Books read in 2006.

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That 50 book challenge thing? The LJ group that I didn’t join in 2005, but whose challenge I met that year?

In 2006 I joined 50bookchallenge but clocked in at only 41 books. I suppose it was idiotic of me to think that I could actually finish the book I’m reading now on this, the last day of the year. *Sigh*

Oddly enough, what I regret as much as, if not more than, blowing the goal of reading 50 books this year (not to mention the fact that I didn't even read half of the books I'd picked out as "must-reads" at the beginning of the year...) is that I failed to post reviews of some of the books I’ve read. Go figure.

Anyhow, the list is behind the cut; links are to reviews posted either in my LJ or in my LibraryThing account.

1. Robert Graves -- I, Claudius (1934; 433 pps.)
   
2. Marion Zimmer Bradley -- The Spell Sword (1974; 158 pps.)
   
3. Agnes Carr Vaughan -- The Etruscans (original title: Those Mysterious Etruscans; 1964; 222 pps.)
   
4. Allan Guthrie -- Kiss Her Goodbye (2005; 223 pps.)
   
5. Karl Edward Wagner -- Nightwinds (1978; 286 pps.)
   
6. Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield (Oxford World's Classics edition; 1849-50; 901 pps.); no single review, but I wrote four separate, spoiler-rich posts about it here, here, here, and also here.
   
7. Alan Moore & David Lloyd -- V For Vendetta [GRAPHIC NOVEL] {RE-READ} (1988, 1989, 1990; 286 pps.)
   
8. Alan Moore & Eddie Campbell -- From Hell [GRAPHIC NOVEL] (1989, 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2004; c. 570 pps. [collection paginated in segments, not in toto])
   
9. Robert A. Heinlein -- Friday {RE-READ} (1982; 357 pps.)
   
10. Sam Kashner & Jennifer MacNair -- The Bad and the Beautiful: Hollywood in the Fifties (2002; 380 pps.)
    
11. Mickey Spillane -- I, the Jury (1947; 174 pps.)
    
12. Chris Roberson (ed.) -- Adventure, Vol. 1 (2005; 393 pps.)
    
13. Michael Grant -- The Fall of the Roman Empire (1990, 1996; 235 pps.)
    
14. Robert A. Heinlein -- The Door Into Summer [RE-READ] (1957; 159 pps.)
    
15. Peter Cheyney -- Urgent Hangman (1933 [1938??]; 224 pps.)
    
16. Ian Fleming -- For Your Eyes Only (1960; 143 pps.)
    
17. Ian Fleming -- Thunderball (1961; 254 pps.)
    
18. Edgar Rice Burroughs -- Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar (1916; 158 pps.)
    
19. Thomas Berger -- Little Big Man (1964; 447 pps.)
    
20. Patrick O'Brian -- Post Captain (1972; 496 pps.)
    
21. Anthony Trollope -- Framley Parsonage (1860-61; Oxford World's Classics edition; 593 pps.)
    
22. Sherwood Anderson -- Winesburg, Ohio (1919; 232 pps.)
    
23. Marion Zimmer Bradley -- The Forbidden Tower (1977; 364 pps.)
    
24. Jack Williamson -- The Humanoids (expanded ed.; includes "With Folded Hands" and "Me and My Humanoids;" 1976, 1980; 259 pps.)
    
25. Vonda N. McIntyre -- Star Wars: The Crystal Star (1994; 413 pps.)
    
26. Philip José Farmer -- A Private Cosmos {RE-READ} (1968; 275 pps.)
    
27. James M. Cain -- The Postman Always Rings Twice {RE-READ} (1934; 120 pps.)
    
28. Philip José Farmer -- Behind the Walls of Terra {RE-READ} (1970; 220 pps.)
    
29. Marion Zimmer Bradley -- Star of Danger (1965; 213 pps.)
    
30. Clifford D. Simak -- Destiny Doll (1971; 208 pps.)
    
31. Anthony A. Barrett -- Caligula: The Corruption of Power (1989; 334 pps.)
    
32. B. Traven -- The Rebellion of the Hanged (1936; 248 pps.)
    
33. Jérôme Carcopino -- Daily Life in Ancient Rome: The People and the City at the Height of the Empire (translated from the French by E.O. Lorimer; 1940, 1968; 342 pps.)
    
34. Marion Zimmer Bradley -- The Winds of Darkover (1970; 197 pps.)
    
35. Marion Zimmer Bradley -- The Bloody Sun (1964; 191 pps.)
    
36. Alan Furst -- Red Gold (1999; 258 pps.)
    
37. Patrick O'Brian -- H.M.S. Surprise (1973; 379 pps.)
    
38. Robert Graves -- Claudius the God (1935; 583 pps., excluding stemmata)
    
39. Robert Silverberg -- Roma Eterna (2003; 449 pps.)
    
40. Stephen (Steve) Englehart -- The Point Man (1981; 350 pps.)
    
41. H.J. Rose -- Ancient Greek Religion (1946; 160 pps.)