Book List Updated December 2009

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 Journalist, A General, and An Army in Burma - U Thaung
   
4. A Point of Light - Zhou Mei
   
5. A Spy's Revenge - Richard V. Hall
   
6. Agnes Smedley - J.R. & S.R. MacKinnon
   
7. Armed Communist Movements in Southeast Asia - Lim Joo Jock, Vani S., Eds.
   
8. Beating the Blues - Thase & Lang
   
9. Before Kampuchea - GMilton Osborne
10. Bird by Bird - Anne Lamott
    
11. Black Dog of Fate - Peter Balakian
    
12. Captains of Consciousness - Stuart Ewen
    
13. Chinese Customs - Henri Dore
    
14. Colonial Masculinity - Mrinalini Sinha
    
15. Comet In Our Sky: Lim Chin Siong in History - Tan Jing Quee and Jomo K.S., Eds
    
16. Daniel Deronda - George Eliot
    
17. Desis in the House - Sunaina Maira
    
18. Extraordinary Popular Delusions - Charles Mackay
    
19. Finnegan's Wake - James Joyce
    
20. First Person Singular - Joyce Carol Oates
    
21. Flashbacks - Morley Safer
    
22. Folklore of Tamil Nadu - S.M.L. Lakshman Chettiar
    
23. Gandhi's Truth — On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence - Erik H. Erikson
    
24. How I Adore You - Mark Pritchard
    
25. In Pursuit of Mountain Rats - Anthony Short
    
26. Incursion: From America's Chokehold on the NVA Lifelines to the Sacking of the Cambodian Sanctuaries - J.D. Coleman
    
27. Into Cambodia - Keith William Nolan
    
28. Khmers Stand Up! - Justin Corfield
    
29. Kranji - Romen Bose
    
30. Meena, Heroine of Afghanistan - Melody Ermachild Chavis
    
31. Minorities of the Sino-Vietnamese Borderland - Maurice Abadie
    
32. Nakshi Kantha of Bengal - Sila Basak
    
33. Niels Lyhne - Jens Peter Jacobsen
    
34. Nonsense - Robert J. Gula
    
35. No Cowardly Past - James Puthucheary
    
36. Orientalism - Edward W. Said
    
37. Outwitting the Gestapo - Lucie Aubrac
    
38. Pearl S. Buck, A Cultural Biography - Peter Conn
    
39. People's War, People's Army - Vo Nguyen Giap
    
40. Pol Pot - Philip Short
    
41. Primitive Art - Frank Boas
    
42. Prometheus Rising - Robert Anton Wilson
    
43. Reading Lolita In Teheran - Azar Nafisi
    
44. Rosie - Anne Lamott
    
45. Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye (The Biography Of A Master Film-Maker - Andrew Robinson
    
46. Screenwriting 434 - Lew Hunter
    
47. Self Censorship: Singapore's Shame - James Gomez
    
48. Shanghai Refuge, A Memoir of the WWII Jewish Ghetto - Ernest G. Heppner
    
49. Sherpas Through Their Rituals - Sherry B. Ortner
    
50. Singapore:Journey Into Nationhood
    
51. Singapore & The Many-Headed Monster - Joe Conceicao
    
52. Singapore The Air-Conditioned Nation - Cherian George
    
53. Singapore's People's Action Party: Its History, Organization and Leadership - Pang Cheng Lian
    
54. Sisters in the Resistance - Margaret Collins Weitz
    
55. Slaughter and Deception: Batang Kali - Ian Ward & Norma Miraflor
    
56. Strangers Always A Jewish Family in Wartime Shanghai - Rena Krasno
    
57. Stress and Mental Health in Malaysian Society - Tan Chee Khuan
    
58. The Art of the Novel - Milan Kundera
    
59. The Autobiography of An Unknown Indian - Nirad C. Chaudhary
    
60. The Bengal Muslims 1871 - 1906 - Ahmed
    
61. The Birth of Vietnam - Keith Weller Taylor
    
62. The British Humiliation of Burma - Terence R. Blackburn
    
63. The Communist Struggle in Malaya - Gene Z. Hanrahan
    
64. The Devil Finds Work - James Baldwin
    
65. The Emergence of Modern Turkey - Bernard Lewis
    
66. The Hungry Tide - Amitav Ghosh
    
67. The Gift - Lewis Hyde
    
68. The Lives of Agnes Smedley - Ruth Price
    
69. The Mak Nyahs Malaysian Male to Female Transexuals - Teh Yik Koon
    
70. The March of Folly From Troy To Vietnam - Barbara W. Tuchman
    
71. The Mind's I - Hofstadter & Dennett
    
72. The Plague - Albert Camus
    
73. The Political Economy of Social Control in Singapore - Christopher Tremewan
    
74. The Rape of Bangladesh - Mascarenhas
    
75. The Remembered Village - M.N. Srinivasan
    
76. The Rise & Fall of the Knights Templar - Gordon Napier
    
77. The Singapore Council of Women and The Women's Movement - Phyllis Ghim Lian Chew
    
78. The Syonan Years I - Lee Geok Boi
    
79. The Syonan Years II - Lee Geok Boi
    
80. The Tin Drum - Gunther Grass
    
81. The Ugly Chinaman - Bo Yang
    
82. The Ultimate Guide to Chinese Tea - Bret Hinsch
    
83. The Way of All Flesh - Samuel Butler
    
84. The Worst Album Covers In The World Vol. 2 -
    
85. Time Bombs in Malaysia - Lim Kit Siang
    
86. Virtual Reality - Howard Rheingold
    
87. Vietnam: A Long History - Nguyen Khac Vien
    
88. Vietnam & America: The Most Comprehensive Documented History of the Vietnam War - Gettleman, et al
    
89. Warsaw of Asia: The Rape of Manila - Boni Escoda
    
90. Who Killed Aung San? - Kin Oung
    
91. Who Won The Malayan Emergency - Herbert Andrew
    
92. Witness to an Era - Frank Moraes
    
93. Women Against The Raj - Joyce C. Lebra
    
94. Women in the Holocaust - Dalia Ofer, Lenore J. Weitzman, Eds.
    
95. Writers' Workshop in a Book - Cheuse and Alvarez
    
96. Your Memory: A User's Guide - Alan Baddeley

Needless to say, most of these books won't have been read by December 31st. But — there ain't no harm in trying. I started off with a book list of 180 titles. The number increased to 231. I'll publish the final book reviews and an updated list for 2010 on New Years' Eve, showing exactly how many books I've read.

Will I win my pizza? I worked for it! Remember that much of this time was spent lying flat on my back drugged out beyond readability! Plus there was the monumental editing task I undertook in late August/early September, that kept me from reading for weeks! Pizza! I can has!