December 31, 2005
Books Read in 2005
(In descending order this time around!)
- An Unfinished Season, by Ward Just
- Author, Author, by David Lodge
- The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters, by Elisabeth Robinson
- Quicksilver, by Neal Stephenson
- She Is Me, by Cathleen Schine
- The World According to Mimi Smartypants
- Neighboring Lives, by Thomas Disch and Charles Naylor
- The Shape of Water, by Andrea Camilleri
- Home Land, by Sam Lipsyte
- Behind the Scenes at the Museum, by Kate Atkinson
- The Devil's Tour, by Mary Karr (poetry)
- Criminals, by Margot Livesey
- Samaritan, by Richard Price
- A Changed Man, by Francine Prose
- Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell
- Dreamer, by Charles Johnson
- Camp Concentration, by Thomas Disch
- The Translator, by Ward Just
- Blue Hour, by Carolyn Forche (poetry)
- Paradise, by A.L.Kennedy
- Sixpence House, by Paul Collins
- Saturday, by Ian McEwan
- A Girl Named Zippy, by Haven Kimmel
- The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls
- Oracle Night, by Paul Auster
- The Lives of the Muses, by Francine Prose
- Hamlet, by Shakespeare (reread)
- The Preservationist, by David Maine
- Monkeewrench, by P.J. Tracy
- Live Bait, by P.J. Tracy
- The Company of Strangers, by Robert Wilson
- Dead Run, by P.J. Tracy
- The James Joyce Murders, by Amanda Cross
- The History of Love, by Nicole Krauss
- Wine & War, The French, the Nazis and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure, by Don & Petie Kladstrup
- Housekeeping, by Marilynne Robinson
- Rhapsody, by Elizabeth Haydon
- Prophecy, by Elizabeth Haydon
- Destiny, by Elizabeth Haydon
- Across the Nightingale Floor, by Lian Hearn
- The Falls, by Ian Rankin
- Nam-A-Rama, by Phillip Jennings
- Sidetracked, by Henning Mankell
- Bankok 8, by John Burdett
- Foreign Babes in Beijing, by Rachel DeWoskin
- Travels with a Tangerine, by Tim MacKintosh-Smith
- The Closed Circle, by Jonathan Coe
- Wish You Were Here, by Stewart O'Nan
- The Wonder Spot, by Melissa Bank
- Dragon's Winter, by Elizabeth A. Lynn (re-read)
- Dragon's Treasure, by Elizabeth A. Lynn
- Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak
- Why Are We at War?, by Norman Mailer
- Sleep With Me, by Joanna Briscoe
- The Ha-Ha, by Dave King
- Specimen Days, by Michael Cunningham
- Echo House, by Ward Just
- Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson
- Crossing California, by Adam Langer
- The Dreams, by Naguib Mahfouz
- The Blackbird Papers, by Ian Smith
- Here is Where We Meet, by John Berger
- Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Birds of a Feather, (Maisie Dobbs #2) by Jaqueline Winspear
- Indelible Acts, by A.L. Kennedy
- Maisie Dobbs, by Jacqueline Winspear
- On Beauty, by Zadie Smith
- A Gentleman's Game, by Greg Rucka
- Nobody's Warriors, by Maurice Shadbolt
- Mothers & Other Monsters, by Maureen F. McHugh
- Knife of Dreams (Wheel of Time Book 11), by Robert Jordan
- Digital Fortress, by Dan Brown (blech. Airport reading. 'nuff said.)
- (half of) Henderson the Rain King, by Saul Bellow
- Willful Creatures, by Aimee Bender
- The House of Sleep, by Jonathan Coe
- Silent Bob Speaks, the Collected Writings of Kevin Smith
- Burr, by Gore Vidal
- To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
- Birthmarks, by Sarah Dunant
- The Way by Swann's, by Marcel Proust
- In a Sunburned Country, by Bill Bryson
- The Whore's Child (and Other Stories) , by Richard Russo
- The Universe and the Teacup: The Mathematics of Truth and Beauty, by K.C. Cole
- Cherry Ames, Student Nurse, by Helen Wells (reread)
- Cherry Ames, Senior Nurse, by Helen Wells (reread)
- The Philosopher's Demise, Learning to Speak French, by Richard Watson
- Cherry Ames, Army Nurse, by Helen Wells (reread)
- Cherry Ames, Chief Nurse, by Helen Wells (reread)
- The Magician's Nephew, by C.S. Lewis (reread)
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis (reread)
- Thank You for Not Smoking, by Christopher Buckley
- Old School, by Tobias Wolff
- The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins
- Siren Song (Royal Dynasty, Bk 1), by Roberta Gellis (reread)
- To the Castle, by Joan Wolf
- The Diamond King, by Patricia Potter
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