THE TO READ LIST Reading: Taltos by Steven Brust For We Are Many by Dennis E. Taylor Larp Design: Creating Role-Play Experiences edited by Johanna Koljonen, Jaakko Stenros, Anne Serup Grove, Aina D. Skjønsfjell, and Elin Nilsen Finished (since 5.03.20): Most recent to least recent Recommended: bolded, Not Recommended: strike-out, Audiobook: * Teckla by Steven Brust Yendi by Steven Brust from 5.3.2003 - 5.3.2019 To Read: In no particular order Japanese History/Literature The Origins of Japan's Medieval World: Courtiers, Clerics, Warriors, and Peasants in the Fourteenth Century by Jeffrey Mass Seeds in the Heart by Donald Keene The Father-Daughter Plot: Japanese Literary Women and the Law of the Father by Rebecca L. Copeland and Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen The Making of Shinkokinshu by Robert N. Huey Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts by Haruo Shirane Inventing the Classics: Modernity, National Identity, and Japanese Literature by Haruo Shirane and Tomi Suzuki Masks by Fumiko Enshi Japan Emerging: Premodern History to 1850, Karl Friday, ed. The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography by Martin W. Lewis and‎ Kären Wigen Seascapes: Maritime Histories, Littoral Cultures, and Transoceanic Exchanges SF Amatka by Karin Tidbeck Vurt by Jeff Noon Anubis Gates by Tim Powers Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson The Black Company by Glen Cook Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan Downbelow Station by C.J. Cherryh Fantasy The Light Bearer by Donna Gillespie Ōoku by Fumi Yoshinaga Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings Mystery/Suspense/Other Fiction Ill Will by Dan Chaon I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes Classics(ish?) Family by Pa Chin The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy The Magus by John Fowles Interesting Nonfiction Orientalism and Visual Culture: Imagining Mesopotamia in Nineteenth-Century Europe by Frederick N. Bohrer The Sum of Small Things: A Theory of the Aspirational Class by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett The Historians Craft by Marc Bloch We Were the People: Voices from East Germany’s Revolutionary Autumn of 1989 by Dirk Philipsen A Moveable Empire : Ottoman Nomads, Migrants, and Refugees by Resat Kasaba Beyond Elegy: Classical Arab Women's Poetry in Context By Marle Hammond The Crusades Through Arab Eyes by Amin Maalouf A Short History of the Byzantine Empire by John Julius Norwhich Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson Zoroastrianism: An Introduction by Jenny Rose God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens The End of Faith by Sam Harris Why People Believe Weird Things and Why We Believe by Michael Shermer Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by Dan Dennett Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People, and Its History by Joseph Telushkin ~*~*HOME*~*~