2006 booklist
try as i might, i'm not going to finish the book i'm currently reading, short and easy thought it may be, so i humbly offer the list of books i've read this year. of course, you know most of these already, but it's always nice to have a list.
the last sherlock holmes story - michael dibdin
girl sleuth: nancy drew and the women who created her - melanie rehak
lulu dark can see through walls: a mystery - bennett madison
richmond hill - carl ballenas and nancy cantaldi
kew gardens: urban village in the big city - barry lewis
vile bodies - evelyn waugh
nick and norah's infinite playlist - rachel cohn and david levithan
case histories - kate atkinson
a private hotel for gentle ladies - ellen cooney
decline and fall - evelyn waugh
lenny bruce is dead - jonathan goldstein
assassination vacation - sarah vowell
a handful of dust - evelyn waugh
the professor and the madman - simon winchester
masie dobbs - jacqueline winspear
the stories (so far) of deborah eisenberg - deborah eisenberg
criss cross - lynne rae perkins
birds of a feather - jacqueline winspear
the plot against america - philip roth
bras and broomsticks - sarah mlynowski
gilda joyce, psychic investigator - jennifer allisson
a widow for one year - john irving
slouching towards bethlehem - joan didion
ask the dust - john fante
land's end: a walk in provincetown - michael cunningham
pretty little dirty - amanda boyden
pardonable lies - jacqueline winspear
now you see it ... stories from cokesville - bathsheba monk
the blue girl - charles de lint
in the miso soup - ryu murakami
miss misery - andy greenwald
princess academy - shannon hale
the water mirror - kai meyer
peeps - scott westerfeld
the traveling death and resurrection show - ariel gore
twins - marcy demarsky
apathy and other small victories - paul neilan
the sisters grimm: the fairytale detectives - michael buckley
so yesterday - scott westerfeld
hairstyles of the damned - joe meno
fun home: a tragicomic - alison bechdel
tricked - alex robinson
black hole - charles burns
midnighters: the secret hour - scott westerfeld
midnighters: touching darkness - scott westerfeld
a special providence - richard yates
deception point - dan brown
uglies - scott westerfeld
scoop - evelyn waugh
the sisters grimm: the unusual suspects - michael buckley
pretties - scott westerfeld
a small death in lisbon - robert wilson
king dork - frank portman
the ruins: a novel - scott smith
twilight of the superheroes - deborah eisenberg
don't look back - karin fossum
the man of my dreams - curtis sittenfeld
charlie bone and the hidden king - jenny nimmo
the laughing policeman - maj sjowall and per wahloo
in the heart of the sea: the tragedy of the whaleship essex - nathaniel philbrick
midnighters: blue noon - scott westerfeld
the life and times of the thunderbold kid: a memoir - bill bryson
the uses of enchantment - heidi julavits
the whole world over - julia glass
young hearts crying - richard yates
the babysitter's club: kristy's great idea - ann m. martin and raina telgemeier
the girl i wanted to be - sarah grace mccandless
the specials - scott westerfeld
the pursuit of love - nancy mitford
love in a cold climate - nancy mitford
notes from a small island - bill bryson
the dead beat: lost souls, lucky stiffs and the perverse pleasure of obituaries - marilyn johnson
one good turn - kate atkinson
the night watch - sarah waters
never let me go - kazuo ishiguro
half-moon investigations - eoin colfer
in a sunburned country - bill bryson
the poe shadow - matthew pearl
london calling - edward bloor
hons and rebels - jessica mitford
the loved one - evelyn waugh
the dante club - matthew pearl
lulu dark and the summer of the fox - bennett madison
the sisters grimm: the problem child - michael buckley
black swan green - david mitchell
the book of common prayer - joan didion
the age of innocence - edith wharton
jar city - arnaldur indridason
kiki strike: inside the shadow city - kirsten miller
the silver spoon of solomon snow - kaye umansky
blue bloods - melissa de la cruz
each little bird that sings - deborah wiles
the boy detective fails - joe meno
the case of the missing marquess - nancy springer
dead clever - scarlett thomas
in your face - scarlett thomas
seaside - scarlett thomas
the loud silence of francie green - karen cushman
the white album - joan didion
a taxonomy of barnacles - gale niederhoffer
the great gatsby - f. scott fitzgerald
the last days - scott westerfeld
ghostwritten - david mitchell
after this - alice mcdermott
la perdida - jessica abel
half-magic - edward eager
the murder of bindy mackenzie - jacqlyn moriarty
the man who smiled - henning mankell
down and out in paris and london - george orwell
blind willow, sleeping woman - haruki murakami
this is not chick lit - ed. elizabeth merrick
tipping the velvet - sarah waters
affinity - sarah waters
the end - lemony snicket
an abundance of katherines - john green
the homework machine - dan gutman
you don't love me yet - jonathan lethem
girl in a box - sujata massey
the lost girls - alan moore
the ladies of grace adieu - susannah clarke
the view from castle rock - alice munro
the mysterious benedict society - trenton lee stewart
the clothes they stood up in and the lady in the van - alan bennett
secret society girl - diana peterfreund
the littlest hitler - ryan boudinot
at the sign of the star - kathryn sturtevant
the brothers karamazov - fyodor dostoevsky
the best american non-required reading 2006 - ed. dave eggers
psyche in a dress - francesca lia block
don't get too comfortable - david rakoff
a true and faithful narrative - katherine sturtevant
not the end of the world - kate atkinson
remainder - tom mccarthy
carrie's war - nina bawden
st. lucy's home for girls raised by wolves - karen russell
i typed that fast, so i probably made a lot of typos. forgive them please.
