Books Read in 2006
It worked, so here is the list for the year before last.
1. Breakfast at Tiffany's etc - Truman Capote
2. The Temp - Serena MacKesey
3. Falling Awake - Jayne Ann Krentz
4. Tuscany for Beginners - Imogen Edwards Jones
5. Managing Learning for Achievement - Christopher Bowring-Carr & John West-Burnham (eds)
reckon they must be friends of Charlie Pearson with names like that!
6. Angus, Thongs & Full-frontal Snogging - Louise Rennison
7. It's OK, I'm wearing really big knickers - Louise Rennison
8. North & South - Elizabeth Gaskell
9. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
10. The Art of Falling - Deborah Lawrenson
11. The Little Friend - Donna Tartt
12. Knocked out by my Nunga-nungas - Louise Rennison
13. Dancing in my Nuddy Pants - Louise Rennison
14. The Kite Runner - Khalid Hoseni
15. The Bookseller of Kabul - Anne Seirestad
16. The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde (R)
17. Lost in a Good Book - Jasper Fforde (R)
18. The Well of Lost Plots - Jasper Fforde (R)
19. Something Rotten - Jasper Fforde (R)
20. This Thing of Darkness - Harry Thompson
21. The History of Love - Nicole Krauss
22. Arthur & George - Julian Barnes
23. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (R)
24. Indiscretion - Jude Morgan
25. The Oxford Murders - Guillermo Martinez
26. Rocks of Ages - Stephen J Gould
27. Collapse - Jared Diamond
28. Picnic - Claudia Roden
29. The Cool Lunchbox - Sandy Harper
yes, I do read cookery books when I first get them!
30. Speaking with the Angel - ed Nick Hornby
31. Who Betrayed Elizabeth Bennett? - John Sutherland
32. The Pedant in the Kitchen - Julian Barnes
33. Codex - Lev Grossman
34. Dracula - Bram Stoker
35. The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
36. Frankenstein - Mary Shelly
37. Passion - Jude Morgan
38. ... and that's when it fell off in my hand - Louise Rennison
39. ... and then he ate my boy entrancers - Louise Rennison
40. The Language Instinct - Stephen Pinker
41. Flora's Lot - Katie Fforde
42. A Question of Love - Isobel Wolff
43. Wish upon a Star - Tina Reilly
44. Colour - Victoria Finlay
45. Perfume - Patrick Suskind
46. Give Us This Day - Colin Tulloch
47. Labyrinth - Kate Mosse
48. Depression, the Way Out of Your Prison - Dorothy Rowe
49. The Copper Beech - Maeve Binchy
50. The Ladies of Missalonghi - Colleen McCullogh
51. Noughts & Crosses - Malorie Blackman
52. Disconnected - Nick Barham
53. The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham (R)
54. Mobius Dick - Andrew Crumney
55. Swallowing Grandma - Kate Long
56. We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver
57. Lucky - Alice Sebold
58. The Eagle's Shadow - Mark Hertsgaard
59. Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
60. A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian - Marina Lewycka
61. A Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakami
62. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
63. Father Joe - Tony Hendra
64. The Years of Rice & Salt - Kim Stanley Robinson
65. The Sorrows of Young Werther - Goethe
66. Freakonomics - Steven D Levitt & Stephen J Dubner
67. How to write really badly - Anne Fine
68. The Edible Woman - Margaret Atwood
69. Chaos - James Gleick
70. Tamarind Mem - Anita Rau Badami
71. The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
72. The Burglar who traded Ted Williams - Leonard Block
73. The Penelopiad - Margaret Atwood
74. The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
75. Before I say Goodbye - Ruth Picardie
76. Slander - Ann Coulter
most irritating book of the year so far - thanks Netstation - or maybe not ;o)
77. Peacocks Dancing - Sharon Maas
78. Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
79. Scandal Takes a Holiday - Lindsey Davies
80. Dickens - Peter Ackroyd
81. The Accidental Mother - Rowan Coleman
82. Ella Minnow Pea - Mark Dunn
83. Untold Stories - Alan Bennett
84. 1984 - George Orwell (R)
85. Bel Canto - Ann Patchett
86. Collected Poems - TS Eliot(R)
87. Complete Poems - e e cummings (some R)
...well, I might not have read every poem...
