This is what the current book list (at the end of the first quarter) looks like:
- *7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen R. Covey
- *50 Stories - Kay Boyle
- 130 Projects To Get You Into Filmmaking - Grove
- 1491 - Charles C. Mann
- A Concise History of Indian Art - Roy C. Craven
- A History of Democratic Kampuchea - Khamboly Dy
- A History of India 1 - Romila Thapar
- A History of India 2 - Percival Spear
- *A House in Gross Disorder - Cynthia B. Herrup
- A Journalist, A General, and An Army in Burma - U Thaung
- A Lexicon of Terror - Marguerite Feitlowitz
- A Nation in Waiting - Adam Schwartz
- A New History of India - Stanley Wolpert
- *A Spy's Revenge - Richard V. Hall
- A Tale Of Millions: Bangladesh Liberation War - M. Rafiqul Islam
- Adventures in the Skin Trade - Dylan Thomas
- Agnes Smedley - J.R. & S.R. MacKinnon
- Alexander The Great - W.W. Tarn
- *Among the White Moonfaces - Shirley Lim
- An Advanced History of India - Majumdar, Raychaudhari, & Datta
- Angle of Repose - Wallace Stegner
- Asian Dragons & Green Trade - Simon Tay & Daniel Esty
- Back to Mandalay - Gerry Abbott
- Bangladesh From Mujib to Ershad, an interpretive study - Lawrence Ziring
- Beating the Blues - Thase & Lang
- *Before Kampuchea - Milton Osborne
- Being Wrong - Kathryn Schultz
- *Bird by Bird - Anne Lamott
- Black Dog of Fate - Peter Balakian
- Cambodia Silenced: The Press Under 6 Regimes - Harish Mehta
- Cambodia's Hidden Scars - Beth van Schaak, Daryn Reicherter, eds.
- Captains of Consciousness - Stuart Ewen
- Ceylon - S. Arasaratnam
- China's Second Revolution - Harry Harding
- Chinese Customs - Henri Dore
- Chinese Warlord - The Career of Feng Yu Hsiang - James E. Sheridan
- Cinema, Emergence, & The Films of Satyajit Roy - Keya Ganguly
- Clarissa - Samuel Richardson
- Colonial Masculinity - Mrinalini Sinha
- Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
- Death in Venice - Thomas Mann
- Death of Somoza - Claribel Alegria & Darwin Flakoll
- Decolonizing the Mind - Ngugi wa Thiong'o
- Desis in the House - Sunaina Maira
- Dharma and Development - Joanna Macy
- *Digital Filmmaking - Mike Figgis
- Discos and Democracy - Orville Schell
- *Don Quixote - Cervantes
- Dread - The Rastafarians of Jamaica - Joseph Owens
- Enemies of the People - Anne F. Thurston
- Escape From Tyranny - Zulkifli Ahmed
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions - Charles Mackay
- Facing the Cambodian Past - David Chandler
- Facets of Taoism - Holmes Welch & Anna Seidel
- Fighting Spirit of East Timor - Rowena Lennox
- *Finnegan's Wake - James Joyce
- Fire In The Lake - Frances Fitzgerald
- First Person Singular - Joyce Carol Oates
- Flash of the Spirit - Robert Farris Thompson
- Flashbacks - Morley Safer
- Flower Of The Dragon - Richard Boyle
- Folklore From Contemporary Jamaicans - Daryl C. Dance
- Folklore of Tamil Nadu - S.M.L. Lakshman Chettiar
