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Below are lists of random things I have engaged with that have challenged and influenced my worldview and thinking in one way or another throughout my life. 


This is less meant to be "Becky's Recommendation Lists", and more to showcase wonderful things out there that keep me (and maybe, you too) (un)happy. 

books...

ADULT FICTION & PLAYS

  • Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. "Americanah"
  • Ahern, Cecelia. "Where rainbows end"
  • Ashton, Hugh. "Further notes from the dispatch-box of John H. Watson MD"
  • Ashton, Hugh. "More from the deed box of John H. Watson MD"
  • Ashton, Hugh. "Secrets from the deed box of John H. Watson MD"
  • Ashton, Hugh. "Tales from the deed box of John H. Watson MD"
  • Ashton, Hugh. "The Darlington substitution"
  • Ashton, Hugh. "The death of Cardinal Tosca"
  • Austen, Jane. "Pride and prejudice"
  • Ayatsuji, Yukito. "The clock mansion murders"
  • Ayatsuji, Yukito. "The doll mansion murders"
  • Ayatsuji, Yukito. "The decagon house murders"
  • Ayatsuji, Yukito. "The labyrinth mansion murders"
  • Ayatsuji, Yukito. "The water mill mansion murders"
  • Bachman, Richard. "The long walk"
  • Bachman, Richard. "The running man"
  • Brontë, Charlotte. "Jane Eyre"
  • Camus, Albert. "The stranger"
  • Chevalier, Tracy. "Girl with a pearl earring"
  • Chbosky, Stephen. "The perks of being a wallflower"
  • Chiung Yao. "Romance in the rain" 
  • Christie, Agatha. "And then there were none"
  • Christie, Agatha. "Cats among the pigeons"
  • Christie, Agatha. "Death on the Nile"
  • Christie, Agatha. "Evil under the sun"
  • Christie, Agatha. "Murder in Mesopotamia"
  • Christie, Agatha. "Ordeal by innocence"
  • Christie, Agatha. "Sad cypress"
  • Christie, Agatha. "The mystery of the blue train"
  • Christie, Agatha. "The murder of Roger Ackroyd"
  • Christie, Agatha. "The murder on the links"
  • Cornwell, Patricia. "All that remains"
  • Cornwell, Patricia. "Postmortem"
  • Cronin, A. J. "Vigil in the night"
  • Dazai, Osamu. "No longer human"
  • de Saint-Exupéry, Antoine. "The Little Prince"
  • Doyle, Arthur Conan. "A study in scarlet"
  • Doyle, Arthur Conan. "The adventures of Sherlock Holmes"
  • Dương, Thuỵ. "Bồ câu chung mái vòm"
  • Dương, Thuỵ. "Hành trình của những người trẻ"
  • Edson, Margaret. "Wit"
  • Edwards, Martin. (Ed.) "Silent nights: Christmas mysteries"
  • Gaiman, Neil. "The ocean at the end of the lane"
  • Galbraith, R. "Career of evil"
  • Gerritsen, Tess. "Die again"
  • Green, John. "Looking for Alaska"
  • Green, John. "The fault in our stars"
  • Guillermo, Martínez. "The Oxford murders"
  • Ferrante, Elena. "My brilliant friend"
  • Fielding, Helen. "Bridget Jones's diary"
  • Flynn, Gillian. "Gone girl"
  • Franzen, Jonathan. "Crossroads"
  • Franzen, Jonathan. "Freedom"
  • French, Tana. "In the woods"
  • Hà, Thanh Phúc. "Người đàn bà điên tầng 9"
  • Harding, John. "The girl who couldn't read"
  • Hardy, Thomas. "Far from the madding crowd"
  • Higashino, Keigo. "A midsummer's equation"
  • Higashino, Keigo. "Journey under the midnight sun"
  • Higashino, Keigo. "Malice"
  • Higashino, Keigo. "Murder at Kairotei Inn"
  • Higashino, Keigo. "Naoko"
  • Higashino, Keigo. "Salvation of a saint"
