Books I have Read in Hong Kong

Guide:
Bold – Read more than once (and probably more than two or three times)
Italics – Had read prior to coming to HK

Achebe, Chinua
Things Fall Apart

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
Purple Hibiscus

Anderson, Kevin J.
The Emperor’s Plague
Darkest Knight
Heirs of the Force

Ba, Mariama
So Long a Letter

Binchy, Maeve
Circle of Friends

Brown, Dan
Deception Point

Browning, Robert
Collected Poems (working on it)

Card, Orson Scott
Ender’s Game
Speaker for the Dead
Enchantment

Chang, Iris
The Rape of Nankin (working on it)

Coetzee, J.M.
Age of Iron

Cushman, Karen
Catherine, Called Birdy

Dangarembga, Tsitsi
Nervous Conditions

DeMaurier, Daphne
Rebecca

Dick, Philip K.
Solar Lottery

Dostoevsky, Fyodor
The Brothers Karamazov (working on it)

Eco, Umberto
How to Travel with a Salmon
Faith in Fakes (working on it)

Grahame, Kenneth
The Wind in the Willows

Gregory, Philippa
The Other Boleyn Girl
The Virgin’s Lover
The Boleyn Inheritance

Gristwood, Sarah
Elizabeth and Leicester

Hardy, Thomas
The Woodlanders

Heinlein, Robert A.
Starship Troopers
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Requiem
Methuselah’s Children (working on it)
Space Cadet
The Door into Summer
Glory Road (working on it)

Hughes, Thomas
Tom Brown’s School Days

Iyayi, Festus
Awaiting Court Martial

Jacques, Brian
Mossflower
Outcast of Redwall
The Bellmaker
Marlfox

Juster, Norton
The Phantom Tollbooth

Kidd, Chip
The Cheese Monkeys

Lee, Harper
To Kill a Mockingbird

Neruda, Pablo
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Ngugi
I Will Marry When I Want

Orwell, George
Down and Out in Paris and London

Palahniuk, Chuck
Rant: An Oral Autobiography of Buster Casey

p’Bitek, Okot
Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol

Proust, Marcel
Swann’s Way (working on it)

Pullman, Philip
The Golden Compass

Ransome, Arthur
Favorite Russian Fairy Tales

Roth, Philip
Portnoy’s Complaint (did not finish)

Rowling, J.K.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Rushdie, Salman
The Moor’s Last Sigh

Sachar, Louis
Sideways Stories from Wayside School
Wayside School is Falling Down

Sayers, Dorothy L.
Thrones, Dominations

Shaara, Jeff
The Rising Tide: A novel of WWII

Silverstein, Shel
A Light in the Attic
Where the Sidewalk Ends

Smith, Alexander McCall
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency

Soyinka, Wole
Death and the King’s Horseman

Tartt, Donna
The Secret History

Waugh, Sylvia
Mennyms in the Wilderness

Turner, Megan Whalen
The King of Attolia

Alison Weir
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Innocent Traitor
Elizabeth, the Queen

Yolen, Jane and Robert J. Harris
Queen’s Own Fool

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Farm

At least a dozen Agatha Christie Books
Scores of illustrated children’s books
And others I may have forgotten