- *Following Ho Chi Minh - Bui Tinh
- Gandhi - Louis Fischer
- Gandhi's Truth — On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence - Erik H. Erikson
- Gangsters and Revolutionaries - Robert Cribb
- *Getting Organized - Stephanie Winston
- Gotta Have It - Spike Lee
- Grasshoppers and Elephants - Wilfred Burchett
- Granta on Film
- Heritage of China - Contemporary Perspectives on Chinese Civilization - Ed. Paul S. Ropp
- Hell In A Very Small Place - Bernard Fall
- *Hero And Deity - Pham Quynh Phuong
- Herzog - Saul Bellow
- Hinduism - Its Historical Development - Troy Wilson Organ
- *I Can Make You Thin - Paul McKenna
- In One's Own Shadow - Xin Liu
- Incursion: From America's Chokehold on the NVA Lifelines to the Sacking of the Cambodian Sanctuaries - J.D. Coleman
- India Wins Freedom - Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
- Indian Art - Philip Rawson
- Indonesian Confrontation - Gabriel Tan
- Into Cambodia - Keith William Nolan
- IsvarChandra Vidyasagar - Subal Chandra Mitra
- Khmers Stand Up! - Justin Corfield
- Laogai - The Chinese Gulag - Harry Wu Hong da
- *Lempriere's Dictionary - Lawrence Norfolk
- Leviathan - Hobbes
- Light in August - William Faulkner
- Look Homeward Angel - Thomas Wolfe
- Mandarins, Jews, and Missionaries - Michael Pollak
- Mandate of Heaven - Orville Schell
- Masters of Light - Schaefer & Salvato
- Meena, Heroine of Afghanistan - Melody Ermachild Chavis
- Microeconomic Theory - Gould & Ferguson
- Mike Leigh on Mike Leigh - Amy Raphael, ed.
- My Traitor's Heart - Rian Malan
- Myths About The Ethnic Chinese "Economic Miracle" - Joaquin Sy & Go Bon Juan
- Nakshi Kantha of Bengal - Sila Basak
- Norodom Sihanouk: My War With The CIA - Wilfred Burchett
- One Blood — The Jamaican Body - Elisa Janine Sobo
- Orientalism - Edward W. Said
- Our Lady of Controversy - Alma Lopez
- *Outwitting the Gestapo - Lucie Aubrac
- Painting Islam as the New Enemy -
- Pearl S. Buck, A Cultural Biography - Peter Conn
- Personal Voices - Chinese Women in the '80s - Emily Honig & Gail Hershatter
- Physics and Philosophy - Werner Heisenberg
- Physiology of the Human Body - Guyton
- Popular Songs and Ballads of Han China - Anne Birrele
- Primitive Art - Frank Boas
- *Prometheus Rising - Robert Anton Wilson
- Punjabi Century 1857-1947 - Prakash Tandon
- Rasta & Resistance - Horace Campbell
- Rastafari Roots & Ideology - Barry Chevannes
- Reading Lolita In Teheran - Azar Nafisi
- Red China Blues - Jan Wong
- Reeducating Chinese Anti-Communists - J.A. Fyfield
- Resistance and Reform in Tibet -
- Revolution Postponed - Margery Wolf
- River of Shadows - Rebecca Solnit
- Roots of Rastafari - Virginia Lee Jacobs
- Rosie - Anne Lamott
- Rural Development in China - Fei Hsiao Tung
- Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye (The Biography Of A Master Film-Maker - Andrew Robinson
- Sayles on Sayles - Gavin Smith, ed.