the last sherlock holmes story - michael dibdin
girl sleuth: nancy drew and the women who created her - melanie rehak
lulu dark can see through walls: a mystery - bennett madison
richmond hill - carl ballenas and nancy cantaldi
kew gardens: urban village in the big city - barry lewis
vile bodies - evelyn waugh
nick and norah's infinite playlist - rachel cohn and david levithan
case histories - kate atkinson
a private hotel for gentle ladies - ellen cooney
decline and fall - evelyn waugh
lenny bruce is dead - jonathan goldstein
assassination vacation - sarah vowell
a handful of dust - evelyn waugh
the professor and the madman - simon winchester
masie dobbs - jacqueline winspear
the stories (so far) of deborah eisenberg - deborah eisenberg
criss cross - lynne rae perkins
birds of a feather - jacqueline winspear
the plot against america - philip roth
bras and broomsticks - sarah mlynowski
gilda joyce, psychic investigator - jennifer allisson
a widow for one year - john irving
slouching towards bethlehem - joan didion
ask the dust - john fante
land's end: a walk in provincetown - michael cunningham
pretty little dirty - amanda boyden
pardonable lies - jacqueline winspear
now you see it ... stories from cokesville - bathsheba monk
the blue girl - charles de lint
in the miso soup - ryu murakami
miss misery - andy greenwald
princess academy - shannon hale
the water mirror - kai meyer
peeps - scott westerfeld
the traveling death and resurrection show - ariel gore
twins - marcy demarsky
apathy and other small victories - paul neilan
the sisters grimm: the fairytale detectives - michael buckley
so yesterday - scott westerfeld
hairstyles of the damned - joe meno
fun home: a tragicomic - alison bechdel
tricked - alex robinson
black hole - charles burns
midnighters: the secret hour - scott westerfeld
midnighters: touching darkness - scott westerfeld
a special providence - richard yates
deception point - dan brown
uglies - scott westerfeld
scoop - evelyn waugh
the sisters grimm: the unusual suspects - michael buckley
pretties - scott westerfeld
a small death in lisbon - robert wilson
king dork - frank portman
the ruins: a novel - scott smith
twilight of the superheroes - deborah eisenberg
don't look back - karin fossum
the man of my dreams - curtis sittenfeld
charlie bone and the hidden king - jenny nimmo
the laughing policeman - maj sjowall and per wahloo
in the heart of the sea: the tragedy of the whaleship essex - nathaniel philbrick
midnighters: blue noon - scott westerfeld
the life and times of the thunderbold kid: a memoir - bill bryson
the uses of enchantment - heidi julavits
the whole world over - julia glass
young hearts crying - richard yates
the babysitter's club: kristy's great idea - ann m. martin and raina telgemeier
the girl i wanted to be - sarah grace mccandless
the specials - scott westerfeld
the pursuit of love - nancy mitford
love in a cold climate - nancy mitford
notes from a small island - bill bryson
the dead beat: lost souls, lucky stiffs and the perverse pleasure of obituaries - marilyn johnson
one good turn - kate atkinson
the night watch - sarah waters
never let me go - kazuo ishiguro
half-moon investigations - eoin colfer
in a sunburned country - bill bryson
the poe shadow - matthew pearl
london calling - edward bloor
hons and rebels - jessica mitford
the loved one - evelyn waugh
the dante club - matthew pearl
lulu dark and the summer of the fox - bennett madison
the sisters grimm: the problem child - michael buckley
black swan green - david mitchell
the book of common prayer - joan didion
the age of innocence - edith wharton
jar city - arnaldur indridason
kiki strike: inside the shadow city - kirsten miller
the silver spoon of solomon snow - kaye umansky
blue bloods - melissa de la cruz
each little bird that sings - deborah wiles
the boy detective fails - joe meno
the case of the missing marquess - nancy springer
dead clever - scarlett thomas
in your face - scarlett thomas
seaside - scarlett thomas
the loud silence of francie green - karen cushman
the white album - joan didion
a taxonomy of barnacles - gale niederhoffer
the great gatsby - f. scott fitzgerald
the last days - scott westerfeld
ghostwritten - david mitchell
after this - alice mcdermott
la perdida - jessica abel
half-magic - edward eager
the murder of bindy mackenzie - jacqlyn moriarty
the man who smiled - henning mankell
down and out in paris and london - george orwell
blind willow, sleeping woman - haruki murakami
this is not chick lit - ed. elizabeth merrick
tipping the velvet - sarah waters
affinity - sarah waters
the end - lemony snicket
an abundance of katherines - john green
the homework machine - dan gutman
you don't love me yet - jonathan lethem
girl in a box - sujata massey
the lost girls - alan moore
the ladies of grace adieu - susannah clarke
the view from castle rock - alice munro
the mysterious benedict society - trenton lee stewart
the clothes they stood up in and the lady in the van - alan bennett
secret society girl - diana peterfreund
the littlest hitler - ryan boudinot
at the sign of the star - kathryn sturtevant
the brothers karamazov - fyodor dostoevsky
the best american non-required reading 2006 - ed. dave eggers
psyche in a dress - francesca lia block
don't get too comfortable - david rakoff
a true and faithful narrative - katherine sturtevant
not the end of the world - kate atkinson
remainder - tom mccarthy
carrie's war - nina bawden
st. lucy's home for girls raised by wolves - karen russell
i typed that fast, so i probably made a lot of typos. forgive them please.