Book of the Day 2006

Submitted by alyson on Wed, 01/04/2006 - 09:05
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  1. January
  2. A Novel of Fame, Honor and Really Bad Weather by Jincy Willett
  3. Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynn Truss
  4. My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber
  5. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
  6. Rothstein: The Life, Times and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series by David Pietrusza
  7. Blue Trout and Black Truffles: The Peregrinations of an Epicure by Joseph Wechsberg
  8. Fatal Distraction, or How I Conquered My Addiction to Celebrities and Got a Life by M. E. Fredericks
  9. Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Dark Ages by Richard E. Rubenstein
  10. The Con Man's Daughter by Ed Dee
  11. 1000 Places to See Before You Die by Patricia Schultz
  12. Sunshine by Robin McKinley
  13. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
  14. Forever Amber by Kathleen Windsor
  15. Hummingbird House by Patricia Henley
  16. Partners to History: Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph David Abernathy, and the Civil Rights Movement by Donzaleigh Abernathy
  17. Love by Toni Morrison
  18. Depraved and Insulting English by Peter Novobatzky and Ammon Shea
  19. The Ditched Blonde: A Carl Wilcox Myster by Harold Adams
  20. The Scarlet Letters by Louis Auchincloss
  21. She Captains by Joan Druett
  22. The Georgetown Ladies Social Club: Power, Passion, and Politics in the Nation's Capital by C. David Heymann
  23. Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima, translated from the Japanese by Michael Gallagher
  24. Sir Walter Raleigh by Raleigh Trevelyan
  25. Peyton Amberg by Tama Janowitz
  26. Hominids by Robert J. Sawyer
  27. The Touch by Colleen McCullough
  28. Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity by Primo Levi, translated by Stuart Woolf
  29. Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind by David Quammen
  30. The Ghost Stories of Muriel Spark by Dame Muriel Spark
  31. Gentleman's Blood: A History of Dueling from Swords at Dawn to Pistols at Dusk by Barbara Holland
  32. What are the Seven Wonders of the World? And 100 Other Great Cultural Lists - Fully Explicated by Peter D'Epiro and Mary Pinkowish
  33. February
  34. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes edited by Richard Lancelyn Green
  35. Zen and the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel
  36. Empress Orchid by Anchee Min
  37. Fat Land by Greg Critser
  38. The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
  39. The Faith: A History of Christianity by Brian Moynahan
  40. 2182 kHz by David Masiel
  41. Quicksand by Nella Larsen
  42. Smoke Screen by Kyle Mills
  43. The Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemens by John Rechy
  44. Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros
  45. Mesmerizing by Candace Camp
  46. To the Bone by Neil McMahon
  47. The Lady Chosen by Stephanie Laurens
  48. The Known World by Edward P. Jones
  49. The Far Side of the Stars by David Drake
  50. The Jungle is Neutral: A Soldier's Two-Year Escape from the Japanese Army by F. Spencer Chapman
  51. Going Wild: Adventures with Birds in the Suburban Wilderness by Robert Winkler
  52. Three Junes by Julia Glass
  53. Secret Lives of the US Presidents by Cormac O'Brien
  54. Swann's Way: A New Translation translated from the French by Lydia Davis
  55. Uniform Justice by Donna Leon
  56. Language Visible: Unraveling the Mystery of the Alphabet From A to Z by David Sacks
  57. Avenger by Frederick Forsyth
  58. Nero by Edward Champlin
  59. The Black Diamonds by Clark Ashton Smith
  60. Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom by Catherine Clinton
  61. Mardi Gras Madness: Stories of Murder and Mayhem in New Orleans edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Russell Davis
  62. March
  63. The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
  64. Ghostly Men: The Strange But True Story of the Collyer Brothers, New York's Greatest Hoarders by Franz Lidz
  65. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
  66. Mark of the Grizzly: True Stories of Recent Bear Attacks and the Hard Lessons Learned by Scott McMillion
  67. Charms For the Easy Life by Kaye Gibbons
  68. The White Headhunter by Nigel Randell
  69. P. G. Wodehouse in His Own Words compiled by Barry Day and Tony Ring
  70. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
  71. I've actually recently read Nickel and Dimed; I found it to be an interesting and easy read. If I remember correctly, I read through it in about a day.
  72. The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler - Coincidentally, I've recently read this book as well.
  73. Fanny by Edmund White
  74. The Studio by John Gregory Dunne
  75. The Jupiter Myth by Lindsey Davis
  76. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
  77. White Lies by Linda Howard
  78. Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns
  79. Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby by Geoffrey Wolff
  80. Time After Time by Molly Keane
  81. Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family by Patricia Volk
  82. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
  83. The Last Sorcerers: The Path From Alchemy to the Periodic Table by Richard Morris
  84. Talon of the Silver Hawk by Raymond E. Feist
  85. Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It by Geoff Dyer
  86. One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd: A Novel by Jim Fergus
  87. London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
  88. Triangle: The Fire That Changed America by David Von Drehle
  89. Spygirl: True Adventures From My Life as a Private Eye by Amy Gray
Slothrop3302/23/2006

Have you read all of these since Jan 1st?

alyson02/26/2006

No - these are from a page a day calendar.