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.