What we've been reading.....

Lot's of people have told us that we will never read more in our lives than we do in the Peace Corps. So far, that seems to be holding true. Just for fun, we thought we'd keep a list of our Uganda readings. We'll keep updating as we keep reading! (Kinda like book-it for PC! If only there was the free pizza that you didn't have to make from scratch to go along with it...)

Ryan's Book list:

• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larson
• The Hangman's Daughter by Oliver Potzsch
• True Religion by Palmer Chinchen
• The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larson
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• The Last Juror by John Grisham
• Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
• New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
• The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larson
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
• Summer at Willow Lake by Susan Wiggs
• The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
• Mobilizing Hope by Adam Taylor
• Dead Aid: Why aid is not working and how there is a better way for Africa by Dambisa Moyo & Niall Ferguson
• Sahara by Clive Cussler
• Too Close to the Sun by Sara Wheeler
• How The West Was Lost by Dambisa Moyo
• The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
• Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Mystery of Capital by Hernando DeSoto
• The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
• Zoo Story by Thomas French
• Into the Wild By Jon Krakauer
• Night by Elie Wiesel
• Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
• Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
• The Omnivores Dilemma by Michael Pollan
• A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
• Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
• The Great Gatsbey by F. Scott Fitzgerals
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• Montana 1948 by Larry Watson
• A Guide to the Birds of East Africa by Nicholas Drayson
• Kisses from Katie by Katie Davis

Emily's Book list:

• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Last Juror by John Grisham
• Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (don't judge me!)
• True Religion by Palmer Chinchen
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larson
• The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve
• The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larson
• Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs
• The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larson
• Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
• Too Small to Ignore by Wes Stafford
• Dead Aid: Why aid is not working and how there is a better way for Africa by Dambisa Moyo & Niall Ferguson
• The Awakening & Other Stories by Kate Chopin
• The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
• Naked by David Sedaris
• The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
• Kings of the Earth by Jon Clinch
• In a Strange Room: Three Journeys by Damon Galgut
• The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey by Walter Mosley
• Little Bee by Chris Cleave
• A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
• Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
• Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo
• On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
• The Broken Tea Glass by Emily Arsenault
• The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
• Magic with Everything by Roger Burt
• House Rules by Jodi Picoult
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
• The Terror of Living by Urban Waite
• A Guide to the Birds of East Africa by Nicholas Drayson
• Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
• Julie and Julia by Julie Powell
• The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
• Swamplandia by Karen Russel
• Montana 1948 by Larry Watson
• The River Between by Ngugi wa Thiong'o 
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
• The Postcard Killers by James Patterson
• Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh
• Prodigal God by Timothy Keller
• Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need by Dave Barry
• Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
• The Lighthouse by P.D. James
• The Cactus Eaters by Dan White
• No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe
• The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

*** Here began my undertaking of Time Magazines 100 best novels of all time!
A Peace Corps worthy challenge I think! :-)

• The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
• Atonement by Ian McEwan
• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
• The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
• American Pastoral by Phillip Roth
• Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
• Neruomancer by William Gibson
• Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
• Deliverance by James Dickey
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• Rabbit, Run by John Updike
• The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John leCarre

Books we read together:

• Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter & the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
• Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein
• The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkein
• The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis
• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
• The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis
• Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis
• Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
• The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis
• The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis
• Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• The Giver by Lois Lowry
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
• The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
• The Adventures of Huckelberry Finn by Mark Twain
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
• The Time Travelers Wife By Audrey Niffenegger
• The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson