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Book Reviews

I've been building so many different kinds of reading lists, it's becoming hard to keep track.  Hence, I have re-organized all of my lists to this central place.  Hope this is helpful!

Some of these pages you can add to and revise, as well!

What I'm Reading Now

1Q84
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Long-awaited epic work by Murakami, instrumental in talking about him as a Nobel Prize candidate. I have been a fan of his surreal works of mystery, fantasy, Japanese history, and psychology. In the opening pages, the main character descen...
The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It
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NOOK READ: Part science, part psychology, part history and economics, part chaos theory, Ramos explains why our new world of political disorder astounds us and how we can better understand it. I look forward to this read!
Stories of Your Life and Others
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Always a lover of hard SF, I haven't seen a new writer gets such praise for his work in science. This collection of short stories will make a nice introduction!
Nostalgia for the Modern: State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey
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The first of two books our ROMUN team is reading in preparation for its trip to Turkey this July. Ozyurek focuses first of the iconization of Kemal Ataturk and how the tension in the movement to secularism is seen in simple daily events.

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 Other Lists

  Good Books: Fiction
An annotated listing of my favorite reads, regardless of academic value!
  Good Books: Non-Fiction
  Good Books: Global Views
A list of books and films of and from other parts of the world.
  Bad Books
A contrary list of authors who have frustrated me, appropriately annotated.
  Indian Literature
An annotated section of sourcebooks and literature around my 2005 trip to India. Some terrific reads here!
  Japanese Literature
Also from my 2005 trip to Ladakh (Little Tibet).
  Japanese Literature
A large annotated section of literature, non-fiction, and media of and from the Japanese culture.  A complete list of Murakami's works is here.
  Japanese Non-Fiction
From my 2002 trip to Japan, some great study works here.
  Japanese Music and Film
A list of media I reviewed in 2002.
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  AP Literature Reading List with Prompts
A large list of works considered worthy of AP English study, supplemented with prompts/questions for projects or discussion for class. This link takes you away from this Books Wiki site.
  AP Literature Master Reading List
A large list (still incomplete!) of classic authors from all genres, unfortunately not yet annotated.
  AP Comparative Government Texts
A list of international non-fiction works appropriate for preparation for the AP Comparative Government exam and the Model UN class.
  What Every College Freshman Should Have Read
My survey of EMU professors on what they want all entering freshman to have in their background (1986).

Some Favorites

The Elephant Vanishes
Kafka on the Shore
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
The Master of Go
Fire
The Story of B: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
Dust
The Dark Tower
Love Medicine
Repent Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman
The Nine Billion Names of God
Mr Palomar
The Girl In A Swing
The Rhetoric of Religion
Foucault's Pendulum
Boomsday
Planet of the Apes
Imperial Earth
Foundation
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood


Steve Chisnell's favorite books »
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