88. The Headteacher in the 21st Century - Frank Green
89. Principles of School Leadership - Mark Brundrett (ed)
90. A Handbook for Headteachers - Marylin Nathan
91. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire - Amanda Foreman
92. Rancid Aluminium - James Hawes
93. Brother in the Land - Robert Swindells
94. The Stone Pilot - Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell
95. Cowboys, Injuns & the Wild Wild West - Wayne N Caba
96. Magic Magic - GF Lamb
97. Koyasan - Darren Shan
best children's book so far this year
98. Martin Chatterton's Wierd World of Pop
99. Martin Chatterton's Wierd World of TV
100. Get a Life - Victoria McCarthy
101. Kipper & Co Strike Again - Corley Byrne
102. Bad Dreams - Wendy Cooling (ed)
103. The Mum Surprise - Gwyneth Rees
104. The Big Over Easy - Jasper Fforde
105. Blind Beauty - KM Peyton
106. ZPTV - Alex Martin
107. Death & the Penguin - Andrey Kurkov
108. Penguin Lost - Andrey Kurkov
109. Chat - Nan McCarthy
110. Connect - Nan McCarthy
111. Crash - Nan McCarthy
112. If the Spirit Moves You - Justine Picardie
113. The Quiz Master - Michael Scott
114. The Laying on of Hands - Alan Bennett
115. Basic html - A Whyte
116. A is for Alibi/B is for Burglar/C is for Corpse - Sue Grafton
117. Sabriel - Garth Nix
118. Moab is my Washpot - Stephen Fry
119. It's not a Runner Bean - Mark Steel
120. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff - Christopher Moore
121. Better than a Rest - Pauline McLynn
122. Murphy's Law - Colin Bateman
123. Love & other near death experiences - Mil Millington
124. Gone with the Windsors - Laurie Graham
125. To Live Again - Robert Silverberg
126. The Surgeon of Crowthorne - Simon Winchester
127. The Aerodynamics of Pork - Patrick Gale
128. Friends, Lovers, Chocolate - Alexander McCall Smith
129. The Burglar who painted like Mondrian - Lawrence Block
130. Following the Wrong God Home - Catherine Lim
131. The Touch - Lin Hong
132. Surfacing - Margaret Atwood
133. Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
134. The Relationships Revolution - Nigel Pollock
135. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
136. Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare
(CUP edition, read all the gumf too)
137. D is for Deadbeat - Sue Grafton
138. E is for Evidence - Sue Grafton
139. F is for Fugitive - Sue Grafton
140. The World's Wife - Carol Ann Duffy
141. Pomegranate Soup - Marsha Mehran
142. G is for Gumshoe - Sue Grafton
143. H is for Homicide - Sue Grafton
144. Wise Children - Angela Carter
145. I is for Innocent - Sue Grafton
146. An Eye for an Eye - Malorie Blackman
147. The Night, They Say, Was Made For Love - John Callahan
148. Carter Beats the Devil - Glen David Gold
149. Astonishing Splashes of Colour - Clare Morrall
150. Kathy's Story - Kathy O'Beirne
151.Lirael - Garth Nix
152. Abhorsen - Garth Nix
153. Around the World in 80 Days - Michael Palin
154. Of Marriageable Age - Sharon Maas
155. J is for Judgement - Sue Grafton
156. K is for Killer - Sue Grafton
157. The Raphael Affair - Iain Pears
158. Agatha Raisin & the Potted Gardener - M C Beaton
159. The End - Lemony Snicket
160. Black Juice- Margo Lanagan
161. I know this much is True - Wally Lamb
162. L is for Lawless - Sue Grafton
163. M is for Malice - Sue Grafton
164. N is for Noose - Sue Grafton
165. Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
166. Home Truths - Bill Murphy
167. I, Lucifer - Glen Duncan
168. Plain Truth - Jodi Picoult
169. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
170. Knife Edge - Malorie Blackman
171. Checkmate - Malorie Blackman
172. Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
173. O is for Outlaw - Sue Grafton
174. P is for Peril - Sue Grafton
175. The Burglar who studied Spinoza - Lawrence Block
176. Q is for Quarry - Sue Grafton
177. R is for Ricochet - Sue Grafton
178. S is for Silence - Sue Grafton
Phew! That's that then, for now ...
