expand my personal library to 100 books

I got my collection up to 31 today. Some good ones I would recommend reading are Scar Tissue (Anthony Kiedis), Heroin Diaries (Nikki Sixx), The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini) and The Glass Castle (Jeannette Walls). 4 years ago

1. Marie-Therese, Child of Terror: The Fate of Marie Antoinette’s Daughter by Susan Nagel

2. The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene

3. Body Language (Collins Need to Know?) by Carolyn Boyes

4. Smart Girls Guide to Getting Even by Alison Grambs

5. Is It Just Me or Is Everything Great? by Geoff Tibballs

6. Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?: The Play-at-Home Companion Book to the Hit TV Show! by Michael Benson

7. Emotional Blackmail: When the People in Your Life Use Fear, Obligation, and Guilt to Manipulate You by Susan Forward and Donna Frazier

8. Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France by Leonie Frieda

9. Shoe Addicts Anonymous by Beth Harbison

10. The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander Mccall Smith

11. Family Tree by Barbara Delinsky

12. Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man and Life’s Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom

13. All You Need to Be Impossibly French: A Witty Investigation into the Lives, Lusts, and Little Secrets of French Women by Helena Frith-Powell

14. How to Kill Your Husband (and Other Handy Household Hints) by Kathy Lette

15. Signed, Mata Hari: A Novel by Yannick Murphy

16. He’s Just Not That Into You: Your Daily Wake-Up Call by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo

17. For One More Day by Mitch Albom

18. The Naughty Girl’s Guide to Life by Sharon Marshall

19. Ask Me Anything About the Presidents (Avon Camelot Books) by Louis Phillips

20. How to Rule the World: A Handbook for the Aspiring Dictator by Andre de Guillaume

21. Debutante Divorcee, The by Plum Sykes

22. P.S. I Love You by Cecelia Ahern

23. Smiley’s People by John le Carre

24. 101 Things to Do Before You’re Old and Boring by Richard Horne and Helen Szirtes

25. 101 Things to Do Before You Die by Richard Horne

26. It’s Not How Good You Are, Its How Good You Want to Be: The World’s Best Selling Book by Paul Arden

27. The Best Places to Kiss in Paris by SOUFFLARD THIERRY

28. The Natural Superiority of the Left-Hander by James T. deKay

29. Concise Art of Seduction by Robert Greene

30. Thoughts & Feelings: Taking Control of Your Moods and Your Life (Workbook Workbook) by Matthew McKay, Martha Davis, and Patrick Fanning

31. Currency Trading For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance)) by Mark Galant and Brian Dolan

32. The Bourbons: The History of a Dynasty by J. H. Shennan

33. The Man Who Outshone the Sun King: The Rise and Fall of Nicolas Fouquet by Charles Drazin

34. The Dynasties of China: A History by Bamber Gascoigne

35. The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle

36. Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama

37. Talleyrand: Betrayer and Saviour of France by Robin Harris

38. The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide, and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV by Anne Somerset

39. Feel the Fear . . . and Do It Anyway by Susan Jeffers

40. Games People Play by Eric Berne

41. The Art Of War by Sun Tzu

42. The 33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene

43. Concise 33 Strategies of War, The by Robert Greene

44. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 4 years ago

One more:

• Longitudes and Attitudes [Thomas L. Friedman] 6 years ago

Just spent my lunch money on 2 more books:

• The Business of America [John Steele Gordon]
• The Rise of American Democracy [Sean Wilentz] 6 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] 6 years ago