This is the ongoing list of books I've read, by year. Unfortunately, 2005-2007 I did not keep accurate record, so those years are thin, and in fact you will note that I do not have 2005 listed at all. I read something that year but…I'm not sure what. Also: Books I want to buy and Books I want to read. Also check out my (woefully incomplete) LibraryThing!
NOVEMBER, 2008
Adult Children of Alcoholics
Janet Woititz
362.2 WOI
Victory of Eagles
Naomi Novik
Empire of Ivory
Naomi Novik
SEPTEMBER, 2007
Directing in the Theatre
Hugh Morrison
792.0233 MOR
Companion Through the Darkness
Stephanie Ericsson
(unk)
AUGUST, 2007
A Grief Observed (reread)
C.S. Lewis
Unknown Soldiers: The Story of the Missing of the First World War
Neil Hanson
940.48 HAN
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
Jay Winter and Blaine Baggett
940.3 GRE
Food and Loathing (reread)
Betsy Lerner
Indexing from A to Z
Hans H. Wellisch
025.3 WEL
The Peloponnesian War read fist quarter but school started and I stopped
Donald Kagan
938.05 KAG
JULY, 2007
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
J.K. Rowling
Girl Genius
Phil Foglio
(graphic novel)
BONE
Jeff Smith
(graphic novel)
Werehunter
Mercedes Lackey
Love, Life and Work
Elbert Hubbard
(via Project Gutenberg)
Essays, 1st Volume
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(via Project Gutenberg)
Stardust
Neil Gaimen
The Pentagon's New Map
Thomas P.M. Barnett
355.033073 BAR
MAY, 2007
Why the Allies Won
Richard Overy
940.53 Ove
Why GOD is Not Great
Christopher Hitchens
unk
Uncle Sam
Alex Ross
graphic novel
Kingdom Come
Alex Ross
graphic novel
The Victorians
A.N. Wilson
941.081 WIL
JUNE, 2007
Creating Money
Sanaya Roman & Duane Packer
unk
The Sacred Depths of Nature
Ursula Goodenough
574.01 GOO
January through August, unordered
The Prince
Machiavelli
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Leo Tolstoy
Sons and Lovers
D.H. Lawrence
101 Dalmations
Dodie Smith
1632
Eric Flint
1633
Eric Flint and David Weber
The Grantville Gazette
Eric Flint et al
The Ring of Fire
Eric Flint et al
The Grantville Gazette II
Eric Flint et al
The Art of Life
Ernest Holmes
299.93 HOL
OCTOBER, 2006
Silent Thunder: In the Presence of Elephants
Katy Payne
599.7615 PAY
From Beirut to Jerusalem
Thomas L. Friedman
956.92
On Becoming a Novelist
John Gardener
808.3 Gar
NOVEMBER, 2006
Elephant Memories
Cynthia Moss
599.61 MOS
Taking the Path of Zen
Robert Aitken
294.3 AIT
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius
Nicolo Machiavelli
January - April, 2004
TOO LONG OF A BREAK — started driving a cab, stopped reading. Not good.
MAY, 2004
Being America: Libery, Commerce, and Violence in an American World
Jedediah Purdy
327.73 PUR
AUGUST-SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER, 2004
I wasn't keeping really good track this fall…so sue me!
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Azar Nafisi
820.9 NAF
Krakatoa - The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
Simon Winchester
959.8022 WIN
Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America
Stephen G. Bloom
977.733 BLO
The World of Edward Gorey
Clifford Ross and Karen Wilkin
700.92
NOVEMBER, 2004
Nothing Sacred: The Truth About Judaism
Douglas Rushkoff
820.9 NAF
JANUARY, 2003
A Time To Die
Robert Moore
910.916324 MOO
Pattern Recognition
William Gibson
FEBRUARY, 2003
Look to Winward
Iain M. Banks
Alien Emergencies
James White
The Book of Courtesans
Susan Griffin
306.742
Midlife Orphan
Jane Brooks
155.66
Demon in the Freezer
Richard Preston
616.9120 5 PRE
Run to the Mountain Vol. 1
Thos. Merton
271.1250 2 MER
Which Lie Did I Tell?
