Every year, I strive to read 100 books by December 31. This is where I keep my list, updated throughout the year.
1. Tales from Japan – Helen and William Macalpine
2. Geisha, A Life – Mineko Iwasaki
3. Marked – P. C. and Kristin Cast
4. Geisha, Harlot, Strangler, Star – William Johnston
5. The History of Love – Nicole Krauss
6. The Four Loves – C. S. Lewis
7. Autobiography of a Geisha – Sayo Masuda
8. The Idea of a Christian College – Arthur Holmes
9. Saving Face – Andy Robin
10. Myths of the Norsemen – Roger Lancelyn Green
11. Evening in the Palace of Reason – James Gaines
12. The Vampire Diaries: The Awakening – L. J. Smith
13. The Witch Must Die – Sheldon Cashdan
14. Kitchen Confidential – Anthony Bourdain
15. No Reservations – Anthony Bourdain
16. Briar Rose – Robert Coover
17. My Life in France – Julia Child
18. How to Read Literature Like a Professor – Thomas C. Foster
19. The Last Chinese Chef – Nicole Mones
20. The Espressologist – Kristina Springer
21. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
22. A Good Fall – Ha Jin
23. Real Simple Best Recipes Cookbook (yes I actually read it cover to cover)
24. Japanese Women Don’t Get Old or Fat – Naomi Moriyama
25. Around the World in 80 Dinners – Cheryl and Bill Jamison
26. La’s Orchestra Saves the World – Alexander McCall Smith
27. Slumdog Millionaire – Vikas Swarup
28. The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands – Laura Shlessinger
29. Two Gentlemen of Verona – William Shakespeare
30. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
31. The Sociopath Next Door – Martha Stout
32. The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
33. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
34. Feed – M. T. Anderson
35. Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins
36. Geisha – Liza Dalby
37. Geisha: The Life, the Voices, the Art – Jodi Cobb
38. The Bacchae – Eurpides
39. The Clouds – Aristophanes
40. Twilight and Philosophy – Edited by Rebecca Housel & J. Jeremy Wisnewski
41. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – J. K. Rowling
42. The Merchant of Venice – William Shakespeare
43. Hippolytus – Euripides
44. Shanghai Girls – Lisa See
45. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – J. K. Rowling
46. The Gargoyle – Andrew Davidson
47. Serve the People – Jen Lin-Liu
48. Fried Eggs with Chopsticks – Polly Evans
49. Dewey – Some Old Iowa Lady
50. The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You’ll Cry – Kathleen Flinn
51. King Lear – Shakespeare
52. Lewis Agonistes – Louis Markos
53. The Secrets of Mariko – Elisabeth Bumilier
54. Wild Grass – Ian Johnson
55. The Gastronomy of Marriage – Michelle Maisto