Empire of the Inca, Burr Cartwright Brundage
The Incas & Their Ancestors, the Archeology of Peru, Michael E. Moseley
Moche Art & Visual Culture in Ancient Peru, Margaret A. Jackson
& other books on Peru, ceramics, textiles, etc.
* Sky Burial, Xinran
Beyond Sleep, Willem Frederik Hermans
A Brief History of Peru, Christine Hunefeldt
The Tortoises, Veza Canetti (1930s Europe)
An Experiment in Love, Hilary Mantel
Their Heads Are Green Their Hands Are Blue, Paul Bowles (travels in N. African Maghreb recording vanishing ethnic musics)
Epitaph of a Small Winner, Machado de Assis (19th C. Brazilian, brilliant philosophical novel)
The Twin, Gerbrand Bakker (Netherlands)
The Pyramid, Henning Mankell
The Water Beetle, Nancy Mitford essays
Sorrows of Young Werther (& a novella) Johan Wolfgang von Goethe
*Light at the Edge of the World: A Journey Through the Realm
of Vanishing Cultures, Wade Davis
Harry the Locust, Frank Bailey (a Brit leads pest control in
1950s east Africa and the southern Arabian peninsula--
terribly amusing, but you’ll never find a copy:)
The Rift, V. Y. Mudimbe (Univ. Minnesota 1993)
L’Ecart,, Editions Presence Africaine, 1979.)
A Time of Gifts, Patrick Leigh Fermor (1930s travels of a
very young man on foot across Europe to Istanbul)
The Alchemist, Paolo Coelho
Points and Lines, Seicho Matsumoto
A Visit to Don Ottavio, Sybille Bedford (Mexico, 1950s)
A Journey into Matisse’s South of France, Laura McPhee
Berlin: The Twenties, Rainer Metzger, Christian Brandstatter
A Systems Theory of Religion, Niklas Luhmann (online)
Death of an Irish Tinker, Bartholomew Gill
(dynamic mystery, part of a series)
The Transposed Heads, Thomas Mann
Levitation, Cynthia Ozick -- nice odd stories
London: A Biography, Peter Ackroyd
(long, detailed, but rewarding with buckets of factoids)
Borderline, Janette Turner Hospital
Fludd, Hilary Mantel
Scenes from Village Life, Amos Oz (Israel, lovely writing, as always.)
Soundings, Anita Brookner (art essays)
Anatomy of a Disappearance, Hisham Matar (Libyan-British writer,
fictionalized autbiography)
1491: the Americas Before Columbus, Charles C. Mann
The Last of the Angels, Fadhil al-Azzawi (novel, Iraq)
Learn Japanese …
The Abomination, Paul Golding
The Grid Book, Hannah B. Higgins (a deep history of the grid:
archeology, art, design, urbanism, architecture, social history)
Media Study, Media Practice, Media Pioneers 1973-1990:
Buffalo Heads, Edited by Peter Viebel and Woody Vasulka
The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf, Kathryn Davis
Cathedral, Forge & Water Wheel -- Technology and Invention
in the Middle Ages, Frances and Joseph Gies
The Cello Player, Michael Kruger
A Brief Life, Juan Carlos Onetti
The Man Who Smiled, Henning Mankell
Japanese grammar books
A Writer at War, Vasily Grossman (Jewish Ukranian writer, sent by Moscow to The Front(s) during WWII. This work was banned in the USSR for decades.)
Thousand Cranes, Yasunari Kawabata
Before the Frost, Henning Mankell
Exotics & Retrospectives, Lafcadio Hearn (Japan circa 1900, by an eccentric émigré)
Small Memories, Jose Saramago
Hallucinations, Oliver Sacks
Sunflower, Geza Konstantinyi
Caucasus, Nicolas Griffin
Recovery, John Berryman
Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
The Bones of Paris, Laurie R. King
Villa Ariadne, Dilys Powell (Crete, Evans, Knossos, etc.)
Saudi Arabia, Heidi Sawfazi
Tailchaser’s Song, Tad Williams (fantasy-adventure, cat protagonists)
God Against the Gods, (struggle between monotheism & polytheism) Jonathan Kirsch
Blue Aubergine, Miral al-Tahawy (Egypt)
The Galosh & Other Stories, Mikhail Zoshchenko (Russian satire, 1920s, brilliant)