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.