Book List 2012

It's the second day of the new year, you slugs. Get your books out and start reading!

Here's my list. I predict I'll make about a third of it by year's-end, if I'm lucky. Also, I hate Barack Obama because I think he reads faster than I do. That is unacceptable.

Everything marked with a * is something I'm already reading currently. Blame that crazy Canuck for teaching me bad reading habits. All book recommendations accepted. Quite a few on this year's list are from friends, old and new.

1. *7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen R. Covey
2. *50 Stories - Kay Boyle
3. 130 Projects To Get You Into Filmmaking - Grove
4. A Concise History of Indian Art - Roy C. Craven
5. A History of Cambodia - David Chandler
6. A History of Democratic Kampuchea - Khamboly Dy
7. A History of India 1 - Romila Thapar
8. A History of India 2 - Percival Spear
9. *A House in Gross Disorder - Cynthia B. Herrup
10. A Journalist, A General, and An Army in Burma - U Thaung
11. A Nation in Waiting - Adam Schwartz
12. A New History of India - Stanley Wolpert
13. *A Spy's Revenge - Richard V. Hall
14. A Tale Of Millions: Bangladesh Liberation War - M. Rafiqul Islam
15. Adventures in the Skin Trade - Dylan Thomas
16. Agnes Smedley - J.R. & S.R. MacKinnon
17. Alexander The Great - W.W. Tarn
18. *Among the White Moonfaces - Shirley Lim
19. An Advanced History of India - Majumdar, Raychaudhari, & Datta
20. Angle of Repose - Wallace Stegner
21. Asian Dragons & Green Trade - Simon Tay & Daniel Esty
22. Back to Mandalay - Gerry Abbott
23. Bangladesh From Mujib to Ershad, an interpretive study - Lawrence Ziring
24. Beating the Blues - Thase & Lang
25. Before Kampuchea - Milton Osborne
26. Being Wrong - Kathryn Schultz
27. *Bird by Bird - Anne Lamott
28. Black Dog of Fate - Peter Balakian
29. Cambodia Silenced: The Press Under 6 Regimes - Harish Mehta
30. Cambodia's Hidden Scars -
31. Can You Forgive Her? - Anthony Trollope
32. Captains of Consciousness - Stuart Ewen
33. Ceylon - S. Arasaratnam
34. China's Second Revolution - Harry Harding
35. Chinese Customs - Henri Dore
36. Chinese Warlord - The Career of Feng Yu Hsiang - James E. Sheridan
37. Cinema, Emergence, & The Films of Satyajit Roy - Keya Ganguly
38. Clarissa - Samuel Richardson
39. Colonial Masculinity - Mrinalini Sinha
40. Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
41. Daddyji - Ved Mehta
42. Death in Venice - Thomas Mann
43. Decolonizing the Mind - Ngugi wa Thiong'o
44. Designer Genes - Chee Heng Leng & Chan Chee Koon, eds.
45. Desis in the House - Sunaina Maira
46. Dharma and Development -
47. Digital Filmmaking - Mike Figgis
48. Discos and Democracy - Orville Schell
49. *Don Quixote - Cervantes
50. *Dread - The Rastafarians of Jamaica - Joseph Owens
51. *Dubliners - James Joyce
52. Enemies of the People - Anne F. Thurston
53. Extraordinary Popular Delusions - Charles Mackay
54. Facing the Cambodian Past - David Chandler
55. Facets of Taoism - Holmes Welch & Anna Seidel
56. Fighting Spirit of East Timor - Rowena Lennox
57. *Finnegan's Wake - James Joyce
58. Fire In The Lake - Frances Fitzgerald
    
59. First Person Singular - Joyce Carol Oates
60. Flash of the Spirit -
61. Flashbacks - Morley Safer
62. Flower Of The Dragon - Richard Boyle
63. Folklore From Contemporary Jamaicans - Daryl C. Dance
64. Folklore of Tamil Nadu - S.M.L. Lakshman Chettiar
65. Following Ho Chi Minh - Bui Tinh
66. Futureland - Walter Moseley
67. Gandhi - Louis Fischer
68. Gandhi's Truth — On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence - Erik H. Erikson
69. Gangsters and Revolutionaries - Robert Cribb
70. *Getting Organized - Stephanie Winston
71. Gotta Have It - Spike Lee
72. Grasshoppers and Elephants - Wilfred Burchett
73. Granta on Film
74. Heritage of China - Contemporary Perspectives on Chinese Civilization - Ed. Paul S. Ropp
75. *Hero And Deity - Pham Quynh Phuong
76. Herzog - Saul Bellow
77. Hinduism - Its Historical Development - Troy Wilson Organ
78. *I Can Make You Thin - Paul McKenna
79. In One's Own Shadow - Xin Liu
80. Incursion: From America's Chokehold on the NVA Lifelines to the Sacking of the Cambodian Sanctuaries - J.D. Coleman
81. India Wins Freedom - Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
82. Indian Art - Philip Rawson
83. Indonesian Confrontation - Gabriel Tan
84. Into Cambodia - Keith William Nolan
85. IsvarChandra Vidyasagar -
86. Khmers Stand Up! - Justin Corfield
87. Laogai - The Chinese Gulag - Harry Wu Hong da
88. *Lempriere's Dictionary - Lawrence Norfolk
89. Leviathan - Hobbes
90. Light in August - William Faulkner
91. Mandarins, Jews, and Missionaries - Michael Pollak
92. Mandate of Heaven - Orville Schell
93. Masters of Light - Schaefer & Salvato
94. May 13 - Kua Kim Soong
95. Meena, Heroine of Afghanistan - Melody Ermachild Chavis
96. Microeconomic Theory - Gould & Ferguson
97. *Middlemarch - George Eliot
98. Mike Leigh on Mike Leigh - Amy Raphael, ed.
99. My Traitor's Heart - Rian Malan
100. Myths About The Ethnic Chinese "Economic Miracle" - Joaquin Sy & Go Bon Juan
101. *Nakshi Kantha of Bengal - Sila Basak
102. Norodom Sihanouk: My War With The CIA - Wilfred Burchett
103. One Blood — The Jamaican Body - Elisa Janine Sobo
104. Orientalism - Edward W. Said
105. Our Lady of Controversy - Alma Lopez
106. *Outwitting the Gestapo - Lucie Aubrac
107. Painting Islam as the New Enemy -
108. Pearl S. Buck, A Cultural Biography - Peter Conn
109. Personal Voices - Chinese Women in the '80s - Emily Honig & Gail Hershatter
110. Physics and Philosophy - Werner Heisenberg
111. Physiology of the Human Body - Guyton
112. Pol Pot - Philip Short
113. Popular Songs and Ballads of Han China - Anne Birrele
114. *Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
115. Primitive Art - Frank Boas
116. *Prometheus Rising - Robert Anton Wilson
117. Punjabi Century 1857-1947 - Prakash Tandon
118. Rasta & Resistance - Horace Campbell
119. Rastafari Roots & Ideology - Barry Chevannes
120. Reading Lolita In Teheran - Azar Nafisi
121. Red China Blues - Jan Wong
122. Reeducating Chinese Anti-Communists - J.A. Fyfield
123. Resistance and Reform in Tibet -
124. Revolution Postponed - Margery Wolf
125. River of Shadows - Rebecca Solnit
126. Roots of Rastafari - Virginia Lee Jacobs
127. Rosie - Anne Lamott
128. Rural Development in China - Fei Hsiao Tung
129. Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye (The Biography Of A Master Film-Maker - Andrew Robinson
130. Sayles on Sayles - Gavin Smith, ed.
131. Screenwriting 434 - Lew Hunter
132. Self Censorship: Singapore's Shame - James Gomez
133. Shanghai Refuge, A Memoir of the WWII Jewish Ghetto - Ernest G. Heppner
134. Sherpas Through Their Rituals - Sherry B. Ortner
135. Shoot Me - Simonelli & Frumkes
136. Showdown - Jorge Amado
137. Singapore The Air-Conditioned Nation - Cherian George
138. Singapore Women Re-presented - Constance Singam and Audrey Chin
139. Sisters in the Resistance - Margaret Collins Weitz
140. Sisters of Heaven - Gully
141. Son of the Revolution - Liang Heng & Judith Shapiro
142. Strangers Always A Jewish Family in Wartime Shanghai - Rena Krasno
143. Stress and Mental Health in Malaysian Society - Tan Chee Khuan
144. The Adventures of Wu - H.Y. Lowe
