| Books I Loved |
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| Fiction |
| Averill, Thomas Fox. The Secrets of the Tsil Café |
| Coe, Jonathan. The Rotter’s Club |
| Connelly, Karen. The Lizard Cage: a Novel |
| Dominguez, Carlos Maria. The House of Paper |
| Dunant, Sarah. The Birth of Venus |
| Garcia Marquez, Gabriel. Love in the Time of Cholera |
| Harris, Jane. The Observations |
| Hornby, Nick. About a Boy |
| Hosseini, Khaled. A Thousand Splendid Suns |
| Keyes, Marian. Sushi for Beginners |
| Kinsella, Sophie. Can You Keep a Secret? |
| Kostova, Elizabeth. The Historian |
| Levy, Andrea. Small Island |
| Liss, David. The Coffee Trader |
| Maguire, Gregory. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West |
| Park, Jacqueline. The Secret Book of Grazia Dei Rossi |
| Ruiz Zafón, Carlos. The Shadow of the Wind |
| Setterfield, Diane. The Thirteenth Tale |
| Smith, Zadie. White Teeth |
| Urquhart, Jane. The Stone Carvers |
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| Non-Fiction |
| Abley, Mark. Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages |
| Abu-Jaber, Diana. The Language of Baklava: a Memoir |
| Ayittey, George B.N. Africa Unchained: the Blueprint for Africa’s Future |
| Bader, Sara. Strange Red Cow and Other Curious Classified Ads from the Past |
| Basbanes, Nicholas. Patience and Fortitude: a roving chronicle of book people, book places, and book culture |
| Blom, Philipp. Encyclopedie: The Triumph of Reason in an Unreasonable Age |
| Bortolotti, Dan. Hope in Hell: Inside the World of Doctors Without Borders |
| Bourdain, Anthony. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly |
| Bryson, Bill. In a Sunburned Country |
| Buzbee, Lewis. The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop |
| Collingham, Lizzie. Curry : a tale of cooks and conquerors |
| Collins, Paul. Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books |
| Coloroso, Barbara. Extraordinary Evil: A Brief History of Genocide |
| Connelly, Karen. Touch the Dragon: a Thai Journal |
| Dalrymple, Theodore. Our Culture What’s Left of It: the Mandarins and the Masses |
| Dash, Mike. Tulipomania |
| Ehrenreich, Barbara. Nickel and Dimed: On (not) Getting by in America |
| Furedi, Frank. Therapy Culture: Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age |
| Gilman, Susan Jane. Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress |
| Gladwell, Malcom. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Make a Big Difference |
| Gopnik, Adam. Through the Children’s Gate: A Home in New York |
| Grandin, Temple, & Catherine Johnson. Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behaviour |
| Hochschild, Adam. King Leopold’s Ghost |
| Holmes, Rachel. African Queen: The Real Life of the Hottentot Venus |
| Horwitz, Tony. Baghdad Without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia |
| Jacobs, A.J. The Know-It-All: One Man’s Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World |
| Kennedy, Michelle. Without a Net: Middle Class and Homeless (with Kids) in America: My Story |
| King, Ross. Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling |
| Kurlansky, Mark. Salt: a World History |
| Lamb, Christina. The Sewing Circles of Herat: A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan |
| Lewis, Stephen. Race Against Time |
| Levitt, Steven D. and Stephen J. Dubner. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything |
| Lightman, Alan. A Sense of the Mysterious: Science and the Human Spirit |
| Mallet, Gina. Last Chance to Eat: the Fate of Taste in a Fast Food World |
| Manguel, Alberto. A Reading Diary: A Year of Favourite Books |
| Moxham, Roy. The Great Hedge of India |
| Nadeau, Jean-Benoit and Julie Barrow. Sixty Million Frenchmen Can’t be Wrong |
| Nadeau, Jean-Benoit & Julie Barlow. The Story of French |
| Paradiz, Valerie. Clever Maids: The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales |
| Philbrick, Nathaniel. Mayflower |
| Preston, Richard. The Demon in the Freezer: a True Story |
| Rapaille, Clotaire. The Culture Code: An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Live as They Do |
| Reichl, Ruth. Tender at the Bone: growing up at the table |
| Reiss, Tom. The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life |
| Rifkin, Jeremy. The European Dream: How Europe’s Vision of the Future is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream |
| Roach, Mary. Stiff: the Curious Lives of Human Cadavers |
| Sachs, Jeffrey. The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time |
Salzman, Mark. Iron & Silk |
| Saul, John Ralston. The Collapse of Globalism and the Reinvention of the World |
| Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation:the dark side of the all-American meal |
| Steinbach, Alice. Educating Alice: Adventures of a Curious Woman |
| Truss, Lynne. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: the zero tolerance approach to punctuation |
| Underhill, Paco. Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping |
| Wheen, Francis. How Mumbo Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions |
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| Livres en français |
| Beauchemin, Yves. Charles le Téméraire |
| Claudel, Philippe. La petite fille de Monsieur Linh |
| Khadra, Yasmina. Les sirènes de Bagdad |
| Khadra, Yasmina. L’attentat |
| Riou, Jean-Michel. Le secret de Champollion |
Suskind, Patrick. Le parfum: l’histoire d’un meurtrier |
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