fiction
a box of matches
a ship made of paper
a widow for one year
about a boy
accidental tourist
are you experienced?
back when we were grownups
bagombo snuff box: uncollected short stories
bee season
beyond lies the wub
blessings
blue eyes, black hair
blue shoe
breakout
breakup
carry me across the water
child of my heart
chocolat
choke
conversations with god: book i
count of monte cristo
dream story
driving mr. albert
eleven minutes
eugenie grandet
expecting someone taller
fahrenheit 451
fever pitch
flatland
floater
galileo's daughter
girl's guide to hunting and fishing
girl, interrupted
great expectations
hanging up
harry potter and the sorcerer's stone
heartburn
heavenly days
hey world, here i am!
how to be good
hunger
i know this much is true
if morning ever comes
ignorance
illusions
in the time of the butterflies
indigo
invisible monsters
jeeves in the morning
jonathan livingston seagull
l'affaire
l'etranger
la princesse de cleves
les liaisons dangereuses
liar's poker
life of pi
madame bovary
magnificent obsession
measure for measure
memoirs of a geisha
metamorphosis
monkey business
mystic river
naked pictures of famous people
nothing that meets the eye
oh what a paradise it seems
one hundred years of solitude
one hundred years of solitude
ordinary life
pay it forward
pnin
poems by robert frost
raise high the roof beam, carpenters, and seymour: an introduction
reservation road
run river
running in the family
saturn's return to new york
say when
searching for caleb
seductive poison
she's come undone
shopgirl
siddharta
silk
sister of my heart
speaking with the angel
the amateur marriage
the beach
the bourne identity
the calligrapher
the center of things
the clan of cave bear
the clock winder
the color of money
the color of water
the da vinci code
the decameron
the effect of living backwards
the end of the affair
the fountainhead
the fourth hand
the hours
the human stain
the inferno
the last time they met
the little prince
the minority report
the namesake
the no.1 ladies' detective agency
the passion
the phantom tollbooth
the pilot's wife
the pleasure of my company
the prophet
the pull of the moon
the reader
the rebel angels
the salmon of doubt
the seagull
the secret life of bees
the seven sisters
the shell collector
the story of jane
the sun also rises
the tao of pooh
the time machine
the unbearable lightness of being
the way people run
the wife
their eyes were watching god
thinks...
to kill a mockingbird
to see you again
tuesdays with morrie
up in the air
what do you care what other people think?
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I learned how to read well before kindergarten. I even remember the particular day. My sister, Yona, lay on my parent's bed, reading the newspaper. I was fascinated by the letters and wanted to know what they said. Starting with the large print headlines, my sister taught me how to read.
Since that day, I haven't stopped reading. I quickly went through all mainstream Turkish novels, moving on to the
older literary pieces. I remember reading many of them with a Turkish-Ottoman dictionary since the language was so
different. As soon as I learned English, I started reading most of the books in their original published languag
e, since most of the ones in Turkey were American novels. I remember many days my amazing mother would drive me fe
w hours out of the way to go to this one tiny bookstore that sold American teenage novels. We'd leave the place wi
th twenty or thirty books at a time, with me grinning as if I'd won the lottery.
Although I didn't read much during college, The New York Public Library totally
changed that once I moved into the city. Now, I read anything and everything. If I read about a book anywhere, I p
ut it on hold. I sneak at people's books in the subway. I write down all the new titles and check them out. Since
I'm not buying them, I'm much happier taking risks. The only books I don't read are horror, fantasy, and most kind
s of science fiction.
A while back, I started writing excerpts from books I had read or was reading. All the entries from before Decembe
r 2000 were originally part of my daily blog and I didn't convert them so they may be formatted slightly different
ly.
Please do recommend new books. I am always thrilled to discover new authors.
The excerpts are in alphabetical order. Hope you like these excerpts. Enjoy!
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non-fiction
a supposedly fun thing i'll never do again: essays and arguments
and still we rise
bringing down the house
color blind
crescent and star
dante
discipline with dignity
don't sweat the small stuff and it's all small stuff
drawing from the right side of the brain
educating esme
famous women
fast food nation
find me
for hearing people only
for your eye alone
from dawn to decadence: 500 years of western cultural life
how to win the nobel prize
i won't learn from you
intelligence reframed
it's the little things
last chance to see
lectures on shakespeare
lives of the artists: volume i
longitudes and attitudes
mauve
mean genes
metaphor & memory
multiple intelligences
my war
on writing
origins of architectural pleasure
paul rand
personal history
qed
rush limbaugh is a big fat idiot
savage inequalities
so many books, so little time
soak wash rinse spin
the business of books
the camera my mother gave me
the dream of reason: a history of philosophy from the greeks to the renaissance
the elegant universe
the eureka effect
the imitation factor
the italian renaissance reader
the language instinct
the law of averages
the learning gap
the metaphysical club
the non-designer's design book
the one minute manager
the opposite of fate
the pleasure of finding things out
the power of their ideas
the pragmatic programmer
the shifting realities of philip k. dick
the tipping point
thunder from the east
trail fever
tuva or bust!
understanding comics
what if? : the world's foremost military historians imagine what might have been
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