My book list does nothing except for grow. Every once in awhile I'll share the literature that I've become interested in, whether I've read them yet or not.
My Top 10 List
1. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
2. Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search For Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
3. Stiff:: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
4. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
5. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
6. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson
Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Pakistan and Afghanistan by Greg Mortenson (Who also wrote Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace One School at a Time)
The Overacheivers: The Secret Life of Driven Kids by Alexandra Robbins (Who also wrote Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities)
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the American Meal by Eric Schlosser. *This book was also made into a film in 2006 if you don't want to read the book*
A Long Way Gone: Memoir of a Boy Soldier by Ismael Beah
Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity by Kerry Cohen
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search For Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert. *Also being made into a film with Julia Roberts to be released in 2010*
We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch
Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant by Daniel Tammet
The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's by John Elder Robison
As We Forgive: Stories of Reconciliation from Rwanda by Catherine Claire Larson
Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil by Deborah Rodriquez
Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
Push by Sapphire
Leave it to Me by Bharati Mukherjee
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Veil of Roses by Laura Fitzgerald
I am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood Ali with Delphine Minoui
Driving with Dead People by Monica Holloway
Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
The Memory Keepers Daughter by Kim Edwards
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden *Also, my favorite movie
Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper by Diablo Cody (This is based out of Minneapolis!)
Confessions of a Park Avenue Plastic Surgeon by Cap Lesense
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
Have a Little Faith by Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
For One More Day by Mitch Albom
Geisha, A Memoir by Mineko Iwasaki
Promise Me: How a Sister's Love Launched the Global Movement to End Breast Cancer by Nancy Brinker *This book immediately catapulted itself into my Top 5.
The New York Regional Norman Singles Halloween Dance by Elna Baker
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
Lit by Mary Karr
Cherries in Winter by Suzanne Colon
First, You Cry by Betty Rollin
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