Bookmark My Heart

I can’t help myself. I’m going to list all the books I read. You don’t have to read it, but it might give you some ammo for giving me a hard time about bad stuff I read.

Items with a * were read for book club, thereby rendering them unavailable for teasing since I didn’t choose them.

Here we go!

1. Read for Your Life – Joseph Gold
2. Hawkes Harbor* – S.E. Hinton
3. The Friendship Test – Elizabeth Noble
4. The Penelopiad – Margaret Atwood
5. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
6. Heavy Metal and You – Christopher Krovatin
7. Nerd Girl Rocks Paradise City – Anne Thomas Soffee
8. The Well-Trained Mind – Susan Wise Brown and Jessie Wise
9. The Dogs of Babel* – Carolyn Parkhurst
10. Doomsday Book – Connie Willis
11. SAHM I Am – Meredith Efken
12. Dinner With Anna Karenina – Gloria Goldreich
13. Why Do Men Have Nipples? – Mark Leyner and Bily Goldberg, M.D.
14. The Kite Runner* – Khaled Hosseini
15. …And Ladies of the Club – Helen Hooven Santmyer
16. The Wisdom of Jane Austen – Shawna Mullen, ed.
17. Taliesin – Stephen R. Lawhead
18. Read or Die – Hideyuki Kurata
19. Where the Heart Is* – Billie Letts
20. Matilda – Roald Dahl
21. Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt
22. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell – Susannah Clarke
23. Promethea 1 – Alan Moore
24. Promethea 2 – Alan Moore
25. The Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell
26. High Fidelity* – Nick Hornby
27. Eats, Shoots, & Leaves – Lynne Truss
28. Read or Die 2 – Hideyuki Kurata
29. The Know-it-All – A.J. Jacobs
30. Promethea 3 – Alan Moore
31. A Bear Called Paddington – Michael Bond
32. Prep – Curtis Sittenfeld
33. How to Read Literature Like a Professor – Thomas C. Foster
34. Smashed* – Koren Zailckas
35. About a Boy – Nick Hornby
36. Tea with Jane Austen – Kim Wilson
37. Rereadings – Anne Fadiman, ed.
38. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
39. Shelf Life – Suzanne Strempek Shea
40. Every Book Its Reader – Nicholas A Basbanes
41. Promethea 4 – Alan Moore
42. The Sun Also Rises* – Ernest Hemingway
43. The Wings of the Dove – Henry James
44. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
45. Nights of Rain and Stars – Maeve Binchy
46. So Many Books, So Little Time – Sara Nelson
47. The List – Areva Stout
48. Twelve Sharp – Janet Evanovich
49. V for Vendetta – Alan Moore and David Lloyd
50. Captain Alatriste – Arturo Perez Reverte
51. And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie
52. Avalon High – Meg Cabot
53. Dealing With People You Can’t Stand – Rick Brinkman
(Half way done!)
54. Teacher Man – Frank McCourt
55. The Book Club Companion – Diana Loevy
56. Lost Women of the Bible – Carolyn Custis James
57. The Falcons of Montabard – Elizabeth Chadwick
58. Speak Softly, She Can Hear* – Pam Lewis
59. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
60. Neither Here nor There – Bill Bryson
61. Literacy and Longing in L.A. – Jennifer Kaufman and Karen Mack
62. Magical Thinking – Augusten Burroughs
63. Abandoned Tulsa – Alison Zarrow
64. The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing – Melissa Bank
65. Beethoven: His Life and Music – Jeremy Siepmann
66. The Silver Wolf – Alice Borchardt
67. Undead and Unappreciated – MaryJanice Davidson
68. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress* – Dai Sijie
69. Rumspringa – Tom Schachtman
70. MovieLust – Maitland McDonagh
71. The Man of My Dreams – Curtis Sittenfeld
72. Scar Tissue – Anthony Kiedis and Larry Sloman
73. The Thirteenth Tale – Kane Setterfield
74. Raising a Reader – Jennie Nash
75. Blood and Gold – Anne Rice
76. You’ve Got to Read This Book – Jack Canfield
77. The Perks of Being a Wallflower* – Stephen Chbosky
78. Read or Die 3 – Hideyuki Kurata
79. The Haunted House – Charles Dickens, et. al.
80. The Dearly Departed – Elinor Lipman
81. The Right Attitude to Rain – Alexander McCall Smith
82. Memories of Madison County* – Jana St. James
83. Book by Book – Michael Dirda
84. Duty and Desire – Pamela Aidan
85. A Reading Diary – Albert Manguel
86. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
87. To Kingdom Come – Will Thomas
88. The Things That Matter – Edward Mendelson
89. Bang Your Head – David Konow
90. Reading Like a Writer – Francine Prose
91. My Latest Grievance – Elinor Lipman
92. Desolation Island – Patrick O’Brian
93. The Other Boleyn Girl – Phillippa Gregory
94. But Enough About Me – Jancee Dunn
95. Life on Planet Rock – Lonn Friend
96. Big Fish* – Daniel Wallace
97. The Jane Austen Miscellany – Lesley Bolton
98. The Bookwoman’s Last Fling – John Dunning
99. Christmas Is..
100. The Polysyllabic Spree – Nick Hornby
101. A Christmas Caroling – Kyle Smith
102.The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd
103. American Hair Metal – Steven Blush
104. Read or Dream – Hideyuki Kurata
105. Bridget Jones’s Guide to Life – Helen Fielding.

Hey! 36 of those were Non-fiction. That’s like 30%. That’s pretty darn good.

5 worst books of 2006:
5.Right Attitude to Rain
4. Hawkes Harbor
3. Where the Heart Is
2. Why do Mean Have Nipples?
1. Memories of Madison County

5 Best Books of 2006:
5. Literacy and Longing in L.A.
4. Prep
3. War and Peace
2. Nerd Girl Rocks Paradise City
1. The Thirteenth Tale

I think that’s all for now. Maybe tomorrow, I’ll tell you about my New Years’ Readolution.

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