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye (The Biography Of A Master Film-Maker - Andrew Robinson
  57. Screenwriting 434 - Lew Hunter
  58. Shanghai Refuge, A Memoir of the WWII Jewish Ghetto - Ernest G. Heppner
  59. Sherpas Through Their Rituals - Sherry B. Ortner
  60. Singapore:Journey Into Nationhood
  61. Singapore & The Many-Headed Monster - Joe Conceicao
  62. Singapore The Air-Conditioned Nation - Cherian George
  63. Singapore's People's Action Party: Its History, Organization and Leadership - Pang Cheng Lian
  64. Sisters in the Resistance - Margaret Collins Weitz
  65. Strangers Always A Jewish Family in Wartime Shanghai - Rena Krasno
  66. Stress and Mental Health in Malaysian Society - Tan Chee Khuan
  67. The Art of the Novel - Milan Kundera
  68. The Autobiography of An Unknown Indian - Nirad C. Chaudhary
  69. The Bengal Muslims 1871 - 1906 - Ahmed
  70. The Birth of Vietnam - Keith Weller Taylor
  71. The British Humiliation of Burma - Terence R. Blackburn
  72. The Devil Finds Work - James Baldwin
  73. The Emergence of Modern Turkey - Bernard Lewis
  74. The End of the War - Romen Bose
  75. The Gift - Lewis Hyde
  76. The Lives of Agnes Smedley - Ruth Price
  77. The Old Wine Shades - Martha Grimes
  78. The Malayan Union Controversy 1942-1948 - Albert Lau
  79. The Mak Nyahs Malaysian Male to Female Transexuals - Teh Yik Koon
  80. The March of Folly From Troy To Vietnam - Barbara W. Tuchman
  81. The Mind's I - Hofstadter & Dennett
  82. The Plague - Albert Camus
  83. The Political Economy of Social Control in Singapore - Christopher Tremewan
  84. The Price of Peace - Foong Choon Hon, Ed.
  85. The Remembered Village - M.N. Srinivasan
  86. The Right To Die - Humphry-Wickett
  87. The Rise & Fall of the Knights Templar - Gordon Napier
  88. The Tin Drum - Gunther Grass
  89. The Ugly Chinaman - Bo Yang
  90. The Ultimate Guide to Chinese Tea - Bret Hinsch
  91. The Way of All Flesh - Samuel Butler
  92. Time Bombs in Malaysia - Lim Kit Siang
  93. Virtual Reality - Howard Rheingold
  94. Vietnam: A Long History - Nguyen Khac Vien
  95. Vietnam & America: The Most Comprehensive Documented History of the Vietnam War - Gettleman, et al
  96. Vietnam Moment - Brenda Paik Sunoo and Ton Thi Thu Nguyet
  97. War & Memory in Malaysia & Singapore - P. Lim Pui Huen, Diana Wong, Eds.
  98. Who Won The Malayan Emergency - Herbert Andrew
  99. Witness to an Era - Frank Moraes
  100. Women in the Holocaust - Dalia Ofer, Lenore J. Weitzman, Eds.
  101. Writers' Workshop in a Book - Cheuse and Alvarez
  102. You'll Die in Singapore - Charles McCormac
  103. You'll Never Get Off This Island - Keith Wilson
  104. Your Memory: A User's Guide - Alan Baddeley


What can I say? The fucking list keeps growing. Am I reading fast enough to keep up? Probably not. The only hope I have left is, I've got a two-week vacation coming up, and I plan to pack a minimum of 25 books to take with me. With no tasks to fulfil - no phone calls, email, food shopping or preparation, laundry, doctors' visits, physical therapy, ad nauseam — I should be able to read a minimum of 25 books, don'tchathink? Maybe I should pack 30 books. Sigh.

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