2006 book log

:: 2006 :: 99 bks : 33672 pgs ::

(R) = reread
(N) = nonfiction
1001 books
* = favorite

:: jan : 2 bks : 752 pgs ::
: 20 . The Egyptologist . Arthur Phillips . 416 pgs *
: 26 . 1984 . George Orwell . 336 pgs *

:: feb : 2 bks : 1052 pgs ::
: 16 . Ahab's Wife . Sena Jeter Naslund . 668 pgs *
: 28 . Sense and Sensibility . Jane Austen . 384 pgs *

:: mar : 2 bks : 1165 pgs ::
: 02 . Undead and Unappreciated . MaryJanice Davidson . 304 pgs *
: 31 . Vanity Fair . William Makepeace Thackeray . 861 pgs *

:: apr : 6 bks : 1970 pgs ::
: 08 . A Tree Grows in Brooklyn . Betty Smith . 528 pgs *
: 11 . The Anglophile . Laurie Gwen Shapiro . 320 pgs *
: 12 . In the Miso Soup . Ryu Marakumi . 224 pgs
: 14 . The War of the Crowns . Christian Jacq . 320 pgs
: 15 . The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing . Melissa Bank . 274 pgs
: 19 . Ill Met by Moonlight . Sarah A. Hoyt . 304 pgs

:: may : 2 bks : 816 pgs ::
: 12 . The Picture of Dorian Gray . Oscar Wilde . 304 pgs
: 29 . The Serpent on the Crown . Elizabeth Peters . 512 pgs *

:: jun : 5 bks : 1600 pgs ::
: 01 . Sphinx . Robin Cook . 320 pgs
: 02 . The Rule of Four . Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason . 464 pgs
: 15 . The Catcher in the Rye . J.D. Salinger . 224 pgs
: 17 . Undead and Unreturnable . MaryJanice Davidson . 288 pgs *
: 22 . A Thousand Days in Venice . Marlena de Blasi . 304 pgs *

:: jul : 6 bks : 2432 pgs ::
: 03 . A Thousand Days in Tuscany . Marlena de Blasi . 368 pgs *
: 13 . Wuthering Heights . Emily Bronte . 400 pgs *
: 19 . The Intelligencer . Leslie Silbert . 352 pgs
: 24 . The Triumph of the Sun . Wilbur Smith . 656 pgs *
: 31 . Reading Lolita in Tehran . Azar Nafisi . 384 pgs (NF) *
: 31 . Undead and Unpopular . MaryJanice Davidson . 272 pgs *

:: aug : 8 bks : 3390 pgs ::
: 03 . The Tomb of the Golden Bird . Elizabeth Peters . 400 pgs *
: 06 . Danse Macabre . Laurell K. Hamilton . 496 pgs
: 11 . Uncle Tom's Cabin . Harriet Beecher Stowe . 608 pgs *
: 18 . Middlesex . Jeffrey Eugenides . 544 pgs
: 23 . Tenderwire . Claire Kilroy . 294 pgs
: 27 . Family Baggage . Monica McInerney . 512 pgs *
: 29 . After the Rice . Wendy French . 256 pgs *
: 31 . Somebody's Daughter . Marie Myung-Ok Lee . 280 pgs

:: sep : 7 bks : 2570 pgs ::
: 07 . The Secret Life of Bees . Sue Monk Kidd . 336 pgs
: 13 . Christ the Lord : Out of Egypt . Anne Rice . 336 pgs
: 21 . Derik's Bane . MaryJanice Davidson . 208 pgs
: 24 . The Count of Monte Cristo . Alexandre Dumas . 688 pgs *
: 24 . Bad Twin . Gary Troupe . 256 pgs
: 29 . The Ruins . Scott Smith . 336 pgs *
: 29 . Frangipani . Celestine Vaite . 320 pgs *

