BOOKPATHS

Bhutan Book List

Apte, Robert Z. Three kingdoms on the roof of the world: Bhutan, Nepal, Ladakh (1990)

Aris, Michael. The raven crown: the origins of Buddhist monarchy in Bhutan (2005)

Bartholomew, Terese Tse and John Johnston, editors. The dragon’s gift: the sacred arts of Bhutan (2008)

Berthold, John. Bhutan: land of the Thunder Dragon (2005)

Carpenter, Russ and Blyth Carpenter. The blessings of Bhutan (A Latitude 20 Book) (2002)

Choden, Kunzang. The circle of karma (2005)

Das, Britta. Buttertea at sunrise: a year in the Bhutan Himalaya (2007)

Davis, Samuel. Views of Medieval Bhutan: the diary and drawings of Samuel Davis, 1783 (1982)

Dorji, Karma Singye. Dreaming of prayer flags: stories and images from Bhutan (2008)

Haigh, Ken. Under the holy lake: a memoir of eastern Bhutan (2008)

Hellum, A. K. A painter's year in the forests of Bhutan (2001)

Hickman, Katie. Dreams of the peaceful dragon: a journey through Bhutan (1987)

Inskipp, Carol. Birds of Bhutan (2005)

Jordans, Bart. Bhutan: a trekker’s guide (2006)

Myers, Diana K., et al.  From the land of the thunder dragon: textile arts of Bhutan (1994)

Sayles, Carol L. One finger on Bhutan (2009)

Sze, Elsie. The heart of the Buddha: a novel (2009)

Thapar, Valmik. Land of the tiger: a natural history of the Indian subcontinent (1997) (in part)

Wangchuck, Ashi Dori Wangmo. Treasures of the Thunder Dragon: a portrait of Bhutan (2007)

Wehrheim, John. Bhutan: hidden lands of happiness (2008)

Williamson, Margaret D. Memoirs of a political officer's wife in Tibet, Sikkim, and Bhutan (1987)

Zeppa, Jamie. Beyond the sky and the earth: a journey into Bhutan (2000)

Bangladesh Book List

Ali, Monica. Brick Lane (2003) (in part)

Anam, Tahmima. A golden age: a novel (2007)

Ashton, Wayne. Under a tin-grey sari (2002)

Azim, Firdous and Niaz Zaman, editors. Different perspectives: women writing in Bangladesh (1998)

Baxter, Craig and Syedur Rahman. Historical dictionary of Bangladesh (1996)

Berwick, Dennison.  A walk along the Ganges (1993) (in part)

Crandall Hollick, Jullian. Ganga: a journey down the Ganges River (2008)

Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee. Black candle: poems about women from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh (2000)

Gardner, Katy. Songs at the river's edge: stories from a Bangladeshi village (1992)

Ghosh, Amitav. The hungry tide (2005)

Glassie, Henry. Art and life in Bangladesh (1997)

Hartmann, Betsy and James Boyce. Needless hunger: voices from a Bangladesh village (1979)

Hasan, Perween. Sultans and mosques: the early Muslim architecture of Bangladesh (2007)

Hillary, Edmund. From the ocean to the sky (1979) (in part)

Hossain, Rokeya Sakhawat. Sultana's dream: and selections from the Secluded ones (1988)

Imam, Jahanara. Of blood and fire: the untold story of Bangladesh’s war of independence (1989)

Islam, Syed Manzurul. The mapmakers of Spitalfields (1997) (in part)

McDermott, Rachel Fell. Singing to the goddess: poems to Kali and Uma from Bengal (2001)

Nasrin, Taslima. The game in reverse: poems (1995)

Nasrin, Taslima. Meyebela: my Bengali girlhood (1998)

Nasrin, Tasalima. Shame: a novel (1997)

Novak, James J. Bangladesh: reflections on the water (1993) (The Essential Asia)

Singh, Raghubir. The Ganges (1992)

Sisson, Richard and Leo E. Rose. War and secession: Pakistan, India, and the creation of Bangladesh (1990)

Tagore, Rabindranath. Bengali flower: 50 selected poems from India and Bangladesh (trans. 2009)

Thapar, Valmik. Land of the tiger: a natural history of the Indian subcontinent (1997) (in part)

