The Happy Life

Book List

  1. Suite Française - Irene Nemirovsky
  2. The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals – Michael Pollan
  3. The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel - Diane Setterfield
  4. Sharp Objects: A Novel - Gillian Flynn
  5. The Emperor’s Children - Claire Messud
  6. The Places In Between - Rory Stewart
  7. Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany - Bill Buford
  8. The Road - Cormac Mccarthy
  9. Field Notes from a Catastrophe - Elizabeth Kolbert
  10. I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence - Amy Sedaris
  11. The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream - Barack Obama
  12. Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq - Thomas E. Ricks
  13. Water for Elephants: A Novel - Sara Gruen
  14. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War - Max Brooks
  15. Cell: A Novel - Stephen King
  16. The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation - Sid Jacobson
  17. Beautiful Lies: A Novel - Lisa Unger
  18. The Littlest Hitler – Stories - Ryan Boudinot
  19. American Born Chinese - Gene Luen Yang
  20. The Children’s Hospital - Chris Adrian
  21. Special Topics in Calamity Physics - Marisha Pessl
  22. Sweet and Low: A Family Story - Rich Cohen
  23. Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home - Nando Parrado
  24. My Secret: A PostSecret Book (Postsecret) - Frank Warren
  25. Lisey’s Story - Stephen King
  26. The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina - Frank Rich
  27. The Brief History of the Dead: A novel - Kevin Brockmeier
  28. The Brooklyn Follies - Paul Auster
  29. Absurdistan: A Novel - Gary Shteyngart
  30. From Baghdad, With Love: A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava - Jay Kopelman
  31. A Family Daughter: A Novel - Maile Meloy
  32. The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq - Rory Stewart
  33. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic - Alison Bechdel
  34. The Last Town on Earth: A Novel - Thomas Mullen
  35. Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them - Francine Prose
  36. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century - Thomas L. Friedman
  37. American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21stCentury - Kevin Phillips
  38. Godless: The Church of Liberalism - Ann Coulter
  39. The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town - John Grisham
  40. An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It – Al Gore
  41. The God Delusion – Richard Dawkins
  42. My Life in France – Julia Child
  43. Left To Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust - Immaculee Ilibagiza
  44. You’re Wearing That?: Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation - Deborah Tannen
  45. Letter to a Christian Nation – Sam Harris
  46. The Stolen Child: A Novel - Keith Donohue
  47. The One Percent Doctrine - Ron Suskind
  48. Inspiration: Your Ultimate Calling - Wayne W. Dyer
  49. Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity: Get Out the Shovel–Why Everything You Know is Wrong - John Stossel
  50. Digging to America - Anne Tyler
  51. For One More Day - Mitch Albom
  52. Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival - Anderson Cooper
  53. Rule #1: The Simple Strategy for Successful Investing in Only 15 Minutes a Week! - Phil Town
  54. The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief - Francis S. Collins
  55. Thirteen Moons: A Novel - Charles Frazier
  56. Absurdistan - Gary Shteyngart
  57. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  58. The China Study
  59. One Hundred Years of Solitude
  60. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
  61. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
  62. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
  63. Atonement – Ian McEwan
  64. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
  65. Beloved - Toni Morrison
  66. Rabbit at Rest - John Updike
  67. American Pastoral - Philip Roth
  68. The Hours - Michael Cunningham
  69. Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
  70. Eat, pray, love: one woman’s search for everything across Italy, India and Indonesia - Gilbert, Elizabeth
  71. Change your thoughts, change your life – Wayne W. Dyer
  72. Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer
  73. The Bhagavad Gita
  74. The Martha Rules – Martha Stewart
  75. Hope’s Edge – The Next Diet for a Small Planet – Lappe
  76. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – JK Rowling
  77. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
  78. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
  79. The World Without Us - Alan Weisman
  80. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier - Ishmael Beah
  81. The God of Animals: A Novel - Aryn Kyle
  82. The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears - Dinaw Mengestu
  83. The Raw Shark Texts: A Novel - Steven Hall
  84. Falling Man: A Novel - Don DeLillo
  85. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life - Barbara Kingsolver
  86. The Gathering - Anne Enright
  87. The Face of Death - Cody Mcfadyen
  88. The Abstinence Teacher - Tom Perrotta
  89. Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s - John Elder Robison
  90. Mississippi Sissy - Kevin Sessums
  91. The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich - Timothy Ferriss
  92. Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny - Suze Orman
  93. The Abs Diet for Women: The Six-Week Plan to Flatten Your Belly and Firm Up Your Body for Life - David Zinczenko
  94. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
  95. The Now Habit - Neil Fiore
  96. Good Calories, Bad Calories - Gary Taubes
  97. Grow Your Money - Jonathan Pond
  98. Your Money or Your Life - Joe Dominguez, Vicki Robin
  99. Shut Up, Stop Whining, and Get a Life: A Kick-Butt Approach to a Better Life - Larry Winget
  100. You’re Broke Because You Want to Be - Larry Winget
  101. Getting Things Done - David Allen
  102. Wishcraft: How to Get What You Really Want - Barbara Sher
  103. Stumbling On Happiness - Daniel Gilbert
  104. The Underachiever’s Manifesto: The Guide to Accomplishing Little and Feeling Great - Ray Bennett
  105. One Year to an Organized Life - Regina Leeds
  106. The War of Art - Stephen Pressfield
  107. A New Earth - Eckhart Tolle
  108. Margin - Richard Swenson
  109. The World Without Us - Alan Weisman
  110. Awakening the Entrepreneur Within - Michael Gerber
  111. Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping - Paco Underhill

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  • simon tonks // January 3, 2008 at 1:24 pm

    hi there … do you have all these books (waiting to be read) … if not, I have the ‘world is flat’ book, and am happy to send it to you.

    i like the idea (on your blog) of a book exchange, and i’m hust gonna look for one.

    email me if you are interested.

    i’m going to look up a few of your books on here to see if there are other i fancy reading myself.

    like the blog

    simon

    simontonks.wordpesss.com

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