When asked what I want for Christmas, I immediately answered BOOKS! I want books for Christmas! But what books in particular? Here are some of them:

- Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams

- Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

- Children of Jihad: A Young American’s Travels Among the Youth of the Middle East by Jared Cohen

- The Google Story by David Vise and Mark Malseed

- The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall by Ian Bremmer 

- Think India by Vinay Rai and William Simon

- India after Gandhi by Ramachandra Guha

- A Teardrop on the Cheek of Time: The Story of the Taj Mahal by Diana Preston and Michael Preston

- China in a World History by Samuel Adrian M. Adshead

- Return of the Middle Kingdom by Yuan-tsung Chen

- Tibet by Thomas Laird

- Wild Grass: China’s Revolution from Below by Johnson

- Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China  by Leslie Chang

- The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan by Christopher Benfrey

- The China Price by Alexandra Harney

- China Syndrome: The True Story of the 21st Century’s First Great Epidemic by Karl Taro Greenfeld

- In Spite of the Gods: The Rise of Modern India by Edward Luce

- Empires of the Indus by Alice Albinia 

- The Last Mughal by William Dalrymple

- Women of the Raj by Margaret MacMillan

- Gem in the Lotus: The Seeding of Indian Civilisation by Abraham Eraly

- Banker to the Poor by Muhammad Yunus

- The Last Oil Shock by David Strahan

- From Oslo to Iraq and the Road Map: Essays by Edward Said

- Perilous Power: The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy by Noam Chomsky, Gilbert Achcar, and Stephen R. Shalom

- Megacommunities: How Leaders of Government, Business and Non-Profits Can Tackle Today’s Global Challenges Together by Reginald Van Lee, Mark Gerencser, Fernando 

 

The ones in blue are what I really want to have before the year ends. They’re all available at FullyBooked. Hmm…how come I did not include Murakami? I also like Coehlo’s books since I’ve only read Veronica Decides to Die, Like a River Flowing, 11 Minutes and The Alchemist so I can take in more. I actually want to have a copy of Murakami’s What I Talk About When I Talk About Running or any of his stories except Kafka on the Shore (since I already have it). 

Other less expensive books? I like Orson Scott Card’s books. I have the trilogy after Ender’s Game but I don’t have his other books yet. I have Seventh Son and Wyrms, Speaker for the Dead, Children of the Mind, and Xenocide. I have Ender’s Game but it’s still with my ex’s cousin (who is a very good friend, someone I consider a family)  so I welcome another copy. I love Umberto Eco’s books, too. I lost my only copy of Traveling with a Salmon so any of his books are also welcome. I’ve read Freakonomics but I don’t have a copy so I want one, too!

What else? I enjoy sci-fi books really. Pau’s fault! Hehe. And more so, I like books about politics, China, India, SEA, Japan, Korea, etc.  Gaiman’s ok. He’s cool so it’s good to get books he wrote. Ayn Rand is cool, too! I have her book Fountainhead. I love books about International Relations, too! 

So what do I want aside from books? Hmm…I have to think about that. A good idea for my next entry….