Haz's Personal Booklists

Moja Amin left a comment in my earlier post "Who/What Are You Currently Reading?" asking if I would list out book recommendations. Well I can't really recommend because my taste in books is somewhat weird but here are the lists of my recent and not-so-recent read:

Fiction:
1. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
2. The Awakening - Kate Chopin
3. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
4. People of The Book - Geraldine Brooks
5. The Reader - Bernard Schlink
6. Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri
7. The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
8. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
9. Beat the Reaper - Josh Bazell
10. Dreamers of the Days -Mary Doria Russell
11. The Commoner -John Burnham Schwartz
12. The Princess Bride - William Goldman
13. Waiting - Ha Jin
14. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
15. Native Son - Richard Wright
16. The Attack - Yasmina Khadra
17. The Septembers of Shiraz - Dalia Sofer
18. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
19. The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
20. The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
21. The Bastard of Istanbul - Elif Shafak
22. Snow Flower and The Secret Fan - Lisa See
23. Peony in Love - Lisa See
24. Stardust - Neil Gaiman
25. The Pakistani Bride - Bapsi Sidhwa
26. Mister Pip - Lloyd Jones
27. The Golden Compass - Phillip Pullman
28. The Subtle Knife - Phillip Pullman
29. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
30. My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult
31. Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
32. Digging to America - Anne Tyler
33. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian - C.S. Lewis
34. Bonjour Tristesse - Francoise Sagan
35. Equal Rites - Terry Pratchett
36. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist - Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
37. The Twilight Saga (Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn) - Stephenie Meyer
38. Daisy Miller - Henry James
39. Washington Square - Henry James
40. Prep - Curtis Sittenfeld
41. Chez Moi - Agnes Desarthe
42. Girl with a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
43. The Girl and The Unicorn - Tracy Chevalier
44. Chocolat - Joanne Harris
45. Woman at Point Zero - Nawal el Saadawi

Alright, let's stop at 45 and get going with the non-fiction list...

Non- fiction
1. Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women - Geraldine Brooks
2. Banker for the Poor - Muhammad Yunus
3. Reading Lolita in Tehran: Memoir in Books - Azar Nafisi
4. Things I've Been Silent About - Azar Nafisi
5. Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortensen
6. Persepolis - Marjan Satriapi
7. The Qur'an and Sayings of Prophet Muhammad: Selections Annotated and Explained - Sohaib N. Sultan
8. The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch


So from these lists there two obvious conclusions to my reading habit:

1. My love for fiction > My love for non-fiction
- This is NOT necessarily true. I read non-fiction when I am researching for a short story, but I seldom finish all of them. Unfinished books are not included in the lists, it's against my moral principle.

2. I prefer female writers than male writers.
- This is TOTALLY true.


Happy reading!

*I owned most of these books! (And more, of course)

**If you need elaboration on any of the books (what is it about, how I like it, etc) just leave a comment and I will get back to you as soon as I can.