Van Schendel, Willem. A history of Bangladesh (2009)

Yunus, Muhammad. Banker to the poor: micro-lending and the battle against world poverty (2003)

Azerbaijan Book List

Book of Dede Korkut (15th century?) (in part)

Chabon, Michael. Gentleman of the road: a tale of adventure (2007)

De Waal, Thomas. Black garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan through peace and war (2003)

Fawcett, Louise L’Estrange. Iran and the cold war: the Azergaijan crisis of 1946 (1992)

Goltz, Thomas. Azerbaijan diary: a rogue reporter's adventures in an oil-rich, war-torn Post-Soviet Republic (1998)

Griffin, Nicholas. Caucasus: a journey to the land between Christianity and Islam (2004)

LeVine, Steve. The oil and the glory: the pursuit of empire and fortune on the Caspian Sea (2007) (in part)

Peters, Ralph. The devil's garden (2004)

Reiss, Tom. The Orientalist: solving the mystery of a strange and dangerous life (2005) (in part)

Richards, Susan. Epics of everyday life: encounters in a changing Russia (1990)

Said, Kurban. Ali and Nino: a love story (1999)

Swietochowski, Tadeusz and Brian C. Collins. Historical dictionary of Azerbaijan (1999)

Swietochowski, Tadeusz. Russia and Azerbaijan: a borderland in transition (1995)

van der Leeuw, Charles. Azerbaijan: a quest for identity, a short history (2000)

Bloomsday 2010

Find out what’s happening this Bloomsday at Dublin’s James Joyce Centre, the rest of Ireland, and worldwide.

Armenia Book List

Abovian, Khachatur. Wounds of Armenia: lamentation of a patriot (trans. 2009)

Abrahamian, Levon and Nancy Sweezy, editors. Armenian folk arts, culture, and identity (2001)

Adalian, Rouben Paul. Historical dictionary of Armenia (2002)

Ahnert, Margaret Ajemian. The knock at the door: a journey through the darkness of the Armenian genocide (2007)

Arlen, Michael. J. Passage to Ararat (1975)

Avakian, Anne M. Armenian folklore bibliography (1994)

Avakian, Arra S. and Ara John Movsesian. Armenia: a journey through history (1998)

Bagdasarian, Adam. Forgotten fire (2002)

Balakian, Grigoris. Armenian Golgotha (2009)

Balakian, Peter. Black dog of fate: a memoir (1997)

Balakian, Peter. The burning Tigris: the Armenian genocide and America’s response (2003)

Bobelian, Michael. Children of Armenia: a forgotten genocide and the century-long struggle for justice (2009)

Bournoutian, George A. A concise history of the Armenian people: (from ancient times to the present) (2002)

Cetin, Fethiye. My grandmother: a memoir (2008)

Christian, James W. The courier (2000)

De Waal, Thomas. Black garden: Armania and Azerbaijan through peace and war (2003)

Der Hovanessian, Diana. Selected poems (1994)

Downing, Charles. Armenian folk-tales and fables (1972)

Emin, Gevorg. For you on New Year’s Day (1985)

Emin, Gevorg. Land, love, century: new and selected poems (1988)

Emin, Gevorg. Songs of Armenia: selected poems (1979)

Greenwood, Tim and Edda Vardanyan. Hakob’s gospels: the life and work of an Armenian artist of the sixteenth century (2006)

Greppin, John A. C. Studies in classical Armenian literature (1994)

Hacikyan, A. J., coordinating editor. The heritage of Armenian literature (2000-)

Hacikyan, A. J. and Jean Yves Soucy. A summer without dawn (2000)

Hepworth, George Hughes. Through Armenia on horseback (1923)

Hewsen, Robert. Armenia: a historical atlas (2001)

Hovannisian, Richard G. The Armenian people from ancient to modern times (1997)

Kiesling, Brady. Rediscovering Armenia: An archaeological/touristic gazetteer and map set for the historical monuments of Armenia (2001)

Kasbarian, Lucine. Armenia: a rugged land, an enduring people (1998)

Katchadourian. Stina. Efronia: an Armenian love story (1993)

Kherdian, David. The road from home: the story of an Armenian girl (1988)