  • Higashino, Keigo. "The devotion of suspect X"
  • Hobbs, Roger. "Ghostman"
  • Homes, A. M. "May we be forgiven"
  • Hornby, Nick. "High fidelity"
  • Horowitz, Anthony. "The house of silk"
  • Hosseini, Khaled. "The kite runner"
  • Isherwood, Christopher. "A single man"
  • Ishiguro, Kazuo. "A pale view of hills"
  • Ishiguro, Kazuo. "Never let me go"
  • Ishiguro, Kazuo. "The remains of the day"
  • James, P. D. "The mistletoe murder and other stories"
  • Jin, Ha. "A good fall: Stories"
  • Kanehara, Hitomi. "Snakes and earrings"
  • King, Stephen. "Skeleton crew"
  • King, Stephen. "The mist"
  • King, Stephen. "The running man"
  • Kinsella, Sophie. "Confessions of a shopaholic"
  • Kirino, Natsuo. "Grotesque"
  • Kishi, Yukuke. "The crimson labyrinth"
  • Kuroyanagi, Tetsuko. "Totto-chan: The little girl at the window"
  • Lacey, Catherine. "Nobody is ever missing"
  • Lahiri, Jhumpa. "Interpreter of maladies" 
  • Lahiri, Jhumpa. "Unaccustomed earth"
  • Malot, Hector. "En familia"
  • Marcum, David. "The MX book of new Sherlock Holmes Stories" series
  • Martínez, Guillermo. "The Oxford murders"
  • McEwan, Ian. "Enduring love" 
  • McEwan, Ian. "On Chesil beach"
  • McEwan, Ian. "Sweet tooth"
  • Munro, Alice. "Dear life"
  • Munro, Alice. "Hateship, friendship, courtship, loveship, marriage: Stories"
  • Murakami, Haruki. "1Q84"
  • Murakami, Haruki. "Norwegian wood"
  • Murakami, Haruki. "South of the border, West of the sun"
  • Murakami, Ryu. "69"
  • Murakami, Ryu. "Audition"
  • Murata, Sayaka. "Convenience store woman"
  • Nguyễn, Ngọc Thuần. "Vừa nhắm mắt vừa mở cửa sổ"
  • Nguyễn, Nhật Ánh. "Cô gái đến từ hôm qua"
  • Nguyễn, Nhật Ánh. "Buổi chiều Windows"
  • Nguyễn, Nhật Ánh. "Nữ sinh"
  • Nguyễn, Nhật Ánh. "Tôi là Bêtô"
  • Nguyễn, Ngọc Tư. "Cánh đồng bất tận"
  • Nguyễn, Quang Sáng. "Chiếc lược ngà"
  • Nguyen, Viet Thanh. "The sympathizer"
  • Nhất Linh. "Đoạn tuyệt"
  • Nicholls, David. "One day"
  • Norbu, Jamyang. "The mandala of Sherlock Holmes: The adventures of the great detective in India and Tibet"
  • Ozeki, Ruth. "A tale for the time being"
  • Phan, Việt. "Nước Mỹ, nước Mỹ"
  • Phan, Việt. "Phù phiếm truyện"
  • Qinghan Cece. "The golden hairpin" series
  • Robinson, Marilynne. "Housekeeping"
  • Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de. "Le petit prince"
  • Sheldon, Sidney. "If tomorrow comes"
  • Sheldon, Sidney. "Nothing lasts forever"
  • Shimada, Soji. "Murder in the crooked house"
  • Shimada, Soji. "The Tokyo Zodiac murders"
  • Smith, Ali. "Public library and other stories"
  • Sparks, Nicholas. "A walk to remember"
  • Sparks, Nicholas. "Message in a bottle"
  • Steel, Danielle. "Lost and found"
  • Süskind, Patrick. "Perfume: The story of a murderer"
  • Thạch Lam. "Gió đầu mùa"
  • Thu Trân. "Ông thầy cũ kỹ"
  • van Sant, Gus. "My own private Idaho"
  • VanderMeer, Jeff. "Acceptance"
  • VanderMeer, Jeff. "Annihilation" 
  • Waters, Sarah. "Fingersmith"
  • Wilde, Oscar. "The picture of Dorian Gray"
  • Williams, John Edward. "Stoner"
  • Yanagihara, Hanya. "The people in the trees"
  • Yokomizo, Seishi. "The honjin murders"
  • Yokomizo, Seishi. "The Inugami clan"
  • Yoshimoto, Banana. "Kitchen"
  • Yoshimoto, Banana. "Lizard"

