Fiction/autobiographies I have read [author] (date finished) <personal rating*: out of 5>:

• The Old Man and the Sea [Ernest Hemmingway]
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [Robert Louis Stevenson] () <>
• The Good Earth [Pearl S. Buck] () <5>
• To Kill a Mockingbird [Harper Lee] () <>
• Animal Farm [George Orwell] <5>
• October Sky [Homer Hickam] <>
• Christy [Catherine Marshall] <2>
• The Giver [Lois Lowry] (1999)
• Romeo and Juliet [William Shakespeare] (1999) <3>
• The Once and Future King [T.H. White] (March 2000) <4>
• Gods and Generals [Jeffrey Shaara] (October 2000) <5>
• The Book of Merlyn [T.H. White] (January 2001) <2>
• Cry, the Beloved Country [Alan Paton] (February 2001) <3>
• I Never Sang for My Father [Robert Anderson] (March 2001) <>
• Macbeth [William Shakespeare] (March 2001) <3>
• 2001: A Space Odyssey [Arthur C. Clarke] (July 2001) <3>
• East of Eden [John Steinbeck] (July 2001) <4>
• Wuthering Heights [Emily Bronte] (September 2001)
• A Parting Gift [Ben Erickson] (October 2001) <2>
• A Separate Peace [John Knowles] (2001) <2>
• The Glass Menagerie [Tennessee Williams] <3>
• A Raisin in the Sun [Lorraine Hansberry] (2002) <1>
• A Doll's House [Henrik Ibsen] (Feburary 2002) <4>
• Our Town [Thornton Wilder] (2002) <2>
• On Writing [Stephen King] (June 2002) <2>
• In Cold Blood [Truman Capote] (July 2002) <4>
• Ender's Game [Orson Scott Card] (August 2002) <5>
• Speaker for the Dead [Orson Scott Card] (August 2002) <5>
• Children of the Mind [Orson Scott Card] (August 2002) <5>
• All Over but the Shoutin' [Rick Bragg] (August 2002) <2>
• Catch-22 [Joseph Heller] (September 2002) <1>
• The Joy Luck Club [Amy Tan] (October 2002) <3>
• The Grapes of Wrath [John Steinbeck] (October 2002) <3>
• The Great Gatsby [F. Scott Fitzgerald] (November 2002) <1>
• The Handmaid's Tale [Margaret Atwood] (December 2002) <5>
• The Killer Angels [Michael Shaara] (December 2002) <4>
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone [J.K. Rowling] (December 2002 - never finished) <>
• Farenheit 451 [Ray Bradbury] (January 2003) <1>
• The Bell Jar [Sylvia Plath] (Feburary 2003) <3>
• The Poisonwood Bible [Barbara Kingsolver] (March 2003) <5>
• Cat's Eye [Margaret Atwood] (March 2003) <>
• 1984 [Geroge Orwell] (April 2003) <4>
• 1916 [Morgan Llywelyn] (June 2003) <2>
• Beach Music [Pat Conroy] (July 2003) <2>
• The Taming of the Shrew [William Shakespeare] (August 2003) <4>
• All Quiet on the Western Front [Erich Maria Remarque] (September 2003) <5>
• Dracula [Bram Stoker] (October 2003) <2>
• Madame Bovary [Gustave Flaubert] (2003) <3>
• A Prayer for Owen Meany [John Irving] (2003) <>
• Lord of the Flies [William Gerald Golding] (2003) <3>
• Slaughterhouse-Five [Kurt Vonnegut] (2003) <>
• The Fountainhead [Ayn Rand] (November 2003 - never finished) <unrated>
• Angela's Ashes [Frank McCourt] () <3>
• Hamlet [William Shakespeare] (2004) <3>
• She's Come Undone [Wally Lamb] (2004) <2>
• Gap Creek [Robert Morgan] (2004) <2>
• A Clockwork Orange [Anthony Burgess] (April 2004) <5>
• Dune [Frank Herbert] (October 2004) <3>
• The Hitchicker's Guide to the Galaxy [Douglas Adams] (December 2004) <5>
• My Mother's Sabbath Days [Chiam Grade] (January 2005 - never finished) <2>
• Native Realm [Czeslaw Milosz] (Feburary 2005 - never finished) <unrated>
• Patterns of Childhood [Christa Wolf] (March 2005) <unrated>
• Garden Ashes [Danilo Kis] (March 2005) <2>
• Lost in Translation [Eva Hoffman] (April 2005 - never finished) <3>
• The Tragic Menagerie [Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal] (April 2005) <2>
• Dreams of My Russian Summers [Andrei Makine] (April 2005) <3>
• Flowers for Algernon [Daniel Keyes] (July 2005) <4>
• Memoirs of a Geisha [Arthur Golden] (July 2005) <4>
• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe [Douglas Adams] (July 2005) <5>
• Life, the Universe, and Everything [Douglas Adams] (August 2005) <4>
• So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish [Douglas Adams] (August 2005) <4>
• Mostly Harmless [Douglas Adams] (August 2005) <5>
• The Da Vinci Code [Dan Brown] (December 2005) <4>
• The Lord of the Rings [J.R.R. Tolkein] (June 2007) <4>
• Flatland [Edwin Abbot] (June 2007) <5>
• Happy Birthday or Whatever [Annie Choi] (July 2007) <4>
• Colors of the Mountain [Da Chen] (November 2007) <3>
• The Jungle [Upton Sinclair] (January 2008) <3>
• Sophie's World [Jostein Gaarder] (April 2008) <4>
• Maus I: My Father Bleeds History [Art Spiegelman] (May 2008) <5>
• Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began [Art Spiegelman] (May 2008) <5>
• Going Postal [Terry Pratchett] (May 2008) <3>
• The Hobbit [J.R.R. Tolkein] (July 2008) <4>
• The Kite Runner [Khaled Hosseini] (July 2008) <4>
• The Alchemist [Paulo Coelho] (July 2008) <2>
• Losing My Religion [William Lobdell] (July 2009) <3>
• Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim [David Sedaris] (February 2010) <3>

