Hey lovers!!! ;)
Guess what? I was able to get my replacement intern to fill in for me tomorrow!!! So this means I'm leaving TONIGHT! Since I have approximately just under 10 days, my roommate Paul C., has convinced me to go to Sénégal first. I'll probably spend a day MAX in Sénégal since I'll be in the rush of my life to make my way across the Senegalese-Malian border to go to Timbuktu, then back to Bamako to catch my flight to Casablanca, then back to New York on the 27th! Wish me all the best of luck because I'll need all the luck I can get at this point! Otherwise, I'll be stranded in Mali... or the middle of the desert... or Sénégal... at least for a while...
I just decided to post this entry before I left so NO ONE SHOULD WORRY about me! I won't have internet access for at least the next week or so... maybe even longer. So I'm letting you know ahead of time. The next time I speak to any of you, it will most likely be when I'm back home in the States! I love you all!!! Gros bisous !!!
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"Old Yellow Bricks" - Arctic Monkeys (British band)
"The Show" - Lenka (Australian singer)
"Wonderwall" - Oasis (British band)
"Hungarian Rhapsody" - Edvin Marton (Ukranian-born Hungarian violinist)
"100 Years" - Five for Fighting (American singer)
"A la mierda" - Ska-P (Spanish band)
"Chasing Cars" - Snow Patrol (British band)
"Dom Andra" - Kent (Swedish band)
"Ein Lied für Dich" - Die Ärzte (German band)
"Harder to Breathe" - Maroon 5 (American band)
"Jerk It Out" - Caesar's Palace (Swedish band)
"Le Festin" - Camille (French singer)
"Low" - Flo Rida (American rapper)
"Retour a Vega" - The Stills (Canadian band)
"Sognami" - Biagio Antonacci (Italian singer)
"Safari" - Mokobé (French rapper of Malian origin)
"怨み節" - 梶芽衣子 (Japanese singer)
"Lux Æterna" - Clint Mansell (British composer)
"Люба" - Звери(Russian band)
"Princesse" - Julie Zenatti (French singer)
"보고싶다" - 김범수 (Korean singer)
"Sunday Bloody Sunday" - U2 (Irish Band)
Do you dare to venture into the unknown?
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
I restarted my old blog, so I'll be posting entries there from now. I can't guarantee that it will be as interesting as my blog about Africa... but if you have time to kill and are bored out of your mind, I'll try to mix things up there =)
I restarted my old blog, so I'll be posting entries there from now. I can't guarantee that it will be as interesting as my blog about Africa... but if you have time to kill and are bored out of your mind, I'll try to mix things up there =)
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Mon goût de musique est mieux que le tien ! =)
"Old Yellow Bricks" - Arctic Monkeys (British band)
"The Show" - Lenka (Australian singer)
"Wonderwall" - Oasis (British band)
"Hungarian Rhapsody" - Edvin Marton (Ukranian-born Hungarian violinist)
"100 Years" - Five for Fighting (American singer)
"A la mierda" - Ska-P (Spanish band)
"Chasing Cars" - Snow Patrol (British band)
"Dom Andra" - Kent (Swedish band)
"Ein Lied für Dich" - Die Ärzte (German band)
"Harder to Breathe" - Maroon 5 (American band)
"Jerk It Out" - Caesar's Palace (Swedish band)
"Le Festin" - Camille (French singer)
"Low" - Flo Rida (American rapper)
"Retour a Vega" - The Stills (Canadian band)
"Sognami" - Biagio Antonacci (Italian singer)
"Safari" - Mokobé (French rapper of Malian origin)
"怨み節" - 梶芽衣子 (Japanese singer)
"Lux Æterna" - Clint Mansell (British composer)
"Люба" - Звери(Russian band)
"Princesse" - Julie Zenatti (French singer)
"보고싶다" - 김범수 (Korean singer)
"Sunday Bloody Sunday" - U2 (Irish Band)
About Me
- Kerstin
- Carpe diem! There are so many things I want to do before I die, that I feel like I'm suffocating from the pressure and desire to fulfill everything I want to do. I love foreign languages and traveling - but here are the basics about me: I'm trying to find my place in the world. I get seriously annoyed when string cheese doesn't pull apart into strings. I think people are fools for not using turn signals or for not turning down their high beams when a car is approaching... it makes me want to... punch them. Speaking of punching, I could easily punch someone in the face for throwing a cigarette butt on the ground or when they walk EXTREMELY SLOWLY right in front of me when they're under 30 and perfectly healthy. I think people are cowards when they settle for a life they don't truly desire, just because they're too lazy to take a chance. I will always listen to someone else's problems, but I hate sharing my own. My two great loves in life are languages and travel and I hope I'll be able to do something with my life that combines both.
Books I've Read in Mali
- A Letter Concerning Toleration - John Locke
- De Officio Hominis et Civis Juxtia Legem Naturalem Libri Duo - Samuel von Pufendorf
- Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio - Niccolò Machiavelli
- Eighteenth-Century Europe: Tradition and Progress, 1715-1789 - Isser Wolloch
- Enlightenment and Reform in Eighteenth Century Europe - I.B. Tauris
- French Folktales - Henri Pourrat
- From the Royal to the Republican Body: Incorporating the Political in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century France - Sara E. Melzer and Kathryn Norberg
- Il Principio - Niccolò Machiavelli
- Journal of My Life - Jacques-Louis Ménétra
- Readings in Western Humanities, Vol 2, 5th Edition - Roy T. Matthews and F. DeWitt Platt
- Sources of the Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures: Volume II: Since 1560 - Katharine J. Lualdi
- Sources of the Western Tradition (Fourth Edition) Volume II: From the Renaissance to the Present - Perry, et. al.
- The Carribean: The Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism - Franklin Knight
- The Enlightenment - Dorina Outram
- The French Revolution and Human Rights - Lynn Hunt
- The Industrial Revolution in World History, 3rd Edition - Peter N. Stearns
- The Old European Order 1660-1800 (Second Edition) - William Doyle
- The Portable Age of Reason Reader - Crane Brinton
- The Portable Enlightenment Reader - Isaac Kramnick
- The West in the Wider World (Volume 2: From Early Modernity to the Present) - Richard Lim, David Kammerling Smith
- Western Civilization: Images and Inerpretations from the Renaissance to the Present - Dennis Sherman
- Women in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1795 - Levy, et. al.
Books I've Read in 2008
- Afghanistan's Endless War: State Failure, Regional Politics, and the Rise of the Taliban - Larry P. Goodson
- America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy - Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay
- Central Asians Under Russian Rule: A Study in Culture Change - Elizabeth E. Bacon
- Cyrano de Bergerac - Edmund Rostand
- Demain la Francophonie - Dominique Wolton
- Français et Américains: L'autre rive - Pascal Baudry
- Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West - Timothy Garton Ash
- Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century - Jeffrey A. Frieden
- Guiron le Courtois - Anonyme
- International Political Economy: Interests and Institutions in the Global Economy - Thomas Oatley
- La mort, le roi artu - Jean Frappier
- Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America - Barbara Ehrenreich
- The Central Asian States: Discovering Independence - Gregory Gleason
- The European Superpower - John McCormick
- The European Union: How Does it Work?: - Elizabeth Bomberg and Alexander Stubb
- The European Union: Readings on the Theory and Practice of European Integration - Edited by Brent F. Nelsen and Alexander Stubb
- The Institutions of the European Union - John Peterson and Michael Shackleton
- The Next Superpower? - Schnabel & Rocca
- The Paradox of American Power - Joseph S. Nye Jr
- The Renaissance in Europe - Margaret L. King
- The United States of Europe - T.R. Reid
- Tristan et Iseut - Béroul
- Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century - Mark Leonard
Movies I've Watched in 2008
- 3:10 to Yuma
- Apocalypto
- Blood Diamond
- Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
- Click
- Das Leben der Anderen
- Der Untergang
- Die Fälscher
- El Maquinista
- Encounters at the End of the World
- Freedom Writers
- Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
- Hostel
- Hot Fuzz
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
- Inside Man
- La Marche de l'empeurer
- La Science des rêves
- Land of the Deada (2005)
- Nuovo cinema Paradiso
- Ocean's Eleven
- Ocean's Twelve
- Saw
- Saw II
- Saw III
- Sicko
- Signs
- Smokin' Aces
- Snakes on a Plane
- Stranger than Fiction
- Superman Returns
- Thank You for Smoking
- The Amityville Horror (2005)
- The Bourne Ultimatum
- The Constant Gardener
- The Illusionist
- The Interpreter
- The Island
- There Will Be Blood
- United 93
- Zeitgeist: The Movie
- Zodiac
Things to Do Before I Die
Travel
1. Visit all 7 continents. (So far, North America, Europe, and Asia)
2. Visit 119 countries (at least). So far: Belgique/België, Burkina Faso, Canada, Česká Republika, Côte d'Ivoire, Deutschland, España, France, Ghana, Ireland/Eire, Italia, Magyarország, Mali, México, Nederland, Österreich, Polska, Santa Sede (Citta del Vaticano), Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera, Sénégal, Slovenija, Slovensko, Sverige, United Kingdom, United States, 日本, 대한민국, Россия
3. Visit all 50 states and 1 district of the USA (So far: Alabama, Alaska, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin)
