Books I’ve Read in 2006

I never used to keep track of the books I read.  I would write a journal on the ones I find memorable, but I felt that a book list would reduce my reading to a number game, and give me reason to opt for a thin paperback rather than a serious, thick, non fiction hard bound.  However, Aki challenged me on how many books I read in 2006, so I tried to reconstruct the list, and here it is, and that’s how it started.

1. 100 Places to Visit Before Your Die
2. The 3-Day Energy Fast
3. A Simple Monk
4. Adam’s Curse
5. The Arctic Incident (Artemis Fowl)
6. The art of raising parents
7. Back When We Were Grownups
8. Beauty
9. Bill Bryson’s African Diary
10. The Birth House
11. Bitter Herb
12. Birth of Venus
13. The Blue Bedspread
14. The Book of Proper Names
15. The Bookseller of Kabul
16. Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather: Stories
17. Children of the Mind
18. Confessions of a Shopaholic
19. Cry The Beloved Country
20. The Da Vinci Code
21. The Devil’s Arithmetic
22. Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher’s First Year
23. Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life
24. The Eternity Code (Artemis Fowl)
25. Feng Shite
26. First Meetings
27. Five People You Meet in Heaven
28. From Chocolate to Morphine
29. Funny in Farsi
30. Geisha – Liz Delby
31. God, Are You There? It’s me Margaret – Judy Blume
32. The Golden Compass – Philip Pullman
33. Good Boy
34. The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices
35. Gosta Berling’s Saga
36. The Hours
37. How to Expand Love
38. The Hundred Years Lie
39. I Know My First Name Is Steven
40. I’m the one that I want – Margaret Cho
41. Is our food safe?
42. Jonathan Livingston Seagull
43. The kite runner
44. The Last Days of Dogtown
45. Living a Life of Inner Peace
46. Lonely Planet Signspotting
47. The Lovely Bones
48. Good Luck
49. March of the Penquins
50. Meeting of Minds: A Dialogue on Tibetan and Chinese Buddhism
51. The mermaid chair
52. Missing
53. My Sister’s Keeper
54. Discover Reading: Fahrenheit 451
55. Night
56. One Thousand White Women
57. Princess Sultana’s Daughters
58. Prodigal Summer
59. The Proscratinator Handbook
60. Reading Lolita In Tehran
61. Rice bowl women
62. The Rule of Four
63. Shipwrecks
64. Shizuko’s Daughter
65. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
66. Speaker of the Dead
67. The Story of My Life: An Afghan Girl on the Other Side of the Sky
68. Study on Diamond Sutra
69. The Subtle Knife
70. The Time Traveler’s Wife
71. The universe in a single atom : the convergence of science and spirituality
72. Xenocide
73. The White Masai
74. Unusually Stupid Americans
75. Wandering Warrior
76. We Just Want to Live Here
77. Who Moved My Cheese
78. Wife
79. The Widow of the South