SiMonica\’s Voyage

In reverse chronological order:

• Philip Roth, “American Pastoral”
• J.K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”
• Kiran Desai, “Inheritance of Loss”
• Gao Xingjian, “Soul Mountain”
• Nick Hornby, “A Long Way Down”
• Ferdinand Ossendowski, “Beasts, Men and Gods”
• Michel Houellebecq, “La possibilite d’une ile” (Simon only, in Russian)
• Boris Akunin, “Shpionskii Roman” or “Spy Novel” (Simon only, in Russian)
• Gary Sheyngart, “The Russian Debutante’s Handbook”
• Zadie Smith, “On Beauty”
• Salman Rushdie, “Midnight’s Children”
• Anchee Min, “Red Azalea: Life and Love in China”
• Mark Haddon, “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time”
• George R. Stewart, “Storm”
• Lisa See, “Snow Flower and the Sectret Fan”
• Kurt Vonnegut, “A Man Without a Country”
• Loung Ung, “First They Klled My Father: a Daughter of Cambodia Remembers”
• Niccolo Machiavelli, “The Prince” (Simon only)
• Nick Hornby, “Otherwise Pandemonium” & “Not a Star” (short stories)
• George Orwell, “Nineteen Eighty-four”
• Jacques Cousteau, “The Ocean World of Jacques Cousteau” (Simon only)
• William Golding, “Lord of the Flies” (Simon only, Monica read before)
• Steve Martin, “Shopgirl”
• Pico Iyer, “The Global Soul” (Monica only)
• Aldous Huxley, “Brave New World”
• Andrew X. Pham, “Catfish and Mandala” (Simon only, Monica read before)
• Christopher Hunt, “Sparring with Charlie: Motorbiking Down the Ho Chi Minh Trail” (Monica only)
• Jeffrey Eugenides, “Middlesex”
• George Eliot, “Silas Marner,” “The Lifted Veil,” and “Brother Jacob” (Monica only)
• William M. Thackeray, “Vanity Fair”
• Orhan Pamuk, “Snow”
• Yann Martel, “Life of Pi”
• Haruki Murakami, “Kafka on the Shore”
• D.H. Lawrence, “Sons and Lovers”
• Arthur Conan Doyle, “A Study in Scarlet” (Simon only)
• P.G. Wodehouse, “Right Ho, Jeeves”
• Tim Mulliner, “Long Ride for a Pie” (Simon only)
• Jules Verne, “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea”
• J.K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”
• Alfred Lansing, “Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage”
• M.K. Gandhi, “An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth”
• George Orwell, “Homage to Catalonia”
• Susanna Clarke, “Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell”
• Albert Hourani, “A History of the Arab Peoples”
• Orhan Pamuk, “Istanbul: Memories of a City”
• Renata Vigano, “L’Agnese va a morire” (Monica only)
• Frederico Moccia, “Tre metri sopra il cielo” (Monica only)
• John McPhee, “Uncommon Carriers” (Simon only)
• Tiziano Terzani, “A Fortune-teller Told Me”
• Paul Theroux, “The Pillars of Hercules” (Simon only, Monica read it years before)