Reading List

Books make their way across the Atlantic in a variety of ways...in care packages, carry-ons and squirreled away in the luggage of new volunteers, but they all end up in the same place; Regional House Libraries. Thanks to generations of bookworm volunteers the Kaolack House has established a pretty formidable book selection. The following is the list of books I've read during my service along with the date completed.

2012
A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin (1/8)
A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin (1/24)
A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin (1/29)
The Hedge Knight by George R.R. Martin (1/29)
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card (2/3)
Xenocide by Orson Scott Card (2/6)
Shadow Puppets by Orson Scott Card (2/8)
A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin (3/12)
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder (3/17)
Shadow of the Hegemon by Orson Scott Card (3/22)
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (4/6)
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (4/7)
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (4/8)


2011
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson (12/20)
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides (12/18)
Neither Here nor There by Bill Bryson (12/17)
The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason (12/15)
The Year of Living Biblically by AJ Jacobs (12/11)
You are the Treasure that I Seek by Gerg Dutcher (12/3)
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (12/1)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (11/29)
Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire (11/20)
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris (11/6)
Kings' Ransom by Jan Beazeley and Thom Lemmons (10/31)
Farm City by Novella Carpenter (10/27)
The Best American Non-Required Reading ed. by Dave Eggers (10/13)
The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway (10/3)
Ironfire by David Ball (9/29)
Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers (9/25)
The Return of the King by JRR Tolkien (9/23)
The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis (9/21)
Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry (9/20)
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers (9/13)
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (9/12)
Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins (9/11)
Savage Summit by Jennifer Jordan (9/10)
Sunstorm by Arthur C. Clarke adn Stephen Baxter (9/9)
Time's Eye by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter (9/6)
Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin (9/1)
The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell (8/29)
A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage (8/22)
Within Reach; My Everest Story by Mark Pfetzer (8/13)
The Two Towers by JRR Tolkien (8/3)
The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien (8/3)
The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer (7/28)
Tales from Watership Down by Richard Adams (7/21)
Freakonomics by Steve Levitt (7/10)
The Lost World by Michael Crichton (7/10)
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton (7/6)
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan (7/5)
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollen (7/4)
A Case of Need by Michael Crichton (6/27)
Next by Michael Crichton (6/23)
Solo: On Her Own Adventure by Susan Fox Rodgers (6/16)
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest by Stieg Larsson (6/15)
Egalias Daughters by Louis Mackay (6/8)
The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks (6/2)
H. by Makoto Oda (5/3)
The Rising Sun by Michael Crichton (4/25)
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghesse (4/22)
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood (4/20)
Timeline by Michael Crichton (4/8)
Neverwhere by Neil Griman (3/29)
Sphere by Michael Crichton (3/12)
The Color of Water by James McBride (3/10)
The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton (3/7)
Airframe by Michael Crichton (3/3)
The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larson (2/26)
A Reason for Hope by Jane Goodall (2./25)
Chat by Archer Mayer (2/15)
Congo by Michael Crichton (2/9)
Shutter Island by Dennis Lahane (2/7)
A Prayer for Owen Meaney by John Irving (1/20)
Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos (1/11)
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larson (1/10)
Beyond the Limits by Stacy Allison (1/8)
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (1/6)
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer (1/4)

2010
Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana Jr (12/12)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling (12/7)
The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo (11/18)
Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean Auel (11/17)
Thr3e by Ted Dekker (11/12)
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollen (11/5)
The Spiderwick Chronicles (books 1-5) by Toni Deterlizzi (11/3)
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (10/26)
The Memory Keepers Daughter by Kim Edwards (10/20)
In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin (10/15)
South: The Endurance Expedition by Ernest Shakleton (10/13)
Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card (9/19)
Black Order by James Rollins (9/22)
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (9/13)
Labrynth by Kate Mosse (9/11)
The Diary of Ma Yan by Pierre Haski (9/9)
Thud! by Terry Pratchett (9/3)
Walden by HD Thoreau
In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
There's No Toilet Paper on the Road Less Traveled
Deep Blue by Nate Hardcastle
On Top of the world by Milles
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Piccolt
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Mirror Mirror by Gregory Maguire
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
A Lion Among Men by Gregory Maguire