ThereseW - to read list 2010 - Have YOU read any of these???

Some of my TBRs of 2010:

Hotel World - Ali Smith
Sult - Knut Hamsun
Mysterier - Knut Hamsun
What I loved - Siri Hustvedt
The Unbearable Lightness of being - Milan Kundera
A Heartbreaking Work of a Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers
The Post Office - Charles Bukowski
Abyssinian Chronicles - Moses Isegawa
Mr Pip - Lloyd Jones
Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi
The Last King of Scotland - Giles Foden
Disgrace - J. M . Coetzee
Graceland- Chris Abani
Beasts of No Nation: A Novel P.S - Uzodinma Iweala
The Wizard of the Crow - Ngugi wa Thiongo
Little Boys Come from the Stars - Emmanuel Dongala
The Famished Road - Ben Okri
The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Unaccustomed Earth - Jhumpa Lahiri - READ
Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
Tropical Fish:Tales from Entebbe - Doreen Baingana
Nervous Conditions - Tsitsi Dangarembga
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf

As you can see, I have a lot of African authors on my list. I'm spending two months in Uganda this fall, as a medical intern on a hospital in Kampala. I always like to read about the country I'm going to.

Have any of you read any gret books on Uganda/set in Uganda???

I would love to get some feedback on books on my TBR list if you have read any of these.

I like your list and I think I will add a few to my list. I read The Road, Mr. Pip, and one other David Sedaris book. Sorry to say I didn't care for any of them, but don't listen to me, I know there are others here who liked them. If you go to the 75 challenge you can find a whole thread about Midnight's Children. It was read as a group read about a month ago. Happy Reading!!!

Thanks!

I´ll check out what the group readers thought about Midnight´s Children.

Hi Therese,

Disgrace is excellent,The Road was beautifully written but a little too bleak for my liking, and I just couldn't bring myself to finish Wolf Hall. I really want to read Things Fall Apart, Middlesex and Half of a Yellow Sun so I'll be looking forward to reading your reviews!
The very best of luck to you in Uganda! My sister is a Dr. and worked for the last two summers in Malawi and said it was one of the most rewarding experiences in her entire life.

Finished Unaccustomed Eart today. It was a really wonderful collection of short stories. The first section consistes of stories with characters that has nothing to do with eachother except for being indian immigrants or children of indian immigrants in the US. The second part consists of stories with two protagonist that play a role in eachothers life. This last part was especially moving.

I will definitely add more of Lahiri's work to my TBR list of 2010!