“There Is Always a Struggle”: An Interview with Chieko N. Okazaki

see the whole interview here.

https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V45N01_CO.pdf

Amazon's 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime

Amazon's 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (finished 3/11/2016. It was wonderful)
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (read 2010)
• The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank (read 1999)
• 1984 by George Orwell (read 2016)
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling (read 2000 and 2007)
• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (finished May 2014... finally)
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (read 2003)
• Charlotte’s Web by Garth Williams 
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (read 2013)
• The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien (read 2006)
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (read January 2016- sobering and relevant.)
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte  (read October 2014 in Jane's honor. Not my favorite but glad I did).
• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (read 1999 and 2005)
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn  by Mark Twain (read 2000)
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett (read 2012)
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis (read 2004)
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (read 2010)
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (read 2013)
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• Night by Elie Wiesel
• Hamlet by William Shakespeare
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (read 1999)
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
• The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (read 2005)
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (read December 2016)
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (read 1995)
• Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (read 1999)
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (read January 2017. Scary sobering and relevant)
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• The Little Prince by Antoine de St-Expupery
• Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein (read 1995)
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
• The Giver by Lois Lowry (read 1996)
• Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery (read 1996 and 2014)
• MacBeth by William Shakespeare (read 2001)
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (read 2000)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling (read 2007)
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (read 2001 and 2002)
• The Holy Bible: New King James Version (read 2001)
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
• The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
• Catch-22 by Joesph Heller
• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
• The Stand by Stephen King
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• Watership Down by Richard Adams
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (read 2001)
• Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (read 1999)
• Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling (read 2000)
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
• A Game of Thrones by George RR Martin (read July 2016. Bleh)
• The Princess Bride by William Goldman 
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel (read 2006)
• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
• Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (read 2000)
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by JK Rowling (read 2005)
• Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (read 2010)
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe (read 1999)
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
• Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (read 2012, 2013, 2014, audio 2015)
• A Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (read 2001)
• The Good Earth by Pearl S Buck
• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (read 2011 and 2014)
• The Odyssey by Homer (read 1999)
• Celebrating Silence: Excerpts from 5 Years of Weekly Knowledge by Sri Sri Ravi Shanker
• A Prayer for Own Meany by John Irving
• And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (read 2012- fascinating and sobering)
• The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullogh (read 2015- LOVED it. Absolutely epic and beautiful)
• The Glass Castle by Jeanette Wall
• Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (read 2010)
• The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (read June 2016. Beautiful and challenging.)
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
• Beloved by Toni Morrison (read December 2016 along with The Underground Railroad. So many lasting and awful legacies of slavery)
• Helen Keller: The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
• From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler by EL Konigsburg (read 1996)
• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (read April 2014 and immediately deleted from my kindle. Not impressed. And I also "figured it out" right away, so that wasn't the reason)
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

51/100 as of January 2017