Desired Books

And I desire a lot of books. The list was starting to grow so large, as a matter of fact, that I've had to divide it into fiction and non-fiction just to keep it managable. I've also added a 'Top Ten' list of things (in no particular order) that I would love to read Right Now (although any book on this list would make a good birthday or Christmas gift, hint hint). And I promise to update as I slowly achieve the desired acquisitions.

Mind you, as I look at this rapidly mutating list, I think that separate pages are going to be necessary soon for fiction, non-fiction, and Japanese titles...

The 2004 Birthday List

Here, by popular request, is my birthday want list for 2004. There are a few things other than books here listed, and I apologize for the lack of page purity, but plead need for speed in posting.

• Devil in the White City
• The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander
• Kushiel's Dart
• the new Guy Kay book
• Laundry Service (CD by Shakira)
• the new best of Robert Plant CD
• London by Peter Ackroyd
• a nice book on Buddhism
• A few Sandman titles: Brief Lives, The Kindly Ones, The Wake; Dream Hunters; and Endless Nights

This bit last updated March 30, 2002

The Top Ten

• The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
• Misconceptions by Naomi Wolf
• London by Peter Ackroyd
• A Traitor to Memory by Elizabeth Peters
• Asleep by Banana Yoshimoto
• Fury by Salman Rushdie
• Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia by Karl C. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac
• Zelda by Nancy Mitford
• The Global Soul by Pico Iyer
• The Jaguar Smile by Salman Rushdie

Non-Fiction

• Academic Instincts by Marjorie Garber
• Cairo by Andre Raymond
• French: The Rough Guide
• A Love of Reading by Robert Adams
• Painted Shadow: A Life of Vivienne Eliot by Carole Seymour-Jones
• Farewell to Catalonya by George Orwell
• Kant and the Platypus by Umberto Eco
• Islam: A Short History by Karen Armstrong
• Mother Tongues: Travels Through Tribal Europe by ? Drysdale
• Among the Unbelievers by V.S. Naipaul
• Jihad v.s. McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism Are Reshaping the World by Benjamin R. Barber
• On Equilibriumby John Ralston Saul
• Japanese Bookbinding by Kojiro Ikegami
• Handmade Books by Rob Shepherd
• The Great Hill Stations of Asia by Barbara Crossette
• One Year Off: Leaving It All Behind for a Round-the-World Trip with Our Children by David Elliot Cohen
• The Lawless Roads by Graham Greene
• World Food Japan from Lonely Planet (also for Indonesia and Thailand
• Tapas by Penelope Casas
• The Lost World of Quintana Roo by Michel Peissel
• Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
• Creative Homeowner: Masonry by Beall
• 301 Stylish Storage Ideas by Better Homes and Gardens
• Ortho's All About Container Gardening

Fiction

• Dreadfulwater Shows Up by Hartley Goodweather
• Thinks... by David Lodge
• Sandman: Dream Hunters by Neil Gaiman
• Generica by Bill Richardson
• Wild Seed by Octavia Butler
• Lilith's Brood (Dawn, Adulthood Rites, Imago) by Octavia Butler
• The One Kingdom by Sean Russell
• Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen
• In the Name of Salome by Julia Alvarez
• Losing It by Alan Cumyn
• Gallows Thief by Bernard Cornwell
• Restoration by Rose Tremain
• Life Isn't All HaHaHeeHee by Meera Syal
• The Last English King by Julian Rathbone
• The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
• The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
• Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
• Tides of War by Steven Pressfield
• Thin Air by Storm Constantine
• The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillipa Gregory
• The Best Alternate History Stories of the Twentieth Century
• God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
• something by Christopher Brookmyre
• Buddha of Suburbia by Hanef Kureishi
• Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfoue
• The Powerbook by Jeanette Winterson
• Dracula in London by P.N. Elrod
• The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt
• Perdido St. Station by China Melville

Japanese

• Integrated Exercises for Japanese Language Proficiency from The Japan Times
• An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese from The Japan Times
• Revolutionary Girl Utena, volume 2, by Chio Saito and the Be-Papas
• Fruits Basket, volumes 2-8