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1 | Christina's book list | |||||||||
2 | What should I read next? c@christinacacioppo.com | |||||||||
3 | Title | Author | Fiction | Recommended? | ||||||
4 | * | Under the Skin | Michael Faber | Fiction | Y | |||||
5 | The Devil Wears Prada | Laura Weisberger | Fiction | N | ||||||
6 | All that Glitters | Orlando Whitfield | Fiction | Y | ||||||
7 | Cargill: Trading the World's Grain | Wayne G. Broehl | Nonfiction | Y | ||||||
8 | The Siege | Ben Macintyre | Nonfiction | Y | ||||||
9 | Invisible Giant | Brewster Kneen | Nonfiction | N | ||||||
10 | A Man for all Markets | Edward O. Thorpe | Nonfiction | Y | Mid 2008-2025 | |||||
11 | Africa's Billionaires | Chris Bishop | Nonfiction | N | ||||||
12 | Piranesi | Susanna Clarke | Fiction | N | Fiction | 43% | ||||
13 | The Old Drift | Namwali Serpell | Fiction | N | Recommended | 54% | ||||
14 | The Emperesses of Seventh Avenue | Nancy MacDonell | Nonfiction | N | ||||||
15 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (re-read) | JK Rowling | Fiction | N | 2025 | |||||
16 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (re-read) | JK Rowling | Fiction | Y | Books | 10 | ||||
17 | * | Selling Sexy | Lauren Sherman, Chantal Fernandez | Nonfiction | Y | Fiction | 50% | |||
18 | Things fall apart | Chinua Achebe | Fiction | Y | Recommended | 50% | ||||
19 | Intermezzo | Sally Rooney | Fiction | Y | ||||||
20 | Creative Selection | Ken Kocienda | Nonfiction | Y | 2024 | |||||
21 | Dracula | Bram Stoker | Fiction | N | Books | 30 | ||||
22 | Tremor | Teju Cole | Fiction | N | Fiction | 50% | ||||
23 | Other Rivers | Peter Hessler | Nonfiction | Y | Recommended | 77% | ||||
24 | The Fellowship of the Ring (re-read after a long time) | JRR Tolkein | Fiction | Y | ||||||
25 | The Creative Act: A Way of Being | Rick Rubin | Nonfiction | Y | 2023 | |||||
26 | De Purs Hommes | Mohamed Mbougar Sarr | Fiction | Y | Books | 45 | ||||
27 | * | The Transit of Venus | Shirley Hazzard | Fiction | Y | Fiction | 71% | |||
28 | * | Goodbye Eastern Europe | Jacob Mikanowski | Nonfiction | Y | Recommended | 76% | |||
29 | Short End of the Sonnenallee | Thomas Brussig | Fiction | Y | ||||||
30 | The War of the Roses | Alison Weir | Nonfiction | N | 2022 | |||||
31 | In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurz (re-read) | Michela Wrong | Nonfiction | Y | Books | 46 | ||||
32 | Leading at the Speed of Growth (re-read) | Katherine Catlin | Nonfiction | N | Fiction | 50% | ||||
33 | * | The Lumumba Plot | Stuart A. Reid | Nonfiction | Y | Recommended | 54% | |||
34 | Les confidences d'Arsene Lupin | Maurice Leblanc | Fiction | Y | ||||||
35 | Guns, Sails, and Empires | Caro Cipolla | Nonfiction | Y | 2021 | |||||
36 | Anansi's Gold | Yepoka Yeebo | Nonfiction | Y | Books | 34 | ||||
37 | The Splendid Outcast | Beryl Markham | Fiction | Y | Fiction | 32% | ||||
38 | Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress | Dai Sijie | Fiction | Y | Recommended | 53% | ||||
39 | In Praise of Commercial Culture | Tyler Cowen | Nonfiction | Y | ||||||
40 | The Dutch House | Ann Patchett | Fiction | Y | 2020 | |||||
41 | Invitation to a Banquet | Fuchsia Dunlop | Nonfiction | Y | Books | 68 | ||||
42 | The Buried (re-read) | Peter Hessler | Nonfiction | Y | Fiction | 65% | ||||
43 | The Bee Sting | Paul Murray | Fiction | N | Recommended | 49% | ||||
44 | The Trees | Percival Everett | Fiction | Y | ||||||
45 | Deadly Quiet City | Murong Xuecun | Nonfiction | Y | 2019 | |||||
46 | Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet | Lyndal Roper | Nonfiction | Y | Books | 58 | ||||
47 | So Late in the Day | Claire Keegan | Fiction | Y | Fiction | 53% | ||||
48 | Trespasses | Louise Kennedy | Fiction | Y | Recommended | 55% | ||||
49 | GOAT: Who is the Greatest Economist of all Time and Why Does it Matter? | Tyler Cowen | Nonfiction | Y | ||||||
