expand my personal library to 100 books (read all 3 entries…)
let's make it to 100 books 3 years ago

Books I already have in my library.

NON-FICTION

International Studies

  • Globalization and Its Discontents [Saskia Sassen]
  • Globalization Reader [Frank Lechner, John Boli]
  • Diplomacy [Henry Kissinger]
  • The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers [Paul Kennedy]
  • International Politics on the World Stage [John T. Rourke]

History & Culture

  • The Reformation: A History [Diarmaid MacCulloch}
  • Sources of Chinese Tradition Vol.1 & 2 {William Theodore de Bary]
  • An Introduction to Confucianism [Xinzhong Yao]
  • Confucianism for the Modern World [Daniel A. Bell]
  • Nobility and Civility [William Theodore de Bary]
  • China Transformed [R. Bin Wong]
  • The Hot Zone [Richard Preston]
  • The Rituals of Dinner [Margaret Visser]

Contemporary US politics

  • You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You [Molly Ivins]
  • Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot [Al Franken]
  • Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush’s America [Molly Ivins, Lou Dubose]
  • Who Are We? [Samuel P. Huntington]

Ethnic Studies

  • Ethnicities: Children of Immigrants in America [Rubén G. Rumbaut, Alejandro Portes]
  • Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity [David G. Gutiérrez]
  • Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the Big US City [Mike Davis]

Auto/Biographies

  • Ho Chi Minh: A Life [William J. Duiker]
  • Mao: A Life [Philip Short]
  • The Private Life of Chairman Mao [Li Zhi-Sui]
  • Long Walk to Freedom [Nelson Mandela]

Religions

  • Why Do Catholics Do That? [Kevin Orlin Johnson]
  • Dictionary of Saints [John J. Delaney]
  • Catholicism for Dummies

Vietnamese American literature

  • Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora [Andrew Lam]
  • Monkey Bridge [Lan Cao]
  • The Unwanted [Kien Nguyen]
  • The Gangster We All Are Looking For [Le Thi Diem Thuy]

FICTION

  • Charlotte & Emily Bronte: The Complete Novels
  • The Daughter of Fortune [Isabel Allende]
  • The Lovely Bones [Alice Sebold]
  • The Da Vinci Code [Dan Brown]
  • Angels & Demons [Dan Brown]
  • Digital Fortress [Dan Brown]
  • Memoirs of a Geisha [Arthur Golden]
  • Dogeaters [Jessica Hagedorn]
  • A Prayer for Owen Meany [John Irving]
  • M. Butterfly [David Henry Hwang]

[more will be added]



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Dalal_MAK is bored

You know what?

You just gave me an idea. I’m gonna have a big library with alot of books and let it as a heritage to my children in the future. Because knowledge is power and I want my children to be powerful people. Thanks


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