future book ideas

Books proposed but not chosen in March 2007:

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Ogallala Blue by William Ashworth
A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella L. Bird
This Way for Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski
Possession by A. S. Byatt
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
My Mother’s House by Colette
The Dream of Thousand Lives: a Sojourn in Thailand by Karen Connelly
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
Winter’s Tales by Isak Dinesen
The Unknown Errors of Our Lives by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Another Kind of Life by Catherine Dunne
What Is the What by Dave Eggers
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya by Caroline Elkins
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Annie Fadiman
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor by Paul Farmer
Washington’s Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier
Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues by Paul Fulmer
Pompeii by Robert Harris
My Life as an Explorer by Sven Hedin
Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
A World Apart by Gustaw Herling–Grudziński
Oracle Bones by Peter Hessler
Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz
A Hazard of New Fortunes by William Dean Howells
Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 by David M. Kennedy
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Annals of the Former World by John McPhee
The Headmaster by John McPhee
La Place de la Concorde Suisse by John McPhee
The Survival of the Bark Canoe by John McPhee
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey by Candice Millard
My Kind of Place by Susan Orlean
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Night Flight by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Wind, Sand, and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
South by Ernest Shackleton
Kolyma Tales by Varlam Shalanov
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Baghdad Sketches by Freya Stark
The Valleys of the Assassins: and Other Persian Travels by Freya Star
The Kingdom of God is Within You by Leo Tolstoy
Floating off the Page: The Best Stories from the Wall Street Journal’s Middle Column ed. Ken Wells
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West
Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian