Bookshelf
5 books I recommend:
Edward Abbey. Desert Solitaire.
Wendell Berry. A Place on Earth.
Barry Lopez. Of Wolves and Men.
Michael Pollan. The Botany of Desire.
Kiran Desai. The Inheritance of Loss.
2008
May - Rory Stewart.
The Places in Between.
January - Marjane Satrapi.
Persepolis, Persepolis 2.
January - Joshua Ferris.
Then We Came to the End.
2007
December - Salman Rushdie.
The Satanic Verses.
September - Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner.
Freakonomics.
September - Claire Messud.
The Emperor's Children.
September - Zadie Smith.
On Beauty.
August - Orhan Pamuk.
Snow.
August - Timothy Egan.
The Worst Hard Time.
July - Goce Smilevski.
Conversations with Spinoza.
July - Emmanuel Derman.
My Life as a Quant.
May - Benjamin Kunkel.
Indecision.
May - Hayao Miyazaki.
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.
May - Louise Erdrich.
The Painted Drum.
April - Joseph Stiglitz.
Globalization and its Discontents.
March - Jhumpa Lahiri.
Interpreter of Maladies.
February - Michael Pollan.
The Omnivore's Dilemma.
January - Kiran Desai.
The Inheritance of Loss.
January - Jason Lutes.
Berlin: City of Stones, Book 1.
January - Gore Vidal.
Creation.
2006
December - Fritjof Capra.
The Hidden Connections: A Science for Sustainable Living
December - E. H. Gombrich.
The Story of Art
November - Alaa Al Aswany.
The Yacoubian Building
November - Margaret Atwood.
The Penelopiad
November - Ingo Schulze.
Simple Stories
September - Aldous Huxley.
Brave New World
August - Barbara Kingsolver.
The Poisonwood Bible
June - Katherine Dunn.
Geek Love
March - Zadie Smith.
White Teeth
January - William Benzon.
Beethoven's Anvil
January - Aeschylus.
Agamemnon
2005
December - B. F. Skinner.
Walden Two
October - Orhan Pamuk.
The New Life
September - Jostein Gaardner.
Sophie's World.
August - Peter Jenkins.
Across China.
July - Herman Hesse.
Gertrude.
July - John Muir.
My First Summer in the Sierras.
May - Sue Monk Kidd.
The Secret Life of Bees.
April - Lynne Truss.
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero
March - Eric Schlosser. Fast Food Nation.