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1 | Christina's book list | |||||||||
2 | What should I read next? c@christinacacioppo.com | |||||||||
3 | Title | Author | Fiction | Recommended? | ||||||
4 | Godwin | Joseph O’Neill | Fiction | N | ||||||
5 | The Deserters | Mathias Enard | Fiction | Y | ||||||
6 | Marzahn, Mon Amour | Katja Oskamp | Fiction | Y | ||||||
7 | The World for Sale | Javier Blas, Jack Farchy | Nonfiction | Y | ||||||
8 | Cécé | Emmelie Prophète | Fiction | N | ||||||
9 | Vermeer | Gregor J M Weber, Pieter Roelofs | Nonfiction | Y | ||||||
10 | Coffee and Conflict in Colombia, 1886-1910 | Charles Bergquist | Nonfiction | Y | ||||||
11 | The Making of Modern Colombia | David Bushnell | Nonfiction | Y | ||||||
12 | Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | Fiction | Y | Mid 2008-2026 | |||||
13 | The Rose Field | Phillip Pullman | Fiction | N | ||||||
14 | Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli | Mark Seal | Nonfiction | Y | Fiction | 43% | ||||
15 | Empire of Orgasm | Ellen Huet | Nonfiction | Y | Recommended | 55% | ||||
16 | I Regret Almost Everything | Keith McNally | Nonfiction | N | ||||||
17 | The Great Fire | Shirley Hazzard | Fiction | Y | 2026 | |||||
18 | CEO: Building a Four Hundred Million Dollar Company from the Ground Up | Sandra Kurtzig, Tom Parker | Nonfiction | Y | Books | 9 | ||||
19 | Masters of the Game | Phil Jackson, Sam Smith | Nonfiction | N | Fiction | 56% | ||||
20 | When the Going was Good | Graydon Carter | Nonfiction | Y | Recommended | 78% | ||||
21 | Duveen | S.N. Behrman | Nonfiction | Y | ||||||
22 | The Secret History (re-read) | Donna Tartt | Fiction | Y | ||||||
23 | Breakneck | Dan Wang | Nonfiction | Y | 2025 | |||||
24 | Girls of Riyadh | Rajaa Alsanea | Fiction | N | Books | 37 | ||||
25 | The Blind Owl | Sadegh Hedayat | Fiction | N | Fiction | 46% | ||||
26 | Make Something Wonderful | Steve Jobs Archive / Leslie Berlin | Nonfiction | Y | Recommended | 68% | ||||
27 | The Godfather | Mario Puzo | Fiction | Y | ||||||
28 | Leaving the Atocha Station | Ben Lerner | Fiction | Y | 2024 | |||||
29 | Hit Girls | Nora Princiotti | Nonfiction | Y | Books | 30 | ||||
30 | L'adversaire | Emmanuel Carrère | Nonfiction | Y | Fiction | 50% | ||||
31 | Homage to Barcelona | Colm Tobin | Nonfiction | Y | Recommended | 77% | ||||
32 | Alexander Hamilton | Ron Chernow | Nonfiction | Y | ||||||
33 | The Many Deaths of Laila Starr | Ram V, Filipe Andrade | Fiction | Y | 2023 | |||||
34 | Berlin Stories | Christopher Isherwood | Fiction | N | Books | 45 | ||||
35 | Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? | Lorrie Moore | Fiction | Y | Fiction | 71% | ||||
36 | The Rich Boy | F. Scott Fitzgerald | Fiction | Y | Recommended | 76% | ||||
37 | Dance on the Volcano | Marie Vieux-Chauvet | Fiction | Y | ||||||
38 | Private Citizens | Tony Tulathimutte | Fiction | Y | 2022 | |||||
39 | * | Under the Skin | Michael Faber | Fiction | Y | Books | 46 | |||
40 | The Devil Wears Prada | Laura Weisberger | Fiction | N | Fiction | 48% | ||||
41 | All that Glitters | Orlando Whitfield | Nonfiction | Y | Recommended | 54% | ||||
42 | The Legend of Worthington Industries | Jeffrey L. Rodengen | Nonfiction | N | ||||||
43 | Cargill: Trading the World's Grain | Wayne G. Broehl | Nonfiction | Y | 2021 | |||||
44 | The Siege | Ben Macintyre | Nonfiction | Y | Books | 34 | ||||
45 | Invisible Giant | Brewster Kneen | Nonfiction | N | Fiction | 32% | ||||
46 | A Man for all Markets | Edward O. Thorpe | Nonfiction | Y | Recommended | 53% | ||||
47 | Africa's Billionaires | Chris Bishop | Nonfiction | N | ||||||
48 | Piranesi | Susanna Clarke | Fiction | N | 2020 | |||||
49 | The Old Drift | Namwali Serpell | Fiction | N | Books | 68 | ||||
50 | The Emperesses of Seventh Avenue | Nancy MacDonell | Nonfiction | N | Fiction | 65% | ||||
51 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (re-read) | JK Rowling | Fiction | N | Recommended | 49% | ||||
