Books: Updated List

Here's a follow up list of what we have been reading since we last posted our books list:

Novels:

1. White Tiger - Aravind Adiga (Both)
2. The Flood - David Maine (Both)
3. King of Torts - John Grisham (Rusty)
4. The Bretheren - John Grisham (Rusty)
5. Palm Sunday - Kurt Vonnegut (Both)
6. Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates (Both)
7. 'Tis - Frank McCourt (Both)
8. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini (Rusty - Kelsi read back home)
9. Beloved - Toni Morrison (Both)
10. Confessions of a Shopaholic - Sophie Kinsella (Both)
    

Travel:

1. Getting Stoned with Savages : A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu - J. Maarten Troost (Both)

Science/Social Science:

1. The State of Africa - Martin Meredith (Rusty)
2. Chaos - James Gleick (Rusty)
3. The Lexus and the Olive Tree - Thomas Friedman (Both)
4. When Elephants Weep - Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson & Susan McCarthy (Kelsi catching up - Rusty had already read)
5. A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson (Kelsi catching up - Rusty had already read)

Spiritual/Philosophical:

1. A New Earth - Eckhart Tolle (Kelsi-second time)
2. The Road Less Travelled - M. Scott Peck (Both)
3. Life Ahead - J. Krishnamurti (Kelsi catching up - Rusty had already read)
4. The Art of Happiness - Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler (Kelsi catching up - Rusty had already read)

Our Favorites:

1. A New Earth - Eckhart Tolle
2. White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
3. 'Tis - Frank McCourt
4. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
5. A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
6. The Road Less Travelled - M. Scott Peck

Not sure if The Flood was quite on the favorites list, but it was a very engaging historical fiction about Noah's Flood (for a more complete review: http://www.textpublishing.com.au/books-and-authors/book/the-flood/).

We happened across Confessions of a Shopaholic at a hostel and found it to be quite a fun read, actually. Rusty read it in one day - like a long movie. We'd have to say it was better than Twighlight! :) Just had to comment on it since it was our least intellectual book of the list . . .