50 | A Place Apart | Dervala Murphy | Nonfiction | Y | 2018 | |||||
51 | Partition | Ivan Gibbons | Nonfiction | Y | Books | 56 | ||||
52 | The City & the City | China Melville | Fiction | Y | Fiction | 52% | ||||
53 | Augustus | John Williams | Fiction | N | Recommended | 61% | ||||
54 | Going Infinite | Michael Lewis | Nonfiction | N | ||||||
55 | Make Gentle the Life of this World | Maxwell Taylor Kennedy | Nonfiction | Y | 2017 | |||||
56 | Loot | Tania James | Fiction | N | Books | 90 | ||||
57 | Trust | Domenico Starnone | Fiction | Y | Fiction | 49% | ||||
58 | Yellowface | R.F. Kuang | Fiction | N | Recommended | 58% | ||||
59 | Romantic Comedy | Curtis Sittenfeld | Fiction | N | ||||||
60 | The House on Via Gemito | Domenico Starnone | Fiction | Y | 2016 | |||||
61 | * | La plus secrète mémoire des hommes | Mohamed Mbougar Sarr | Fiction | Y | Books | 61 | |||
62 | Pétronille | Amélie Nothomb | Fiction | Y | Fiction | 34% | ||||
63 | Visitation | Jenny Erpenbeck | Fiction | N | Recommended | 39% | ||||
64 | Les Débutants | Anne Serre | Fiction | Y | ||||||
65 | Malice | Keigo Higashino | Fiction | N | 2015 | |||||
66 | Kairos | Jenny Erpenbeck | Fiction | Y | Books | 71 | ||||
67 | The Happy Couple | Naoise Dolan | Fiction | N | Fiction | 32% | ||||
68 | Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Ishiguro | Fiction | Y | Recommended | 55% | ||||
69 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | William Shakespeare | Fiction | Y | ||||||
70 | The Remains of the Day (reread) | Kazuo Ishiguro | Fiction | Y | 2014 | |||||
71 | Breakfast of Champions | Kurt Vonnegut | Fiction | Y | Books | 35 | ||||
72 | Seeing like a State | James C. Scott | Nonfiction | Y | Fiction | 9% | ||||
73 | * | Klara and the Sun | Kazuo Ishiguro | Fiction | Y | Recommended | 43% | |||
74 | Scatterlings | Resoketswe Manenzhe | Fiction | N | ||||||
75 | Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh | Shrayana Bhattaacharya | Nonfiction | Y | 2013 | |||||
76 | Pineapple Street | Jenny Jackson | Fiction | Y | Books | 57 | ||||
77 | Bluets | Maggie Nelson | Fiction | Y | Fiction | 23% | ||||
78 | Scaling People | Claire Hughes Johnson | Nonfiction | Y | Recommended | 58% | ||||
79 | The Outsiders (re-read) | William N. Thorndike | Nonfiction | Y | ||||||
80 | Shantaram | Gregory David Robert | Fiction | N | 2012 | |||||
81 | The Hungry Tide | Amitav Ghosh | Fiction | Y | Books | 73 | ||||
82 | Burnt Sugar | Avni Doshi | Fiction | N | Fiction | 32% | ||||
83 | A Burning | Megha Majumdar | Fiction | Y | Recommended | 48% | ||||
84 | Babel | RF Kuang | Fiction | Y | ||||||
85 | 7 Rules of Power | Jeffrey Pfeiffer | Nonfiction | Y | 2011 | |||||
86 | Deluxe | Dana Thomas | Nonfiction | Y | Books | 34 | ||||
87 | Freedom | Jonathan Franzen | Fiction | Y | Fiction | 53% | ||||
88 | Netherland (re-read) | Joseph O’Neill | Fiction | Y | Recommended | 65% | ||||
89 | The Third Man and the Fallen Idol | Graham Greene | Fiction | N | ||||||
90 | Brideshead Revisited | Evelyn Waugh | Fiction | N | 2010 | |||||
91 | Digital Hesitation | Thomas Lah, J.B. Wood | Nonfiction | N | Books | 38 | ||||
92 | L'arab du Future 5 | Riad Sattouf | Fiction | Y | Fiction | 32% | ||||
93 | Seven Steeples | Sara Baume | Fiction | N | Recommended | 32% | ||||
94 | Foster | Claire Keegan | Fiction | Y | ||||||
95 | The Leader Assistant | Jeremy Burrows | Nonfiction | N | 2009 | |||||
96 | Kibongo | Scholastique Mukasonga | Fiction | Y | Books | 31 | ||||
97 | The Chancellor | Kati Marton | Nonfiction | N | Fiction | 55% | ||||
98 | Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty | Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe | Nonfiction | N | Recommended | 48% | ||||
99 | Trick | Domenico Starnone | Fiction | Y | ||||||
100 | Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow | Gabrielle Zevin | Fiction | Y |