2006 50 Book Wrap Up

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

( A Year in Books )

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.

2006 50 Book Wrap Up

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

( A Year in Books )

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.