Getting started

[nwhyte]

I'm glad to have discovered this community, though a little worried about how long it will take me to reach 50 books!

I've been bookblogging since late 2003, and would like to contribute these 26 book reviews to the group. I've made the ones I enjoyed more a little bigger.

Non-fiction:
Fermat's Last Theorem, by Simon Singh (history of mathematics)
The Jewel-Hinged Jaw, by Samuel R Delany (sf criticism)
Macedonia: The Bradt Travel Guide, by Thammy Evans
The Art of War, by Sun Tzu
Wild Swans, by Jung Chang
A History of the Arab Peoples, by Albert Hourani
Freedom From Fear, by Aung San Suu Kyi, and The River of Lost Footsteps, by Thant Myint-U (two books about Burma)
Contested Lands: Israel-Palestine, Kashmir, Bosnia, Cyprus and Sri Lanka, by Sumantra Bose


Non-genre fiction:
A Personal Matter, by Kenzaburō Ōe
The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
Beloved, by Toni Morrison, and The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy
Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe (also discussion of Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad)
The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
Palace Walk, by Naguib Mahfouz
A House for Mr Biswas, by V.S. Naipaul

sf:
Wild Seed, by Octavia E. Butler
Babel-17, by Samuel R Delany
The Einstein Intersection, by Samuel R Delany
Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
Mindscape, by Andrea Hairston
The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie
Dhalgren, by Samuel R Delany

comics:
Persepolis I, by Marjane Satrapi
Kapilavastu, by Osamu Tezuka

More to come as I work through my shelves...