Kricorian, Nancy. Zabelle (1998)

London, Joan. Gilgamesh: a novel (2001) (in part)

Marcom, Micheline Aharonian. Three apples fell from heaven (2001)

Matossian, Nouritza. Black angel: a life of Arshile Gorky (1998)

Miller, Donald E. Armenia: portraits of survival and hope (2003)

Miller, Donald E. Survivors: an oral history of the Armenian genocide (1993)

Najarian, Carolann. A call from home: Armenia and Karabagh my journal (1999)

Panossian, Razmik. The Armenians: from kings and priests to merchants and commissars (2006)

Payaslian, Simon. The history of Armenia (2007)

Raffi. The fool (trans. 2009)

Raffi. Samuel (1886)

Shant, Levon. Ancient gods (1908)

Shirinian, Lorne. Earthquake: poems (1991)

Siamanto. Bloody news from my friend: poems by Siamanto (trans. 1996)

Slide, Anthony, compiler. Ravished Armenia and the story of Aurora Mardiganian (1997)

Suny, Ronald Grigor. Looking toward Ararat: Armenia in modern history (1993)

Tekeyan, Vahan. Sacred wrath: the selected poems of Vahan Tekeyan (trans. 1982)

Tumanyan, Hovhannes.  The bard of Loree: selected works of Hovannes Toumanian (1970)

Uvezian, Sonia. The cuisine of Armenia (2001)

Walker, Christopher J., editor. Visions of Ararat: writings of Armenia (1997)

Werfel, Franz. Forty days of Musa Dagh (1933)

Wise, Victoria Jenanyan. The Armenian table: more than 165 treasured recipes that bring together ancient flavors and 21st-century style (2004)

Zarian, Gostan. The traveler and his road (trans. 1981)

Zohrab, Krikor. Voice of conscience: the stories of Krikor Zohrab (1983)

Afghanistan Book List

Abraham, Pearl. American Taliban: a novel (2010) (in part)

Ahmedi, Farah. The story of my life: an Afghan girl on the other side of the sky (2005)

Akbar, Said Hyder. Come back to Afghanistan: a California teenager’s story (2005)

Ansary, Tamim. West of Kabul, east of New York: an Afghan American story (2002) (in part)

Armstrong, Sally. Bitter roots, tender shoots: the uncertain fate of Afghanistan’s women (2008)

Aslam, Nadeem. The wasted vigil (2008)

Ayub, Awista. However tall the mountain: a dream, eight girls, and a journey home (2009)

Ball, Warwick. The monuments of Afghanistan: history, archaeology and architecture (2008)

Barfield, Thomas. Afghanistan: a cultural and political history (2010)

Bick, Barbara. Walking the precipice: witness to the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan (2009)

Bolger, Daniel P. Feast of bones: a novel (1990)

Byron, Robert.  The road to Oxiana (1937)

Chaffetz, David. A journey through Afghanistan (1981)

Chavis, Meoldy Ermachild. Meena, the heroine of Afghanistan: the martyr who founded RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (2003)

Chayes, Sarah. The punishment of virtue: inside Afghanistan after the Taliban (2006)

Coll, Steve. Ghost wars: the secret history of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (2004)

Constable, Pamela. Fragments of grace: my search for meaning in the strife of South Asia (2004) (in part)

Crews, Robert D. and Amin Tarzi, editors. The Taliban and the crisis of Afghanistan (2008)

Crile, George. Charlie Wilson’s war: the extraordinary story of the largest covert operation in history ( 2003)

Delloye, Isabelle. Women of Afghanistan (2003)

Elliot, Jason. An unexpected light: travels in Afghanistan (1999)

Entezar, Ehsan M. Afghanistan 101 (2008)

Ewans, Martin.  Afghanistan: a short history of its people and politics (2002)

Farivar, Masood. Confessions of a mullah warrior (2009)

Fesperman, Dan. The warlord’s son (2004)

Fitzgerald, Paul and Elizabeth Gould. Invisible history: Afghanistan’s untold story (2009)

Garcia, J. Malcolm. The Khaarijee: a chronicle of friendship and war in Kabul (2009)

Gauhari, Farooka. Searching for Saleem: an Afghan woman’s odyssey (1996)

Ghafour, Hamida. The sleeping Buddha: the story of Afghanistan through the eyes of one family (2007)

Giustozzi, Antonio. Koran, Kalashnikov, and laptop: the neo-Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan (2008)

Goodson, Larry P. Afghanistan’s endless war: state failure, regional politics, and the rise of the Taliban (2001)

Graham, Mark. Afghanistan in the cinema (2010)

Gutman, Roy. How we missed the story: Osama Bin Laden, the Taliban and the hijacking of Afghanistan (2008)

Hafvenstein, Joel. Opium season: a year on the Afghan frontier (2007)

Hayes, Judi. In search of The kite runner (2007)

Hensher, Philip. The Mulberry Empire, or, The two virtuous journeys of Amir Dost Mohammed Khan (2002)

Hirsh, M. E. Kabul (1986)

Hodson, Peregrine. Under a sickle moon: a journey through Afghanistan (1986)

Holeman, Linda. The moonlit cage: a novel (2006)

Holt, Frank L. Into the land of bones: Alexander the Great in Afghanistan (2005)

Hosseini, Khalid. The kite runner (2003)

Hosseini, Khaled. A thousand splendid suns (2007)

Isby, David C. Afghanistan: graveyard of empires: a new history of the borderlands (2010)

Jones, Ann. Kabul in winter: life without peace in Afghanistan (2007)

Jones, Seth G. In the graveyard of empires: America’s war in Afghanistan (2009)

Joya, Malalai. A woman among warlords: the extraordinary story of an Afghan who dared to raise her voice (2009)

Kakar, M. Hassan. Afghanistan: the Soviet invasion and the Afghan Response, 1979-1982 (1995)

Kaplan, Robert D. Soldiers of God with the Mujahidin in Afghanistan (1990)

Kessel, Joseph. The horseman (1968)

Khadra, Yasmina. The sirens of Baghdad: a novel (2007)

Khadra, Yasmina.  The swallows of Kabul: a novel (2004)

Khadra, Yasmina. Wolf dreams (2003)

Klaits, Alex and Gulchin Gulmamadova-Klaits. Love and war in Afghanistan (2005)

Kushner, Tony. Homebody/Kabul (2002)

Lamb, Christina. The sewing circle of Herat: my Afghan years (2002)

Latifa. My forbidden face: growing up under the Taliban: a young woman’s story (2001)

Levi, Peter. The light garden of the angel king: journeys in Afghanistan (1973)

Macintyre, Ben. Josiah the Great: the true story of the man who would be king (2004)

Maillart, Ella K. The cruel way (1947)

Majrouh, Sayd Bahodine. Songs of love and war: Afghan women’s poetry (2003)

Maley, William, editor. Afghanistan and the Taliban: the rebirth of fundamentalism? (2001)

Marciano, Francesca. The end of manners (2008)

Marlowe, Ann. The book of trouble: a romance (2006)

Mastrogiacomo, Daniele. Days of fear: a firsthand account of captivity under the new Taliban (2010)

Meissner, Ursula. Afghanistan: hope and beauty in a war-torn land (2008)

Michaud, Roland and Sabrina Michaud. Caravans to Tartary (1978)

Michner, James A. Caravans: a novel of Afghanistan (1963)

Miles, Steven H. Oath betrayed: torture, medical complicity, and the war on terror (2006) (in part)

Mirakove, Carol. Occupied (2004)

Moran, Neil K. Kipling and Afghanistan: a study of the young author as journalist writing on the Afghan Border Crisis of 1884-1885 (2005)

Mortenson, Greg. Three cups of tea: one man’s mission to promote peace…one school at a time (2006) (in part)

Mortenson, Greg. Stones into schools: promoting peace with books, not bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan (2009) (in part)

Mullaney, Craig M. The unforgiving minute: a soldier’s education (2009)

Nasiri, Omar. Inside the jihad: my life with Al Qaeda: a spy’s story (2006)

Newby, Eric.  A short walk in the Hindu Kush (1958)

Nivat, Anne. The wake of war: encounters with the people of Iraq and Afghanistan (2005)

