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MA - Cultural Studies/Comparative Literature


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Book Lists
(Two lists - current and general)

Currently Reading:

Fiction
  • Helen of Troy - Margaret George
  • American Gods - Neil Gaimon
  • A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
  • Shalimar the Clown - Salmon Rushdie
  • A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
Non-fiction
  • Istanbul - Orhan Pamuk
  • Fools are Everywhere - Beatruce K. Otto (The court jester around the world and through time)
  • Root of Wild Madder - Brian Murphy (Chasing the history, mystery, and lore of the Persian Carpet)
  • An Unexpected Light - Jason Elliot (Travels in Afghanistan)
  • The Art of Pilgrimage - Phil Cousineau (The Seeker's guide to making travel sacred)
  • Without Reservations - Alice Steinbach (The Travels of an Independent Woman)
  • Shakespeare - Peter Ackroyd (biography)
  • Mozart - Hugh Ottaway (a biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
  • Raven's Exile - Ellen Meloy
  • Landscape and Memory - Simon Schama ('history, naturalism, mythology and art...' blended and coalesced into a beautiful work)
Political Science/Theory
  • The Great War for Civilisation - Robert Fisk (more than 20 years of foreign correspendence in the Middle East, beautifully written)
  • Power, Faith and Fantasy - Michael B. Oren
  • Understanding Terror Networks - Marc Sageman
  • State of Denial - Bob Woodward
  • It Takes a Village - Hillary Rodham Clinton
  • Illicit - Moises Naim (the conjunction of Illicit trade and Globalization)
  • Terror in the name of God (Why Religious Militants Kill)
  • Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism's challenge to Democracy - Benjamin Barber
  • Lipstick Jihad - Azadeh Moaveni
  • The Kurds - Kevin McKiernan
  • Jawbreaker - Gary Berntsen
  • A Middle East Mosaic - compiled by Bernard Lewis (centuries of travelers' writings of encounters between West and East)
  • Uncovering Islam - Edward Said (How the Media and the Experts Determine How we see the Rest of the World)
Cultural Theory
  • Cities of the Dead - Joseph Roach
  • Freakery - Thomson
  • War Talk - Arundhati Roy
  • Playing in the Dark - Toni Morrison
Antiquities Smuggling
  • Stealing History - Roger Atwood
  • Thieves of Baghadad - Matthew Bogdanos
  • The Looting of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad - Milbry Polk & Angela M. H. Schuster
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Recommend/Recently Read:

Fiction
  • The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova (a great literary vampire/history novel)
  • The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory
  • The Queen's Fool - Philippa Gregory
  • The Time Traveler's Wife - Audry Niffenegger
  • Specimen Days - Michael Cunningham
  • The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
  • The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
  • Labyrinth - Kate Mosse (archaeology/time travel/the Holy Grail... good stuff)
  • Geek Love - Katherine Dunn
  • Wicked (and all others) - by Gregory Maguire
  • The Illuminator - Brenda Rickman Vantrese
  • My Name is Red - Orhan Parmuk
  • Nights of Rain and Stars - Maeve Binchey
Non-fiction
  • The Places in Between - Rory Stewart (A haunting walk across Afghanistan)
  • Pagan Holiday - Tony Perrottet (On the Trail of Ancient Roman Tourists - both informative and incredibly entertaining)
  • The Bookseller of Kabul - Asne Seierstad (Today's Afghanistan, women's place in their world)
  • The Hills of Tuscany - Ferenc Mate (Sensual and subtle, Mate's book is filled with joy and silence, beauty and grace)
  • Too Much Tuscan Sun - Dario Castagno (Confessions of a Chianti Tour Guide - a wonderful storyteller recounts his adventures as a guide in the Chianti region of Italy.)
  • A Day in Tuscany - Dario Castagno (Musings, memories and lovely moments from the author about and around Tuscany. See my blog for my recent visit to his home.)
  • Brunelleschi's Dome - Ross King (the history of the dome of the Florence Cathedral)
  • The Power of Babel - John McWhorter (A Natural History of Language)
  • The Sopranos and Philosophy - Greene and Vernezze ("I Kill, Therefore I Am")
  • Desert Notes/River Notes - Barry Lopez (coming to terms with the Earth's landscape, and with humankind's existence within it)
Political Science/Theory
  • The Future of Freedom - Fareed Zakaria (Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad)
  • Nine Parts of Desire - Geraldine Brooks (The Hidden World of Islamic Women)
  • Orientalism - Edward Said (How power and perception shape the West's view of the East)
  • The End of Faith - Sam Harris (Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason)
  • Fighting Terrorism - Benjamin Netanyahu (Netanyahu's view on how terroism can be defeated)
Cultural Theory
  • The Ritual Process - Victor Turner
  • Violence and the Sacred - Rene Girard
  • Cinema Interval - Trinh T. Minh-ha
  • The Hero's Journey - Joseph Campbell
Poetry
  • All Saints Brenda Marie Osbey
Quick Reads/Easy for Traveling
  • The Tomb (and all Repairman Jack novels) - F. Paul Wilson
  • Midnight Mass - F. Paul Wilson
  • The Black Angel - John Connelly
  • Origin in Death (all 'in death' novels)- J.D. Robb
  • Rage (and all novels by) - Jonathan Kellerman
  • The Undomestic Goddess - Sophie Kinsella


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