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Kelly's summer reading list for 2005.

Last year I did classics - books I'd always meant to read, and some I wanted to reread. It was fun, and lead to my freakish obsession with House of Leaves, as well as my new love of Don Quixote. But this year I wanted to do something that was a bit more to my tastes.

History and Current Affairs. Mostly history, and mostly books I've been wanted to read for a long time. I narrowed it down to twelve books. My goal is to read at least eight of them by the end of August.

The list:

The Paradox of American Power: Why the World's Only Superpower Can't Go it Alone
by Joseph Nye

The Dragon in the Land of Snows: A History of Modern Tibet since 1947
by Tsering Shakya

Dogs and Demons: Tales From the Dark Side of Japan
by Alex Kerr

Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter
by Thomas Cahill

The Pirate Queen: In Search of Grace O'Malley and Other Legendary Women of the Sea
by Barbara Sjoholm

How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything In It.
by Arthur Herman

How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe.
by Thomas Cahill

Japan Pop!: Inside the World of Japanese Popular Culture
by Timothy Craig

Bloody Mary's Martyrs: The Story of England's Terror
by Jaspar Ridley

Under the Black Flag: The Romance and Reality of Life Among the Pirates
by David Cordingly

Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
by Iris Chang

America's Women: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines
by Gail Collins