Patterson, Kevin and Jane Warren, editors. Outside the wire: the war in Afghanistan in the words of its participants (2007)

Pazira, Nelofer. A bed of red flowers: in search of my Afghanistan (2005)

Rahimi, Atiq. Earth and ashes (2002)

Rahimi, Atiq. The patience stone (2009)

Rahimi, Atiq. The thousand rooms of dreams and fears (2006)

Rashid, Ahmed. Taliban: Islam, oil and the new great game in central Asia (2002)

Reuters staff. Afghanistan: lifting the veil (2002)

Robertson, George. The Kafirs of the Hindu-Kush (1896)

Rodriguez, Deborah. Kabul Beauty School: an American woman goes behind the veil (2007)

Seierstad, Asne. The bookseller of Kabul (2003)

Shah, Indries. Kara Kush: a novel of Afghanistan (2002)

Shah, Saira. Storyteller’s daughter (2003)

Shamsie, Kamila. Burnt shadows (2009) (in part)

Stark, Freya. The Minaret of Djam (1970)

Stark, Freya. The valleys of the Assassins (1934)

Stewart, Rory. The places in between (2006)

Stewart, Rory. The prince of the other marshes and other occupational hazards of a year in Iraq (2006)

Thesiger, Wilfred. Arabian sands (1984)

Vollmann, William T. An Afghanistan picture show, or, How I saved the world (1992)

Watkins, Paul. The story of my disappearance (1998)

Wilson, Steven E. Winter in Kandahar (2004)

Wood, John. Journey to the source of Oxus (1841)

2010 Orange Prize for Fiction

The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver, is the winner of this year’s Orange Prize for Fiction.

‘We chose 'The Lacuna' because it is a book of breathtaking scale and shattering moments of poignancy.’Daisy Goodwin, Chair of Judges

Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Universal Orlando Resort, Florida, U.S.

Neil Genzlinger checks out the new Wizarding World of Harry Potter at the Universal Orlando Resort in Florida.

It’s just as well that there’s only the one truly outstanding ride in Wizarding World, because rides aren’t really the point; workmanship is. This attraction was made for the kind of people who have more or less memorized Ms. Rowling’s books, and it shows in all sorts of details. The weathering of the stone to make it look indefinably old. The way the snow sits on the rooftops, just on the verge of melting. – from “Muggles Take Flight at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, by Neil Genzlinger, The New York Times

Zimbabwe Book List

Berliner, Paul F. The soul of Mbira: music and traditions of the Shona people of Zimbabwe (1979)

Boynton, Graham. Last days in cloud cuckooland: dispatches from white Africa (1997) (in part)

Brown-Lowe, Robin. The lost city of Solomon and Sheba: an African mystery (2003)

Chinodya, Shimmer. Can we talk, and other stories (1998)

Chinodya, Shimmer. Dew in the morning (2001)

Dangarembga, Tsitsi. The book of not: a sequel to Nervous conditions (2006)

Dangarembga, Tsitsi. Nervous conditions (1988)

Fuller, Alexandra. Don’t let’s go to the dogs tonight: an African childhood (2001)

Fuller, Alexandra. Scribbling the cat: travels with an African soldier (2004) (in part)

Godwin, Peter. Mukiwa: a white boy in Africa (1996)

Godwin, Peter. When a crocodile eats the sun: a memoir of Africa (2008)

Holland, Heidi. Dinner with Mugabe: the untold story of a freedom fighter who became a tyrant (2008)

Hove, Chenjerai. Ancestors (1996)

Hove, Chenjerai. Bones (1990)

Hove, Chenjerai. Rainbows in the dust (1998)

Hove, Chenjerai. Shadows (1991)

Kala, Violet. Waste not your tears (1994)

Kanengoni, Alexander. Echoing silences (1998)

Kann, Wendy. Casting with a fragile thread: a story of sisters and Africa (2006)

Kilgore, James. We are all Zimbabweans now: a novel (2009)

Lamb, Christina. House of stone: the true story of a family divided in war-torn Zimbabwe (2006)

Lessing, Doris. African laughter: four visits to Zimbabwe (1992)

Lessing, Doris. Alfred and Emily (2008)

Lessing, Doris. The four-gated city (1969)

