2006 50 Book Wrap Up

[angela_o]

Here's the complete list of the 134 books that I read in 2006. Jo, I think that means that you guessed the closest. :)



1 Bitten by Kelley Armstrong
2 Stolen by Kelley Armstrong
3 Dime Store Magic by Kelley Armstrong
4 Industrial Magic by Kelley Armstrong
5 Haunted by Kelley Armstrong
6 Second Helpings by Megan McCafferty
7 The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
8 Ghost Ship of Diamond Shoals: The Mystery of the Carroll A. Deering by Bland Simpson
9 Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
10 How to Kill A Rock Star by Tiffanie DeBartolo
11 The Royal Treatment by MaryJanice Davidson
12 The Royal Pain by MaryJanice Davidson
13 The Masque of the Black Tulip by Lauren Willig
14 Size 12 Is Not Fat by Meg Cabot
15 Every Boy's Got One by Meg Cabot
16 Fashionably Late by Beth Kendrick
17 The Boy Next Door by Meg Cabot
18 boy meets girl by Meg Cabot
19 The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
20 The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
21 The Three Incestuous Sisters: A Novel in Pictures by Audrey Niffenegger
22 Ex and the Single Girl by Lani Diane Rich
23 The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
24 Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
25 Faking It by Jennifer Crusie
26 Summerland by Michael Chabon
27 Charmed Thirds by Megan McCafferty
28 Sorcery and Cecelia, or, The Enchanted Chocolate Pot: being the
correspondence of two young ladies of quality regarding various magical
scandals in London and the country by Patricia Wrede and Caroline Stevermer
29 Bangkok 8 by John Burdett
30 Dead Beat by Jim Butcher
31 The Village Bride of Beverly Hills by Kavita Daswani
32 Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
33 The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
34 The Grand Tour: Being a Revelation of Matters of High Confidentiality and
Greatest Importance, Including Extracts from the Intimate Diary of a
Noblewoman and the Sworn Testimony of a Lady of Quality by Patricia Wrede
and Caroline Stevermer
35 Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
36 Lizard by Banana Yoshimoto
37 Princess in Waiting by Meg Cabot
38 The Mercy Room by Gilles Rozier
39 Princess in Pink by Meg Cabot
40 Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler
41 Dispatches from a Not-So-Perfect Life : Or How I Learned to Love the
House, the Man, the Child by Faulkner Fox
42 Proven Guilty by Jim Butcher
43 The Wishing Star by Norma Johnston
44 The River King by Alice Hoffman
45 Plague Tales by Ann Benson
46 The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett
47 Dahlia by Nora Roberts
48 All American Girl by Meg Cabot
49 Ready or Not by Meg Cabot
50 Red Lily by Nora Roberts
51 Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by
Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
52 Amanda/Miranda by Richard Peck
53 Charmed by Nora Roberts
54 Enchanted by Nora Roberts
55 Black Rose by Nora Roberts
56 Frog Prince by Jane Porter
57 The Nameless Day by Sara Douglass
58 Twelve Sharp by Janet Evanovich
59 Wounded Hawk by Sara Douglass
60 The Amber Room by Steve Berry
61 Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
62 The Crippled Angel by Sara Douglass
63 The Templar Legacy by Steve Berry
64 I Dreamed I Married Perry Mason by Susan Kandel
65 L'America by Martha McPhee
66 Crescent by Diana Abu-Jaber
67 Not A Girl Detective by Susan Kandel
68 Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
69 Heiress for Hire by Erin McCarthy
70 So Many Books, So Little Time by Sara Nelson
71 Midnighters: The Secret Hour by Scott Westerfeld
72 Midnighters: Touching Darkness by Scott Westerfeld
73 The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble
74 Wishing by Miranda Jarrett
75 Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? by Lorrie Moore
76 The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
77 A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham
78 Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult
79 Past Lives, Future Healing: A Psychic Reveals the Secrets to Good Health
and Great Relationships by Sylvia Browne
80 Deerskin by Robin McKinley
81 Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris
82 Blue Noon by Scott Westerfeld
83 Night by Elie Wiesel
84 Shamus in the Green Room by Susan Kandel
85 The Giver by Lois Lowry
86 The Messenger by Lois Lowry
87 Find A Stranger, Say Goodbye by Lois Lowry
88 The Unsung Hero by Suzanne Brockman
89 I Did (But I Wouldn't Now) by Cara Lockwood
90 Out of Control by Suzanne Brockmann
91 Into the Night by Suzanne Brockmann
92 Over the Edge by Suzanne Brockmann
93 Possession by A.S. Byatt
94 Gone Too Far by Suzanne Brockmann
95 Flashpoint by Suzanne Brockmann
96 Breaking Point by Suzanne Brockmann
97 Hard Target by Suzanne Brockmann
98 The Machine's Child by Kage Baker
99 We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern
Belle by Celia Rivenbark
100 Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
101 Northern Lights by Nora Roberts
102 Blue Smoke by Nora Roberts
103 Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
104 Pretties by Scott Westerfeld
105 Specials by Scott Westerfeld
106 Hope by Mary Ryan
107 Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
108 A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly
109 The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
110 The Year of My Indian Prince by Ella Thorp Ellis
111 Wanted: One Perfect Man by Judi McCoy
112 Extreme Bachelor by Julia London
113 The Changeling Plague by Syne Mitchell
114 Tam Lin by Pamela Dean
115 Being Dead Is No Excuse: The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting
the Perfect Funeral by Gayden Metcalfe and Charlotte Hays
116 This Magic Moment by Nora Roberts
117 Search for Love by Nora Roberts
118 The Right Path by Nora Roberts
119 Jack Spratt Investigates The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
120 Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
121 The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde
122 Peeps by Scott Westerfeld
123 The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
124 Secret Society Girl by Diana Peterfreund
125 Wuthering High by Cara Lockwood
126 Braniac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive Word of
Trivia Buffs by Ken Jennings
127 I Was a Teenage Popsicle by Bev Katz Rosenbaum
128 The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks
129 Oh My Goth by Gena Showalter
130 Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
131 The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
132 New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
133 The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
134 The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman

My recommendations would be:

Literature
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Lizard by Banana Yoshimoto
Possession by A.S. Byatt
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

Nonfiction
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
So Many Books, So Little Time by Sara Nelson
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
Braniac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive Word of
Trivia Buffs by Ken Jennings

YA
Charmed Thirds by Megan McCafferty
Wuthering High by Cara Lockwood
Tam Lin by Pamela Dean
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
With special mentions given to Scott Westerfeld's Uglies/Pretties/Specials trilogy and Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy.

For Fun
Jasper Fforde's Nursery Crimes series
Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series
Kage Baker's Novels of the Company series
Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden series

Now, on to 2007.

#1 The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman (Jan/07). The final entry in the His Dark Materials trilogy. Still incredibly bittersweet and I was right to think that I'd missed some of the subtleties the first time through.

Comments

[janajoh.livejournal.com]

Wahoo!!!!! I was the closest! I just knew you'd read upwards of 130!! :)