179. At Swim, Two Boys - Jamie O'Neill
180. Agatha Raisin & the Vicious Vet - MC Beaton
181. Espresso Tales - Alexander McCall Smith
182. The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
183. Scuba Dancing - Nicola Slade
184. Q & A - Vikas Swarup
185. Classic Adventures - Spike Milligan
186. Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
187. Agatha Raisin & the Walkers of Dembley - MC Beaton
188. Agatha Raisin & the Perfect Paragon - MC Beaton
189. Emotional Geology - Linda Gillard
190. The Athenian Murders - Jose Carlos Somoza
191. Beneath the Diamond Sky - Christopher Wakling
192. Across the Nightingale Floor - Lian Hearn
193. Nice Cup of Tea & a Sit Down - Nicey & Wifey
194. Weight - Jeanette Winterson
195. Understanding Depression - Paul Gilbert (R)
196. Cider with Rosie - Laurie Lee
197. The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
198. Sunbathing in the Rain - Gwyneth Lewis (R)
199. Stumbling on Happiness - Daniel Gilbert
science, not self-help, despite the title
200. Vernon God Little - DBC Pierre
201. Bambert's Book of Missing Stories - Reinhardt Jung
202. A Proper Family Christmas - Jane Gordon-Cumming
203. Cold Tom - Sally Prue
204. The Lady Tree - Christie Dickason
205. Quicksilver - Christie Dickason
The Top 10
Emotional Geology - Linda Gillard
Emotional Geology - Linda Gillard
The Kite Runner - Khalid Hoseni
Stumbling on Happiness - Daniel Gilbert
I Know This Much is True - Wally Lamb
This Thing of Darkness - Harry S Thompson
Noughts & Crosses Trilogy - Malorie Blackman (well if others have put in series so can I)
Ella Minnow Pea - Mark Dunn
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
Moab is My Washpot - Stephen Fry
Q & A - Vikas Swarup
The Key
These books are linked to their JEs.
These books were lent to me by non-bookcrossers (or by naughty bookcrossers who haven't registered them).
These books are ones I've not got round to registering (slaps own wrist)!
(R) indicates a re-read.
The ListThese books are linked to their JEs.
These books were lent to me by non-bookcrossers (or by naughty bookcrossers who haven't registered them).
These books are ones I've not got round to registering (slaps own wrist)!
(R) indicates a re-read.
1. Breakfast at Tiffany's etc - Truman Capote
2. The Temp - Serena MacKesey
3. Falling Awake - Jayne Ann Krentz
4. Tuscany for Beginners - Imogen Edwards Jones
5. Managing Learning for Achievement - Christopher Bowring-Carr & John West-Burnham (eds)
reckon they must be friends of Charlie Pearson with names like that!
6. Angus, Thongs & Full-frontal Snogging - Louise Rennison
7. It's OK, I'm wearing really big knickers - Louise Rennison
8. North & South - Elizabeth Gaskell
9. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
10. The Art of Falling - Deborah Lawrenson
11. The Little Friend - Donna Tartt
12. Knocked out by my Nunga-nungas - Louise Rennison
13. Dancing in my Nuddy Pants - Louise Rennison
14. The Kite Runner - Khalid Hoseni
15. The Bookseller of Kabul - Anne Seirestad
16. The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde (R)
17. Lost in a Good Book - Jasper Fforde (R)
18. The Well of Lost Plots - Jasper Fforde (R)
19. Something Rotten - Jasper Fforde (R)
20. This Thing of Darkness - Harry Thompson
21. The History of Love - Nicole Krauss
22. Arthur & George - Julian Barnes
23. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (R)
24. Indiscretion - Jude Morgan
25. The Oxford Murders - Guillermo Martinez
26. Rocks of Ages - Stephen J Gould
27. Collapse - Jared Diamond
28. Picnic - Claudia Roden
29. The Cool Lunchbox - Sandy Harper
yes, I do read cookery books when I first get them!
