My reading list

Links are to reviews on this blog.

2013
* Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Half of a Yellow Sun
* Susi Wyss – The Civilized World
* Orhan Pamuk – Istanbul: Memories and the City
* Jo Nesbø – The Snowman
* Wendell Steavenson – Georgië: Stemmen uit de Kaukasus
* Barbara Kingsolver – De gifhouten bijbel
* Orhan Pamuk – Het huis van de stilte
* Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism
* Carolijn Visser – Vroeger was de toekomst beter
* Michail Boelgakov – De meester en Margarita
* David Wolman – Righting the Mother Tongue: From Olde English to Email, the Tangled Story of English Spelling
* Rafik Schami – De duistere kant van de liefde
* John Irving – The Cider House Rules
* Alev Lytle Croutier – Seven Houses
* Ryszard Kapuściński – Imperium
* Charles Dickens – David Copperfield
* Louis Stiller – Essays schrijven: Van columns tot persoonlijke essays

2012
* Brené Brown – The Gifts of Imperfection
* Herman Brusselmans – Toos
* Allison Pearson – Hoe krijgt ze het voor elkaar
* P.D. James – The Skull beneath the Skin
* Geoff Ryman – Air (Or Have Not Have)
* Anne Fadiman – Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
* Jeff Goins – You Are a Writer
* Jeff Goins – Every Writer Needs a Tribe
* Karel Onwijn – Georgië en Armenië
* Ronald Giphart – Gala
* P.D. James – Innocent Blood
* Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 3
* Caitlin Moran – How to Be a Woman
* P.D. James – An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
* Nathan Englander – Verlost van vleselijke verlangens (For the Relief of Unbearable Urges)
* Hella S. Haasse – Sleuteloog
* Tom Lanoye – Heldere hemel
* Simone van der Vlugt – De ooggetuige
* Pascal Mercier – Lea
* Beth L. Buelow – Insight: Reflections on the Gifts of Being an Introvert
* Devora Zack – Networking for People Who Hate Networking: A Field Guide for Introverts, the Overwhelmed, and the Underconnected
* Tony Anderson – Bread and Ashes: A Walk Through the Mountains of Georgia
* Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 2
* Naguib Mahfouz – Midaq Alley
* Charles Dickens – Oliver Twist
* Franka Hummels – De generatorgeneratie: Leven na Tsjernobyl
* Jo Nesbø – Nemesis
* Donna Fisher – Persoonlijk netwerken voor Dummies
* Gloria Feldt – No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power
* Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 1
* Henny Struik – Niet ongevoelig: Vrouwen met autisme
* Elif Shafak – De heilige van de beginnende waanzin (The Saint of Incipient Insanities)
* Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn – Half the Sky
* Pat Barker – Over de grens (Border Crossing)
* Rudy Simone – Aspergirls: Empowering Females with Asperger Syndrome
* Henning Mankell – Depths
* Leon Uris – Exodus
* Hella S. Haasse – De wegen der verbeelding
* Jhumpa Lahiri – The Namesake
* Charles Dickens – Hard Times
* Arnaldur Indriđason – Hypothermia
* Willa Cather – My Ántonia
* Cordelia Fine – Waarom we allemaal van Mars komen (Delusions of Gender)
* John Irving – A Prayer for Owen Meany
* John Michael Cummings – Ugly to Start With
* Andrew Krivak – The Sojourn
* Thomas de Waal – The Caucasus: An Introduction
* Amos Oz – Volmaakte rust (A Perfect Peace)
* Dan Senor & Saul Singer – Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle
* Rob Brandsma – Beter Nu: Breng mindfulness in je leven

2011
* Charles King – The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus
* Choghig Kazandjian – The Lost I
* Harry Mulisch – De procedure
* Kate Grenville – The Secret River
* Rudy Simone – Aspergirls: Empowering Females with Asperger Syndrome
* Henny Struik – Niet ongevoelig: Vrouwen met autisme
* Mohsin Hamid – The Reluctant Fundamentalist
* Anatoli Rybakov – Kinderen van de Arbat (Children of the Arbat)
* Chaim Potok – The Gift of Asher Lev
* Chaim Potok – My Name is Asher Lev
* Julian Barnes – The Sense of an Ending
* Yo’av Karny – De Kaukasus (Highlanders)
* Muriel Spark – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
* Rosy Thornton – Hearts and Minds
* Henning Mankell – De Daisy Sisters
* Brenda Ueland – If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and the Spirit
* Angela Carter (ed.) – Angela Carter’s Book of Wayward Girls & Wicked Women
* Chaim Potok – The Promise
* Chaim Potok – The Chosen
* Joyce Carol Oates – Zombie
* Monaldi & Sorti – Versluiering
* Frederick Taylor – Dresden: Tuesday 13 February 1945
* Deborah Rey – Rachel Sarai’s Vineyard
* Lara Vapnyar – Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love
* Henning Mankell – The Troubled Man
* Frank Westerman – Ingenieurs van de ziel
* Suzanna Jansen – Het pauperparadijs: Een familiegeschiedenis
* Meir Shalev – De kus van Esau
* Bas Haring – Het aquarium van Walter Huijsmans
* Kathleen Ragan (ed.) – Fearless Girls, Wise Women & Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World
* Malcolm Gladwell – Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
* Stieg Larsson – The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest
* David L. DuBois & Michael J. Karcher (eds) – Handbook of Youth Mentoring
* Bram Stoker – Dracula
* Frank Westerman – Ararat
* Maya Angelou – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
* Orlando Figes – Natasha’s Dance: A Cultural History of Russia
* Stieg Larsson – The Girl Who Played with Fire
* Stieg Larsson – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
* Eudora Welty – The Optimist’s Daughter
* Stephen McCauley – The Easy Way Out
* Anita Diamant – The Red Tent
* Charles Dickens – Great Expectations
* Christopher P.M. Waters – The State of Law in the South Caucasus
* Speaking to One Another: Personal Memories of the Past in Armenia and Turkey
* Ann Patchett – Run
* Jhumpa Lahiri – Interpreter of Maladies
* Val McDermid – Killing the Shadows
* Dan Brown – The Lost Symbol
* Naguib Mahfouz – Thebes at War
* Crystal Allene Cook – Bombardirovka
* Geraldine Brooks – People of the Book

2010
* Naguib Mahfouz – Rhadopis of Nubia
* Krzysztof Piech & Slavo Radosevic (eds) – The Knowledge-Based Economy in Central and Eastern Europe
* Carson McCullers – Reflections in a Golden Eye
* Naguib Mahfouz – Khufu’s Wisdom
* Tim Krabbé – Een tafel vol vlinders
* Alice Munro – The Love of a Good Woman
* Dieuwke de Coole & Anja Valk – Actief met taal: Didactische werkvormen voor het taalonderwijs
* Evelyn Waugh – A Handful of Dust
* Kees van Beijnum – Zoon van
* Elaine Biech – Trainen voor Dummies
* Joyce Carol Oates – Dear Husband,
* Charles den Tex – Onmacht
* Ian Rankin – A Question of Blood
* Margaret Atwood – The Blind Assassin
* Erlom Akhvlediani – Vano & Niko
* Elif Batuman – The Possessed: Adventures with Russian books and the people who read them
* V.S. Naipaul – A Writer’s People: Ways of Looking and Feeling
* Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird
* Karin de Galan – Van deskundige naar trainer
* Thomas Hardy – Tess of the D’Urbervilles
* Mary Wollstonecraft – A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
* Monique van Hoogstraaten & Eva Jinek (eds) – Het maakbare nieuws
* Rosy Thornton – The Tapestry of Love
* Jonathan Franzen – Freedom
* Virginia Woolf – A Haunted House: The Complete Shorter Fiction
* Tina Chanter – Gender: Key Concepts in Philosophy
* Willa Cather – O Pioneers!
* Violet Grigoryan & Vahan Ishkhanyan (eds.) – Deviation: Anthology of Contemporary Armenian Literature
* Jane Austen – Northanger Abbey
* Laura Whitcomb – A Certain Slant of Light
* Joris Luyendijk – Het zijn net mensen (People Like Us)
* Ahdaf Soueif – The Map of Love
* Virginia Woolf – A Room of One’s Own
* Ivan Bunin – Verzamelde Werken deel 3 (Collected Works: Life of Arsenyev and short stories 1937-1952)
* Azar Nafisi – Alles wat ik verzwegen heb (Things I’ve Been Silent About)
* Rosita Steenbeek – De trein naar Oefa
* Karel Onwijn – Georgië en Armenië
* Irene van der Linde & Nicole Segers – Het veer van Istanbul: Ontmoetingen langs de Bosporus
* Carson McCullers – Clock Without Hands
* Jane Austen – Emma
* Joyce Carol Oates – The Gravedigger’s Daughter
* William E. Justice (ed.) – He Flies Through the Air With the Greatest of Ease: A William Saroyan Reader
* Naomi Wolf – Promiscuities: A Secret History of Female Desire
* Alice Sebold – Lucky
* Virginia Woolf – Naar de vuurtoren (To the Lighthouse)
* Fethiye Çetin- My Grandmother: A Memoir
* Boris Akunin – The Winter Queen
* Louis de Bernières – Een Partizanendochter (A Partisan’s Daughter)
* Sana Krasikov – One More Year
* Julia Franck – De Middagvrouw (The Blind Side of the Heart)
* Carolien Roelants – Iran achter de schermen
* Alan Bennett – The Uncommon Reader
* Vendela Vida – Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name
* Elizabeth George – In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner
* Jeffrey Eugenides – The Virgin Suicides
* Jhumpa Lahiri – Unaccustomed Earth
* Jane Austen – Mansfield Park
* Motivating People for Improved Performance
* David Kherdian (ed.) – Forgotten Bread: First-Generation Armenian American Writers
* Saskia Noort – De Eetclub (The Dinner Club)
* Tonke Dragt – Geheimen van het Wilde Woud
* Virginia Nicholson – Singled Out
* Tonke Dragt – De brief voor de koning
* Virginia Woolf – Mrs. Dalloway
* Jack C. Richards – The Language Teaching Matrix
* Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn – Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunities for Women Worldwide
* Jim Collins – Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t
* F. Bordewijk – Karakter
* Peter Van Petegem & Jan Vanhoof – Een alternatieve kijk op evaluatie
* Henning Mankell – The Man Who Smiled

2009
* J.D. Salinger – Nine Stories
* Rafik Schami – Eine Hand voller Sterne (A Handful of Stars)
* Geert Mak – In Europa (In Europe)
* Jhumpa Lahiri – Interpreter of Maladies
* Lisa Glass- Prince Rupert’s Teardrop
* Lev Tolstoy – Kinderjaren Jeugdjaren Jongelingschap (Childhood Boyhood Youth)
* Owen Sheers – Resistance
* Orhan Pamuk – Other Colours: Writings on Life, Art, Books and Cities
* Ken Follett – The Pillars of the Earth
* Anita Amirrezvani – Dochter van Isfahan (The Blood of Flowers)
* Jelle Brandt Corstius – Kleine landjes: Berichten uit de Kaukasus
* Ann Patchett – Bel Canto
* Alice Munro – Selected Stories
* Chaim Potok – The Promise
* Chaim Potok – The Chosen
* Lynda la Plante – Trial and Retribution III
* Robert Fisk – Pity the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon
* Charlotte Perkins Gilman – The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
* Libby Cone – War on the Margins
* A.A. Milne – The Complete Winnie-the-Pooh
* Maria Mosterd – Echte mannen eten geen kaas
* Lynda La Plante – Bella Mafia
* Pearl S. Buck – The Good Earth
* G.K. Chesterton – Father Brown: Selected Stories
* Fethiye Çetin – My Grandmother: A Memoir
* Nadine Gordimer (ed) – Telling Tales
* Georgette Heyer – Charity Girl
* Michael Cunningham – The Hours
* Elizabeth George – I, Richard
* Bernlef – De pianoman
* Ruth Rendell – Means of Evil
* Naguib Mahfouz – Sugar Street
* Guy de Maupassant – Selected Stories
* Jonathan Franzen – De Correcties (The Corrections)
* Joris Luyendijk – Een tipje van de sluier: Islam voor beginners
* David Guterson – Ceders in de sneeuw (Snow Falling on Cedars)
* Jeffrey Eugenides – The Virgin Suicides
* Lee Child – Bad Luck and Trouble
* Naguib Mahfouz – Palace of Desire
* James Redfield – The Celestine Prophecy: An Adventure
* Michael Chabon – The Yiddish Policemen’s Union
* David Marcus (ed) – The Faber Book of Best New Irish Short Stories 2004-5
* Thomas de Waal – Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War
* Naguib Mahfouz – Palace Walk