a list of the books and other paper-bound material that has caught my eye over the past two years or so:
absolut book by richard w lewis (style style style. fantastic ads)
front cover by alan powers (more photography)
the men's health longevity program (wanted for my dad)
this diary will change your life by benrik (interesting concept.. their site can be found here)
the giving tree by shel silverstein
the naked chef by jamie oliver (drooling over the food is sufficient methinks)
a cook's tour by anthony bourdain (fantastic writing)
bills open cooking by bill granger (a running theme here..)
doing our own thing: the degradation of language and music by john mcwhorter
not fade away by peter barton & laurence shamen (live life!)
singapore architecture by robert powell (yes i'm interested in aki..)
fast food nation by eric schlosser (..and also fast food)
any stuff by noam chomsky
orientalism by edward said
loft living (any aki and interior decorating book along these lines)
any stuff by jimmy liao
travel books (e.g. the gap year book by lonely planet, europe / south america on a shoestring, same publishers)
taiko, and musashi, by eiji yoshikawa
sex & the city by candace bushnell (why not?)
brick lane by monica ali
a sideways look at time by jay griffiths
the curious incident of the dog in the night-time by mark haddon (now i remember: the protagonist suffers from autism)
the last unicorn by peter s beagle (fantasy)
mr god this is anna by finn (nicholas sparks, paulo coelho type stuff i reckon)
the land of oz by frank l baum (more fantastical than we usually think)
the once and future king, and the book of merlyn, by t.h. white
mentored by a millionaire by steven k scott
sanctuary (manga) by ryuichi ikegami
a pound of paper by john baxter
the story of art by gombrich (non-fic btw)
widow for a year by john irving (have to read this; someone i knew read this...)
the pythons: autobiography by graham chapman, john cleese, terry gilliam, eric idle, michael palin and bob mccabe (yes, the Monty Pythons)
american gods by neil gaiman (re: the sandman)
perdido street station by china mieville (wanted to get, found at school library, read a bit, returned before due date)
genius: a mosaic of one hundred exemplary creative minds by harold bloom ("why deny genius when one see's it?")
human accomplishment: the pursuit of excellence in the arts and sciences, 800 b.c. to 1950 by charles murray (one half of the [in]famous bell curve pair)
samuel pepys: the unequalled self by claire tomalin
the mathematical century: the 30 greatest problems of the last 100 years by piergiorg odifreddi
the corrections, and how to be alone, by jonathan franzen
italian folktales by italo calvino (contains my all-time fave folktale, found nowhere else)
the last don by mario puzo
interview with a vampire by anne rice (probably the only book approaching horror that i'll read)
the elements of style by william strunk jr and e.b. white (recommended reading in some gmat prep book)
brick lane by monica ali
breakfast at tiffany's by truman capote (gave my copy away to WP two, three years back? just before UC-B SEP i think)
common stocks and uncommon profits by philip a fisher (soros? buffett? one of them read this)
battle royale by koushun takami (yes, inspiration for the movie)
prince of ayodhya by ashok k banker (got terence to buy; a retelling of 'the ramayana')
sex and the city by candace bushnell (why not?)
a random walk down wall street (apparently i don't need to bother to know how to spell the author's name - world famous best-seller apparently)
how to read a financial report by john a tracy
one up on wall street by peter lynch (famous enough for me to know the author's name)
multiple streams of income by robert g allen
clueless in banking and finance by un-hun khor, may lwin and jim aitchison
the power of simplicity by jack trout
the fall of advertising and the rise of public relations by al and laura ries
q by luther blissett
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