4. Visit Alcatraz.*
5. Visit a pyramid.
6. Visit Jerusalem.
7. Visit Mount Rushmore.*
8. Visit the Grand Canyon.*
9. Visit Walt Disney World. (1996)
10. Visit Walt Disneyland.*
11. Visit Yosemite Park.*
12. Backpack in Europe.(2006)
13. Buy a round-the-world air ticket and a rucksack, and run away.
14. Dance with a stranger in a foreign country. (2006)
15. Drive across the US from coast to coast.*
16. Drive on the autobahn in Germany.*
17. Experience carnivale in Firenze or Venezia.
18. Experience what it's like to be in a foreign country with no money and nowhere to go. (2006)
19. Gamble in Atlantic City. (2005, yes, I did it illegally)
20. Gamble in Las Vegas.*
21. Go around the world in 80 days.
22. Go deep sea fishing and eat my catch.
23. Go on a First Class plane ride on a long international flight.
24. Go on an ocean cruise.
25. Go to a drive-in movie theater.*
26. Go to an active volcano.
27. Go to Mexico and illegally reenter the US even though I'm a citizen.*
28. Go trick-or-treating in a foreign country.*
29. Go wild in Rio during Carnival.
30. Hike on the Rocky Mountains.*
31. Hike on the Appalachian Mountains.*
32. Live abroad.*
33. Paraglide off Baba Dag.
34. Participate in a charity program in Africa.(2008)
35. Raft through the Grand Canyon.
36. Ride a camel in a desert.
37. Ride a gondola in Venice with someone I love.
38. Ride the Trans-Siberian Express to Mongolia.
39. Run to the top of the Statue of Liberty. (2000)
40. Scuba dive in the Great Barrier Reef
41. See a sunrise in a foreign country. (2006)
42. See a sunset in a foreign country. (2002)
43. See the northern lights.
44. Shower in a waterfall on a tropical island or some other country in the southern hemisphere.
45. Sleep a night in a snow fort I built.*
46. Sleep at a random person's house in a foreign country. (2006)
47. Sleep at a train station in a foreign country.(2006)
48. Sleep at an airport. (2006)
49. Spend a night in a "haunted house" by myself. (2007)
50. Take a long road trip with friends.*
51. Take an African Safari.
52. Take someone I love to the Camera degli Sposi
53. Wear green on St. Patrick's Day in Ireland
Activities
54. Beat the shit out of somebody.(2005)
55. Be hypnotized.*
56. Bowl a 119+ game.*
57. Build a snowman.(1996)
58. Bungee jump. (2001)
59. Bury an animal. (1997)
60. Catch a bird then free it.(2004)
61. Climb a mountain (1000 ft or more) alone.
62. Climb a tree.(1996)
63. Climb a tree all the way to the top.*
64. Defy gravity. (Either by base jumping or going to NASA's 0-gravity simulation room)
65. Drive a convertible with the top down and music blaring.*
66. Drive a motorcycle.*
67. Do 99 pushups in a row.
68. Fire a gun.*
69. Fly a kite. (2007)
70. Free an animal.(2004)
71. Go apple picking. (1996)
72. Go blueberry picking. (1998)
73. Go cow-tipping.*
74. Go crab-fishing.(1996)
75. Go grape picking.(1996)
76. Go indoor-rock climbing.(2001)
77. Go on a blind date.
78. Go rock climbing.
79. Go skinny-dipping at midnight in the South of France
80. Go skinny-dipping at midnight on a Greek or tropical island.
81. Go strawberry picking
82. Go to outer-space or see the stars through a ginormous telescope
83. Go up in a hot-air balloon at night.
84. Grow and eat my own vegetables.
85. Hand out flyers to people in the street.(2000, 2004)
86. Have revenge on my evil cousin
87. Help an animal.(1998)
88. Hike 19 miles in a single day.(2005)
89. Hitchhike (for at least 10mins).(2006)
90. Hitchhike in the unknown with only a backpack, and little money.(2006)
91. Hop a ride on the back of a truck without asking.*
92. Make a website.(2000)
93. Parachute
94. Paraglide
95. Plant a tree.
96. Ride a horse through the countryside.
97. Ride a whale
98. Ride in a helicopter
99. Run a marathon.*
100. Scuba dive
101. Send a message in a bottle.
102. Skydive.
103. Snowboard(2001-present)
104. Swim across a large lake, unassisted.*
105. Swim in lightning storms. (2002-present)
106. Swim with a dolphin.
107. Swing from tree to tree like Tarzan
108. Test-drive a sports car.
109. Write a book.
- Get it published.
- Sell it.
Events
110. Attend a film festival.*
111. Attend Mardis Gras in France or New Orleans.
112. Be a bridesmaid
113. Be a maid of honor
114. Go to a baseball game and catch a ball that was hit out into the stadium.(1997)
115. Go to an Olympic game. (1996)
116. Go to an Olympic game again so I'll remember it this time
117. Go to a World Cup game
118. Hit a home run.(2003)
119. Read at least 999 books (Counting from 1999 - So far 543).
120. Ride the tallest, fastest roller coaster in the world.(2005 - may have to redo this if a coaster beats "Kingda Ka")
121. See a hurricane
122. See a tornado
123. See a volcano erupt
124. Spend New Year's in an exotic location. (2007)
125. Throw a huge party and invite every one of my friends. (2008)
126. Throw an evening party. (2006)
127. Toast marshmallows over a campfire. (1996)
128. Witness an obvious physical miracle of God.
Learn
129. Learn a martial art.
130. Learn and speak at least 9 languages fluently.
131. Learn not to say yes when I really mean no. (2002)
132. Learn to bartend.*
133. Learn to drive a stick shift.(2007)
134. Learn to juggle 3 balls at a time.*
135. Learn to let go of the past.*
136. Learn to play a musical instrument to an acknowledgeable level.(2002)
137. Learn to say the alphabet backwards really, really fast.*
138. Learn to skateboard (again).*
139. Learn to use a microphone and give a speech in public.(1998)
140. Memorize a poem and pass it on. (2008)
Food and Drink
141. Drink beer at Oktoberfest in München.*
142. Drink beer in Germany.(2006)
143. Drink tea with scones and biscuits in England.(2006)
144. Drink vintage wine.
145. Drink vodka in Russia.
146. Drink wine in France.(2006)
147. Drink wine in Italy.(2006)
148. Eat a crumpet in England.(2006)
149. Eat a meal good enough to be my last.
150. Eat an English muffin in England.(2006)
151. Eat Belgian chocolate in Belgium.(2006)
152. Eat Belgian waffles in Belgium.(2006)
153. Eat fish and chips in the UK.(2006)
154. Eat French cheese in France. (2006)
155. Eat jellied eels from a stall in London.
156. Eat paella in Spain.(2006)
157. Eat pasta in Italy. (2006)
158. Eat pizza in Italy.(2006)
159. Eat Swedish Fish in Sweden.*
160. Eat Swiss cheese in Switzerland.*
161. Eat Swiss chocolate in Switzerland.(2006)
162. Eat tapas in Spain.(2006)
163. Eat un pain au chocolat, une baguette, & un croissant in France.(2006)
164. Make and eat S'mores over a campfire.(1997)
165. Try typical local food in every country I visit. (So far 23 for 23)
Miscellaneous
166. Accept myself for who I am.*
167. Actually comprehend my finances and taxes.
168. Adopt an accent for an entire day.*
- And get everyone to really believe that I'm from a foreign country*
169. Anonymously do something for someone that will have a significant positive impact on his/her life.*
170. Approach 5 complete strangers for a 3-minute (minimum) chat in a single day. (2007)
171. Ask for a raise.
172. Ask someone you've only just met to go on a date. (2008)
173. Attend a human birth.
174. Be a member of the audience for a TV show.
175. Be an extra in a film.
176. Be exactly where you want to be, with whom you want to be, how you want it to be and know everything is all right.
177. Black out.(2003)
178. Buy a nice car (hard-top convertible would be nice) or a motorcycle.
179. Buy my own house and then spend time making it into exactly what I want.
180. Call or write my congressperson.(2005)
- Have him/her respond.(2005)
181. Call or write to the President of the United States of America.(1997, 2005)
- Have him/her respond
182. Create my Family Tree. (2007)
183. Be on TV.(1996, 2002, 2006)
184. Buy a personalized license plate.
185. Converse with a parrot.(2004)
- Give the parrot a cracker
186. Donate money and get my name put on something.
187. Dye my hair nonsensically.*
188. Fall in unconditional romantic love.(2006)
189. Fall in unconditional romantic love with somebody who actually loves me back.
190. Fast (intake nothing but water) for 72 hours. (2007)
191. Feel at one with the universe and know that life is great.
192. Feel satisfied to my very core.
193. Find a place where I belong
194. Follow Lent for 40 days.(1999, 2003)
195. Follow through with a New Year's Resolution*
196. Forgive someone.(2005)
197. French kiss a Frenchman.(2008)
198. Get a job that I love and will let me travel.*
199. Get in better shape to do 99 push-ups in a row.*
200. Get over the fear of life*
201. Get someone to stop smoking*
202. Get to know my neighbors when I have my own place.
203. Get totally drunk because of being lovesick.(2006)
204. Get totally drunk with a friend, because both of us are lovesick.
205. Give my mom a dozen red roses and tell her I love her.*
206. Go a week without using a personal computer.
207. Have enough money to not worry too much about money and be able to travel.
208. Have my own laptop.(2005)
209. Have my portrait painted. (2008)
210. Have my picture in a newspaper.(1998, 2004)
211. Hear a Briton say, "Would you like a cup o' tea?" (2006)
212. Hear a Briton say, "Would you like a spot o' tea?"
213. Hear a Canadian say, "eh?" at the end of a sentence.(2006)
214. Hear a Frenchman laugh the "French laugh"*
215. Hear a Frenchman say, "Ooh là là." (2006)
216. Hear a Frenchman say, "Sacre bleu !"*
217. Hear a Frenchman say, "Zut, alors !" (2006)
218. Hear a Spaniard say, "¡Olé!"*
219. Hear an Australian say, "Throw another shrimp on the barbie." (2006)
220. Hear an Irish man say, "Top o' the mornin' to ya!"(2006)
221. Hear an Italian say, "Andiamo!"(2005)
222. Hear an Italian say, "Mamma mia!"(2006)
223. Host an outdoor barbecue.
224. Keep a journal for 99 consecutive days. (2007)
225. Laugh so hard that I cry. (1996-present)
226. Let someone else have a chance I missed*
227. Let someone feed me peeled, seedless grapes.
228. Lie in bed an entire day.(2004)
229. Live in my own apartment.*
230. Look forward to my own death.
231. Lose the fear of death.(2002)
232. Make a friend for life
233. Make an enemy for life (2007 - I realized, my enemy is time)
234. Make my own movie.
235. Meet a celebrity obsession
236. Meet royalty
237. Meet someone I met on the Internet in real life. (2006)
238. Overcome my fear of failure.*
239. Own a room with a view.
240. Own one very expensive but absolutely wonderful business suit.(2007)
241. Pass out.(2005)
242. Risk my life, constantly.(2002-present)
243. See a lunar & solar eclipse.(2007, 2008 & 1998)
244. See a sunrise.(1996)
245. See a sunset.(1996)
246. See my first big love again (and talk to him). (2008)
247. See something get struck by lightning.(2007)
248. Sleep under the stars. (2006)
249. Shower in the rain.
250. Sit on a jury.
251. Steal a road sign.*
252. Steal coins from a public fountain.(1998)
253. Tell people I love them when I feel like it.(2007)
254. Tell someone the story of my life, sparing no details.
255. Throw lemons and rotten tomatoes at people I don't like
256. Try at least three different careers.
257. Vote (2006)
258. Wade in a public fountain.(2008)
259. Watch at least 999 movies. (So far 563)
260. Write a letter to the editor.*
261. Write my will
262. Keep adding to this list.
263. Have a happy ending.
1. Visit all 7 continents. (So far, North America, Europe, and Asia)
2. Visit 119 countries (at least). So far: Belgique/België, Burkina Faso, Canada, Česká Republika, Côte d'Ivoire, Deutschland, España, France, Ghana, Ireland/Eire, Italia, Magyarország, Mali, México, Nederland, Österreich, Polska, Santa Sede (Citta del Vaticano), Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera, Sénégal, Slovenija, Slovensko, Sverige, United Kingdom, United States, 日本, 대한민국, Россия
3. Visit all 50 states and 1 district of the USA (So far: Alabama, Alaska, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin)
4. Visit Alcatraz.*
5. Visit a pyramid.
6. Visit Jerusalem.
7. Visit Mount Rushmore.*
8. Visit the Grand Canyon.*
10. Visit Walt Disneyland.*
11. Visit Yosemite Park.*
13. Buy a round-the-world air ticket and a rucksack, and run away.
15. Drive across the US from coast to coast.*
16. Drive on the autobahn in Germany.*
17. Experience carnivale in Firenze or Venezia.
20. Gamble in Las Vegas.*
21. Go around the world in 80 days.
22. Go deep sea fishing and eat my catch.
23. Go on a First Class plane ride on a long international flight.
24. Go on an ocean cruise.
25. Go to a drive-in movie theater.*
26. Go to an active volcano.
27. Go to Mexico and illegally reenter the US even though I'm a citizen.*
28. Go trick-or-treating in a foreign country.*
29. Go wild in Rio during Carnival.
30. Hike on the Rocky Mountains.*
31. Hike on the Appalachian Mountains.*
32. Live abroad.*
33. Paraglide off Baba Dag.
35. Raft through the Grand Canyon.
36. Ride a camel in a desert.
37. Ride a gondola in Venice with someone I love.
38. Ride the Trans-Siberian Express to Mongolia.
40. Scuba dive in the Great Barrier Reef
43. See the northern lights.
44. Shower in a waterfall on a tropical island or some other country in the southern hemisphere.
45. Sleep a night in a snow fort I built.*
50. Take a long road trip with friends.*
51. Take an African Safari.
52. Take someone I love to the Camera degli Sposi
53. Wear green on St. Patrick's Day in Ireland
Activities
55. Be hypnotized.*
56. Bowl a 119+ game.*
61. Climb a mountain (1000 ft or more) alone.
63. Climb a tree all the way to the top.*
64. Defy gravity. (Either by base jumping or going to NASA's 0-gravity simulation room)
65. Drive a convertible with the top down and music blaring.*
66. Drive a motorcycle.*
67. Do 99 pushups in a row.
68. Fire a gun.*
73. Go cow-tipping.*
77. Go on a blind date.
78. Go rock climbing.
79. Go skinny-dipping at midnight in the South of France
80. Go skinny-dipping at midnight on a Greek or tropical island.
81. Go strawberry picking
82. Go to outer-space or see the stars through a ginormous telescope
83. Go up in a hot-air balloon at night.
84. Grow and eat my own vegetables.
86. Have revenge on my evil cousin
91. Hop a ride on the back of a truck without asking.*
93. Parachute
94. Paraglide
95. Plant a tree.
96. Ride a horse through the countryside.
97. Ride a whale
98. Ride in a helicopter
99. Run a marathon.*
100. Scuba dive
101. Send a message in a bottle.
102. Skydive.
104. Swim across a large lake, unassisted.*
106. Swim with a dolphin.
107. Swing from tree to tree like Tarzan
108. Test-drive a sports car.
109. Write a book.
- Get it published.
- Sell it.
