Books of 2006

Last year, I decided to try and keep track of what I read during the year. I’ll admit, I was not always faithful about keeping track, but I did manage to come up with a list of *most* of the stuff I read this year. The ones I liked are in yellow, the ones I really hated are in red, and the other ones, well, they ranged from okay to forgettable.

Working Days: the journals of the Grapes of Wrath
A World Lit Only by Fire
Microserfs
The Whipping Boy
Flatland: a romance of many dimensions
Far North
Joe Torre’s Gound Rules for Winners
Open Season
The American West
Shadows in the Glasshouse
Adirondack Detective
Passionate Vegetarian
Handle With Care: motivating and retaining your employees
The Whispering Statue
Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind
The Haunted Abbot
Colors Insulting to Nature
The Torment of Others
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop
Dirty South
The Bookman’s Promise
The Forgotten Man
Calvin & Hobbes Lazy Sunday Book
The Old Willis Place
Sign of the Book
Rococo: a novel
This Dame For Hire
The Golem’s Eye
Curse of the Gloamgazer
Geographer’s Library
Serpent on the Crown
The Keeners
The Poet’s Funeral
The Dark Hills Divide
Art of Beadwork
Two Trains Running by August Wilson
Blood Red Horse
The Forgotten Man
Fact, Fiction and Folklore in Harry Potter’s World
Locked Rooms: a Mary Russel novel by Laurie King
Cross Bones by Kathy Reichs
Ruddy Gore: a Phryne Fisher mystery
Password to Larkspur Lane by Carolyn Keene
Chicken Boy
Fade by Robert Cormier
The World According to Martha by Martha Stewart
The Whispering Road by Livi Michael
The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt
The Great Stink
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Malpractice in Maggody by Joan Hess
Tales from the Top: ten crucial questions from the world’s #1 executive coach by Graham Alexander
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Marly’s Ghost
The Secret in the Old Attic by Carolyn Keene
Sign of the Twisted Candles by Carolyn Keene
Camelot Spell
Urban Legends: 666 absolutely true stories
Seeker
The Old Wine Shades by Martha Grimes
The Two Minute Rule
The Warrior Heir
Inkspell by Cornelia Funke
Unleashing the Idea Virus by Seth Godin
Night Gate
Winter Door
Foundling
Alphabet of Dreams
Curse of the Bane
Martha Washington
Paradise Lost
Porch Lies by Patricia McKissack
Legend of Bass Reeves
Saks and Violins
Passage to India
A Gracious Plenty by Sheri Reynolds
Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
Shape Shifter by Tony Hillerman
Rescue Artist by Edward Dolnick
Desperate Journey by Jim Murphy
The Unresolved by T.K. Welsh
Punk Farm by Jarrett Krosockzka
John, Paul, George & Ben by Lane Smith
Wise Guy: the life and philosophy of Socrates by Mark David Usher
Triangle by Katharine Weber
Judas Pair by Jonathan Gash
Book of the Dead by Douglas Preston
Ghost Orchid by Carol Goodman
Valley of Secrets by Charmian Hussey
Gothic: Ten Original Dark Tales
Here Lies the Librarian by Richard Peck
Sorcerors and Secretaries by Amy Kim Ganter
What Kids Do by Mary Engelbreit
My Life in France by Julia Child
The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
Men of Bronze by Scott Oden
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
When the Mississippi Rans Backwards by Jay Feldman
Flavor of the Month: why smart people fall for fads
Food Court Druids, Cherohonkees and Other Creatures Unique to the Republic by Robert Lanham
Art of Detection by Laurie King
Templar Legacy by Steve Barry
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
A Gathering of Shades
Enola Holmes and the Case of the Missing Marquess by Nancy Springer
Nancy Drew, Girl Detective
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Kringle by Tony Abbott
Talk to the Hand by Lynn Truss
Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
Sweet & Sour Lily by Sally Warner