Books I've read so far this year...

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1. The human Christ: the search for the historical Jesus by Charlotte Allen.
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
12. Fray by Joss Whedon
13. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
14. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
15. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
16. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
17. The Bone People by Keri Hulme
18. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

19. The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith -- I believe I heard about this one on NPR about a year or so ago and I decided to read it when I saw it in the book discussion section of my library. It is the first of a series of novels about Precious Ramotswe, a woman who uses the money she inherits from her father to establish the first detective agency in the entire country of Botswana. I have to say that it was fun reading about how the main character uses women's intuition and knowledge about her town in order to solve cases. There were a couple of instances in which I had a good laugh. I would have to say that I would definitely recommend this book...