- Screenwriting 434 - Lew Hunter
- Shanghai Refuge, A Memoir of the WWII Jewish Ghetto - Ernest G. Heppner
- Sherpas Through Their Rituals - Sherry B. Ortner
- Shoot Me - Simonelli & Frumkes
- Showdown - Jorge Amado
- Singapore Women Re-presented - Constance Singam and Audrey Chin
- Sisters in the Resistance - Margaret Collins Weitz
- Sisters of Heaven - Gully
- Son of the Revolution - Liang Heng & Judith Shapiro
- Southern Africa Stands Up - Wilfred Burchett
- Strangers Always A Jewish Family in Wartime Shanghai - Rena Krasno
- Street Without Joy - Bernard Fall
- Stress and Mental Health in Malaysian Society - Tan Chee Khuan
- The Adventures of Wu - H.Y. Lowe
- The Argumentative Indian - Amartya Sen
- The Art of the Novel - Milan Kundera
- *The Audacity of Hope - Barak Obama
- The Autobiography of An Unknown Indian - Nirad C. Chaudhary
- The Bedroom of The Mister's Wife - Philip Hensher
- The Bengal Muslims 1871 - 1906 - Ahmed
- The British Humiliation of Burma - Terence R. Blackburn
- *The Canterbury Tales - Chaucer
- The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence - Victor Marchetti & John D. Marks
- The City & The City - China Mieville
- The Declaration of Independent Filmmaking - Polish, Polish, & Sheldon
- The Devil Finds Work - James Baldwin
- The Discovery of India - Jawaharlal Nehru
- The Dragon Empress - Marina Warner
- The Emergence of Modern Turkey - Bernard Lewis
- The May 13 Generation - Poh Soo Kai, ed.
- The Forgotten Army (Indian Mutiny) - Peter Ward Fay
- The Gate - Francois Bizot
- The Gene Hunters Biotechnology and the scramble for seeds - Calestous Juma
- The Gift - Lewis Hyde
- The Great Hedge of India - Roy Moxham
- The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Indonesian Revolution and The Singapore Connection - Yong Mun Cheong
- The Journey to the West, Vol. 1 - Anthony Yu
- *The Last Emperor - Edward Behr
- The Lives of Agnes Smedley - Ruth Price
- The March of Folly From Troy To Vietnam - Barbara W. Tuchman
- The Men Who Ruled India Vol. I The Founders - Philip Woodruff
- The Men Who Ruled India, Vol. II The Guardians - Philip Woodruff
- *The Mind's I - Hofstadter & Dennett
- The Mother Tongue - Bill Bryson
- The New China - Alvin Rabushika
- The Opium War Through Chinese Eyes - Arthur Waley
- The Origins of Chinese Kongsi - Wang Tai Peng
- The Political Economy of Social Control in Singapore - Christopher Tremewan
- The Politics of Sri Lanka - Robert N. Kearney
- The Politics of the Chinese Cultural Revolution - Lee Hong Yung
- The Portable Dorothy Parker - Brendan Gill
- The Rape of Bangladesh - Mascarenhas
- The Rastafarians - Leonard E. Barrett, Sr.
- The Remembered Village - M.N. Srinivasan
- The Rig Veda - Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty, transl
- *The Rise & Fall of the Knights Templar - Gordon Napier
- The Sinkiang Story - Jack Chen
- The Soong Dynasty - Sterling Seagrave
- The Spirit of Chinese Politics - Lucian Pye
- The Story of Zahra - Hanan al-Shaykh
- The Ugly Chinaman - Bo Yang
- The Unmaking of Malaysia -
- The Voice At The Backdoor - Elizabeth Spencer
- The Wilting of the Hundred Flowers - Mu Fu Sheng
- Third World Filmmaking -
- Time Bombs in Malaysia - Lim Kit Siang
- Transition to Neo-Confucianism - Anne D. Birdwhistell
- Unmasking Najib -
- Victims and Perpetrators - Ea Meng-try & Sorya Sim
- Visionary Film - P. Adams Sitney
- Viet Nam and Ho Chi Minh - Wilfred Burchet
- Wanted: Equality and Justice In The Muslim Family - Zainah Anwar, ed.
- War and Peace - Tolstoy
- When States Kill - Nestor Rodriguez, Cecilia Menjivar, eds.
- Who Killed Aung San? - Kin Oung
- West Indians And Their Language - Peter A. Roberts
- Western Birds - Roger Tory Peterson
- Wikileaks - David Leigh & Luke Harding
- Wild Swans - Jung Chang
- Witness to an Era - Frank Moraes
- Women Creating Indonesia: The First Fifty Years -
- Women in the Holocaust - Dalia Ofer, Lenore J. Weitzman, Eds.
