The Stieg Larsson Series

This is The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest.  At present I have only read the first two, and while they are wildly sexual, with language issues galore, I do enjoy the mystery and the strange characters.  They make for really good reading on my iPad while I'm running : )

Red Scarf Girl

by Ji-Li Jiang

This was a fast read.  I found myself grateful for her candid honesty, as well as for the epilogue where she answers the questions I had throughout the book.  I really don't get how the adults of the time period allowed this to happen, and even though she describes it, how the children got so caught up in the fervor of Mao and his insanity.  I am undereducated in this topic, however, and freely admit that.  I am also extremely grateful that I haven't had to live through that.