Lessing, Doris. Going home (1968)

Lessing, Doris. The grass is singing (1950)

Lessing, Doris. A proper marriage (1995)

Loney, Martin. Rhodesia, white racism and imperial response (1975)

Maraire, J. Nozipo. Zenzele: a letter for my daughter (1996)

Marechera, Dambudzo. The black insider (1999)

Marechera, Dambudzo. Black sunlight (1980)

Marechera, Dambudzo. The house of hunger: a novella and short stories (1978)

Marechera, Dambudzo. Scrapiron blues (1999)

Martin, David and Phyllis Johnson. The struggle for Zimbabwe: the Chimurenga War (1981)

Maruma, Olley Tsino. Coming home (2007)

McCall Smith, Alexander. The girl who married a lion (2004)

Meldrum, Andrew. Where we have hope: a memoir of Zimbabwe (2004)

Meredith, Martin. Mugabe: power, plunder, and the struggle for Zimbabwe’s future (2002)

Michot, Lucy. Chinongwa (2008)

Mungoshi, Charles. Coming of the dry season (2001)

Mungoshi, Charles. The milkman doesn’t only deliver milk (1998)

Mungoshi, Charles. The setting sun and the rolling world (1987)

Mungoshi, Charles. Waiting for the rain (1975)

Muponde, Robert and Ranka Primorac. Versions of Zimbabwe: new approaches to literature and culture (2005)

Mutswairo, Solomon M. Chaminuka, prophet of Zimbabwe (1983)

Mutswairo, Solomon M. Mapondera, soldier of Zimbabwe (1978)

Noy, Ilse. The art of the Weya women (1992)

Parfitt, Tudor. Journey to the vanished city (1992)

Pattison, David. No room for cowardice: a view of the life and times of Dambudzo Marechera (2001)

Raftopoulos, Brian and Alois Mlambo, editors. Becoming Zimbabwe: a history from the pre-colonial period to 2008 (2009)

Ranger, T. O. Voices from the rocks: nature, culture and history in the Matopos Hills of Zimbabwe (1999)

Rogers, Douglas. The last resort: a memoir of Zimbabwe (2009)

Rubert, Steven C. and R. Kent Rasmussen. Historical dictionary of Zimbabwe (2001)

St. John, Lauren. Rainbow’s end: a memoir of childhood, war and an African farm (2007)

Samkange, Stanlake. The mourned one (1975)

Samkange, Stanlake. On trial for my country (1966)

Samkange, Stanlake. Origins of Rhodesia (1968)

Samkange, Stanlake. Year of the uprising (1978)

Simpson, Colin and David Smith.  Mugabe (1981)

Sithole, Ndabaningi. Roots of a revolution: scenes from Zimbabwe’s struggle (1977)

Smith, Wilbur.  The angels weep (1983)

Smith, Wilbur. The leopard hunts in darkness (1984)

Smith, Wilbur. Men of men (1983)

Staunton, Irene, editor. Laughing now (2007)

Staunton, Irene, editor. Mothers of the revolution: the war experiences of thirty Zimbabwean women  (1990)

Staunton, Irene, editor. Writing now: more stories from Zimbabwe (2005)

Taylor, Debbie. The children who sleep by the river (1992)

Tucker, Neely. Love in the driest season: a family memoir (2004)

Vera, Yvonne. Butterfly burning (2000)

Wylie, Dan. Dead leaves: two years in the Rhodesian War (2002)

Yvonne Vera. Nehanda (1993)

Yvonne Vera. The stone virgins (2002)

Yvonne Vera. Under the tongue (1997)

Yvonne Vera. Why don’t you carve other animals (1992)

Vera, Yvonne. Without a name (1994)

Zimunya, Musaemura Bonas. Thought-tracks (1982)

Ireland

Author Colm Toibin explains why we “must read” Amongst Women, by John McGahern.

At the heart of the book is a brilliant and subversive idea — that Ireland, rather than being a nation or a community, was a place of isolated families, bitter individuals and gnarled relationships. But McGahern is too subtle a novelist to ever mention this idea in the book. Instead he allows it to emerge subtly, slowly and organically, from the deadened rituals in which the characters indulge. – Colm Toibin, NPR Website