Books from this trip

1. a crappy airport novel about a lawyer
2. Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larson
3. Girl Who Played with Fire, Stieg Larson
4. Made in America, Bill Bryson
5. Skeletons on the Zahara, Dean King
6. A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
7. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
8. A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold
9. Dreams of my Father, Barack O'Bama
10. Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin 
11. Fierce Pajamas, An Anthology of Humor Writing from the New Yorker
12. Atonement, Ian McEwan
13. Humor and Moroccan Culture, Matthew Helmke
14. The First Man, Camus
15. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole

16. A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn

17. Yukon Alone, John Balzar

18. Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris

19. Moo, Jane Smiley

20. The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai

21. Holidays on Ice, David Sedaris

22. Mimoun, Rafael Chirbes

23. Rebels in the Rif: Abd El Krim and the Rif Rebellion, David S. Woolman

24. Catch 22, Joseph Heller

25. Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates, Tom Robbins

26. Off the Map: Tales of Endurance and Exploration, Fergus Fleming

27. Naked, David Sedaris

28. The Quran

29. The Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan

30. Seven Pillars of Wisdom, T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)

31. Absurdistan, Gary Shteyngart

32. Odysseus' Last Stand: The Chronicles of a Bicycle Nomad, Dave Stamboulis

33. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer

34. The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger

35. CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, George Saunders

36. Zeitoun, Dave Eggers

37. A Million Little Pieces, James Frey (not a good book)

38. Ishmael, Daniel Quinn

39. What is the What, Dave Eggers

40. Hot, Flat, and Crowded, Thomas Friedman

41. The Way of the Sufi, Idries Shah

42. Shantaram, Gregory David Roberts

43. Ali and Nino: Kurban Said

44. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk, David Sedaris

44. The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
45. Freakonomics, Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner

46. Thank you for Smoking, Christopher Buckley
47. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

48. The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles

49. The Oblivion Seekers, Isabelle Eberhardt

50. A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard, Paul Bowles

51. My Life, Bill Clinton(about 500 pages longer than need be)

52. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, David Sedaris

53. Let it Come Down, Paul Bowles

54. Tangier's Eyes on America, Abdellatif Akbib

55. Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy

56. Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller

57. Notes from the Underground, Dostoyevsky

58. You Shall Know Our Velocity!, Dave Eggers
59. Neither Here nor There, Bill Bryson

60. The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, George Packer

61. Colorblind, Trent Hodgeson

62. The Tao of Physics, Fritjof Capra

63. The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad

64. Freedom, Jonathan Franzen

65. Devil in the Grove; Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America, Gilbert King

66. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce

67. A Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

68. Still the Mind, Alan Watts

69. The Pelican Brief, John Grisham (Pure, unadulterated trash)

70. The Ethical Brain; The Science of Our Moral Dilemmas, Michael S. Gazzaniga

71. Dubliners, James Joyce

72. Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson

73. Essays: First and Second Series, Ralph Waldo Emerson

74. Where Men Win Glory, Jon Krakauer (searing book; a must-read for any person considering military service)

75. A Passage to India, E. M. Forster

76. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen (maybe embarrassing, but it does make me wish I were more eloquent)

77. Kim, Rudyard Kipling

78. After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam, Lesley Hazleton

79. Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages, Guy Deutscher

80. Under the Banner of Heaven, Jon Krakauer

81. A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers, Lawrence McDonald
82. The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
83. Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists, and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia, Robert Lacey
84. Tulipomania: The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions it Aroused, Mike Dash
85. Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays, David Foster Wallace
86. Zorba the Greek, Nikos Kazantzakis
87. Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller
88. The Sex Lives of Cannibals, J. Maarten Troost
89. Arab Spring Dreams, Edited by Nasser Weddady and Sohrab Amari
90. Dune, Frank Herbert
91. Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood, Fatima Mernissi
92. How the Scots Invented the Modern World, Arthur Herman
93. Cosmicomics, Italo Calvino
94. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
95. Modern Arabic Short Stories: A Bilingual Reader
96. The Cactus Eaters, Dan White
97. 1492: The Year the World Began, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
98. 1776, David McCullough
99. One World: The Ethics of Globalization, Peter Singer
100. Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA, Tim Weiner
101. Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt, Michael Lewis

post pc-travels
1. Bluebeard, Kurt Vonnegut
2. Freedom, Jonathan Franzen (for a second time, worth it)