Events
110. Attend a film festival.*
111. Attend Mardis Gras in France or New Orleans.
112. Be a bridesmaid
113. Be a maid of honor
116. Go to an Olympic game again so I'll remember it this time
117. Go to a World Cup game
119. Read at least 999 books (Counting from 1999 - So far 543).
121. See a hurricane
122. See a tornado
123. See a volcano erupt
128. Witness an obvious physical miracle of God.
Learn
129. Learn a martial art.
130. Learn and speak at least 9 languages fluently.
132. Learn to bartend.*
134. Learn to juggle 3 balls at a time.*
135. Learn to let go of the past.*
137. Learn to say the alphabet backwards really, really fast.*
138. Learn to skateboard (again).*
Food and Drink
141. Drink beer at Oktoberfest in München.*
144. Drink vintage wine.
145. Drink vodka in Russia.
149. Eat a meal good enough to be my last.
155. Eat jellied eels from a stall in London.
159. Eat Swedish Fish in Sweden.*
160. Eat Swiss cheese in Switzerland.*
165. Try typical local food in every country I visit. (So far 23 for 23)
Miscellaneous
166. Accept myself for who I am.*
167. Actually comprehend my finances and taxes.
168. Adopt an accent for an entire day.*
- And get everyone to really believe that I'm from a foreign country*
169. Anonymously do something for someone that will have a significant positive impact on his/her life.*
171. Ask for a raise.
173. Attend a human birth.
174. Be a member of the audience for a TV show.
175. Be an extra in a film.
176. Be exactly where you want to be, with whom you want to be, how you want it to be and know everything is all right.
178. Buy a nice car (hard-top convertible would be nice) or a motorcycle.
179. Buy my own house and then spend time making it into exactly what I want.
- Have him/her respond
184. Buy a personalized license plate.
- Give the parrot a cracker
186. Donate money and get my name put on something.
187. Dye my hair nonsensically.*
189. Fall in unconditional romantic love with somebody who actually loves me back.
191. Feel at one with the universe and know that life is great.
192. Feel satisfied to my very core.
193. Find a place where I belong
195. Follow through with a New Year's Resolution*
198. Get a job that I love and will let me travel.*
199. Get in better shape to do 99 push-ups in a row.*
200. Get over the fear of life*
201. Get someone to stop smoking*
202. Get to know my neighbors when I have my own place.
204. Get totally drunk with a friend, because both of us are lovesick.
205. Give my mom a dozen red roses and tell her I love her.*
206. Go a week without using a personal computer.
207. Have enough money to not worry too much about money and be able to travel.
212. Hear a Briton say, "Would you like a spot o' tea?"
214. Hear a Frenchman laugh the "French laugh"*
216. Hear a Frenchman say, "Sacre bleu !"*
218. Hear a Spaniard say, "¡Olé!"*
223. Host an outdoor barbecue.
226. Let someone else have a chance I missed*
227. Let someone feed me peeled, seedless grapes.
229. Live in my own apartment.*
230. Look forward to my own death.
232. Make a friend for life
234. Make my own movie.
235. Meet a celebrity obsession
236. Meet royalty
238. Overcome my fear of failure.*
239. Own a room with a view.
249. Shower in the rain.
250. Sit on a jury.
251. Steal a road sign.*
254. Tell someone the story of my life, sparing no details.
255. Throw lemons and rotten tomatoes at people I don't like
256. Try at least three different careers.
259. Watch at least 999 movies. (So far 563)
260. Write a letter to the editor.*
261. Write my will
262. Keep adding to this list.
263. Have a happy ending.
Books I've Read Since 1999
1984 – George Orwell
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
A Book of Luminous Things - Czeslaw, Milosz (editor)
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes - Stephen Hawking
A Child Called "It" – Dave Pelzer
A Coney Island of the Mind - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
A Death in the Family - James Agee
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century - Barbara Tuchman
A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
A Gift of Magic - Lois Duncan
A Good Man is Hard to Find - Flannery O'Connor
A History of Russia - Nicholas V. Riasanovsky
A Letter Concerning Toleration - John Locke (Translated by William Popple)
A Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare
A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
A Pocket Full of Rye - Agatha Christie
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving.
A Raisin in the Sun –Lorraine Hansberry
A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There - Aldo Leopold
A Separate Peace – John Knowles
A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water - Michael Dorris
Afghanistan's Endless War: State Failure, Regional Politics, and the Rise of the Taliban - Larry P. Goodson
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Alistair Cooke's America - Alistair Cooke
All Loves Excelling: A Novel - Josiah Bunting
All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
All's Well That Ends Well - William Shakespeare
Almost a Woman - Esmeralda Santiago
America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy - Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay
Americans' Favorite Poems: The Favorite Poem Project Anthology - Robert Pinsky and Maggie Dietz (editors)
And Still I Rise - Maya Angelou
And Still We Rise: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City Students - Miles Corwin
Angelas Ashes - Frank McCourt
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Anthem – Ayn Rand
Antigone – Sophocles
Antony and Cleopatra - William Shakespeare
Ariel - Sylvia Plath
Around the World in 80 Days – Jules Verne
Art of Keeping Cool - Janet Taylor Lisle
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
As You Like It - William Shakespeare
At Risk - Alice Hoffman
Atonement: A Novel - Ian McEwan
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin – Benjamin Franklin
Autobiography of Malcolm X – Malcolm X
Basic Russian: Learn to Speak and Understand Russian with Pimsleur Language Programs - Simon & Schuster's Pimsleur
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era - James McPherson
Beloved – Toni Morrison
Billy Budd – Herman Melville
Black and Blue - Anna Quindlen
Black Boy – Richard A. Wright
Black Holes - Stephen Hawking
Bleachers - John Grisham
Blood Wedding - Federico Garcia Lorca
Born on the Fourth of July - Ron Kovic
Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization - Nayan Chanda
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
Bravo! - Judith Muyskens, Linda Harlow, Michèle Vialet, and Jean-François Brière
Breathing Underwater - Alexandra Flinn
Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - Brown, Dee
By the Light of the Moon - Dean Koontz
Call of the Wild - Jack London
Candide – Voltaire
Carrie - Stephen King
Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Central Asians Under Russian Rule: A Study in Culture Change - Elizabeth E. Bacon
Chronicle of Death Foretold - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
City of God - St. Augustine
Civilization and its Discontents - Freud
Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier
Collected Poems - W.H. Auden
Common Sense - Thomas Paine
Complete Poems - John Keats
Complete Poems - Carl Sandburg
Complete Poems, 1904-1962 - E.E. Cummings
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
Cyrano de Bergerac - Edmund Rostand
Danger Zone - David Klass
Days of Grace - Arthur Ashe and Arnold Rampersad
De Amicitia - Cicero
De Doctrina Christiana - St. Augustine
De Natura Deorum - Cicero
De Officio Hominis et Civis Juxtia Legem Naturalem Libri Duo - Samuel von Pufendorf (Translated by Frank Gardner Moore)
Death in Venice - Thomas Mann
Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller
Demain la Francophonie - Dominique Wolton
Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville
Diary of Anne Frank – Anne Frank
Die Walkure - R. Wagner
Dinosaur Summer - Greg Bear
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.
Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlowe
Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Don't Look Behind You - Lois Duncan
Dragons of Pern: White Dragon - Anne McCaffrey
Dragons of Pern: Dragonsinger - Anne McCaffrey
Dreamcatcher - Stephen King
Dune - Frank Herbert
Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography - Zora Neale Hurston
Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon - Paul Zindel
Eighteenth-Century Europe: Tradition and Progress, 1715-1789 - Isser Wolloch
Ella Enchanted – Gail Carson Levine
Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters - Mark Dunn
Ellen Foster – Kaye Gibbons
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Ender's Shadow - Orson Scott Card
Enlightenment and Reform in Eighteenth Century Europe - I.B. Tauris
Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
Eye of the World - Robert Jordan
Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-65 - Juan Williams
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Fallen Angels - Walter Dean Myers
Family Happiness – Leo Tolstoy
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal - Eric Schlosser
Fat Kid Rules the World - K.L. Going
Favorite Folktales From Around the World - Jane Yolen
Fences - August Wilson
Finding their Stride - Sally Pont
Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide - Nzoke Shange
Foreigner - C.J. Cherryh
Français et Américains: L'autre rive - Pascal Baudry
Frankenstein – Marry Wollstonecraft Shelley
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything – Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West - Timothy Garton Ash
French Folktales - Henri Pourrat
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream - H.G. Bissinger
Friendly Shakespeare: A Thoroughly Painless Guide to the Best of the Bard - Norrie Epstein
From the Royal to the Republican Body: Incorporating the Political in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century France - Sara E. Melzer and Kathryn Norberg
Gallows Hill - Lois Duncan
Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School - Barrie Thorne
Girl with a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century - Jeffrey A. Frieden
Globalization and Its Discontents - Joseph E. Stiglitz
Go Ask Alice - Anonymous
Go Tell It On the Mountain - James Baldwin
Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Gospel according to St. John - St. John
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
Great Gatsby – Ernest Hemingway
Great Tales and Poems - Edgar Allan Poe
Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Growing Up - Russell Baker
Guiron le Courtois - Anonyme (ca. 1235)
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
Hamlet – William Shakespeare
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter y el caliz de fuego – J.K. Rowling
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years - Sara Delany and A. Elizabeth with Amy Hill Hearth
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
Hedda Gabler - Henrik Ibsen
Helter Skelter- Vincent Bugliosi
Henry IV Part I – William Shakespeare
Henry V – William Shakespeare
Hiroshima - John Hersey
How to Make an American Quilt - Whitney Otto
Howl and Other Poems - Allen Ginsberg
I Corinthians - St. Paul
I Know You Really Love Me: A Psychiatrist's Account of Stalking and Obsessive Love - Doreen Orion M.D.