30. Speaking with the Angel - ed Nick Hornby
31. Who Betrayed Elizabeth Bennett? - John Sutherland
32. The Pedant in the Kitchen - Julian Barnes
33. Codex - Lev Grossman
34. Dracula - Bram Stoker
35. The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
36. Frankenstein - Mary Shelly
37. Passion - Jude Morgan
38. ... and that's when it fell off in my hand - Louise Rennison
39. ... and then he ate my boy entrancers - Louise Rennison
40. The Language Instinct - Stephen Pinker
41. Flora's Lot - Katie Fforde
42. A Question of Love - Isobel Wolff
43. Wish upon a Star - Tina Reilly
44. Colour - Victoria Finlay
45. Perfume - Patrick Suskind
46. Give Us This Day - Colin Tulloch
47. Labyrinth - Kate Mosse
48. Depression, the Way Out of Your Prison - Dorothy Rowe
49. The Copper Beech - Maeve Binchy
50. The Ladies of Missalonghi - Colleen McCullogh
51. Noughts & Crosses - Malorie Blackman
52. Disconnected - Nick Barham
53. The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham (R)
54. Mobius Dick - Andrew Crumney
55. Swallowing Grandma - Kate Long
56. We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver
57. Lucky - Alice Sebold
58. The Eagle's Shadow - Mark Hertsgaard
59. Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
60. A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian - Marina Lewycka
61. A Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakami
62. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
63. Father Joe - Tony Hendra
64. The Years of Rice & Salt - Kim Stanley Robinson
65. The Sorrows of Young Werther - Goethe
66. Freakonomics - Steven D Levitt & Stephen J Dubner
67. How to write really badly - Anne Fine
68. The Edible Woman - Margaret Atwood
69. Chaos - James Gleick
70. Tamarind Mem - Anita Rau Badami
71. The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
72. The Burglar who traded Ted Williams - Leonard Block
73. The Penelopiad - Margaret Atwood
74. The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
75. Before I say Goodbye - Ruth Picardie
76. Slander - Ann Coulter
most irritating book of the year so far - thanks Netstation - or maybe not ;o)
77. Peacocks Dancing - Sharon Maas
78. Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
79. Scandal Takes a Holiday - Lindsey Davies
80. Dickens - Peter Ackroyd
81. The Accidental Mother - Rowan Coleman
82. Ella Minnow Pea - Mark Dunn
83. Untold Stories - Alan Bennett
84. 1984 - George Orwell (R)
85. Bel Canto - Ann Patchett
86. Collected Poems - TS Eliot(R)
87. Complete Poems - e e cummings (some R)
...well, I might not have read every poem...
88. The Headteacher in the 21st Century - Frank Green
89. Principles of School Leadership - Mark Brundrett (ed)
90. A Handbook for Headteachers - Marylin Nathan
91. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire - Amanda Foreman
92. Rancid Aluminium - James Hawes
93. Brother in the Land - Robert Swindells
94. The Stone Pilot - Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell
95. Cowboys, Injuns & the Wild Wild West - Wayne N Caba
96. Magic Magic - GF Lamb
97. Koyasan - Darren Shan
best children's book so far this year
98. Martin Chatterton's Wierd World of Pop
99. Martin Chatterton's Wierd World of TV
100. Get a Life - Victoria McCarthy
101. Kipper & Co Strike Again - Corley Byrne
102. Bad Dreams - Wendy Cooling (ed)
103. The Mum Surprise - Gwyneth Rees
104. The Big Over Easy - Jasper Fforde
105. Blind Beauty - KM Peyton
106. ZPTV - Alex Martin
107. Death & the Penguin - Andrey Kurkov
108. Penguin Lost - Andrey Kurkov
109. Chat - Nan McCarthy
110. Connect - Nan McCarthy
111. Crash - Nan McCarthy
112. If the Spirit Moves You - Justine Picardie
113. The Quiz Master - Michael Scott
114. The Laying on of Hands - Alan Bennett
115. Basic html - A Whyte
116. A is for Alibi/B is for Burglar/C is for Corpse - Sue Grafton
117. Sabriel - Garth Nix
118. Moab is my Washpot - Stephen Fry
