What I read in 2006

Total: 140 books

January (16)

• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• Disappearing Rain by Deena Larsen (hypertext novel)
• Under the Duvet by Marian Keyes
• Diary by Chuck Palahniuk
• Clara’s Heart by Joseph Olshan
• The Color of Television by Stuart Moulthrop and Sean Cohen (hypertext novel)
• Joe’s Heartbeat in Budapest by Ruth Nestvold (interactive fiction)
• Star Wars: Cloak of Deception by James Luceno
• Expensive Habits by Peter Mayle
• A Lady of Quality by Francis Hodgson Burnett (e-book)
• In a Strange Garden: The Life and Times of Truby King by Lloyd Chapman
• Long Hot Summer by Barbara Anderson
• The Cat Sitter Mystery by Carol Adorjan (children’s book)
• A Little Princess by Francis Hodgson Burnett (e-book)
• Life’s Little Ironies by Thomas Hardy
• Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack! by ME Kerr

February (9)

• Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden
• A Dubious Legacy by Mary Wesley
• The Family Way by Tony Parsons
• The Future Trap by Catherine Jinks
• Why Can’t a Man Be More Like a Cat? by Linda Konner and Antonia van der Meer (cartoons)
• Milk Treading by Nick Smith
• Running with the Demon by Terry Brooks (in The Word and the Void – three books in one volume)
• One Hundred Ways for a Cat to Train Its Human by Celia Haddon
• A Knight of the Word by Terry Brooks (in The Word and the Void – three books in one volume)

March (15)

• Angel Fire East by Terry Brooks (in The Word and the Void – three books in one volume)
• The Cat Who Played Post Office by Lilian Jackson Braun
• Seashells by Barbara Jane Zitwer
• The Dead of the Night by John Marsden
• Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home by Emily Post (e-book)
• The Quiet Game by Greg Iles
• Feeling Sorry for Celia by Jaclyn Moriarty
• Palm Prints by Fiona Kidman
• The Cat Who Came to Breakfast by Lilian Jackson Braun
• Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
• Cat Portraits by Jill & Martin Leman (art)
• House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories by Yasunari Kawabata
• The Cat Who Said Cheese by Lilian Jackson Braun
• Cuentos en español/Short Stories in Spanish (Spanish/English parallel text) edited by John R King (library book)
• The Cat Who Came for Christmas 2: The Cat and the Curmudgeon by Cleveland Amory

April (7)

• Slow Birds by Ian Watson
• Ratha’s Creature by Clare Bell
• I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
• The Alienist by Caleb Carr
• Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
• The Body Artist by Don DeLillo
• Legally Blonde by Amanda Brown

May (12)

• McNally’s Trial by Lawrence Sanders
• Pretending to be Normal: Living with Asperger’s Syndrome by Liane Holliday Willey (library book)
• Daddy’s Little Cowgirl by Charlotte Maclay
• Congratulations! It’s Asperger Syndrome by Jen Birch (library book)
• The Rector’s Wife by Joanna Trollope
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (e-book)
• Secrets of the Jury Room by Malcolm Knox
• The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas
• The Cat Who Saw Stars by Lilian Jackson Braun
• Throwaway Daughter by Ting-Xing Ye
• Golden Deeds by Catherine Chidgey
• The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett, adapted by Scott Rockwell (graphic novel)

June (13)

• Julie & Julia by Julie Powell
• Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business by Dolly Parton (audiobook)
• What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage
• The Cat Who Robbed a Bank by Lilian Jackson Braun
• Too Close to the Falls by Catherine Gildiner
• The Third Day, the Frost by John Marsden
• Idiogloss
  ia by Eleanor Bailey
• Dead Romance by Lawrence Miles
• Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
• Grand Ambition by Lisa Michaels
• Blast from the Past by Ben Elton
• Where’s my Cow? by Terry Pratchett (children’s book …sort of)
• Boating for Beginners by Jeanette Winterson

July (10)

• Thud! by Terry Pratchett
• Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer (borrowed from meerkitten)
• Theory of War by Joan Brady
• We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
• Hunter of Worlds by CJ Cherryh
• The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier
• Press Send by John McLaren
• The Cat Who Went Underground by Lilian Jackson Braun
• Dracula by Bram Stoker (e-book)
• Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident by Eoin Colfer

August (10)

• Love, Charlie Mike by Kate De Goldi
• Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code by Eoin Colfer (borrowed from meerkitten)
• Brief NLP Therapy by Ian McDermott and Wendy Jago (borrowed from Dad)
• Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
• A Tangled Web by LM Montgomery
• Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman
• Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination by Helen Fielding
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (e-book)
• A Book of Hours by Tom Tolley (art)
• In Custody by Anita Desai

September (11)

• Sporting Excellence: Optimising Sports Performance Using NLP by Ted Garratt (borrowed from Dad)
• Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception by Eoin Colfer (borrowed from meerkitten)
• The Horizontal Man by Helen Eustis
• Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach
• The Last Hero by Terry Pratchett
• The Reader by Bernard Schlink
• Coming of Age in Samoa by Margaret Mead
• Legends edited by Robert Silverberg
• Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human by KW Jeter
• Bill Bryson’s African Diary by Bill Bryson
• Beware of the Dwarfs by Terri Paddock

October (10)

• The Newtonian Casino by Thomas A Bass
• Finity by John Barnes (library book)
• Twelve by Nick McDonell
• Losing Face by Kathy Torpie
• Cat by Freya North
• The Cat Who Talked Turkey by Lilian Jackson Braun (library audio book)
• I, Cyborg by Kevin Warwick
• The Nether Regions by Sue Gough
• Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade by Guy Browning
• Pagan in Exile by Catherine Jinks

November (14)

• Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
• Ventanas: Curso intermedio de lengua española by JA Blanco, MA Dellinger, MI García, and A Yáñez
• Sentence of Marriage by SL Parkinson
• Altar Ego by Kathy Lette
• Miss Garnet’s Angel by Sally Vickers
• A Sudden Wild Magic by Diana Wynne Jones (library book)
• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
• Paper Nautilus by Nicholas Jose
• Fatal Voyage by Kathy Reichs
• Big Fish by Daniel Wallace
• Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise by David Feldman
• The Hippopotamus by Stephen Fry
• Small Change by J. Belinda Yandell
• Bodily Harm by Margaret Atwood (library audio book)

December (13)

• A Recipe for Bees by Gail Anderson-Dargatz
• Funny Cats edited by JC Suarès (photographs)
• The Cat Who Wasn’t There by Lilian Jackson Braun (library audio book)
• Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
• Creatures of the Night by Neil Gaiman and Michael Zulli (graphic novel)
• The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M Auel (library audio book)
• The Light of Other Days by Arthur C Clarke and Stephen Baxter
• One Hit Wonderland by Tony Hawkes (library audio book)
• Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
• The Christmas Train b
  y David Baldacci
• My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult (library audio book)
• Eragon by Christopher Paolini (borrowed from meerkitten)
• Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett

What I read in 2005

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