summer 2003
- the opinionated palate, barbara kafka
- delights and prejudices, james beard
- the wind-up bird chronicle, haruki murakami
- hard-boiled wonderland, murakami
- norwegian wood, murakami
- the amazing adventures of kavalier & clay, michael chabon
- eating chinese food naked, mei ng
- as she climbed across the table, jonathan lethem
- motherless brooklyn, lethem
- waiting for dessert, vladimir estragon
- the periodic table, primo levi
- personal history, katharine graham
- guns, germs, and steel, jared diamond
- american vintage: the rise of american wine, paul lukacs
- ada, or ardor: a family chronicle, vladimir nabokov
- dirty linen, tom stoppard
fall/winter 2003
- it must've been something i ate, jeffrey steingarten
- the fermata, nicholson baker
- flavors of the riviera, colman andrews
- fast food nation, eric schlosser
summer 2002
- the westing game, ellen raskin (one of my fav kids' books of all time)
- a chef's tale, pierre franey
- the devil's larder, jim crace
- cat's cradle, kurt vonnegut
- alphabet for gourmets, m.f.k. fisher
- barrel fever, david sedaris
- speak, memory, vladimir nabokov
- second nature, michael pollan
- alice's adventures in wonderland & through the looking glass, lewis carroll
- zoo story & the american dream, edward albee
- home cooking, laurie colwin
- who's afraid of virginia woolf?, edward albee
- lost in mongolia, tad friend
- american pastoral, philip roth
- fear and loathing in las vegas, hunter s. thompson
spring 2002
- invitation to a beheading, vladimir nabokov
- a moveable feast, ernest hemingway
- the botany of desire, michael pollan
fall/winter 2001, the making of a foodie. and other assorted readings.
- on rue tatin: living and cooking in a french town, susan hermann loomis
- stuffed: adventures of a restaurant family, patricia volk
- the tesseract, alex garland
- naked, david sedaris
- white noise, don delillo
- french lessons, peter mayle
- an omelette and a glass of wine, elizabeth david
- the last days of haute cuisine, patric kuh
- the soul of a chef, michael ruhlman
- tender at the bone, ruth reichl
- the making of a chef, michael ruhlman
- the tummy trilogy, calvin trillin
- a cook's tour, anthony bourdain
- outlaw cook, john thorne
- me talk pretty one day, david sedaris
- comfort me with apples, ruth reichl
- pot on the fire, john thorne
- how to read a french fry, russ parsons
summer 2001, japan + china.
- lord jim, conrad
- anna karenina, tolstoy
- soul mountain, gao xingjian
- filth, irvine welsh
- lord of the rings, tolkein
- jane eyre, bronte
- dubliners, joyce
- survivor, palahniuk
over winter holiday 2000 & iap 2001
- mona in the promised land, gish jen
- portrait of a lady, henry james
- hunger, lan samantha chang
- love in the time of cholera, gabriel garcia marquez
- in search of the perfect meal, roy andries de groot
- the bell jar, sylvia plath
from the modern library's list:
- lolita, mabokov
- brave new world, huxley
- catch-22, heller
- 1984, orwell
- to the lighthouse, woolf
- slaughterhouse-five, vonnegut
- invisible man, ellison
- lord of the flies, golding
- on the road, kerouac
- a farewell to arms, hemingway
- sophie's choice, styron
- atlas shrugged, rand
- fountainhead, rand
- lord of the rings, tolkein
- to kill a mockingbird, lee
- the great gatsby, fitzgerald
- dune, herbert
- stranger in a strange land, heinlein
- catcher in the rye, salinger
- animal farm, orwell
- beloved, morrison
- heart of darkness, conrad
- the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, adams
- on the beach, shute
- ender's game, card
- the world according to garp, irving
- fahrenheit 451, bradbury
- watership down, adams
- naked lunch, burroughs
- illusions, bach
- adventures of huckleberry finn, twain
- rebecca, du maurier
- canterbury tales, chaucer
- cry, the beloved country, paton
- the stranger, camus
yet more edifying stuff. just as good, if not better.
- cryptonomicon, stephenson
- snow crash, stephenson
- zodiac, stephenson
- the diamond age, stephenson
- white teeth, smith
- unbearable lightness of being, kundera
- all the pretty horses, mccarthy
- harry potter, #1-4, rowling (#3 is the best)
- pride and prejudic, austen
- a prayer for owen meany, irving
- a widow for one year, irving
- the cider house rules, irving
- one hundred years of solitude, marquez
- memoirs of a geisha, golden
- i know this much is true, lamb
- she's come undone, lamb
- what looks like crazy on an ordinary day, cleage
- midwives, bohjalian
- high fidelity, hornby
- about a boy, hornby
- fever pitch, hornby
- backroads, o'dell
- a map of the world, hamilton
- vinegar hill, ansay
- white oleander, fitch
- the reader, schlink
- a virtuous woman, gibbons
- stones from the river, hegi
- snow falling on cedars, guterson
- cold mountain, frazier
- amy and isabelle, strout
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