Non-fiction I have read [author] (date finished) <personal rating*: out of 5>

• The Minutemen and their World [Robert A. Gross] (July 2001)
• The Prince [Niccolo Machiavelli] (November 2003) <3>
• Civil Rights and Wrongs [Harry Ashmore] (January 2004 - never finished) <unrated>
• Nickel and Dimed [Barbara Ehrenreich] (2004) <4>
• Absolutely American [David Lipsky] (August 2004) <1>
• Number: The Language of Science [Tobias Dantzig] (June 2005 - never finished) <4>
• Give Me a Break [John Stossel] (August 2005) <4>
• Freakonomics [Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner] (August 2005) <5>
• Voodoo Science [Robert A. Park] (February 2007) <4>
• The Selfish Gene [Richard Dawkins] (June 2007) <5>
• The Blank Slate [Steven Pinker] (July 2007) <4>
• The Asian Mystique [Meridan Prasso] (January 2008) <3>
• The God Delusion [Richard Dawkins] (July 2008) <4>
• The Omnivore's Dilemma [Michael Pollan] (March 2010) <3>

Books I'm working on [author] (date started; anticipated finish date):

• Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling [Jane Hyun] (April 2007; ???) - grant from my aunt
• The Double Helix [James D. Watson] (never started; ???) - returned to S. Charleston Library
• The World is Flat [Thomas Fiedman] (August 2007; ???) - returned to Davis Library
• Guns, Germs, and Steel [Jared Diamond] (July 2009; ???) - returned to Cupertino Library

Future (maybe) reading list:

• Intuition (fiction, on recommendation from Leonard)
• The Namesake (fiction, after seeing the movie)

*ratings reflect my opinion of the book at the time of reading and may not reflect my opinion if I read it again