Mom

Books Mom completed during the trip:

Related to Places We Visited:

• Born in Africa: The Quest for the Origins of Human Life, by Martin Meredith (Africa)
• The Fate of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence, by Martin Meredith (Africa)
• Dead Aid: Why Aid is not Working and How There is a Better Way, by Dambisa Moyo (development, with focus on Africa; author is Zambian)
• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, by William Kamkwamba (Malawi)
• Going Solo, by Roald Dahl (East Africa)
• Whatever you Do, Don’t Run, by Peter Allison (safari — Africa / Botswana)
• Mandela’s Way, by Richard Stengel (South Africa)
• South of the Limpopo, by Derva Murphy (South Africa)
• Cry, the Beloved Country, by Alan Paton (South Africa)
• None to Accompany Me, by Nadine Gordimer (South Africa)
• A Long Walk to Freedom, by Nelson Mandela (South Africa)
• A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, by Bartolome de las Casas (Ecuador and Peru)
• Last Days of the Incas, by Kim Macquarrie (Ecuador and Peru)
• Bridge of San Luis Rey, by Thornton Wilder (Peru)
• The Way to Paradise, by Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru)
• Lost City of the Incas, by Hiram Bingham (Peru)
• Come Ashore and We Will Kill and Eat You All, by Christine Thompson  (New Zealand)
• The Secret River, by Kate Grenville (Australia)
• In a Sunburned Country, by Bill Bryson (Australia)
• The Light on the Island: Tales of a Lighthouse keeper’s Family in the San Juan Islands, by Helene Glidden (San Juan Islands)
• Stella: Unrepentant Madam, by Linda J Eversole (Canada / British Columbia)
• The Curve of Time, by M. Wylie Blanchet (Canada / British Columbia)
• Following the Curve of Time: The Legendary M. Wylie Blanchet, by Cathy Converse (Canada / British Columbia)
• The Reader’s Companion to Alaska, ed. by Alan Ryan (Alaska)
• Alaska: Saga of a Bold Land, by Walter R. Borneman (Alaska)

Other, Non-Fiction:

• The Price of Inequality, by Joseph Stiglitz
• Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World, by Michael Lewis
• Tales from Nowhere: Unexpected Stories from Unexpected Places, edited by Don George
• Giving, by Bill Clinton
• Collapse, by Jared Diamond
• A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos, by Dava Sobel
• The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of his Theory of Evolution, by David Quammen
• My Beloved World, by Sonia Sotomayor
• Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Succeed, by Sheryl Sandberg
• A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson
• Swerve: How the World Became Modern, by Stephen Greenblatt

Other, Fiction:

• The Tiger’s Wife, by Tea Obreht
• Never Let me Go, by Kazuo Ishigura
• Eva Luna, by Isabel Allende
• The Island Beneath the Sea, by Isabel Allende
• The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco
• American Dervish, by Ayad Akhtar
• Leo Africanus, by Amin Maalouf
• The Casual Vacancy, by JK Rowling
• The Buddha in the Attic, by Julie Otsuka
• Seventh Heaven, by Alice Hoffman
• Wonder, by R.J. Palacio
• Defending Jacob, by William Landay
• Ender in Exile, by Orson Scott Card
• Children of the Mind, by Orson Scott Card
• Ender’s Shadow, by Orson Scott Card
• Shadow of the Hegemon, by Orson Scott Card
• Shadow Puppets, by Orson Scott Card
• Shadow of the Giant, by Orson Scott Card
• Shadows in Flight, by Orson Scott Card
• How to be an American Housewife, by Margaret Dilloway

 Classics:

• A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
• Paradise Lost, by John Milton
• Song of Roland, trans. by Dorothy Sayers
• The Prince, by Machiavelli

This list is continued for the duration of our Gap Year here, and from September 2013 onward in my new blog, fragmentstofugues.com.  Happy reading!