CHILDREN'S FICTION

  • Alcott, Louisa May. "Little women"
  • Dahl, Roald. "Matilda"
  • Daly, Cathleen. "Emily's blue period"
  • Frank, Anne. "The diary of a young girl"
  • Gilbert Jr., Frank B. "Cheaper by the dozen"
  • Kadohata, Cynthia. "Kira-Kira"
  • Kinney, Jeff. "Diary of a wimpy kid" series
  • Nguyễn, Nhật Ánh. "Kính vạn hoa" series
  • René, Goscinny & Sempé, Jean-Jacques. -- all the works about Petit Nicolas -- 
  • Rowling, J. K. "Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone"
  • Palacio, R. J. "Wonder"
  • Scarry, Richard. "Best storybook ever"
  • Spyri, Johanna. "Heidi"
  • Wilder, Laura Ingalls. "Little house on the prairie" series

MANGA & GRAPHIC NOVELS

  • Aoyama, Gosho. "Detective Conan / Case Closed" series
  • Aso, Haro. "Alice in Borderland"
  • Ban, Toshio. "The Osamu Tezuka Story: A Life in Manga and Anime"
  • Fujio, Fujiko F. "Doraemon" series
  • Fujio, Fujiko F. "Doraemon's Long Tales" series
  • Fujio, Fujiko F. "Little ghost Q-Taro" series
  • Fujio, Fujiko F. "Paman" series
  • Gou, Tanabe. "H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness"
  • Hideshi, Hino. "Gallery of Horrors" 
  • Hokazono, Masaya. "Emerging"
  • Hosokawa, Chieko. "Crest of the royal family" 
  • Ito, Junji. "Cat diary"
  • Ito, Junji. "Hellstar Remina"
  • Ito, Junji. "Uzumaki"
  • Ito, Junji. "New voices in the dark"
  • Ito, Junji. "The Junji Ito horror comic collection" #11, #12, #13, #14, #15
  • Koike, Kazuo. "Lady Snowblood" series
  • Miuchi, Suzue. "Glass mask" series
  • Moore, Alan & Gibbons, Dave. "Watchmen" series
  • Morris. "Lucky Luke" series
  • Motoro, Mase. "Ikigami" 
  • Murakami, Takashi. "Stargazing dog"
  • Scrivan, Maria. "Nat enough" series
  • Silverstein, Shel. "The missing piece meets the big O"
  • Takahashi, Rumiko. "Inuyasha"
  • Takahashi, Rumiko. "Ranma ½"
  • Takeuchi, Ryosuke. "All you need is kill"
  • Tetsuya, Chiba. "Teppei" series
  • Tezuka, Osamu. "Black Jack" series
  • Tomine, Adrian. "Shortcomings"
  • Umezu, K. "The Drifting Classroom"
  • Urasawa, Naoki. "Monster" series
  • Youzaburou, Kanari. "The Kindaichi Case Files" series

NON-FICTION

  • Burr, Rachel. "Vietnam's children in a changing world"
  • Bythell, Shaun. "The diary of a bookseller"
  • Campbell, Jen. "Weird things customers say in bookshops"
  • Chang, Leslie T. "Factory girls" 
  • Chast, Roz. "Can't we talk about something more pleasant?"
  • Chung, Ju-yung. "Born of this land: My life story"
  • Cole, Cheryl. "My story"
  • Contostavlos, Tulisa. "Honest"
  • Cyrus, Miley. "Miles to go"
  • Doyle, Glennon. "Untamed"
  • Dương, Thuỵ. "Venise và những cuộc tình Gondola"
  • Fadiman, Annie (Ed.). "The best American essays 2003"
  • Ferrante, Elena. "Incidental inventions"
  • Franzen, Jonathan. "The Discomfort Zone"
  • Franzen, Jonathan. "The end of the end of the Earth: Essays"
  • Gaiman, Neil. "The view from the cheap seats"
  • Gunn, Tim. "Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work"
  • Hilton, Paris. "Confessions of an heiress"
  • Hornby, Nick. "The polysyllabic spree"
  • Kaling, Mindy. "Is everyone hanging out without me?"
  • Kaling, Mindy. "Why not me?"
  • King, Stephen. "On writing: A memoir of the craft"
  • Levine, Amir and Heller, Rachel S. F. "Attached: The new science of adult attachment and how it can help you find and keep love" 
  • Lee, Kuan Yew. "From third world to first: The Singapore story, 1965-2000"
  • Lynch, David. "Catching the big fish: Meditation, consciousness, and creativity"
  • Ma, Yan. "The diary of Ma Yan: The struggles and hopes of a Chinese school girl"
  • Mankell, Henning. "Quicksand"
  • Murakami, Haruki. "What I talk about when I talk about running"
  • Nguyễn, Thị Châu Giang. "Bay qua thời gian"
  • Nguyễn, Văn Thạc. "Mãi mãi tuổi hai mươi"
  • Olien, Darin. "SuperLife: The 5 simple fixes that will make you healthy, fit, and eternally awesome"
  • Phan, Triều Hải. "Đi học"
  • Phan, Việt. "Về nhà"
  • Phan, Việt. "Xuyên Mỹ"
  • Plate, Tom. "Conversations with Lee Kuan Yew: Citizen Singapore, How to build a nation"
  • Poehler, Amy. "Yes please"
  • Prüfer, Benjamin. "Same same but different"
  • Queenan, Joe. "One for the books" 
  • Rice, Condoleezza. "Extraordinary, ordinary people"
  • Shields, David. "Other people: Takes & mistakes"
  • Schwalbe, Will. "The end of your life book club"
  • Strayed, Cheryl. "Wild: From lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail"
  • Stuart, Jesse. "The thread that runs so true"
  • Tony Buổi Sáng. "Cà phê cùng Tony" 
  • Trungpa, Chögyam. "Cutting through spiritual materialism"

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