Required Reading

Below is a list of books The Daily Transit has gotten into recently. Hyperlinked titles were reviewed here, while the {P} points to the title at Portland-based Powell’s Books.

2007

(Jan.) Simon Winchester: Korea – A Walk Through the Land of Miracles {P}

(Jan.) Orhan Pamuk: The New Life {P}

(Feb.) Michael Chabon: The Amazing Adventure of Kavalier & Clay {P}

(Mar.) Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart {P}

(Jun.) Lonely Planet: Tales from Nowhere {P}

(Jun.) J.D. Salinger: Franny and Zooey {P}

(Aug.) Johnathan Lethem: The Fortress of Solitude {P}

(Aug.) Frederic Prokosch: The Asiatics {P}

(Oct.) Emma Larkin: Finding George Orwell in Burma {P}

(Nov.) Bruce Cummings: Korea’s Place in the Sun {P}

(Dec.) Henry David Thoreau: Walden {P}

2008

(Mar.) Hari Kunzru: My Revolutions {P}

(Aug.) Tom Robbins: Another Roadside Attraction {P}

(Oct.) James Baldwin: Nobody Knows My Name {P}

(Nov.) Alain de Boton: The Art of Travel {P}

2009

(Jan.) Jane Jeong Trenka: The Language of Blood {P}

(Feb.) Chang Ha-joon: Bad Samaritans {P}

(Mar.) Junot Diaz: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao {P}