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1. The human Christ: the search for the historical Jesus by Charlotte Allen. [I forget this one. Ancient history interests me, but I thought this one was a little on the dry side.]
2. Lisey's Story by Stephen King
3. Orientalism by Edward Said
4. I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
5. The curious incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon
6. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
7. Language death: The Life Cycle of a Scottish Gaelic Dialect by Nancy C. Dorian
8. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
9. The Inferno by Dante Alighieri. Tranlated by Robert Pinsky.
10. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
11. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson -- Although this is classified as fiction, the events this book was based on (and many of the comments in quotation marks) are true. One man organized the the Chicago's World Fair, which opened in 1893, to celebrate Columbus' discovery of the Americas. His World's Fair was meant (and did) eclipse Paris' World Fair and the Eiffel Tower. A new structure, known as the Ferris Wheel, built by an engineer from Pennsylvania, was a part of the fair. While another man built a "White City," another man orchestrated the death of many, mostly unattached women, in a castle he constructed for this purpose in Englewood. The guy was obviously a sociopath since he had no feeling of remorse and he viewed people as things to use and dispose of at his whim...

[Note: Being a gimp sometimes has its advantages. Until I can walk better, I can sit around reading books and watching anime].