145. The Argumentative Indian - Amartya Sen
146. The Art of the Novel - Milan Kundera
147. The Audacity of Hope - Barak Obama
148. The Autobiography of An Unknown Indian - Nirad C. Chaudhary
149. The Bedroom of The Mister's Wife - Philip Hensher
150. The Bengal Muslims 1871 - 1906 - Ahmed
151. The British Humiliation of Burma - Terence R. Blackburn
152. The Butcher Boy - Patrick McCabe
153. *The Canterbury Tales - Chaucer
154. The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence - Victor Marchetti & John D. Marks
155. The City & The City - China Mieville
156. The Declaration of Independent Filmmaking - Polish, Polish, & Sheldon
157. The Devil Finds Work - James Baldwin
158. The Discovery of India - Jawaharlal Nehru
159. The Dragon Empress - Marina Warner
160. The Emergence of Modern Turkey - Bernard Lewis
161. The May 13 Generation - Poh Soo Kai, ed.
162. The Forgotten Army (Indian Mutiny) - Peter Ward Fay
163. The Gate - Francois Bizot
164. The Gene Hunters Biotechnology and the scramble for seeds - Calestous Juma
165. The Gift - Lewis Hyde
166. The Great Hedge of India - Roy Moxham
167. The Hatchet Man of Singapore - J.B. Jeyaretnam
168. The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
169. The Indonesian Revolution and The Singapore Connection - Yong Mun Cheong
170. The Journey to the West, Vol. 1 - Anthony Yu
171. *The Last Emperor - Edward Behr
172. The Lives of Agnes Smedley - Ruth Price
173. The March of Folly From Troy To Vietnam - Barbara W. Tuchman
174. The Men Who Ruled India Vol. I The Founders - Philip Woodruff
175. The Men Who Ruled India, Vol. II The Guardians - Philip Woodruff
176. The Mighty Wave - He Jin (Transl: Tan Jing Quee, Loh Miaw Gong, Hong Lysa)
177. *The Mind's I - Hofstadter & Dennett
178. The Mother Tongue - Bill Bryson
179. The New China - Alvin Rabushika
180. The Opium War Through Chinese Eyes - Arthur Waley
181. The Origins of Chinese Kongsi -
182. The Political Economy of Social Control in Singapore - Christopher Tremewan
183. The Politics of Sri Lanka - Robert N. Kearney
184. The Politics of the Chinese Cultural Revolution - Lee Hong Yung
185. The Portable Dorothy Parker - Brendan Gill
186. The Rape of Bangladesh - Mascarenhas
187. The Rastafarians - Leonard E. Barrett, Sr.
188. The Remembered Village - M.N. Srinivasan
189. The Rig Veda - Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty, transl
190. *The Rise & Fall of the Knights Templar - Gordon Napier
191. The Sinkiang Story - Jack Chen
192. The Soong Dynasty - Sterling Seagrave
193. The Spirit of Chinese Politics - Lucian Pye
194. The Story of Zahra - Hanan al-Shaykh
195. The Ugly Chinaman - Bo Yang
196. The Unmaking of Malaysia -
197. The Voice At The Backdoor - Elizabeth Spencer
198. The Wilting of the Hundred Flowers - Mu Fu Sheng
199. Third World Filmmaking -
200. Time Bombs in Malaysia - Lim Kit Siang
201. Transition to Neo-Confucianism - Anne D. Birdwhistell
202. Unmasking Najib -
203. Victims and Perpetrators - Ea Meng-try & Sorya Sim
204. Wanted: Equality and Justice In The Muslim Family - Zainah Anwar, ed.
205. War and Peace - Tolstoy
206. Who Killed Aung San? - Kin Oung
207. West Indians And Their Language - Peter A. Roberts
208. Western Birds - Roger Tory Peterson
209. Wikileaks - David Leigh & Luke Harding
210. Wild Swans - Jung Chang
211. Witness to an Era - Frank Moraes
212. Women Creating Indonesia: The First Fifty Years -
213. Women in the Holocaust - Dalia Ofer, Lenore J. Weitzman, Eds.
214. Writers' Workshop in a Book - Cheuse and Alvarez
215. Yonnondio - Tillie Olsen
216. Your Future, My Faith, Our Freedom - Chee Soon Juan
217. Your Memory: A User's Guide - Alan Baddeley

There's about 105 books left to go on the list, but I can't climb up to reach them. Soon as the knee heals, I'll update the list. Helps me keep track of what I've lent, borrowed, read, and given away. This year's heavy on fiction, so quit complaining, all you monsters. And for god's sake, I don't want to hear any whining about all the war-related and torture-related history stuff I'm reading. Especially since y'all so don't want me pointing out who gave/lent them to me, yaknow?