My bookshelf

How many books can I read during my service?  What books have I read while being in Cameroon?  (Official start date of this list: September 13, 2013).  Feel free to make book recommendations!

1. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
2. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
3. The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
4. Outliers: The Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell
5. Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
6. Lolita - Vladamir Nabokov
7. The Sex Lives of Cannibals - J. Maarten Troost
8. Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
9. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
10. Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened - Allie Brosh
11. Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir - Jenny Lawson
12. The Book Thief - Markus Zukas
13. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
14. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs - Chuck Klosterman
15. Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
16. Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
17. Wild - Cheryl Strayed
18. The White Masai - Corinne Hofmann
19. The Help - Kathryn Stockett
20. Fifty Shades Freed - E. L. James
21. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - J.K. Rowling
22. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J.K. Rowling
23. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) - Mindy Kaling
24. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J.K. Rowling
25. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling
26. A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett
27. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J.K. Rowling
28. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling
29. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling
30. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
31. The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud - Ben Sherwood
32. Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
33. After Dark - Haruki Murakami
34. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami
35. Some Girls: My Life in a Harem - Jillian Lauren
36. The Fault in Our Stars - John Green 
37. The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls  
38. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals - Michael Pollan 
39. The Edible Woman - Margaret Atwood 
40. Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
41. African Friends and Money Matters - David Maranz
42. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference - Malcolm Gladwell
43. Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead - Sheryl Sandberg
44. The Salmon's Run - Debra Highberger
45. A Scanner Darkly - Philip K. Dick 
46. South of the Border, West of the Sun -- Haruki Murakami
47. Dance Dance Dance -- Haruki Murakami
48. The Silver Linings Playbook -- Matthew Quick
49. The Art of Racing in the Rain -- Garth Stein
50. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn -- Betty Smith
51. The Hunger Games -- Suzanne Collins
52. Catching Fire -- Suzanne Collins
52. Mockingjay -- Suzanne Collins
53. Will Grayson, Will Grayson -- John Green and David Levithan 
54. Freedom -- Jonathan Franzen
55. Girl on the Train -- Paula Hawkins
56. Tampa -- Alissa Nutting 
57. Americanah -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
58. We Need to Talk about Kevin -- Lionel Shriver 

Currently reading:  Gone, Baby, Gone -- Dennis Lehane

Updated September 29, 2015

4 comments:

  1. Hi, I was referred to your blog through a friend at McGill, Valentine. I'm in my 4th year at McGill and I'm extremely interested in volunteering for the peace corps, especially in French-speaking west Africa. I've already submitted my application and my references have been contacted. I'd love to hear more about your experience and ask some questions, so if you have the chance, maybe you could send me an email? It's giacomal5@gmail.com Thanks so much, I hope you're having a great time. I've really enjoyed reading your blog so far.

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  2. Hi sweetie, I love you a whole, whole, whole bunch. I just put something in the mail for you a couple of days ago. Did you send an e-mail to Lila? Maybe she can be your next friend. Mommy said that you would not have any blogs until next week, so I didn't even look for one. Uncle Rick just called and told me you have one today. I will send you some more mail this week. LOVE YOU, Gram

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  3. Book suggestion: This is a Soul by Marilyn Berger for nonfiction.

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  4. I hear page 32 of Book 43 is really good

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