William Goldman
384.8 GOL
MARCH, 2003
Final Diagnosis
James White
Explorer
CJ Cherryh
Illegal Alien
Robert J. Sawyer
Shoot Out
Bart & Guber
384.80973 BAR
The Alleluia Files
Sharon Shinn
APRIL, 2003
Mauve
Simon Garfield
667.2 GAR
The Eyre Affair
Jasper Fforde
Dead Reckoning
Baden
363.2595
Criminalistics
Saferstein
363.25
The Search
Iris Johanson
One for the Money
Janet Evanovich
Armed and Dangerous most upsetting book I've ever read//
Gina Gallo
363.2092
MAY, 2003
Met by Moonlight
Rosemary Edgehill
Fallam's Secret
Denise Giardina
The Courage to Start (great book for plodders!)
John Bingham
796.42 BIN
Devil in the White City
Erik Larson
364.1523 LAR
JUNE, 2003
Book of Moons
Rosemary Edgehill
Da Vinci Code (wow!!!!)
Dan Brown
JULY, 2003
In Defense of Elitism
William A. Henry III (deceased, damnit)
305.52
Lost in a Good Book
Jasper Fforde
What the Corpse Revealed
Hugh Miller
363.2595 MIL
Thin So Fast
Michael Eades
613.25 EAD
Stupid White Men
Michael Moore
973.931 MOO
Beauty
Sherri Tepper
Hidden Evidence
David Owen
363.25
AUGUST, 2003
The Diamond Age
Neal Stephenson
Angels and Demons
Dan Brown
Color Stories
Mary Lisa Gavenas
338.476472 GAV
What Liberal Media?
Eric Alterman
302.23 ALT
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
Greg Palast
364.1323 PAL
Like Water for Chocolate
Laura Esquivel
SEPTEMBER, 2003
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
577 BRY
The Dhammapada
trans. Thos. Cleary
294.3 DHA
The Manley Art of Librarianship
William Manley
020.973 MAN
The One Hundred Days
Patrick O'Brian
Tariki
Hiroyuki Itsuki
294.3 ITS
It's Easier Than You Think
Sylvia Boorstien
294.3 BOO
Entering the Stream
Ed. Bercholz & Kohn
294.3
OCTOBER, 2003
Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime
Miles Harvey
025.82 HAR
Library: An Unquiet History
Matthew Battles
027 BAT
The Original Analects: Sayings of Confucius
trans. Brooks & Brooks
181.112 CON
Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billions Years of Life on Earth
Richard Fortey
576.8 FOR
JANUARY,2002
Birdsong
Sebastian Faulks
Year in Provence
Peter Mayl
944.9 MAY
13 Gun Salute
Patrick O'Brian
The Other Wind
Ursala K. LeGuin
Slightly Chipped
Goldstones
002.075 GOL
USA
Dos Possos
Nugmeg of Consolation
Patrick O'Brian
Angel and the Sword
Cecelia Holland
Depths of Time
Roger MacBride Allen
Encore Provence
Peter Mayle
9449 MAY
Warmly Inscribed
Goldstones
002.075 GOL
Introduction to Library Science
Joseph Shera
020 SHE
Unintellectual Freedoms
Will Manley
020.92 MAN
Dune
Frank Herbert
The True Love
Patrick O'Brian
FEBRUARY, 2002
Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Laura Hillenbrand
798.4 HIL
A Passion for Books
Lawrence Clark Powell
010 P
Domain
Steve Alten
Unprofessional Behavior
Will Manley
020.92 MAN
Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert
Water Touching Stone
Elliot Pattison
Mummies of Urumchi
Elizabeth Wayland Barber
393 BAR
Exile From the Land of the Snows
John Avedon
951.505 AVE
Islandia
Austin Wright
Land of JourneyÕs Ending
Mary Austin
A Truthtelling Manuel and the Art of Worldy Wisdom
Balthasar Gracian
868.302 GRA
Honeymoon in Purdah
Alison Wearing
955.05 WEA
What's to Become of the Boy?