I Know What You Did Last Summer - Lois Duncan
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Angelou, Maya
Imperial Russia: A Source Book - Basil Dmytryshyn
In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences - Truman Capote
In the Trail of the Wind: American Indian Poems and Ritual Orations - John Bierhorst
International Political Economy: Interests and Institutions in the Global Economy - Thomas Oatley
Interpreter of Maladies – Jhumpa Lahiri
Interview With the Vampire - Anne Rice
Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer
Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
In visible Men: Life in Baseball's Negro Leagues - Donn Rogosin
It- Stephen King
It's Not About the Bike - Lance Armstrong
Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
Jane Eyre – Emily Brontë
Jocks and Burnouts: Social Categories and Identity in the High School - Penelope Eckert
Johnny the Homicidal Maniac - Jhonen Vasquez
Journal of My Life - Jacques-Louis Ménétra
Joy School - Elizabeth Berg
Jump Ball: A Basketball Season in Poems - Mel Glenn
Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa - Mark Mathabane
Killing Mr. Griffin - Lois Duncan
Kindred - Octavia Butler
King Lear – William Shakespeare
La mort, le roi artu - Jean Frappier
La Quête del Saint Graal - Anonyme du XIIIème siècle et Albert Pauphilet
Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges
Lancelot ou le Chevalier de la Charrette - Chrétien de Troyes
Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes
Lakota Woman - Mary Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes
Life Doesn't Frighten Me - Maya Angelou
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Light in August – William Faulkner
Light on Snow - Anita Shreve
Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
Locked in Time - Lois Duncan
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
Long Day's Journey Into Night - Eugene O'Neill
Look Homeward, Angel - Thomas Wolfe
Looking Backward: 2000-1887 - Edward Bellamy
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Lost in place: Growing up Absurd in Suburbia - Mark Salzman
Love's Labour's Lost - William Shakespeare
Macbeth - William Shakespeare
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
Madame Curie - Eve Curie
Maggie – Stephen Crane
Main Street - Sinclair Lewis
Major Barbara - George Bernard Shaw
Marigolds - Paul Zindel
Master Harold and the Boys - Athol Fugard
Maus: A Survivor's Tale - Art Spiegelman
Maus: A Survivor's Tale, II: And Here My Troubles Began - Art Spiegelman
Measure for Measure - William Shakespeare
Meditation on the Common Concept of Justice - Leibniz
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Merchant of Venice - Shakespeare
Méraugis de Portlesguez - Raoul de Houdenc
Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare
Millenium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World - David Maybury-Lewis
Mind's Eye - Paul Fleishman
Moby Dick – Herman Melville
Molloy - Samuel Beckett
Mother Courage and Her Children - Bertolt Brecht
Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare
Murder in the Cathedral - T.S. Eliot
My Antonia - Willa Cather
My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student - Rebekah Nathan
My House - Nikki Giovanni
My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult
Mythology - Edith Hamilton
Nathan the Wise - Gotthold Ephraim
Native Son – Richard A. Wright
Navajo: Visions and Voices Across the Mesa - Shonto Begay
Nectar in a Sieve – Kamala Markandaya
Needful Things - Stephen King
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America - Barbara Ehrenreich
Nicomachaen Ethics - Aristotle
Night - Elie Wiesel
No Exit - Jean Paul Sarte
Nothing but the Truth: A Documentary Novel – Avi
Novemberland: Selected Poems, 1956-1993 - Gunter Grass
Obasan – Joy Kogawa
Oedipus Rex (The King) – Sophocles
Oedipus at Colonus – Sophocles
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemmingway
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
On Generosity - Leibniz
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One True Thing - Anna Quindlen
One Writer's Beginnings - Eudora Welty
Opinion on the Principles of Pufendorf - Leibniz
Ordinary Vices - Judith N. Schklar
Othello – William Shakespeare
Our Town - Thornton Wilder
Out of the Dust - Karen Hesse
Palace Walk - Naguib Mahfouz
Parable of the Sower - Octavia Butler.
Paradise Lost - John Milton
Paroles - Sally Sieloff Magnan, Laurey Martin-Berg, and William J. Berg
Pedro and Me - Judd Winick
Peggy - Lois Duncan
Pensées - Pascal
Pere Goriot - Honore de Balzac
Pet Semataray - Stephen King
Phaedrus - Plato
Poems - William Wordsworth
Poems of Dylan Thomas - Dylan Thomas
Poems of the Aztec Peoples - Edward Kissam
Poisonwood Bible – Kingsolver
Practical Magic - Alice Hoffman
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Profiles in Courage - John F. Kennedy
Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw
Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession - Studs Terkel
Ramayana
Raney and Walking across Egypt - Clyde Edgerton
Readings in Russian Civilization, Vol. II - Thomas Riha
Readings in Western Humanities, Vol 2, 5th Edition - Roy T. Matthews and F. DeWitt Platt
Rebecca – Daphne DuMarier
Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane
Reviving Ophelia — Mary Pipher
Rhinoceros - Eugene Ionesco
Richard II – William Shakespeare
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
Roman Women - Augusto Fraschetti (Translated by Linda Lappin)
Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare
Roots - Alex Haley
Russian women 1698-1917: Experience & Expression: An Anthology of Sources - Robin Bisha, et. al.
Sailing Alone Around the Room - Billy Collins
Saint Maybe - Anne Tyler
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools - Jonathan Kozol
Second Treatise - John Locke
Seize the Day - Saul Bellow
Selected Poems - Gwendolyn Brooks
Selected Poems - Langston Hughes
Selected Poems - William Carlos Williams
Shadow Spinner - Susan Fletcher
Shaking the Pumpkin: Traditional Poetry of the Indian North Americas - Jerome Rothberg
Shattering Glass - Gail Giles
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
Sign of Four - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Silent Spring - Rachel Carson
Six Books of the Commonwealth - Jean Bodin (Translated by M.J. Tooley)
Six Characters in Search of an Author - Luigi Pirandello
Six Easy Pieces - Richard Reynman
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
Snow Crash - Stephenson
Snow falling on Cedars - Guterson
So Long a Letter (African Writers Series) - Mariama Ba
Son of the Mob - Gordon Korman
Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
Sources of the Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures: Volume II: Since 1560 - Katharine J. Lualdi
Sources of the Western Tradition (Fourth Edition) Volume II: From the Renaissance to the Present - Perry, et. al.
Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson
Sphere - Crichton
Spoon River Anthology - Edgar Lee Masters
Stowaway - Karen Hesse
Stop Pretending - Sonya Sones
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
Stranger with My Face - Lois Duncan
Summer of My German Soldier – Bette Greene
Sundiata – David Wisniewski
Sula - Toni Morrison
Sur le vif - Hannelore Jarausch and Clare Tufts
Surpassing Realism: The Politics of European Integration since 1945 - Mark Gilbert
Symposium - Plato
Taliban - Ahmed Rashid
Tangerine - Edward Bloor
Tell No One - Harlan Coben
Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
The 47 Ronin – Barry Till
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
The Aeneid - Virgil
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay: A Novel - Michael Chabon
The American Dream, and the Zoo Story - Edward Albee
The Ascent of Man - Jacob Bronowski
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman - Ernest Gaines
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
The Blue Lawn - William Taylor
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
The Call of the Wild – Jack London
The Caribbean: The Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism - Franklin Knight
The Catcher in the Rye - Jerome David Salinger
The Central Asian States: Discovering Independence - Gregory Gleason
The Cherry Orchard - Anton Chekhov
The Chocolate War - Robert Cormier
The Chosen - Chaim Potok
The Color of Water - James McBride
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
The Comedy of Errors - William Shakespeare
The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy - Daniel Yergin & Joseph Stanislaw
The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson - Emily Dickinson
The Complete Poetry of John Donne - John Donne
The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
The Crucible – Arthur Miller
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
The Dark Half - Stephen King
The Death of Artemio Cruz - Carlos Fuentes
The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England - Carol Karlsen
The Diamond Age – Stephenson
The Dispossessed - Ursula Le Guin
The Doomsday Book - Connie Willis.
