My 2006 Reading List

I read far too many books in 2006 to give a rundown of best/worst so all I’m going to do is make a list and be done with it.  Next year I’ll be tagging the books I read with "2007" so that will make it easier than sifting through the monthly archives – I wish I’d thought of that sooner!

I read a total of 149 150 books: there were 38 non-fiction and 111 112 fiction.  Of those, 21 22 were young adult/children’s books, 6 were audio, 10 were classics and 15 were GLBT or had strong GLBT themes.  Not a bad reading year.  Lots of favorites in there, not too many duds.  That’s all I can ask in a year of books!

If you’re interested in more reading lists from 2006, you can fine a nice group of them at Semi-colon

January:
Clearcut
Breakfast With Tiffany
Wed and Buried
THe Peabody Sisters
The Killing Art
Sky Pirates (The Edge Chronicles)
Over Easy
Uncontrolled Flight
What Do You Do All Day?
Grace At Low Tide

February:
Rococo
The Tent
The Devil’s Picnic
The Email Murders

March:
Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocolypse
Jesus Land
The Leopard Hat
Sock
Money Secrets
Night
For Whom the Minivan Rolls
Ourland
She Got Up Off the Couch

April:
Farewell Legs
A Dirty Job
Whale Season
The Wright Three
Anyone But You
Weekend Makeover
Emotionally Weird
In the Company of the Courtesan
Tithe
The Understudy

May:
The Tenth Circle
To Hell With All That (I didn’t finish it)
Carolina Isle
Pitching My Tent
Rose of No Man’s Land
The Egg & I
Odd Girl Out
Odd Girl Speaks Out
Hot Fudge Sundae Blues
Penelopiad
Girls of a Tender Age

June:
Valiant
Cloud Atlas
Witness
Dragonflight
If You Could See Me Now
Here Be Dragons
The Naked Woman
The Moonstone
Tummy Trilogy
Bullshit
The Day My Butt Went Psycho
Blue Shoes and Happiness
The Lost Painting
Are We There Yet
Dinner With Anna Karenina

July:
The Shadow of the Wind
Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson)
Vanity Fair
The Ancient Child
The Book Thief
Kindred
Black Elk in Paris
The Night Watch
Four and Twenty Blackbirds
The Crucible
Adam & Eve

August:
The Odd Women
The Bullet Trick
The Stolen Child
The Sculptress
The Year of Magical Thinking
Tamburlaine Must Die
The Crying of Lot 49
The Prophet of Yonwood
The Woman Warrior
Some Pig
The Girls
The Effect of Living Backwards
Midwives
Mrs Shakespeare
The Land of Women
Gravity’s Rainbow (I didn’t finish it)
Kristin Lavransdatter

September:
The Story of Lucy Gault
Fan-Tan
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
Welcome to Lizard Motel
Snapshots of Bloomsbury
The Sun and the Moon
Soul Kitchen
The Secret History of the Pink Carnation
Voyage in the Dark
Anybody Can Do Anything
Drive
Freeglader (The Edge Chronicles)
The Dark Lady of DNA
Confessions of a Pagan Nun
Robinson Crusoe
Misquoting Jesus

October:
Maps for Lost Lovers
Soiled Doves
Crocodile Soup
The Masque of the Black Tulip
The Zombie Survival Guide
The Things That Matter
The Inheritance of Loss
The Devil’s Feather
Now it’s My Turn
The Birth House
Carry Me Down
The Secret River
The Teahouse on Mulberry Street
Mother’s Milk

November:
Killer Dreams
The Rules of Survival
Diary
Hancock Park
Frangipani
The Fourth Bear
Goodnight Nobody
From Here to Reality
Fun Home
The Emperor’s Children
Autobiography of a Face
There is No Me Without You
The Third Policeman
The Coroner’s Journal
The Ice House
As Seen on TV
Acorna’s Children
Lesbian Images
The Creation
The Painted Drum

December:
The Secret of Sarah Revere
Absurdistan
Class Matters
Liberty Square
Happiness Sold Separately
Dirty Blonde
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
No Reservations Required
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
Black Swan Green
Tanglewreck
The Iron Girl
Stage Fright
A Bad Boy Can Be Good For a Girl
The Glass Books of the Dreameaters