A book, a book...

In between and during my time spent at the health center, fumbling in my language with my villagers, or here working and playing in Kita, I spend a good chunk of my time reading. Luckily, volunteers before me have joined in this art of social withdrawl, leaving libraries of books that supplement the ones I brought. I am halfway through my service and halfway to my goal of 100 books. So here is the list of 50 books I’ve read this past year:

1. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
2. Night Trilogy – Eli Weisel
3. A Moveable Feast – Ernest Hemingway
4. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep – Philip K. Dicks
5. Beneath the Wheel – Hermann Hesse
6. Dead Souls – Nikolai Gogol
7. Still Life with Woodpecker – Tom Robbins
8. The Prophet – Khalil Gibran
9. Sailor Song – Ken Kessey
10. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
11. Grendel – John Gardner
12. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
13. Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
14. Mountains Beyond Mountains – Tracy Kidder
15. Dubliners – James Joyce
16. Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
17. Poisionwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
18. The Fall – Albert Camus
19. Slapstick – Kurt Vonnegut
20. The Hamlet – William Faulkner
21. Greatest Russian Short Stories - Various
22. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
23. A Clockwork Orange- Anthony Burgess
24. The Death of Ivan Illych and Other Stories – Nikolai Tolstoy
25. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
26. The Enormous Room – ee Cummings
27. Desolation Angels – Jack Kerouac
28. Letters to a Young Poet – Ranier Maria Rilke
29. Air Guitar – David Hickey
30. Sanctuary – William Faulkner
31. The Martian Way – Issac Asimov
32. Blink – Malcom Gladwell
33. Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas – Tom Robbins
34. Sula – Toni Morrison
35. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert Pirsig
36. Heart of the Darkness – Joseph Conrad
37. Peter Camenzind – Hermann Hesse
38. Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller
39. The Plague – Albert Camus
40. The Awakening and Other Stories – Kate Chopin
41. Mostly Harmless – Douglass Adams
42. The Air Conditioned Nightmare – Henry Miller
43. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
44. The Sirens of Titan – Kurt Vonnegut
45. Kafka on the Shore – Harukami
46. The Stranger – Albert Camus
47. Desert Solitaire – Edward Abbey
48. Pylon – William Faulkner
49. The Alchemist – Paul Coelho
50. Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand