Bibliophile (2006): gieves

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Bibliophile (2006)

Jan 05, 2007 15:51

Following the habit I began last year, I kept track throughout 2006 of the books that I read. As I said last year at this time, I consider myself to be a fast reader and devourer of books, but I can't say that it's been true for the past year.

On January 1, I boldly declared my desire to "read at least 100 books that aren't related to school, and I'm going to make an effort to get 100 new books under my belt this year." This, it seems, was overly ambitious. Not only did I fail to read 100 new books, or even 100 books unrelated to school, but I failed to read 100 books in total. At the end of the year, my tally reached a total of 85 (or 51 new books.) This is a shameful failure on my part, and one that I really must rectify in the coming year. Nevertheless, should you be interested, below is the list of books that I read in 2006.

And in 2007, I do hope to read at least 100 new books, but we'll see how that goes.

The Complete List
(For reference, I classified a book as read when it was read cover-to-cover. This means that a lot of the reading I did for school simply doesn't count, since I was using isolated chapters or sections of the books more often than not.)

Meg Cabot - Size 12 is Not Fat (01/01-01/03) - not her best book; amusing and annoying in equal parts. (pp 368)
Haven Kimmel - The Solace of Leaving Early (01/03 - 01/14) - Amazing, luminous. I began it in Mexico, gave it up as too dense for a beach read, and then devoured it upon returning home (and not having the flu.) Highly recommended. (pp 288)
Catherine Coulter - The Wild Baron (01/05 - 01/07) (pp 384)
Gayle Wilson - Lady Sarah's Son (01/07) - Sappy and a bit contrived, but appealing. (pp 199)
Judith O'Brien - Enter the Hero (01/09-01/10) - Tolerably written, but utterly unbelievable characters and anachronistic. Off to a booksale, it goes. (pp 384)
Jennifer Crusie - Faking It (01/14) - What, again?! Yes, again. Comfort reading at its finest. (pp 340)
Jennifer Crusie - Bet Me (01/14 - 01/15) - Another victim of the desire for comfort reading. Spurred in part by the news of the upcoming Crusie book, hurrah! (pp 384)
Greg Critser - Fat land : how Americans became the fattest people in the world (01/17 - 02/06) - Also interesting, and a surprisingly quick read, though I probably skimmed a little too fast through the statistics. (I did re-read some parts to more firmly entrench them, and noticed the rather heavy emphasis on the 'shame of obesity and guilt of the fast-food industry' that some reviewers mentioned. Not quite as good as Fast Food Nation. (pp 224)
Mary Balogh - The Secret Pearl (02/01-02-/03) - A reissued Balogh book, pretty good, slightly dark, but well-characterized (if sometimes a little teensy bit far-fetched in plot motivators) and well-written. A nice find. (pp 399)
Jennifer Crusie - Tell Me Lies (02/04) - High-speed re-read. This is possibly my favorite J. Crusie book, which is saying something. (pp 322)
Jennifer Crusie - Charlie All Night (02/04) - Yet another Jennifer Crusie re-read. (pp 219)
Robert J. Richards - The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe (02-05 - 02/24) (pp 587)
Jo Beverley (and Cathy Maxwell, Jaclyn Reding, Lauren Royal) - In Praise of Younger Men (02/11-02/12) - Okay, unsurprisingly the majority of this book just really sucked. I gave up on the first three stories (so I acknowledge that it's a little bit of a cheat to say that I "read" the whole book here... but the Jo Beverley story was actually pretty good. She did punt a little on conflict, but I'll forgive her for that in a novella. As a whole, it's almost bad enough to go back to a booksale. We shall see... (pp 352)
Julia Ross - Games of Pleasure (02/15 - 02/17) Her newest. So annoying that they only come out in trade paperback; they're not quite worth the money, and yet I buy them anyway. This one was far better than two releases ago, and enjoyably different (if not much better) from her last book, this one's prequel.
Alan Rocke - The quiet revolution : Hermann Kolbe and the science of organic chemistry (02/15 - 02/21) - An enthusiast's book: a deep dissection of the trends in 19th Century German chemistry through a biography of Hermann Kolbe. (pp. 380)
Julia Ross - Night of Sin (02/22 - 02/23) - Re-read, but after reading its sequel (Games of Pleasure), I wanted to revisit it. Slightly pretentious, as always, but when I'm in the mood, it's good stuff.
Peter Galison - Einstein's clocks, Poincaré's maps : empires of time (02/22 - 02/28) - A fun book that frames Einstein's Anno Mirabilis within the context of the international obsession with precision timekeeping and longitude, as well as philosophical, mathematical, and physical concerns of the day. Offers the suggestion that Poincaré is under-appreciated for his work. (pp 328)
Anne Stuart - A Rose at Midnight (03/01 - 03/02) Re-read: I think I enjoyed this book more this time than in any previous read. Comfort reading.
Geoffrey Cantor, David Gooding, Frank A. J. L. James - Michael Faraday (03/03 - 03/04) - An astonishingly short book for a multi-authored text, and upon reading it, I cannot say who the intended audience is. It's clear that different chapters had different authors, one of whom seems determined to write for a middle-school audience, but overall the book is a nice introduction to the topic of Faraday. Its most valuable aspects may be its overview of scientific accomplishment, in laymens terms, and its bibliographic essay at the end.(pp. 105)
Anne Stuart - Night Fall (03/02 - 03/04) A re-read, and much enjoyed. I'm the mood for noir-ish melodrama, and this one fits the bill.
L Pierce Williams - Michael Faraday (03/05 - 03/08) - The rather more lengthy, serious biography of Faraday. Addressed chronologically, and in engaging detail. Quite enjoyable, though long enough that I didn't quite finish it in time for class. (531 pages)
Julia Quinn - When He Was Wicked (03/10) - A re-read, better the second time than on the first. (Home sick, craving mind candy)
Stephen King - The Bachman Books - "The Long Walk" (03/09 - 03/12) - A Book Club read, and Good Lord, how depressing. Not at all the thing to read while sick; it gave me bad dreams for two nights, in amidst the coughing fits.
Julia Quinn - An Offer From A Gentleman (03/13) - Home sick again, I decided to re-read the Bridgerton series, focusing around Penelope, my favorite character. So, a re-read of this first, then the next two for good measure.
Julia Quinn - Romancing Mister Bridgerton (03/13) - Re-read, home sick, good stuff. One of my favorite books, despite or perhaps because of its light nature. Good for those of us wallflowers.
Julia Quinn - To Sir Phillip, With Love (03/13 - 03/14) - Re-read, and more enjoyable this time around; I didn't love it the first time, but I liked it better on this one. Still home sick when I started, but finished the next evening.
Anne Stuart - The Devil's Waltz (03/15) - Read, in its entirety, in the Borders' Cafe. Quite enjoyable, but very short and too predictable. Standard Anne Stuart plot devices, nothing particularly compelling. Good thing I didn't buy it?
Basil Mahon - The Man Who Changed Everything : The Life of James Clerk Maxwell (03/16 - 03/19) - Popular fiction account of the life and work of J. Clerk Maxwell. A little too adulatory ('everything I am as an engineer, I owe to the wonder of this man') but enjoyable read. Very humanizing, and I'm waiting for the notes section to see how well the science is treated.
Anne Stuart - Black Ice (03/20 - 03/21) - Very good! No wonder she got an AAR award for this one. There are a few plot holes, I'll admit, but it's a pretty solid international espionage thriller/romance, with realistic characters, realistic motivations, and very good writing. I'm very glad I bought this one.
Linda Howard - Kiss Me While I Sleep (03/23) - Surprisingly good. Picked up from the clearance rack at Half-Price books, and not the focus of high hopes. Howard tends to write ridiculously alpha characters who just annoy me, but the protagonists in this one were surprisingly appealing, especially for being assassins. Somewhat depressing and violent in parts, and the fundamental motivation for the villains was very thin and somewhat hard to swallow, but the book was generally quite enjoyable. What's with the spy books lately? In the same night (Monday), I also picked up two Victorian-era spy-based romances. Is this a new trend? Am I just lucky? I like a little intrigue, I'll admit.
Connie Brockway - My Surrender (The Rose Hunters) (03/30) - I love Connie Brockway, but I don't think she saved the best for last.
Connie Brockway - The Bridal Season(04/14-04/16) - Re-read, but fun; I liked it much better this time around, for some reason. Perhaps I was just in the mood for a Connie Brockway book that I haven't read to death.
Alexander Wood & Frank Oldham - Thomas Young: Natural Philosopher, 1773-1829(04/19-04/30) - A solid, well-researched, well-written biography of Thomas Young. Rather... adulatory towards subject, but excellent resource. Pleasing find.
Andrew Robinson - The Last Man Who Knew Everything : Thomas Young, The Anonymous Polymath Who Proved Newton Wrong, Explained How We See, Cured the Sick, and Deciphered the Rosetta Stone, Among Other Feats of Genius(04/21-04/24) - A somewhat fluffy but nonetheless enjoyable biography of Thomas Young. Has some flaws, but isn't a bad book.
Thomas Young - Miscellaneous Works, Vol. 1(04/30-05/07) - Since I have, at this point read every essay reprinted in this book and then some, I'm going to count it. 600 pp, baby! And that really doesn't even touch the critical response essays. Maybe I need to add an 'article and essay' category to this list.
Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale (05/09 - 06/15) - started immediately after turning in paper. Too depressing to make much headway. Will continue later.
Diana Wynne Jones - Howl's Moving Castle (05/09 - 05/23) - Started when I gave up on The Handmaid's Tale. Made the mistake of leaving in office over the following weekend!
Diana Wynne Jones - The Time of the Ghost (05/10 - 05/12) - Odd book, rather confusing and rather surprisingly adult for a children's book... but enjoyable.
Gael Baudino - Shroud of Shadows (05/13) - Re-read: Depressing as always, but somehow what I was in the mood to revisit.
Gael Baudino - Strands of Starlight (05/13-5/14) - Re-read: Still slightly depressing, but a redemption for the end of the series, and I had to read it once I'd picked up Shroud.
Eoin Colfer - Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code (gosh, I read this sometime between April and early May, but when?!) - Re-read: needed to refresh on some of the cliff-hanger elements before starting in on...
Eoin Colfer - Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception (Again, sometime in early May I read this. When?! No idea.) - the fourth AF book, and still fun. The characters picked up nicely from the end of book three, and while it was still goofy children's book action, it was pretty grim and intense for all that.
Jennifer Crusie & Bob Mayer - Don't Look Down (05/15 - 05/17) - The new Crusie book and... I'm a little disappointed. I read it quickly, but I didn't devour it as I normally would. The action was a little herky-jerky, the speed at which everything occurred seemed artificial, and the 5-year-old in the book was utterly unbelievable. Still! It was sort of fun, and I'll give it a re-read sometime soon so I can better decide how I really feel.
Mort Rosenblum - Chocolate: A Bittersweet Saga of Dark and Light (05/25 - 05-31) - Though I borrowed the book from Liz in March, I finally got it out from the library and began again; very enjoyable and well-researched. Overtones of food snobbery are abundant, but allowable.
Dawn Cook - The Decoy Princess (06/05 - 06/23) - Eh.
Emma Bull - War for the Oaks (06/07-06/11)- I first read this book upon completing Freedom and Necessity for the first time, and was slightly disappointed by it for some reason. This subsequent re-read was, as a result, a delight: I really enjoyed it and am contemplating buying the book
Spider and Jeanne Robinson - Starseed (06/09-06-16) - A re-read of an old favorite. It's amusing how full of double entendre this book is, and how I never noticed when I was a teenager... It's not great, but it's not bad, and I like the creativity of the idea still.
Suzette Haden Elgin - Native Tongues (06/09 - 06/21) - I read this after hearing about it from Gini. The book annoyed me much of the time, but not enough to make me stop reading it. Clearly, SHE (interesting author TLA) was a very bitter feminist at the time of the writing of this book. There is NO subtletly of gender roles, and the clubbiness of the portrayed women's society seems unrealistic. The idea of alien relations occurring along the lines of painstaking negotiation with terrible communication difficulties was very interesting, though the clubbing-over-the-head-with-sexism was a detractor for much of the book. Nevertheless, a clever idea, a fascinatingly constructed world and I'm glad I read it once.
Jodi Picoult - My Sister's Keeper (06/17 - 06/24) - I got this by way of serving as book courier from Amy to Mandy; I forgot to return it to Mandy and, since I'm likley to be stuck with it for a few days, decided to read it. Interesting concept, interesting moral issue, novel multi-character perspective on the story. Ending of the book PISSED me off, but that's okay; it changed my perception of the book but didn't entirely lessen it.
Marian Keyes -Anybody Out There? (06/19 - 06/27) - Mandy lent this to me, and it took me a few days to get into it... but once I did, it was gripping. Very sweet and very, very sad. Possibly her best book yet! I shall probably buy this one eventually.
Liz Carlyle - Beauty Like the Night (06/28-06/29) - Blargh. Not good, really. I had hopes, but they were quickly dashed by anachronism, out-of-character behaviors and artificially-generated conflict and resolution. Stupid, but a quick read and good for being trapped on an unmoving plane.
Emma Bull - Bone Dance (06/29 - 07/10) - Very dense. I started it, got confused, put it down in favor of other, lighter reads, and then picked it up again the last two days of our cruise. Very absorbing and easier to follow on take 2. Great conflict, rather convoluted, intrguing, powerful and sympathetic characters... very reminiscent of my favorite things about Freedom and Necessity, yum! Must glom.
Susan Wiggs - Table for Five (07/03 - 07/04) - Fluffy, fluffy, crap. Wiggs usually does better, but this hardback (with extra large font) was quick and shallow. Hard to connect with characters or, really, even to care. Quick read, good for vacation, but not very good. Thank heavens for cruise library; no need to pursue later.
Ruth Reichl - Garlic and Sapphires (07/05 - 07/08) - Fun, quick read. Reichl has an ability to absorb her readers in life and food. This was her weakest book, but still fun for the unaccustomed drama of her life as NYT restaurant reviewer.
Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go (07/04 - 07/26) - Wow. Very, very dense, too much so for vacation read. I read about half of the book with great effort - a slog - before giving up and returning to cruise library. Do want to finish, so have ordered from OhioLink. And after it arrived, I eventually finished it. A distant book, not intimate, but gripping nonetheless. I'm not sure how well I liked it, but I am inclined to read it again, so clearly it was compelling.
Peter Høeg - Smilla's Sense of Snow (07/11 - 07/15) - I started this book about 6 years ago, but it was a loan and I never finished it. It's very grim, very dark, but equally good and gripping. Dense, too; I keep re-reading bits to re-establish characters.
CJ Cherryh - Rimrunner (07/15) - Cheapie book from Half Price, and surprisingly good. Placed in the Merchanter universe (Downbelow Station, Cyteen) and focusing on one character: Bet Yeager. I really enjoyed it and clearly chewed through it quickly.
Augusten Burroughs - Dry (08/07) - Wow, a harrowing memoir of a recovering alcoholic. Grabbed when I couldn't find "Running with scissors", and irresistibly readable; a literary trainwreck.
L.J. Smith - Night of the Solstice (08/07) - A beloved book, and now mine at long-last! A re-read, of course.
L.J. Smith - Heart of Valor (08/08) - The second of the two, and my favorite. A re-read, of course.
Augusten Burroughs - Running with Scissors (08/12 - 08/16) - A very fast read, done in three sittings. A compelling and repellent book simultaneously; I can see why it's popular, I'm not sure that I liked it. Shocking at every turn, until it becomes almost tiresome... but amazing for being a memoir. This will make for a very interesting book club!
Linda Howard - Almost Forever (08/19) - Old Linda Howard, totally chauvinistic. Like candy, a very fast read but unsubstantial and somewhat unsatisfying. Maybe like circus peanuts!
Anne Stuart - Chasing Trouble (08/19) - Early Anne Stuart (1991) - a funny homage to noir detective stories. Silly and self indulgent, but very enjoyable.
Anne Stuart - Heat Lightning (08/19-08/20) - Early Anne Stuart (1992) with traditional dark male lead but much less brooding and asshole-ish than her later characters. Good!
Anne Stuart - Tangled Lies (08/20) - Early, EARLY Anne Stuart (1984) with weird incest overtones that I'm not fond of. Okay, not great, but still a well-written story even for an 80s romance. (re-read)
Linda Howard - After the Night (09/10-09/11) - re-read of a classic Linda Howard. Still pretty good, and quick.
Lisa See - Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Very good book, well-written and compelling. Intimate without being emotional; I had to finish it, even though it took me at least a month. (09/12 - 10/12ish)
Ben Bova - Mars - A decent sci-fi work, not fabulous, and at times a little dry. A fun concept and enjoyable read, but it was a struggle to actually finish it. (09/12 - 10/12ish)
Linda Howard - Son of the Morning (09/14-09/16) - re-read of a classic Linda Howard. Still pretty good, and quick.
Lois McMaster Bujold - The Hallowed Hunt (09/28-10/01) -re-read
Lois McMaster Bujold - The Curse of Chalion (10/01-10/04) - comfort re-read, while sick
Lois McMaster Bujold - Paladin of Souls (10/02-10/04) - comfort re-read, while sick
VA - Under the Boardwalk (10/09 - 10/10) - re-read the anthology to decide whether worth keeping. Linda Howard story not, but other stories yes.
VA - Fantasy (10/10) - re-reading the anthology to try and decide whether to keep. Definitely keep. Good stuff.
Tanya Huff - Blood Price (10/11) - reading about vampires made me want to read more about Vampires. Re-read, obviously./li>
Tanya Huff - The Fire's Stone (10/11) - Reading Tanya Huff made me want to read this favorite. Still good!
Tanya Huff - Blood Trail (10/11 - ) - More Henry and Vicki stories. Good stuff.
Lois McMaster Bujold - The Sharing Knife (10/16, 10/17-) - OMG! New LMB!! Good as always, though v. slight disappointment in the introduction of important plot elements subsequently abandoned for (also important) character development. Read it ALL on the plane. Am re-reading it for details before handing it over to Jim.
Witold Rybczynski - One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw (11/01) - Clever little book detailng the history of the screw. A little uneven, but enjoayble.
Ayun Halliday - Dirty Sugar Cookies (11/07 - 11/08) - An amusing food-driven memoir from the very weird Ayun Halliday. I read the book, photocopied a few recipes, and ordered one of her other books to read... weird, but entertaining.
Andrew Doughty - The Ultimate Kauai Guidebook (11/28 - 12/02) - A fantastic guidebook, detailed and entertaining. I count this as a book because I read (or, admittedly, occasionally skimmed) it from cover to cover.
Connie Brockway - Hot Dish (11/29) - The first attempt at contemporary romance from C.B. Not her best work, but very funny nonetheless. Good airplane read.
Charles Sheffield, Ed. - How to Save the World (12/11 - 12/27) - A collection of short stories, some better than others, but an entertaining, provocative take on world problems and potential solutions.
Barbara Hambly - Time of the Dark - (12/16 - 12/18) - Re-read; I just wanted to read this Hambly book for some reason.
Barbara Hambly - The Walls of Air - (12/19 - 12/27) - Re-read. Second in the series of three.

Between CJ Cherryh's Rimrunner and Augusten Burroughs's Dry, I definitely read a couple of things, but I never did recall what. So, for the purposes of this list, I was a total slacker at the end of summer.

In addition to the above, I also read significant portions of:

Alan Rocke - Nationalizing science : Adolphe Wurtz and the battle for French chemistry (02/20 - ?)
Adrian Desmond & James Moore - Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist (02/28 - ?)
Iwan Rhys Morus - When physics became king (03/19 - ?)
David Allen Park - The fire within the eye: a historical essay on the nature and meaning of light (03/31 - )
Anne Stuart - Partners in Crime (08/21 - ) - Early Anne Stuart (1988); kind of annoying.
David Cahan, ed. - From natural philosophy to the sciences : writing the history of nineteenth-century science (01/21 - ??) - A collected historiography of nineteenth century (as defined loosely) science. Fascinating, but dense.
Jared Diamond - Collapse (03/31 [01/16] - ??) - Begun twice; very interesting, though not as good as Guns, Germs and Steel. Definitely not a vacation book.
Geoffrey Cantor - Optics after Newton: Theories of Light in Britain and Ireland, 1704-1840 - An accessible, informative summary of optical theories in the 18th and 19th centuries. (12/05 - 12/21)
Catherynne Valente - The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden - So good! In the interest of savoring it (a rare possibility for me with the story structure) I didn't finish it fast.