:: oct : 20 bks : 5371 pgs ::
: 01 . Five Quarters of the Orange . Joanna Harris . 336 pgs
: 03 . Seven Loves . Valerie Trueblood . 244 pgs
: 06 . Boo Who . Rene Gutteridge . 352 pgs
: 11 . Dead Cat Bounce . Norman Green . 328 pgs
: 11 . Borges and the Eternal Orangutan . Luis Fernando Verissimo . 144 pgs
: 11 . Firmin : Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife . Sam Savage . 151 pgs *
: 13 . Renfield : Slave of Dracula . Barbara Hambly . 320 pgs
: 16 . My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time . Liz Jensen . 288 pgs *
: 17 . The Nymphos of Rocky Flats . Mario Acevedo . 368 pgs *
: 18 . Memoirs of a Muse . Laura Vapnyar . 224 pgs
: 18 . Frankenstein . Mary Shelley . 352 pgs
: 20 . The Suitors . Ben Ehrenreich . 304 pgs
: 23 . The Book of the Dead . Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child . 464 pgs
: 25 . Portuguese Irregular Verbs . Alexander McCall Smith . 128 pgs *
: 25 . The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs . Alexander McCall Smith . 128 pgs *
: 25 . At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances . Alexander McCall Smith . 128 pgs *
: 26 . The Catastrophist . Laurence Douglas . 276 pgs
: 29 . Vamped . David Sosnowski . 352 pgs *
: 30 . Dream Angus . Alexander McCall Smith . 196 pgs
: 30 . Micah . Laurell K. Hamilton 288 pgs *

:: nov : 24 bks : 7396 pgs ::
: 02 . The Ominous Omnibus (including The Bad Beginning, The Reptile Room & The Wide Window) . Lemony Snicket . 608 pgs
: 03 . Strange Candy . Laurell K. Hamilton . 272 pgs *
: 03 . Straight Up . Lisa Samson . 304 pgs
: 04 . The Miserable Mill . Lemony Snicket . 194 pgs
: 05 . The Austere Academy . Lemony Snicket . 221 pgs
: 06 . Dead and Loving It . MaryJanice Davidson . 320 pgs
: 06 . The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency . Alexander McCall Smith . 240 pgs *
: 08 . Tears of the Giraffe . Alexander McCall Smith . 240 pgs *
: 09 . The Ersatz Elevator . Lemony Snicket . 259 pgs
: 10 . Morality for Beautiful Girls . Alexander McCall Smith . 240 pgs *
: 11 . The Christmas Thief . Mary Higgins Clark & Carol Higgins Clark . 336 pgs
: 12 . The Vile Village . Lemony Snicket . 256 pgs
: 13 . The Hostile Hospital . Lemony Snicket . 255 pgs
: 14 . The Carnivorous Carnival . Lemony Snicket . 286 pgs
: 15 . The Slippery Slope . Lemony Snicket . 337 pgs
: 15 . The Grim Grotto . Lemony Snicket . 323 pgs
: 16 . The Penultimate Peril . Lemony Snicket . 353 pgs
: 17 . The Kalahari Typing School for Men . Alexander McCall Smith . 208 pgs *
: 19 . Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits . Laila Lalami . 208 pgs *
: 22 . Eragon . Christopher Paolini . 544 pgs *
: 23 . The End . Lemony Snicket . 368 pgs
: 24 . The Full Cupboard of Life . Alexander McCall Smith . 208 pgs *
: 25 . In the Company of Cheerful Ladies . Alexander McCall Smith . 256 pgs *
: 30 . Great Expectations . Charles Dickens . 560 pgs *

:: dec : 15 bks : 5158 pgs ::
: 02 . Blue Shoes and Happiness . Alexander McCall Smith . 240 pgs *
: 03 . The Virgin Suicides . Jeffrey Eugenides . 256 pgs
: 04 . The Girls' Almanac . Emily Franklin . 275 pgs
: 05 . Jamaican Me Crazy : A Christmas Escape . Debbi DiGiovanni . 288 pgs
: 06 . Breadfruit . Celestine Vaite . 334 pgs
: 06 . Darcy's Story . Janet Aylmer . 277 pgs
: 09 . In the Company of Ogres . A. Lee Martinez . 352 pgs *
: 14 . Eldest . Christopher Paolini . 704 pgs *
: 14 . Knitting Under the Influence . Claire LaZebnik . 403 pgs *
: 15 . The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time . Mark Haddon . 240 pgs
: 19 . Sleeping With the Fishes . MaryJanice Davidson . 304 pgs
: 19 . Giraffe . J.M. Ledgard . 304 pgs *
: 21 . The Book of Samson . David Maine . 229 pgs
: 29 . Returning to Earth . Jim Harrison . 280 pgs
: 31 . The Woman in White . Wilkie Collins . 672 pgs *

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