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Books 2004

Readings in 2004
  1. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams (8/16/04) *****
  2. 2150 AD by Thea Alexander (8/27/04) **
  3. Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
  4. Invisible Cities: A Metaphorical Complex Adaptive System by Chloe Atreya (7/20/04) ****
  5. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (5/6/04) ****
  6. Myths to Live By by Joseph Campbell (7/19/04) ****
  7. What to Listen For in Music by Aaron Copland (7/25/04) ****
  8. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (2/19/04) *****
  9. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (6/1/04) ***
  10. 人类的敦煌 冯骥才 (9/13/04) ***
  11. One Man's Bible (Chinese) by Xingjian Gao (8/9/04) *****
  12. The Comedians by Graham Greene (12/3/04) ****
  13. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene (9/30/04) *****
  14. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (10/4/04) ***
  15. Brave New World Revisited Aldous Huxley (4/5/04) ****
  16. Dubliners by James Joyce (11/19/04) *****
  17. Sole Survivor: Dennis Hale's Own Story as told to Tim Juhl, Pat & Jim Stayer (8/2/04) ***
  18. Ironweed by William Kennedy (5/4/04) ****
  19. Tao Te Ching by Lao Tsu (12/19/04) *****
  20. A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle (5/3/04) ****
  21. The Call of the Wild by Jack London (7/13/04) ***
  22. The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham (7/10/04) ****
  23. The Last Voyage of the Karluk by William McKinlay (7/12/04) ***
  24. The Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller (6/29/04) *****
  25. Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman (1/13/04) **
  26. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (01/11/04) *****
  27. 千古之谜:楼兰 (Chinese) by Shunying Mu (9/4/04) ***
  28. The Sonnets by Shakespeare
  29. Lust for Life by Irving Stone (5/2/04) ****
  30. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard (3/20/04) ****
  31. Sophie's Choice by William Styron (10/26/04) *****
  32. The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux (3/18/04) ****
  33. Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (8/20/04) *****
  34. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams (7/2/04) *****
  35. Hutong 99 (Chinese) by Cheng Xiaoling and Xu Yong (7/26/04) ****
Reference Books, Guide Books, Text Books
  1. Lonely Planet Puerto Rico
  2. 京都胜迹 (Chinese) (9/1/04)
  3. 丝绸明珠:敦煌 (Chinese) by Guanglin Yin (9/5/04)
  4. Northwestern China (Chinese)
Books on Tapes; The Teaching Company
  1. The Cat Who Robbed a Bank by Lilian Jackson Braun (5/30/04) **
  2. Augustine: Philosopher and Saint by Philip Cary (11/20/04) ****
  3. The Art of Happiness at Work by Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler (6/29/04) ***
  4. Great Masters: Shostakovich--His Life and Music by Robert Greenberg (7/7/04) *****
  5. Great World Religions: Hinduism by Mark Muesse (7/8/04) ****
  6. H.M.S. Surprise by Patrick O'Brian (2/29/04) ***
  7. Agnes of God by John Pielmeier (4/3/04) *****
  8. Pope John Paul II by Tad Szulc (9/27/04) *****
(no) Movies on big screen (for 2004)
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