Last year I listed all the books I'd read for 2005. Continuing in that fashion, here now is a list of all the books I read in 2006. Any title in bold, blue print is one that I highly recommend.
1) Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
2) Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien
3) Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, by J.R.R. Tolkien
4) Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, by J.R.R. Tolkien
5) Monster, by Frank Peretti
6) Lake of Sorrows, by Erin Hart (sequel to Haunted Ground)
7) Goodnight Nobody, by Jennifer Weiner
8) Rosie Dunne, by Cecelia Ahern
9) The Rose & the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold, by Francesca Lia Block
10) Ariel, by Sylvia Plath
11) The Drowning Tree, by Carol Goodman
12) Haunted Lake Superior, by Hugh E. Bishop
13) The Truth (with jokes), by Al Franken
14) Tell Me Lies, by Jennifer Crusie
15) Love Bites, by Lynsay Sands
16) PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions From Ordinary Lives, by Frank Warren
17) Jane Austen in Scarsdale, by Paula Marantz Cohen
18) Legends of the Fall, by Jim Harrison
19) Loose Screws, by Karen Templeton
20) Coma, by Alex Garland
21) Found: The Best Lost, Tossed, and Forgotten Items From Around the World, by Davy Rothbart
22) Hotel World, by Ali Smith
23) A Certain Slant of Light, by Laura Whitcomb
24) The Edible Woman, by Margaret Atwood
25) The Lottery and Other Stories, by Shirley Jackson
26) Anybody Out There?, by Marian Keyes
27) A Brother's Journey: Surviving a Childhood of Abuse, by Richard Pelzer
28) Talk Nerdy to Me, by Vicki Lewis Thompson
29) The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection From the Living Dead, by Max Brooks
30) Lost, by Gregory Maguire
31) Chick Living: Frugal and Fabulous, by Kris Koederitz Melcher
32) Come Closer, Sara Gran
33) Undead & Unemployed, by Mary Janice Davidson
34) If Only It Were True, by Marc Levy
35) All Loves Excelling, by Josiah Bunting III
36) Swapping Lives, by Jane Green
37) Mary Jane, by Judith O'Brien
38) Cinematherapy: The Girl's Guide to Movies for Every Mood, by Nancy Peske and Beverly West
39) The Dogs of Babel, by Carolyn Parkhurst
40) The Pirates!: An Adventure with Scientists & An Adventure with Ahab, by Gideon Defoe
41) Ghost Orchid, by Carol Goodman
42) Poppy Shakespeare, by Clare Allan
43) Little Earthquakes, by Jennifer Weiner
44) The Sixteen Pleasures, by Robert Hellenga
45) The Cinderella Pact, by Sarah Strohmeyer
46) The Slow Moon, by Elizabeth Cox
47) Calling Out, by Rae Meadows
48) Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer
49) Ice Queen, by Alice Hoffman
50) New Moon, by Stephenie Meyer (sequel to Twilight)
51) The Guy Not Taken, by Jennifer Weiner
52) Shadow Catchers, by Thomas Lakeman
53) Grave Sight, by Charlaine Harris
54) Severance: Stories, by Robert Olen Butler
55) The Thirteenth Tale, by Diane Setterfield
56) Grave Surprise, by Charlaine Harris (sequel to Grave Sight)
57) The Man Who Loved Jane Austen, by Sally Smith O'Rourke
58) Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, by T.S. Eliot
59) By a Spider's Thread, by Laura Lippman
60) Rise and Shine, by Anna Quindlen
61) Dead Until Dark, by Charlaine Harris (reading the whole series, so shut up)
62) Blind Submission, by Debra Ginsberg
63) Dates From Hell, by Kim Harrison, et al.
64) Living Dead in Dallas, by Charlaine Harris
65) A Cup of Christmas Tea, by Tom Hegg
66) Time Between Trains, by Anthony Bukoski
67) Club Dead, by Charlaine Harris
I am also inviting you, dear readers, to each name one book they'd like me to read this year.
Acquiring a Nemesis
3 years ago
9 comments:
Any book? Hmmm....
How about "Running with the Demon" By Terry Brooks?
Wowser! So many books!
Boo to "Running with the Demon." Sorry, John. Hahaha.
Try "Autobiography of Red" by Ann Carson. It's a novel in verse. Very different.
*sulks in a corner*
Okay, "Running with the Demon" isn't bad. It's good for its genre, I suppose. Haha. No need to sulk.
Done and done.
as i lay dying.
do it.
Oh my goodness, you put me to shame. By the way I am writing my dissertation on (partly) The Edible Woman. I've read it so much I've killed it though.
I heartily recommend Zadie Smith's The Autograph Man or Donna Tartt's The Secret History, if you haven't read 'em already x
Read "The Time Traveler's Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger if you haven't already. Makes me cry every time.
To paraphrase KRS-One, "In taste I never claimed to be number one--oh wait, I lied. I'm actually numbers one, two, three, four, and five!" As such, I am recommending five books to you:
_Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer_ by Patrick Süskind
_The Tyrant_ by Michael Cisco
_The Course Of The Heart_ by M. John Harrison
_The Girl In A Swing_ by Richard Adams
_The Snowman's Children_ by Glen Hirshberg
And if any of the above prove too difficult to find, you may substitute any of the following:
_The Land Of Laughs_ by Jonathan Carroll
_The Fetch_ by Robert Holdstock
_Turtle Diary_ by Russell Hoban
_Kink_ by Kathe Koja
_Night At The Circus_ by Angela Carter
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