Books I Read in 2006

Submitted by Faustess on Thu, 07/26/2007 - 09:21
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  1. Szymborska, Wislawa – Nonrequired Reading
  2. Milne, A. A. - Winnie-the-Pooh
  3. Roberts, Chris – Heavy Words Lightly Thrown: The Reason Behind the Rhyme
  4. Defoe, Daniel - Journal of a Plague Year
  5. Rehak, Melanie – Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her
  6. Card, Orson Scott - Ender's Game
  7. Hammett, Dashiell – The Dain Curse
  8. Hemingway, Ernest – The Old Man and the Sea
  9. Burgin, Robert (ed.) – Nonfiction Readers’ Advisory
  10. Funke, Cornelia – Inkspell
  11. Woolf, Virginia - A Room of One's Own
  12. Balzac, Honore de - Pere Goriot
  13. Sayers, Dorothy - The Nine Tailors
  14. Preston, Richard – The Hot Zone
  15. Grahame, Kenneth - The Wind in the Willows
  16. Pinter, Harold – The Lover
  17. Rosenman, Ellen B. - Room of One's Own: Women Writers and the Politics of Creativity, Vol. 151
  18. Burgess, Anthony - A Clockwork Orange
  19. Spratford, Becky S. and Tammy H. Clausen - The Horror Readers’ Advisory : The Librarian’s Guide to Vampires, Killer Tomatoes, and Haunted Houses
  20. Gombrich, Ernst Hans - The Story of Art
  21. Updike, John - The Witches of Eastwick
  22. Wilde, Oscar – The Picture of Dorian Gray
  23. Comfort, Alex - The Joy of Sex
  24. Rhodes, Jewell Parker – Voodoo Dreams : A Novel of Marie Laveau
  25. Rowling, J. K. - Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince
  26. DiCamillo, Kate – The Tale of Despereaux
  27. Coelho, Paolo – The Alchemist
  28. Rusesabagina, Paul – An Ordinary Man
  29. Williams, Tennessee - Glass Menagerie (105 pgs)
  30. Pomerance, Bernard – The Elephant Man
  31. Alvarez, Walter - T. Rex and the Crater of Doom
  32. MacLachlan, Patricia - Sarah, Plain and Tall
  33. Miller, Arthur – The Crucible
  34. Martinez, Guillermo – The Oxford Murders
  35. Shaw, Bernard – Pygmalion
  36. Anderson, M.T. – Feed
  37. Anderson, Laurie Halse – Speak
  38. Gran, Sara – Come Closer
  39. Pinol, Albert Sanchez – Cold Skin
  40. Christie, Agatha – Mousetrap
  41. Pinter, Harold – The Birthday Party and The Room : Two Plays
  42. Suzuki, Koji – Dark Water
  43. Kesselring, Joseph - Arsenic and Old Lace
  44. Pearl, Matthew – The Dante Club
  45. Hilton, James - Good-bye, Mr. Chips
  46. LeGuin, Ursula – Tehanu (#4)
  47. Martine, James J. - The Crucible: Politics, Property, and Pretense, Vol. 115
  48. Burnford, Sheila - The Incredible Journey
  49. Roosevelt, Eleanor – This I Remember
  50. Weisel, Elie – Night
  51. Marrin, Albert - Terror of the Spanish Main, Sir Henry Morgan and His Buccaneers
  52. Schreiber, Flora Rheta - Sybil
  53. Gibran, Khalil - The Prophet
  54. Clowes, Daniel – Ghost World
  55. Spindler, Konrad - The Man in the Ice : The True Story of the 5000-Year-Old Man Found in an Alpine Glacier
  56. McCloud, Scott - Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
  57. Orwell, George - Animal Farm
  58. Keller, Helen - The Story of My Life
  59. Waugh, Evelyn - The Loved One
  60. Armstrong, Louis – Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans
  61. Von Trapp, Maria – The Story of the Trapp Family Singers
  62. Du Maurier, Daphne – Rebecca
  63. Preston, Richard - The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story
  64. Pullman, Philip - The Golden Compass
  65. Goldensohn, Leon - The Nuremberg Interviews: An American Psychiatrist’s Conversations with the Defendents and Witnesses
  66. Grant, Michael - Gladiators
  67. Rosow, La Vergne – Accessing the Classics: Great Reads for Adults, Teens, and English Language Learners
  68. Grey, Zane - Riders of the Purple Sage
  69. Irwin, William (ed.) – The Matrix and Philosophy: Welcome to the Desert of the Real
  70. Regis, Ed. - Virus Ground Zero: Stalking the Killer Viruses with the Centers for Disease Control
  71. Sherman, Paul W. and John Alcock (eds.) - Exploring Animal Behavior: Readings from American Scientist
  72. Pullman, Philip – The Subtle Knife
  73. Harry, Lou, Sam Stall, and Julia Spaulding – The Encyclopedia of Guilty Pleasures: 1001 Things You Hate to Love
  74. Akutagawa Ryunosuke - Rashomon, and Other Stories
  75. Atkinson, Kristine and Joyce Atkinson – Journal: The Short Life and Mysterious Death of Amy Zoe Mason
  76. Asimov, Isaac – I, Robot
  77. Fruits Basket (v.1-13)
  78. Pullman, Philip – The Amber Spyglass
  79. Holiday, Billie with William Dufty - Lady Sings the Blues
  80. Brooks, Max – World War Z
  81. Yolen, Jane - Briar Rose
  82. Faulks, Sebastian – Charlotte Gray
  83. McKinley, Robin – Beauty
  84. Aronson, Marc - Witch Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials
  85. Kaysen, Susanna – Girl, Interrupted
  86. King, Laurie R. - The Beekeeper's Apprentice, or, on the Segregation of the Queen
  87. Bradbury, Ray - Fahrenheit 451
  88. Sebold, Alice – Lucky
  89. Tarkington, Booth - The Magnificent Ambersons
  90. Montgomery, Lucy Maud - Anne of Avonlea (2)
  91. Kennedy, John F. - Profiles in Courage
  92. Hickam, Homer – The Coalwood Way
  93. Angelou, Maya - And Still I Rise
  94. Fleming, Ian – Goldfinger
  95. Glob, P.V. - The Bog People: Iron Age Man Preserved
  96. Montgomery, Lucy Maud - Anne of the Island (3)
  97. Perez-Reverte, Arturo – The Club Dumas
  98. Styron, William - Darkness Visible
  99. Erasmus, Desiderius – In Praise of Folly
  100. Plath, Sylvia – Ariel
Author Comments: 

I've reviewed some of these, but not all yet. I think I left off at number 36 or 37. http://megahappybook.blogspot.com/

professor07/27/2007

Which are your favourites ?
My list of All-Time Favourite Books includes The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Faustess08/01/2007

I'd say from this particular year, my favorites were Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, Arsenic & Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring, World War Z by Max Brooks, This I Remember by Eleanor Roosevelt, and The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King. My most pleasant surprise of the year award would go to Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey, which was not at all what I expected & I'd really recommend it. I doubt that any of these would make it into my All-Time Favorites, though. I have such a terrible time deciding favorites that the list'd probably be a mile long. :)

I did enjoy Wilde's subtle humor in The Picture of Dorian Gray. When recommending classic horror, you can't leave it off the list! I was familiar with the story and the actual text just wasn't quite what I was expecting and it threw me off a bit when I was reading. I suspect I'd enjoy it more rereading it.