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities of Our Time - Jeffrey D. Sachs
The English Levellers - Collection by Andrew Sharp
The Enlightenment - Dorina Outram
The European Superpower - John McCormick
The European Union: How Does it Work?: - Elizabeth Bomberg and Alexander Stubb
The European Union: Readings on the Theory and Practice of European Integration - Edited by Brent F. Nelsen and Alexander Stubb
The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty
The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
The French Revolution and Human Rights - Lynn Hunt
The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
The Green Mile - Stephen King
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon - Stephen King
The Girls - Amy Goldman Koss
The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams
The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia - Peter Hopkirk
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros
The House That Crack Built - Clark Taylor
The Iliad – Homer
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
The Industrial Revolution in World History, 3rd Edition - Peter N. Stearns
The Institutions of the European Union - John Peterson and Michael Shackleton
The Interesting Narrative ofe the Life of Olaudah Equiano - Olaudah Equiano
The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
The Killer Angels - Michael Shaara
The Lady and the Unicorn - Tracy Chevalier
The Last Book in the Universe - Rodman Philbrick
The Learning Tree - Gordon Parks
The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula Le Guin
The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth - David Attenborough
The Lord of the Flies – William Golding
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lords of Discipline - Pat Conroy
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
The Member of the Wedding - Carson McCullers
The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare
The Merry Wives of Windsor - William Shakespeare
The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
The New American Militarism: How Americans are Seduced by War - Andrew J. Bacevich
The Next Superpower? - Schnabel & Rocca
The Odyssey – Homer
The Old European Order 1660-1800 (Second Edition) - William Doyle
The Once and Future King - Terence Hanbury White
The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
The Overcoat - Nikolai Gogol
The Ox-Bow Incident - Walter Van Tilburg Clark
The Paradox of American Power - Joseph S. Nye Jr
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
The Piano Lesson - August Wilson
The Pigman - Paul Zindel
The Playboy of the Western World; and, Riders to the Sea - J.M. Synge
The Poems - William Butler Yeats
The Poetical Works of Longfellow - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Poetry of Robert Frost - Robert Frost
The Portable Age of Reason Reader - Crane Brinton
The Portable Enlightenment Reader - Isaac Kramnick
The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
The Power of Myth - Joseph Campbell
The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli (Translated by W.K. Marriott)
The Prince and the Pauper – Mark Twain
The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane
The Renaissance in Europe - Margaret L. King
The Republic - Plato
The Rifle - Gary Paulsen
The Rights of Man - Thomas Paine
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Coleridge
The Road from Coorain - Jill ker Conway
The Rumplestiltskin Problem - Vivian Vande Velde
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Pimpernel – Orczy
The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
The Shining - Stephen King
The Ship Who Searched - Anne McCaffery and Mercedes Lackey
The Sonnets - William Shakespeare
The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
The Sound of Waves – Yukio Mishima
The Story of My Life - Helen Keller
The Stranger - Albert Camus
The Sun Also Rises – F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Taming of the Shrew - William Shakespeare
The Tempest - William Shakespeare
The Third Eye - Lois Duncan
The Threepenny Opera - Bertolt Brecht
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass
The Tommyknockers - Stephen King
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar – William Shakespeare
The Trial - Franz Kafka
The Trial – Robert Whitlow
The Two Gentlemen of Verona - William Shakespeare
The United States of Europe - T.R. Reid
The West in the Wider World (Volume 2: From Early Modernity to the Present) - Richard Lim, David Kammerling Smith
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done so Much Ill and So Little Good - William Easterly
The Waste Land - T.S. Eliot
The Winter’s Tale – Shakespeare
The World Must Know - Michael Berenbaum
Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in Urban America - Alex Kotlowitz
Things Fall Apart: A Novel - Chinua Achebe
Thirteen Stories - Eudora Welty
This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer - Kay Mills
This Same Sky: A Collection of Poems from Around the World - Naomi Shihab Nye (editor)
Thoughts for the Time on War and Death - Freud
Ties that Bind, Ties that Break - Lensey Namioka
Time and Again - Jack Finney
To Destroy You Is No Loss: The Odyssey of a Cambodian Family - Jan. D. Criddle and Teeda Butt Mam
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
Touching Spirit Bear - Ben Mikalsen
Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
Treatise of Human Nature - Hume
Tristan and Isolde - R. Wagner
Tristan et Iseut - Béroul
True Piety - Leibniz
Truth and Birth Water - Thomas King
Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare
Two Trains Running - August Wilson
Two Treatises of Civil Government - John Locke
Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life - Annette Lareau
Utopia - Thomas More
Vorsprung - Thomas A. Lovik, J. Douglas Guy, Monika Chavez
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts - Samuel Beckett
Walden - Henry David Thoreau
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
War in a Time of Peace: Bush Clinton, and the Generals - David Halberstam
Washington Square - Henry James
Weather Central - Ted Kooser
West with the Night - Beryl Markham
Western Civilization: Images and Inerpretations from the Renaissance to the Present - Dennis Sherman
Whale Talk - Chris Crutcher
What Girls Learn - Karin Cook
What Have You Lost? - Naomi Shihab Nye (editor)
When the King Took Flight - Timothy Tacket
When the Rainbow is Enuf - Nzoke Shange
Where the Heart Is - Billie Letts
White Fang – Jack London
Whirligig - Paul Fleischmann
Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century - Mark Leonard
Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson
Women in Love - D. H. Lawrence
Women in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1795 - Levy, et. al.
Women in Roman Law and Society - Jane F. Gardner
Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
A Book of Luminous Things - Czeslaw, Milosz (editor)
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes - Stephen Hawking
A Child Called "It" – Dave Pelzer
A Coney Island of the Mind - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
A Death in the Family - James Agee
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century - Barbara Tuchman
A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
A Gift of Magic - Lois Duncan
A Good Man is Hard to Find - Flannery O'Connor
A History of Russia - Nicholas V. Riasanovsky
A Letter Concerning Toleration - John Locke (Translated by William Popple)
A Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare
A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
A Pocket Full of Rye - Agatha Christie
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving.
A Raisin in the Sun –Lorraine Hansberry
A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There - Aldo Leopold
A Separate Peace – John Knowles
A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water - Michael Dorris
Afghanistan's Endless War: State Failure, Regional Politics, and the Rise of the Taliban - Larry P. Goodson
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Alistair Cooke's America - Alistair Cooke
All Loves Excelling: A Novel - Josiah Bunting
All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
All's Well That Ends Well - William Shakespeare
Almost a Woman - Esmeralda Santiago
America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy - Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay
Americans' Favorite Poems: The Favorite Poem Project Anthology - Robert Pinsky and Maggie Dietz (editors)
And Still I Rise - Maya Angelou
And Still We Rise: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City Students - Miles Corwin
Angelas Ashes - Frank McCourt
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Anthem – Ayn Rand
Antigone – Sophocles
Antony and Cleopatra - William Shakespeare
Ariel - Sylvia Plath
Around the World in 80 Days – Jules Verne
Art of Keeping Cool - Janet Taylor Lisle
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
As You Like It - William Shakespeare
At Risk - Alice Hoffman
Atonement: A Novel - Ian McEwan
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin – Benjamin Franklin
Autobiography of Malcolm X – Malcolm X
Basic Russian: Learn to Speak and Understand Russian with Pimsleur Language Programs - Simon & Schuster's Pimsleur
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era - James McPherson
Beloved – Toni Morrison
Billy Budd – Herman Melville
Black and Blue - Anna Quindlen
Black Boy – Richard A. Wright
Black Holes - Stephen Hawking
Bleachers - John Grisham
Blood Wedding - Federico Garcia Lorca
Born on the Fourth of July - Ron Kovic
Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization - Nayan Chanda
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
Bravo! - Judith Muyskens, Linda Harlow, Michèle Vialet, and Jean-François Brière
Breathing Underwater - Alexandra Flinn
Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - Brown, Dee
By the Light of the Moon - Dean Koontz
Call of the Wild - Jack London
Candide – Voltaire
Carrie - Stephen King
Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Central Asians Under Russian Rule: A Study in Culture Change - Elizabeth E. Bacon
Chronicle of Death Foretold - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
City of God - St. Augustine
Civilization and its Discontents - Freud
Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier
Collected Poems - W.H. Auden
Common Sense - Thomas Paine
Complete Poems - John Keats
Complete Poems - Carl Sandburg
Complete Poems, 1904-1962 - E.E. Cummings
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
Cyrano de Bergerac - Edmund Rostand
Danger Zone - David Klass
Days of Grace - Arthur Ashe and Arnold Rampersad
De Amicitia - Cicero
De Doctrina Christiana - St. Augustine
De Natura Deorum - Cicero
De Officio Hominis et Civis Juxtia Legem Naturalem Libri Duo - Samuel von Pufendorf (Translated by Frank Gardner Moore)
Death in Venice - Thomas Mann
Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller
Demain la Francophonie - Dominique Wolton
Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville
Diary of Anne Frank – Anne Frank
Die Walkure - R. Wagner
Dinosaur Summer - Greg Bear
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.
Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlowe
Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Don't Look Behind You - Lois Duncan
Dragons of Pern: White Dragon - Anne McCaffrey
Dragons of Pern: Dragonsinger - Anne McCaffrey
Dreamcatcher - Stephen King
Dune - Frank Herbert
Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography - Zora Neale Hurston
Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon - Paul Zindel
Eighteenth-Century Europe: Tradition and Progress, 1715-1789 - Isser Wolloch
Ella Enchanted – Gail Carson Levine
Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters - Mark Dunn
Ellen Foster – Kaye Gibbons
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Ender's Shadow - Orson Scott Card
Enlightenment and Reform in Eighteenth Century Europe - I.B. Tauris
Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
Eye of the World - Robert Jordan
Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-65 - Juan Williams
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Fallen Angels - Walter Dean Myers
Family Happiness – Leo Tolstoy
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal - Eric Schlosser
Fat Kid Rules the World - K.L. Going
Favorite Folktales From Around the World - Jane Yolen
Fences - August Wilson
Finding their Stride - Sally Pont
Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide - Nzoke Shange
Foreigner - C.J. Cherryh
Français et Américains: L'autre rive - Pascal Baudry
Frankenstein – Marry Wollstonecraft Shelley
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything – Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West - Timothy Garton Ash
French Folktales - Henri Pourrat
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream - H.G. Bissinger
Friendly Shakespeare: A Thoroughly Painless Guide to the Best of the Bard - Norrie Epstein
From the Royal to the Republican Body: Incorporating the Political in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century France - Sara E. Melzer and Kathryn Norberg
Gallows Hill - Lois Duncan
Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School - Barrie Thorne
Girl with a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century - Jeffrey A. Frieden
Globalization and Its Discontents - Joseph E. Stiglitz
Go Ask Alice - Anonymous
Go Tell It On the Mountain - James Baldwin
Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Gospel according to St. John - St. John
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
Great Gatsby – Ernest Hemingway
Great Tales and Poems - Edgar Allan Poe
Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Growing Up - Russell Baker
Guiron le Courtois - Anonyme (ca. 1235)
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
Hamlet – William Shakespeare
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter y el caliz de fuego – J.K. Rowling
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years - Sara Delany and A. Elizabeth with Amy Hill Hearth
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
Hedda Gabler - Henrik Ibsen
Helter Skelter- Vincent Bugliosi
Henry IV Part I – William Shakespeare
Henry V – William Shakespeare
Hiroshima - John Hersey
How to Make an American Quilt - Whitney Otto
Howl and Other Poems - Allen Ginsberg
I Corinthians - St. Paul
I Know You Really Love Me: A Psychiatrist's Account of Stalking and Obsessive Love - Doreen Orion M.D.
I Know What You Did Last Summer - Lois Duncan
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Angelou, Maya
Imperial Russia: A Source Book - Basil Dmytryshyn
In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences - Truman Capote
In the Trail of the Wind: American Indian Poems and Ritual Orations - John Bierhorst
International Political Economy: Interests and Institutions in the Global Economy - Thomas Oatley
Interpreter of Maladies – Jhumpa Lahiri
Interview With the Vampire - Anne Rice
Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer
Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
In visible Men: Life in Baseball's Negro Leagues - Donn Rogosin
It- Stephen King
It's Not About the Bike - Lance Armstrong
Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
Jane Eyre – Emily Brontë
Jocks and Burnouts: Social Categories and Identity in the High School - Penelope Eckert
Johnny the Homicidal Maniac - Jhonen Vasquez
Journal of My Life - Jacques-Louis Ménétra
Joy School - Elizabeth Berg
Jump Ball: A Basketball Season in Poems - Mel Glenn
Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa - Mark Mathabane
Killing Mr. Griffin - Lois Duncan
Kindred - Octavia Butler
King Lear – William Shakespeare
La mort, le roi artu - Jean Frappier
La Quête del Saint Graal - Anonyme du XIIIème siècle et Albert Pauphilet
Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges
Lancelot ou le Chevalier de la Charrette - Chrétien de Troyes
Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes
Lakota Woman - Mary Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes
Life Doesn't Frighten Me - Maya Angelou
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Light in August – William Faulkner
Light on Snow - Anita Shreve
Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
Locked in Time - Lois Duncan
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
Long Day's Journey Into Night - Eugene O'Neill
Look Homeward, Angel - Thomas Wolfe
Looking Backward: 2000-1887 - Edward Bellamy
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Lost in place: Growing up Absurd in Suburbia - Mark Salzman
Love's Labour's Lost - William Shakespeare
Macbeth - William Shakespeare
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
Madame Curie - Eve Curie
Maggie – Stephen Crane
Main Street - Sinclair Lewis
Major Barbara - George Bernard Shaw
Marigolds - Paul Zindel
Master Harold and the Boys - Athol Fugard
Maus: A Survivor's Tale - Art Spiegelman
Maus: A Survivor's Tale, II: And Here My Troubles Began - Art Spiegelman
Measure for Measure - William Shakespeare
Meditation on the Common Concept of Justice - Leibniz
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Merchant of Venice - Shakespeare
Méraugis de Portlesguez - Raoul de Houdenc
Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare
Millenium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World - David Maybury-Lewis
Mind's Eye - Paul Fleishman
Moby Dick – Herman Melville
Molloy - Samuel Beckett
Mother Courage and Her Children - Bertolt Brecht
Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare
Murder in the Cathedral - T.S. Eliot
My Antonia - Willa Cather
My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student - Rebekah Nathan
My House - Nikki Giovanni
My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult
Mythology - Edith Hamilton
Nathan the Wise - Gotthold Ephraim
Native Son – Richard A. Wright
Navajo: Visions and Voices Across the Mesa - Shonto Begay
Nectar in a Sieve – Kamala Markandaya
Needful Things - Stephen King
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America - Barbara Ehrenreich
Nicomachaen Ethics - Aristotle
Night - Elie Wiesel
No Exit - Jean Paul Sarte
Nothing but the Truth: A Documentary Novel – Avi
Novemberland: Selected Poems, 1956-1993 - Gunter Grass
Obasan – Joy Kogawa
Oedipus Rex (The King) – Sophocles
Oedipus at Colonus – Sophocles
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemmingway
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
On Generosity - Leibniz
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One True Thing - Anna Quindlen
One Writer's Beginnings - Eudora Welty
Opinion on the Principles of Pufendorf - Leibniz
Ordinary Vices - Judith N. Schklar
Othello – William Shakespeare
Our Town - Thornton Wilder
Out of the Dust - Karen Hesse
Palace Walk - Naguib Mahfouz
Parable of the Sower - Octavia Butler.
Paradise Lost - John Milton
Paroles - Sally Sieloff Magnan, Laurey Martin-Berg, and William J. Berg
Pedro and Me - Judd Winick
Peggy - Lois Duncan
Pensées - Pascal
Pere Goriot - Honore de Balzac
Pet Semataray - Stephen King
Phaedrus - Plato
Poems - William Wordsworth
Poems of Dylan Thomas - Dylan Thomas
Poems of the Aztec Peoples - Edward Kissam
Poisonwood Bible – Kingsolver
Practical Magic - Alice Hoffman
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Profiles in Courage - John F. Kennedy
Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw
Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession - Studs Terkel
Ramayana
Raney and Walking across Egypt - Clyde Edgerton
Readings in Russian Civilization, Vol. II - Thomas Riha
Readings in Western Humanities, Vol 2, 5th Edition - Roy T. Matthews and F. DeWitt Platt
Rebecca – Daphne DuMarier
Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane
Reviving Ophelia — Mary Pipher
Rhinoceros - Eugene Ionesco
Richard II – William Shakespeare
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
Roman Women - Augusto Fraschetti (Translated by Linda Lappin)
Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare
Roots - Alex Haley
Russian women 1698-1917: Experience & Expression: An Anthology of Sources - Robin Bisha, et. al.
Sailing Alone Around the Room - Billy Collins
Saint Maybe - Anne Tyler
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools - Jonathan Kozol
Second Treatise - John Locke
Seize the Day - Saul Bellow
Selected Poems - Gwendolyn Brooks
Selected Poems - Langston Hughes
Selected Poems - William Carlos Williams
Shadow Spinner - Susan Fletcher
Shaking the Pumpkin: Traditional Poetry of the Indian North Americas - Jerome Rothberg
Shattering Glass - Gail Giles
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
Sign of Four - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Silent Spring - Rachel Carson
Six Books of the Commonwealth - Jean Bodin (Translated by M.J. Tooley)
Six Characters in Search of an Author - Luigi Pirandello
Six Easy Pieces - Richard Reynman
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
Snow Crash - Stephenson
Snow falling on Cedars - Guterson
So Long a Letter (African Writers Series) - Mariama Ba
Son of the Mob - Gordon Korman
Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
Sources of the Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures: Volume II: Since 1560 - Katharine J. Lualdi
Sources of the Western Tradition (Fourth Edition) Volume II: From the Renaissance to the Present - Perry, et. al.
Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson
Sphere - Crichton
Spoon River Anthology - Edgar Lee Masters
Stowaway - Karen Hesse
Stop Pretending - Sonya Sones
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
Stranger with My Face - Lois Duncan
Summer of My German Soldier – Bette Greene
Sundiata – David Wisniewski
Sula - Toni Morrison
Sur le vif - Hannelore Jarausch and Clare Tufts
Surpassing Realism: The Politics of European Integration since 1945 - Mark Gilbert
Symposium - Plato
Taliban - Ahmed Rashid
Tangerine - Edward Bloor
Tell No One - Harlan Coben
Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
The 47 Ronin – Barry Till
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
The Aeneid - Virgil
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay: A Novel - Michael Chabon
The American Dream, and the Zoo Story - Edward Albee
The Ascent of Man - Jacob Bronowski
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman - Ernest Gaines
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
The Blue Lawn - William Taylor
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
The Call of the Wild – Jack London
The Caribbean: The Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism - Franklin Knight
The Catcher in the Rye - Jerome David Salinger
The Central Asian States: Discovering Independence - Gregory Gleason
The Cherry Orchard - Anton Chekhov
The Chocolate War - Robert Cormier
The Chosen - Chaim Potok
The Color of Water - James McBride
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
The Comedy of Errors - William Shakespeare
The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy - Daniel Yergin & Joseph Stanislaw
The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson - Emily Dickinson
The Complete Poetry of John Donne - John Donne
The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
The Crucible – Arthur Miller
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
The Dark Half - Stephen King
The Death of Artemio Cruz - Carlos Fuentes
The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England - Carol Karlsen
The Diamond Age – Stephenson
The Dispossessed - Ursula Le Guin
The Doomsday Book - Connie Willis.