The breakdown

Books read for school this year:

Robert J. Richards - The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe (02-05 - 02/24)
Alan Rocke - The quiet revolution : Hermann Kolbe and the science of organic chemistry (02/15 - 02/21)
Peter Galison - Einstein's clocks, Poincaré's maps : empires of time (02/22 - 02/28)
Geoffrey Cantor, David Gooding, Frank A. J. L. James - Michael Faraday (03/03 - 03/04)
L Pierce Williams - Michael Faraday (03/05 - 03/08)
Basil Mahon - The Man Who Changed Everything : The Life of James Clerk Maxwell (03/16 - 03/19)
Andrew Robinson - The Last Man Who Knew Everything : Thomas Young, The Anonymous Polymath Who Proved Newton Wrong, Explained How We See, Cured the Sick, and Deciphered the Rosetta Stone, Among Other Feats of Genius(04/21-04/24)
Alexander Wood & Frank Oldham - Thomas Young: Natural Philosopher, 1773-1829(04/19-04/30)
Thomas Young - Miscellaneous Works, Vol. 1(04/30-05/07)
Witold Rybczynski - One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw (11/01)

Books read for the first time this year, for fun:

Meg Cabot - Size 12 is Not Fat (01/01-01/03)
Haven Kimmel - The Solace of Leaving Early (01/03 - 01/14)
Catherine Coulter - The Wild Baron (01/05 - 01/07)
Gayle Wilson - Lady Sarah's Son (01/07)
Judith O'Brien - Enter the Hero (01/09-01/10)
Greg Critser - Fat land : how Americans became the fattest people in the world (01/17 - 02/06)
Mary Balogh - The Secret Pearl (02/01-02-/03)
Jo Beverley (and Cathy Maxwell, Jaclyn Reding, Lauren Royal) - In Praise of Younger Men (02/11-02/12)
Julia Ross - Games of Pleasure (02/15 - 02/17)
Stephen King - The Bachman Books - "The Long Walk" (03/09 - 03/12)
Anne Stuart - The Devil's Waltz (03/15)
Anne Stuart - Black Ice (03/20 - 03/21)
Linda Howard - Kiss Me While I Sleep (03/23)
Connie Brockway - My Surrender (The Rose Hunters) (03/30)
Jared Diamond - Collapse (03/31 [01/16] - ??)
Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale (05/09 - 06/15)
Diana Wynne Jones - Howl's Moving Castle (05/09 - 05/23)
Diana Wynne Jones - The Time of the Ghost (05/10 - 05/12)
Eoin Colfer - Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception (Again, sometime in early May I read this. When?! No idea.)
Jennifer Crusie & Bob Mayer - Don't Look Down (05/15 - 05/17)
Mort Rosenblum - Chocolate: A Bittersweet Saga of Dark and Light (05/25 - 05-31)
Dawn Cook - The Decoy Princess (06/05 - 06/23)
Suzette Haden Elgin - Native Tongues (06/09 - 06/21)
Jodi Picoult - My Sister's Keeper (06/17 - 06/24)
Marian Keyes -Anybody Out There? (06/19 - 06/27)
Liz Carlyle - Beauty Like the Night (06/28-06/29)
Emma Bull - Bone Dance (06/29 - 07/10)
Susan Wiggs - Table for Five (07/03 - 07/04)
Ruth Reichl - Garlic and Sapphires (07/05 - 07/08)
Peter Høeg - Smilla's Sense of Snow (07/11 - 07/15)
CJ Cherryh - Rimrunner (07/15)
Augusten Burroughs - Dry (08/07)
Augusten Burroughs - Running with Scissors (08/12 - 08/16)
Linda Howard - Almost Forever (08/19)
Lisa See - Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (09/12 - 10/12ish)
Ben Bova - Mars (09/12 - 10/12ish)
Lois McMaster Bujold - The Sharing Knife (10/16, 10/17)
Ayun Halliday - Dirty Sugar Cookies (11/07 - 11/08)
Andrew Doughty - The Ultimate Kauai Guidebook (11/28 - 12/02)
Connie Brockway - Hot Dish (11/29)
Charles Sheffield, Ed. - How to Save the World (12/11 - 12/27)

Books I re-read this year:

Jennifer Crusie - Faking It (01/14)
Jennifer Crusie - Bet Me (01/14 - 01/15)
Jennifer Crusie - Tell Me Lies (02/04)
Jennifer Crusie - Charlie All Night (02/04)
Julia Ross - Night of Sin (02/22 - 02/23)
Anne Stuart - A Rose at Midnight (03/01 - 03/02)
Anne Stuart - Night Fall (03/02 - 03/04)
Julia Quinn - When He Was Wicked (03/10)
Julia Quinn - An Offer From A Gentleman (03/13)
Julia Quinn - Romancing Mister Bridgerton (03/13)
Julia Quinn - To Sir Phillip, With Love (03/13 - 03/14)
Connie Brockway - The Bridal Season (04/14-04/16)
Gael Baudino - Shroud of Shadows (05/13)
Gael Baudino - Strands of Starlight (05/13-5/14)
Eoin Colfer - Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code (gosh, I read this sometime between April and early May, but when?!)
Emma Bull - War for the Oaks (06/07-06/11)
Spider and Jeanne Robinson - Starseed (06/09-06-16)
L.J. Smith - Night of the Solstice (08/07)
L.J. Smith - Heart of Valor (08/08)
Anne Stuart - Chasing Trouble (08/19)
Anne Stuart - Heat Lightning (08/19-08/20)
Anne Stuart - Tangled Lies (08/20)
Linda Howard - After the Night (09/10-09/11)
Linda Howard - Son of the Morning (09/14-09/16)
Lois McMaster Bujold - The Hallowed Hunt (09/28-10/01)
Lois McMaster Bujold - The Curse of Chalion (10/01-10/04)
Lois McMaster Bujold - Paladin of Souls (10/02-10/04)
VA - Under the Boardwalk (10/09 - 10/10)
VA - Fantasy (10/10)
Tanya Huff - Blood Price (10/11)
Tanya Huff - The Fire's Stone (10/11)
Tanya Huff - Blood Trail (10/11 - )
Barbara Hambly - Time of the Dark - (12/16 - 12/18)
Barbara Hambly - The Walls of Air - (12/19 - 12/27)

From this list, it becomes clear that trashy romance was my re-reading material of choice far, far too often. This too must be rectified in the coming year.