2006 Reading List
Yes, I know we're already two weeks into the new year, but I felt the need to post an entry listing all the books I read last year. And because I'm a bibliodork, I've categorized them.
CHILDREN'S / YOUNG ADULT (11)
The Devil's Storybook by Natalie Babbitt
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo, with art by Bagram Ibatoulline
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
The People of Sparks by Jeanne DuPrau
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Victor: A novel based on the life of the Savage of Aveyron by Mordicai Gerstein
Davy and the Goblin, or What Followed Reading "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Charles E. Carryl, with art by Greg Hildebrandt
The Quest of the Gole by John Hollander
The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
GRAPHIC NOVELS (13)
In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe by Jonathon Scott Fuqua
The Magic of Aria by Brian Holguin
Aria: The Soul Market by Brian Holguin
Aria: The Enchanted Collection by Brian Holguin
Courtney Crumrin in the Twilight Kingdom by Ted Naifeh
Aleister Arcane by Steve Niles
Freaks of the Heartland by Steve Niles
Fables: Legends in Exile by Bill Willingham
Fables: Animal Farm by Bill Willingham
Fables: Storybook Love by Bill Willingham
Fables: March of the Wooden Soldiers by Bill Willingham
Fables: The Mean Seasons by Bill Willingham
Fables: Homelands by Bill Willingham
NONFICTION (14)
American Sideshow: An Encyclopedia of History's Most Wondrous and Curiously Strange Performers by Marc Hartzman (281 pp.)
Jesus Land: A Memoir by Julia Scheeres (355 pp.)
The Friend Who Got Away: Twenty Women's True-Life Tales of Friendships That Blew Up, Burned Out, or Faded Away, ed. by Jenny Offill & Elissa Schappell (288 pp.)
The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind is Designed to Kill by David M. Buss (245 pp.)
Carnival Undercover by Bret Witter (205 pp.)
The Wrong Men: America's Epidemic of Wrongful Death Row Convictions by Stanley Cohen (297 pp.)
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (288 pp.)
Everything That Creeps: The Art of Elizabeth McGrath
Thanks for the Memos! by Michael Feldman (141 pp.)
The Unending Mystery: A Journey Through Labyrinths and Mazes by David Willis McCullough (237 pp.)
The Areas of My Expertise by John Hodgman (233 pp.)
The Farewell Chronicles: How We Really Respond to Death by Anneli Rufus (264 pp.)
The Trials & Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood, ed. by Jack Zipes (389 pp.)
The Book of Werewolves by Sabine Baring-Gould (266 pp.)
NOVELS / NOVELLAS (23)
Lori by Robert Bloch (282 pp.)
Moon Called by Patricia Briggs (288 pp.)
Save Your Own by Elisabeth Brink (281 pp.)
And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave (301 pp.)
Manalive by G.K. Chesterton (127 pp.)
The Thin Place by Kathryn Davis (275 pp.)
The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue (319 pp.)
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco (449 pp.)
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (529 pp.)
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (335 pp.)
Brass Ankle Blues by Rachel M. Harper (287 pp.)
Sleep, Pale Sister by Joanne Harris (380 pp.)
Chocolat by Joanne Harris (306 pp.)
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (288 pp.)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (214 pp.)
The Ninth Life of Louis Drax by Liz Jensen (227 pp.)
The Name of the World by Denis Johnson (129 pp.)
Fool's Run by Patricia McKillip (244 pp.)
The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers (387 pp.)
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts (933 pp.)
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (328 pp.)
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters (472 pp.)
Malefice by Leslie Wilson (168 pp.)
SHORT STORIES / POETRY (10)
The Pearl: Erotica from the Underground Magazine of Victorian England (643 pp.)
The Line Between by Peter S. Beagle (231 pp.)
Over to You by Roald Dahl (125 pp.)
Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories, ed. by Roald Dahl (235 pp.)
Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman (360 pp.)
Jigs & Reels by Joanne Harris (273 pp.)
Collected Poems 1967-85 by Adrian Henri (311 pp.)
Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link (297 pp.)
The Barnum Museum by Steven Millhauser (237 pp.)
The World's Shortest Stories, ed. by Steve Moss (224 pp.)
UNFINISHED (2)
Eragon by Christopher Paolini (unfinished) (230ish pp. read)
The Short Stories of Saki (unfinished) (490ish pp. read)
CHILDREN'S / YOUNG ADULT (11)
The Devil's Storybook by Natalie Babbitt
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo, with art by Bagram Ibatoulline
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
The People of Sparks by Jeanne DuPrau
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Victor: A novel based on the life of the Savage of Aveyron by Mordicai Gerstein
Davy and the Goblin, or What Followed Reading "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Charles E. Carryl, with art by Greg Hildebrandt
The Quest of the Gole by John Hollander
The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
GRAPHIC NOVELS (13)
In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe by Jonathon Scott Fuqua
The Magic of Aria by Brian Holguin
Aria: The Soul Market by Brian Holguin
Aria: The Enchanted Collection by Brian Holguin
Courtney Crumrin in the Twilight Kingdom by Ted Naifeh
Aleister Arcane by Steve Niles
Freaks of the Heartland by Steve Niles
Fables: Legends in Exile by Bill Willingham
Fables: Animal Farm by Bill Willingham
Fables: Storybook Love by Bill Willingham
Fables: March of the Wooden Soldiers by Bill Willingham
Fables: The Mean Seasons by Bill Willingham
Fables: Homelands by Bill Willingham
NONFICTION (14)
American Sideshow: An Encyclopedia of History's Most Wondrous and Curiously Strange Performers by Marc Hartzman (281 pp.)
Jesus Land: A Memoir by Julia Scheeres (355 pp.)
The Friend Who Got Away: Twenty Women's True-Life Tales of Friendships That Blew Up, Burned Out, or Faded Away, ed. by Jenny Offill & Elissa Schappell (288 pp.)
The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind is Designed to Kill by David M. Buss (245 pp.)
Carnival Undercover by Bret Witter (205 pp.)
The Wrong Men: America's Epidemic of Wrongful Death Row Convictions by Stanley Cohen (297 pp.)
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (288 pp.)
Everything That Creeps: The Art of Elizabeth McGrath
Thanks for the Memos! by Michael Feldman (141 pp.)
The Unending Mystery: A Journey Through Labyrinths and Mazes by David Willis McCullough (237 pp.)
The Areas of My Expertise by John Hodgman (233 pp.)
The Farewell Chronicles: How We Really Respond to Death by Anneli Rufus (264 pp.)
The Trials & Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood, ed. by Jack Zipes (389 pp.)
The Book of Werewolves by Sabine Baring-Gould (266 pp.)
NOVELS / NOVELLAS (23)
Lori by Robert Bloch (282 pp.)
Moon Called by Patricia Briggs (288 pp.)
Save Your Own by Elisabeth Brink (281 pp.)
And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave (301 pp.)
Manalive by G.K. Chesterton (127 pp.)
The Thin Place by Kathryn Davis (275 pp.)
The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue (319 pp.)
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco (449 pp.)
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (529 pp.)
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (335 pp.)
Brass Ankle Blues by Rachel M. Harper (287 pp.)
Sleep, Pale Sister by Joanne Harris (380 pp.)
Chocolat by Joanne Harris (306 pp.)
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (288 pp.)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (214 pp.)
The Ninth Life of Louis Drax by Liz Jensen (227 pp.)
The Name of the World by Denis Johnson (129 pp.)
Fool's Run by Patricia McKillip (244 pp.)
The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers (387 pp.)
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts (933 pp.)
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (328 pp.)
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters (472 pp.)
Malefice by Leslie Wilson (168 pp.)
SHORT STORIES / POETRY (10)
The Pearl: Erotica from the Underground Magazine of Victorian England (643 pp.)
The Line Between by Peter S. Beagle (231 pp.)
Over to You by Roald Dahl (125 pp.)
Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories, ed. by Roald Dahl (235 pp.)
Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman (360 pp.)
Jigs & Reels by Joanne Harris (273 pp.)
Collected Poems 1967-85 by Adrian Henri (311 pp.)
Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link (297 pp.)
The Barnum Museum by Steven Millhauser (237 pp.)
The World's Shortest Stories, ed. by Steve Moss (224 pp.)
UNFINISHED (2)
Eragon by Christopher Paolini (unfinished) (230ish pp. read)
The Short Stories of Saki (unfinished) (490ish pp. read)