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities of Our Time - Jeffrey D. Sachs
The English Levellers - Collection by Andrew Sharp
The Enlightenment - Dorina Outram
The European Superpower - John McCormick
The European Union: How Does it Work?: - Elizabeth Bomberg and Alexander Stubb
The European Union: Readings on the Theory and Practice of European Integration - Edited by Brent F. Nelsen and Alexander Stubb
The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty
The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
The French Revolution and Human Rights - Lynn Hunt
The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
The Green Mile - Stephen King
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon - Stephen King
The Girls - Amy Goldman Koss
The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams
The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia - Peter Hopkirk
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros
The House That Crack Built - Clark Taylor
The Iliad – Homer
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
The Industrial Revolution in World History, 3rd Edition - Peter N. Stearns
The Institutions of the European Union - John Peterson and Michael Shackleton
The Interesting Narrative ofe the Life of Olaudah Equiano - Olaudah Equiano
The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
The Killer Angels - Michael Shaara
The Lady and the Unicorn - Tracy Chevalier
The Last Book in the Universe - Rodman Philbrick
The Learning Tree - Gordon Parks
The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula Le Guin
The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth - David Attenborough
The Lord of the Flies – William Golding
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lords of Discipline - Pat Conroy
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
The Member of the Wedding - Carson McCullers
The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare
The Merry Wives of Windsor - William Shakespeare
The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
The New American Militarism: How Americans are Seduced by War - Andrew J. Bacevich
The Next Superpower? - Schnabel & Rocca
The Odyssey – Homer
The Old European Order 1660-1800 (Second Edition) - William Doyle
The Once and Future King - Terence Hanbury White
The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
The Overcoat - Nikolai Gogol
The Ox-Bow Incident - Walter Van Tilburg Clark
The Paradox of American Power - Joseph S. Nye Jr
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
The Piano Lesson - August Wilson
The Pigman - Paul Zindel
The Playboy of the Western World; and, Riders to the Sea - J.M. Synge
The Poems - William Butler Yeats
The Poetical Works of Longfellow - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Poetry of Robert Frost - Robert Frost
The Portable Age of Reason Reader - Crane Brinton
The Portable Enlightenment Reader - Isaac Kramnick
The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
The Power of Myth - Joseph Campbell
The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli (Translated by W.K. Marriott)
The Prince and the Pauper – Mark Twain
The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane
The Renaissance in Europe - Margaret L. King
The Republic - Plato
The Rifle - Gary Paulsen
The Rights of Man - Thomas Paine
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Coleridge
The Road from Coorain - Jill ker Conway
The Rumplestiltskin Problem - Vivian Vande Velde
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Pimpernel – Orczy
The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
The Shining - Stephen King
The Ship Who Searched - Anne McCaffery and Mercedes Lackey
The Sonnets - William Shakespeare
The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
The Sound of Waves – Yukio Mishima
The Story of My Life - Helen Keller
The Stranger - Albert Camus
The Sun Also Rises – F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Taming of the Shrew - William Shakespeare
The Tempest - William Shakespeare
The Third Eye - Lois Duncan
The Threepenny Opera - Bertolt Brecht
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass
The Tommyknockers - Stephen King
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar – William Shakespeare
The Trial - Franz Kafka
The Trial – Robert Whitlow
The Two Gentlemen of Verona - William Shakespeare
The United States of Europe - T.R. Reid
The West in the Wider World (Volume 2: From Early Modernity to the Present) - Richard Lim, David Kammerling Smith
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done so Much Ill and So Little Good - William Easterly
The Waste Land - T.S. Eliot
The Winter’s Tale – Shakespeare
The World Must Know - Michael Berenbaum
Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in Urban America - Alex Kotlowitz
Things Fall Apart: A Novel - Chinua Achebe
Thirteen Stories - Eudora Welty
This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer - Kay Mills
This Same Sky: A Collection of Poems from Around the World - Naomi Shihab Nye (editor)
Thoughts for the Time on War and Death - Freud
Ties that Bind, Ties that Break - Lensey Namioka
Time and Again - Jack Finney
To Destroy You Is No Loss: The Odyssey of a Cambodian Family - Jan. D. Criddle and Teeda Butt Mam
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
Touching Spirit Bear - Ben Mikalsen
Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
Treatise of Human Nature - Hume
Tristan and Isolde - R. Wagner
Tristan et Iseut - Béroul
True Piety - Leibniz
Truth and Birth Water - Thomas King
Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare
Two Trains Running - August Wilson
Two Treatises of Civil Government - John Locke
Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life - Annette Lareau
Utopia - Thomas More
Vorsprung - Thomas A. Lovik, J. Douglas Guy, Monika Chavez
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts - Samuel Beckett
Walden - Henry David Thoreau
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
War in a Time of Peace: Bush Clinton, and the Generals - David Halberstam
Washington Square - Henry James
Weather Central - Ted Kooser
West with the Night - Beryl Markham
Western Civilization: Images and Inerpretations from the Renaissance to the Present - Dennis Sherman
Whale Talk - Chris Crutcher
What Girls Learn - Karin Cook
What Have You Lost? - Naomi Shihab Nye (editor)
When the King Took Flight - Timothy Tacket
When the Rainbow is Enuf - Nzoke Shange
Where the Heart Is - Billie Letts
White Fang – Jack London
Whirligig - Paul Fleischmann
Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century - Mark Leonard
Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson
Women in Love - D. H. Lawrence
Women in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1795 - Levy, et. al.
Women in Roman Law and Society - Jane F. Gardner
Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
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13 comments:
Sometimes, I really wonder what you're thinking or if you're thinking at all. How can you expect me not to worry when you're planning to hitchhike to a city in the Sahara desert and cross borders in the same way? I will worry because like you said before I'm a "worry wart". Be careful and you'd better be back home in one piece and tell me as soon as you get back! After this trip, will you finally write your book? :)
have fun and come back safely!!!! i'll be waiting for you across the ocean. bisous!
Just don't end up in jail like last time lol good luck with your trip! I just got back from Syria and Jordan and it was wonderful :) Oh and a surprise! I'm going to the USA in January, I got my visa today so maybe I'll see you in New York!
Oops. WTF?
I think I deleted my own comment??? My mouse is high on crack, lol
But what I wanted to say was... have fun in Timbuktu! And I'll see you before 2009!
hey kerrr! i'm so jealous that u're going to timbuktuuuuuu!!!!!!! i wish i were in Africa with you instead of boring suburbia.
So you are going to Senegal after all? Or not? Good luck getting to Timbuktu, I think you'll need it!
hey kerstin!!!!!!!!!!! do you remember me?? it's meg, back from your student days at uw :P
i was curious as to what you were up to lately so i asked cathy when i met her randomly at wando's fish bowl yesterday and she told me you were in africa! you crazy, crazy girl!!!!!! i always knew you were strange but i never knew you were THIS crazy! so cathy forwarded me your blog and wow... i can't get enough of it!!!! your life is insane compared to mine. so you're going back to ny after this? hopefully you won't get malaria or go to jail or anything. i'm going to visit ny over winter break so i'll definitely call you when i'm there!!!! hopefully we can do lunch or dinner because we haven't seen each other or talked in forever! stay safe and like i always tell you every time you go out of the country, don't get raped!!!!!!
Hey Ker,
When you have internet access, could you help me with my college application essays? I know you're probably busy right now, but if you could just look over my essays a little, that would help a lot. I sent you a more detailed e-mail but thought I'd comment here too. Good luck in Timbuktu. I thought that city only existed in cartoons.
Only 4 more days in Mali and you'll be back in America! Stay safe, although my request is probably in vain if you're hitchhiking. I hope you found your way to Timbuktu and I hope I'll hear from you again soon. Good luck Kerstin!
Merry (belated) Christmas! I had a little too much eggnog :P
Are you back yet? It's almost the 27th!
Hey Kerstin,
How was your Christmas? Where are you right now? I hope you're ok...
KK, I know you posted this entry to let us know that you won't have internet access but I'm getting concerned. Isn't your flight right now? I hope you made it back to Bamako in time! Otherwise, what will happen if you miss your plane? Good luck, KK and I guess I'll see you soon, hopefully.
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