2006 Book Readings

My book reading was not satisfactory this past year for a few reasons. First, I think I missed a few in this list, as I wasn’t keeping track as well as I should have been. Second, even so, I didn’t get through as much I was hoping to. Around about August I fell into a big slump. And third, of course, is that I spend so much time reading for work and reading the various periodicals I get on the Metro, that at night sometimes I don’t feel like doing much beyond watching Fresh Prince (see previous post).

Of the list below, I think my favorite was Omnivore’s Dilemma.

1001 Nights of Snowfall by Bill Willingham – 3.5
The Last Light of the Sun by Guy Gavriel Kay – 3.8
The Perfect Thing by Steven Levy – 4.5
Saving Graces by Elizabeth Edwards – 4.2
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe – 4
It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis – 4.5
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A History of the World in Six Glasses by Tom Standage – 3.25
Down Came the Rain by Brooke Shields – 3.8
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan – 4.6
An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore – 5
Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating by Jane Goodall – 4
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriett Beecher Stowe – 4.25
A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge – 4.25
Song for Arbonne by Guy Gavriel Kay – 3.8
Taking Charge of Your Fertility: The Definitive Guide to Natural Birth Control and … Reproductive Health by Toni Weschler – 4.25
The Number by Lee Eisenberg – 2.25
The Party’s Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies by Richard Heinberg – 4.75
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote – 3.5
Spin by Robert Charles Wilson – 3.5
You’re in Charge – Now What? by Neff & Citrin – 3.75
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler – 3.8
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay – 4.25
Cyanide Canary by Hilldorfer and Dugoni – 3.5
Metaphors We Live By by Lakoff and Johnson – 4.8
Close Range by Annie Proulx – 4
Why I Hate Saturn by Kyle Baker – 2.9
The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay – 4.25
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson – 4
Serenity: The Official Visual Companion – by Joss Whedon – 3.85
The Rebel Angels (1st of the Cornish Trilogy) by Robertson Davies – 3.75
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott – 3.5
Forty Signs of Rain by Kim Stanley Robinson – 2.75
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Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke – 4
Smart Couples Finish Rich by David Bach – 4
I Am Spock by Leonard Nimoy – 3.6
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion – 3.75
Your Money or Your Life by Dominguez & Robin – 3.8