119. It's not a Runner Bean - Mark Steel
120. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff - Christopher Moore
121. Better than a Rest - Pauline McLynn
122. Murphy's Law - Colin Bateman
123. Love & other near death experiences - Mil Millington
124. Gone with the Windsors - Laurie Graham
125. To Live Again - Robert Silverberg
126. The Surgeon of Crowthorne - Simon Winchester
127. The Aerodynamics of Pork - Patrick Gale
128. Friends, Lovers, Chocolate - Alexander McCall Smith
129. The Burglar who painted like Mondrian - Lawrence Block
130. Following the Wrong God Home - Catherine Lim
131. The Touch - Lin Hong
132. Surfacing - Margaret Atwood
133. Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
134. The Relationships Revolution - Nigel Pollock
135. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
136. Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare
(CUP edition, read all the gumf too)
137. D is for Deadbeat - Sue Grafton
138. E is for Evidence - Sue Grafton
139. F is for Fugitive - Sue Grafton
140. The World's Wife - Carol Ann Duffy
141. Pomegranate Soup - Marsha Mehran
142. G is for Gumshoe - Sue Grafton
143. H is for Homicide - Sue Grafton
144. Wise Children - Angela Carter
145. I is for Innocent - Sue Grafton
146. An Eye for an Eye - Malorie Blackman
147. The Night, They Say, Was Made For Love - John Callahan
148. Carter Beats the Devil - Glen David Gold
149. Astonishing Splashes of Colour - Clare Morrall
150. Kathy's Story - Kathy O'Beirne
151.Lirael - Garth Nix
152. Abhorsen - Garth Nix
153. Around the World in 80 Days - Michael Palin
154. Of Marriageable Age - Sharon Maas
155. J is for Judgement - Sue Grafton
156. K is for Killer - Sue Grafton
157. The Raphael Affair - Iain Pears
158. Agatha Raisin & the Potted Gardener - M C Beaton
159. The End - Lemony Snicket
160. Black Juice- Margo Lanagan
161. I know this much is True - Wally Lamb
162. L is for Lawless - Sue Grafton
163. M is for Malice - Sue Grafton
164. N is for Noose - Sue Grafton
165. Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
166. Home Truths - Bill Murphy
167. I, Lucifer - Glen Duncan
168. Plain Truth - Jodi Picoult
169. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
170. Knife Edge - Malorie Blackman
171. Checkmate - Malorie Blackman
172. Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
173. O is for Outlaw - Sue Grafton
174. P is for Peril - Sue Grafton
175. The Burglar who studied Spinoza - Lawrence Block
176. Q is for Quarry - Sue Grafton
177. R is for Ricochet - Sue Grafton
178. S is for Silence - Sue Grafton
Phew! That's that then, for now ...
179. At Swim, Two Boys - Jamie O'Neill
180. Agatha Raisin & the Vicious Vet - MC Beaton
181. Espresso Tales - Alexander McCall Smith
182. The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
183. Scuba Dancing - Nicola Slade
184. Q & A - Vikas Swarup
185. Classic Adventures - Spike Milligan
186. Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
187. Agatha Raisin & the Walkers of Dembley - MC Beaton
188. Agatha Raisin & the Perfect Paragon - MC Beaton
189. Emotional Geology - Linda Gillard
190. The Athenian Murders - Jose Carlos Somoza
191. Beneath the Diamond Sky - Christopher Wakling
192. Across the Nightingale Floor - Lian Hearn
193. Nice Cup of Tea & a Sit Down - Nicey & Wifey
194. Weight - Jeanette Winterson
195. Understanding Depression - Paul Gilbert (R)
196. Cider with Rosie - Laurie Lee
197. The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
198. Sunbathing in the Rain - Gwyneth Lewis (R)
199. Stumbling on Happiness - Daniel Gilbert
science, not self-help, despite the title
200. Vernon God Little - DBC Pierre
201. Bambert's Book of Missing Stories - Reinhardt Jung
202. A Proper Family Christmas - Jane Gordon-Cumming
203. Cold Tom - Sally Prue
204. The Lady Tree - Christie Dickason
205. Quicksilver - Christie Dickason
accomplished
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