- Writers' Workshop in a Book - Cheuse and Alvarez
- Yonnondio - Tillie Olsen
- Your Future, My Faith, Our Freedom - Chee Soon Juan
- Your Memory: A User's Guide - Alan Baddeley
- *Digital Filmmaking - Mike Figgis
- *Among the White Moonfaces - Shirley Lim
- The May 13 Generation - Poh Soo Kai, ed.
- The Political Economy of Social Control in Singapore - Christopher Tremewan
- Singapore Women Re-presented - Constance Singam and Audrey Chin
- Your Future, My Faith, Our Freedom - Chee Soon Juan
- The Unmaking of Malaysia -
- Time Bombs in Malaysia - Lim Kit Siang
- Escape From Tyranny - Zulkifli Ahmed
- Unmasking Najib -
- Stress and Mental Health in Malaysian Society - Tan Chee Khuan
- Wanted: Equality and Justice -
- Gangsters and Revolutionaries - Robert Cribb
- The Indonesian Revolution and The Singapore Connection - Yong Mun Cheong
- Indonesian Confrontation - Gabriel Tan
- A Nation in Waiting -
- Women Creating Indonesia: The First Fifty Years -
- Fighting Spirit of East Timor - Rowena Lennox
- Asian Dragons & Green Trade - Simon Tay & Daniel Esty
- Myths About The Ethnic Chinese "Economic Miracle" - Joaquin Sy & Go Bon Juan
- Fire In The Lake - Frances Fitzgerald
- Flower Of The Dragon - Richard Boyle
- Grasshoppers and Elephants - Wilfred Burchett
- Flashbacks - Morley Safer
- Viet Nam and Ho Chi Minh - Wilfred Burchet
- *Following Ho Chi Minh - Bui Tinh
- *Hero And Deity - Pham Quynh Phuong
- *Before Kampuchea - Milton Osborne
- Facing the Cambodian Past - David Chandler
- A History of Democratic Kampuchea - Khamboly Dy
- Victims and Perpetrators - Ea Meng-try & Sorya Sim
- Incursion: From America's Chokehold on the NVA Lifelines to the Sacking of the Cambodian Sanctuaries - J.D. Coleman
- Into Cambodia - Keith William Nolan
- Khmers Stand Up! - Justin Corfield
- Cambodia Silenced: The Press Under 6 Regimes - Harish Mehta
- The British Humiliation of Burma - Terence R. Blackburn
- A Journalist, A General, and An Army in Burma - U Thaung
- Who Killed Aung San? - Kin Oung
- Back to Mandalay - Gerry Abbott
- *The Canterbury Tales - Chaucer
- *50 Stories - Kay Boyle
- *Getting Organized - Stephanie Winston
Read:
- Middlemarch - George Eliot**** The more I read Eliot the more I admire her. What a writer!
- The Butcher Boy - Patrick McCabe***
- Murder Through The Looking Glass - Mike Venning Fluff.
- Futureland - Walter Moseley***
- Phineas Finn - Anthony Trollope**
- The End of The Affair - Graham Greene**
- The Eustace Diamonds - Anthony Trollope**
- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce***
- Dubliners - James Joyce***
- May 13 - Kua Kim Soong** Good analysis.
- The Mighty Wave - He Jin (Transl: Tan Jing Quee, Loh Miaw Gong, Hong Lysa)* Very interesting historically, but not well written.
- Rule 34 - Charles Stross Fluff.
- Designer Genes - Chee Heng Leng & Chan Chee Koon, eds.***
- The Hatchet Man of Singapore - J.B. Jeyaretnam* Only for those with an interest in the political intricacies of Singapore.
- Singapore The Air-Conditioned Nation - Cherian George* Tiresomely coy.
- Self Censorship: Singapore's Shame - James Gomez*
- Foreign Bodies - Tan Hwee HweeAWFUL
- Pol Pot - Philip Short****
- A History of Cambodia - David Chandler****
Can You Forgive Her? - Anthony Trollope**