Hienrich Boll
833.914 BOLL
The Book of Atrix Wolfe
Patricia McKillip
MARCH, 2002
Lucky Man
Michael J. Fox
B Fox
A Caress of Twilight
Laurell K. Hamilton
Bad Beginnings
Lemony Snicket
Fast Food Nation
Eric Schlosser
394.10973 SCH
A Writer's House in Wales
Jan Morris
942.9 MOR
**APRIL, 2002 **
Speaking of Books
Kaplan & Rabinowitz
002 SPE
Foreigner
CJ Cherryh
An Open Heart
Dali Lama
294.344 B
Invader
CJ Cherryh
Inheritor
CJ Cherryh
Precursor
CJ Cherryh
JUNE, 2002
Rainbow's End
Maury Klein
338.54 KLE
Isacc's Storm
Erik Larson
976.4139
Gifts of the Jews
Thomas Cahill
909.04924 CAH
A Walk in the Woods
Bill Bryson
917.404 BRY
The Curse of Treasure Island
Francis Bryan
A Dog Year
Jon Katz
**AUGUST, 2002 **
Difference Engine
Doron Swade
681.145
Teranesia
Greg Egan
A Life Revealed: Pat O'Brian
Dean King
B O'Brian
The Road to Ubar
Nicholas Clapp
939.49
Riddle of the Lost Lover
Patricia Veryan
SEPTEMBER, 2002
Dear Dreams
Roy Hazelwood
364.3 H
Lessons of Terror
Caleb Carr
303.625
Golden Compass
Philip Pullman
YA - Pullman
Mother Tongue (excellent!!)
Bill Bryson
420.9
Made in America
Bill Bryson
420.973
Air Force Eagle
Walter J. Boyne
The Subtle Knife
Philip Pullman
YA - Pullman
The Amber Spyglass
Philip Pullman
YA - Pullman
DECEMBER, 2002
The Alphabet Vs. The Goddess (excellent!!!)
Leonard Shlain
302.2244
It's Not About the Bike
Land Armstrong
B - Armstrong
The Carnitine Miracle
Robert Crayhon
613.28 CRA
Awakening the Buddha Withing
Lama Surya Das
294.344 DAS
The Yellow Admiral
Patrick O'Brian
Snow Crash (yawwwwwnnnn)
Neal Stephenson
Alas, records are for November and December, 2001 only.
NOVEMBER, 2001
Ancient Shores
Jack McDevitt
The Third Chimpanzee
Jarid Diamond
573.2 DIA
Understanding Thomas Jefferson
E.M. Halliday
B Jefferson
Journey from Eden
Fagan
573.3 FAG
In Search of the Indo-Europeans (boorrrrrringggg)
Malbry
410 MAL
Red Storm Rising
Tom Clancy
The Psychology of Dieting
Sara Gilber
613.25 GIL
Voices and Silences
James Earl Jones
B Jones
One Good Screw
Witold Rybczynski
???
The Shapechanger's Wife
Sharon Shinn
The Engines of God
Jack McDevitt
A Gentle Madness (wonderful!)
Nicholas Basbanes
002.075 BAS
Patience and Fortitude
Nicolas Basbanes
002.09 BAS
Making Peace With Food
Susan Kan
613.25 KAN
Eternity Road
Jack McDevitt
What If?
Ed. Robert Cowley
355.45 WHA
DECEMBER, 2001
On Writing
Stephen King
813.54 KING
The Bone Lady
Mary Manhein
614.1 MAN
The Malacia Tapestry
Brian Aldis
The Ass Saw the Angel
Nick Cave (really!)
The Smithsonian Book of Books
Micheal Olmert
002 OLM
Conscious Breathing
Gay Hendricks
613.192 HEN
The Oxygen Breakthrough
Sheldon Saul Hendler
616.07 HEN
The Map the Changed the World
Simon Winchester
550.92 WIN
How the Irish Saved Civilization
Thomas Cahill
941.501 CAH
Testaments of Time
Leo Deuel
091.09 DEU
Possession
A.S. Bryantt
What If? II
Ed. James Bradley
355.48 WHA
Boethius
878 BOE
Encounter with Tiber
Aldrin & Barnes
Leter of Marque
Patrick O'Brian
Used and Rare
Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone
002 GOL
White Mars
Brian Aldiss