52 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (re-read) | JK Rowling | Fiction | Y | ||||||
53 | * | Selling Sexy | Lauren Sherman, Chantal Fernandez | Nonfiction | Y | 2019 | ||||
54 | Things fall apart | Chinua Achebe | Fiction | Y | Books | 58 | ||||
55 | Intermezzo | Sally Rooney | Fiction | Y | Fiction | 53% | ||||
56 | Creative Selection | Ken Kocienda | Nonfiction | Y | Recommended | 55% | ||||
57 | Dracula | Bram Stoker | Fiction | N | ||||||
58 | Tremor | Teju Cole | Fiction | N | 2018 | |||||
59 | Other Rivers | Peter Hessler | Nonfiction | Y | Books | 56 | ||||
60 | The Fellowship of the Ring (re-read after a long time) | JRR Tolkein | Fiction | Y | Fiction | 52% | ||||
61 | The Creative Act: A Way of Being | Rick Rubin | Nonfiction | Y | Recommended | 61% | ||||
62 | De Purs Hommes | Mohamed Mbougar Sarr | Fiction | Y | ||||||
63 | * | The Transit of Venus | Shirley Hazzard | Fiction | Y | 2017 | ||||
64 | * | Goodbye Eastern Europe | Jacob Mikanowski | Nonfiction | Y | Books | 90 | |||
65 | Short End of the Sonnenallee | Thomas Brussig | Fiction | Y | Fiction | 49% | ||||
66 | The War of the Roses | Alison Weir | Nonfiction | N | Recommended | 58% | ||||
67 | In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurz (re-read) | Michela Wrong | Nonfiction | Y | ||||||
68 | Leading at the Speed of Growth (re-read) | Katherine Catlin | Nonfiction | N | 2016 | |||||
69 | * | The Lumumba Plot | Stuart A. Reid | Nonfiction | Y | Books | 61 | |||
70 | Les confidences d'Arsene Lupin | Maurice Leblanc | Fiction | Y | Fiction | 34% | ||||
71 | Guns, Sails, and Empires | Caro Cipolla | Nonfiction | Y | Recommended | 39% | ||||
72 | Anansi's Gold | Yepoka Yeebo | Nonfiction | Y | ||||||
73 | The Splendid Outcast | Beryl Markham | Fiction | Y | 2015 | |||||
74 | Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress | Dai Sijie | Fiction | Y | Books | 71 | ||||
75 | In Praise of Commercial Culture | Tyler Cowen | Nonfiction | Y | Fiction | 32% | ||||
76 | The Dutch House | Ann Patchett | Fiction | Y | Recommended | 55% | ||||
77 | Invitation to a Banquet | Fuchsia Dunlop | Nonfiction | Y | ||||||
78 | The Buried (re-read) | Peter Hessler | Nonfiction | Y | 2014 | |||||
79 | The Bee Sting | Paul Murray | Fiction | N | Books | 35 | ||||
80 | The Trees | Percival Everett | Fiction | Y | Fiction | 9% | ||||
81 | Deadly Quiet City | Murong Xuecun | Nonfiction | Y | Recommended | 43% | ||||
82 | Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet | Lyndal Roper | Nonfiction | Y | ||||||
83 | So Late in the Day | Claire Keegan | Fiction | Y | 2013 | |||||
84 | Trespasses | Louise Kennedy | Fiction | Y | Books | 57 | ||||
85 | GOAT: Who is the Greatest Economist of all Time and Why Does it Matter? | Tyler Cowen | Nonfiction | Y | Fiction | 23% | ||||
86 | A Place Apart | Dervala Murphy | Nonfiction | Y | Recommended | 58% | ||||
87 | Partition | Ivan Gibbons | Nonfiction | Y | ||||||
88 | The City & the City | China Melville | Fiction | Y | 2012 | |||||
89 | Augustus | John Williams | Fiction | N | Books | 74 | ||||
90 | Going Infinite | Michael Lewis | Nonfiction | N | Fiction | 31% | ||||
91 | Make Gentle the Life of this World | Maxwell Taylor Kennedy | Nonfiction | Y | Recommended | 49% | ||||
92 | Loot | Tania James | Fiction | N | ||||||
93 | Trust | Domenico Starnone | Fiction | Y | 2011 | |||||
94 | Yellowface | R.F. Kuang | Fiction | N | Books | 34 | ||||
95 | Romantic Comedy | Curtis Sittenfeld | Fiction | N | Fiction | 53% | ||||
96 | The House on Via Gemito | Domenico Starnone | Fiction | Y | Recommended | 65% | ||||
97 | * | La plus secrète mémoire des hommes | Mohamed Mbougar Sarr | Fiction | Y | |||||
98 | Pétronille | Amélie Nothomb | Fiction | Y | 2010 | |||||
99 | Visitation | Jenny Erpenbeck | Fiction | N | Books | 38 | ||||
100 | Les Débutants | Anne Serre | Fiction | Y | Fiction | 32% |