The Ever-so-popular "Books I've Read in Africa" List
A Long Way Gone-Ishmael Beah The Alienist-Caleb Carr The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas- Hunter S. Thompson Clock Without Hands- Carson McCullers Leaving Home- Garrison Keillor Beach Road- James Patterson A Time to Kill and The King of Torts- John Grisham The Honk & Holler Opening Soon- Billie Letts A Cry in the Night- Mary Higgins-Clark The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns- Khaled Hosseini No Country for Old Men- Cormac McCarthy Gap Creek- Robert Morgan The Ladies' Number 1 Detective Agency- Alexander McCall-Smith Free Fall- Fern Michaels (possibly the worst book ever written!) Water for Elephants- Sara Gruen Invasion and Coma- Robin Cook K is for Killer- Sue Grafton Catcher in the Rye- Salinger The Myth of You & Me- Leah Stewart
also..funny/heartbreaking autobiographies, by males with questionable sexual status
Me Talk Pretty One Day- David Sedaris Running with Scissors- Augusten Burroughs A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius- Dave Eggers
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