Books 2004
Jan. 1st, 2005 03:34 pmBooks I read in 2004 (favorites bolded). I was really shooting for 100 :(
- A Short History of Public Health by George Rosen
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
- The Web That Has no Weaver: Understanding Chinese Medicine by by Ted J. Kaptchuk
- Medicine in China: A History of Ideas by Paul U. Unschuld
- The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
- The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
- The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
- Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (on tape)
- Plagues and Peoples by William McNeill
- The Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King
- The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke (on tape)
- Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones
- The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine by Shigehisa Kuriyama
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabakov
- The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 1) by Lemony Snicket (on tape)
- A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
- Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr by Garth Nix
- The Reptile Room (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 2) by Lemony Snicket (on tape)
- The Wide Window (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 3) by Lemony Snicket (on tape)
- Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg
- Immortality by Milan Kundera
- Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
- The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream by Paulo Coelho
- Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown by Nayan Shah
- Blindness by Jose Saramago
- The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Seven Pillars of Wisdom by TE Lawrence
- A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- Ilium by Dan Simmons
- The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
- The Bondswoman's Narrative by Hannah Crafts (Ed. Henry Louis Gates Jr.)
- The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel of Fevers, Delirium & Discovery by Amitav Ghosh
- Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian
- The Iliad by Homer (on tape)
- Abhorsen by Garth Nix
- Heat Wave:A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago by Eric Klinenberg
- The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception by Michel Foucault
- Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform, and the Environment 1880-1980 by Martin V. Melosi
- Water for the Cities: A History of the Urban Water Supply Problem in the United States by Nelson M. Blake
- The Pasteurization of France by Bruno Latour
- The Making of a Social Disease: Tuberculosis in Nineteenth Century France by David Barnes
- Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health by Judith Walzer Leavitt
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
- The Healthiest City: Milwaukee and the Politics of Health Reform by Judith Walzer Leavitt
- Magic in the Middle Ages by Richard Kieckhefer
- Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India by David Arnold
- Bluebeard's Chamber: Guilt and Confession in Thomas Mann by Michael Maar, translated by David Fernbach
- The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life by Nancy Tomes
- Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and the "Immigrant Menace" by Alan M. Kraut
- Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle
- Picturing Health and Illness: Images of Identity and Difference by Sander L. Gilman
- The Social Construction of What by Ian Hacking
- Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Iinmates by Erving Goffman
- Bargaining for Life: A Social History of Tuberculosis, 1876-1938 by Barbara Bates
- City of Plagues: Disease, Poverty, and Deviance in San Francisco by Susan Craddock
- Below the Magic Mountain: A Social History of Tuberculosis in Twentieth-Century Britain by Linda Bryder
- Saranac: America's Magic Mountain by Robert Taylor
- Living in the Shadow of Death: Tuberculosis & the Social Experience of Illness in American History by Sheila Rothman
- Contagion and Confinement: Controlling Tuberculosis along the Skid Row by Barron Lerner
- Picturing Health and Illness: Images of Identity and Difference by Sander L. Gilman
- Membranes: Metaphors of Invasion in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Science, and Politics by Laura Otis
- The Plague by Albert Camus
- The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice by Annemarie Mol
- The Ambitions of Curiosity: Understanding the World in Ancient Greece and China by G.E.R. Lloyd
- The Miserable Mill (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 4) by Lemony Snicket
- The Austere Academy (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 5) by Lemony Snicket
- The Ersatz Elevator (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 6) by Lemony Snicket
- The Vile Village (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 7) by Lemony Snicket
- The Hostile Hospital (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 8) by Lemony Snicket
- The Compassion Protocol by Hervé Guibert
- Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues by Paul Farmer
- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
- Song of Susannah by Stephen King