Thirty-eight books that I already own and need to read. I’m setting these aside to pick up and read in 2006. I hope I’ll get through more than just these, but this would make a big dent in my “to read” stacks.
FEB 13, 2006 UPDATE:
I ended up breaking my new years resolution and buying a few books, which I’m now adding to the list, so I don’t keep up an endless spiral of stacks of books I don’t get to.
Absolute Watchmen – Alan Moore
I bought this after reading an Entertainment Weekly review that quoted some of my favorite writers and television producers as saying it was an enormous influence on them.
A Feast for Crows – George R. R. Martin
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Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her – Melanie Rehak
Harvard’s Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals – William Wright
YOU: The Owner’s Manual : An Insider’s Guide to the Body that Will Make You Healthier and Younger – Michael F. Roizen, Mehmet Oz
Fiction
Ahab’s Wife: Or, The Star-Gazer: A Novel – by Sena Jeter Naslund
Al Capone Does My Shirts – by Gennifer Choldenko
Baudolino – Umberto Eco
Best Lesbian Erotica 2006 (Best Lesbian Erotica) – by Tristan Taormino, Eileen Myles
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The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower, Book 2) – Stephen King
The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, Book 3) – Stephen King
Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower, Book 4) – Stephen King
Deception Point – Dan Brown
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
House of Leaves – by Mark Z. Danielewski
The House on the Point: A Tribute to Franklin W. Dixon and The Hardy Boys – by Benjamin Hoff
I, Robot – by Isaac Asimov
The Island of the Skull (King Kong) – by Matthew Costello
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell – by Susanna Clarke
Life Mask – by Emma Donoghue
Memoirs of a Geisha – by Arthur Golden
Mr. Timothy – by Louis Bayard
The Nanny Diaries – by Emma McLaughlin, Nicola Kraus
Other Side of Desire – by Paula Christian
The Princes of Ireland: The Dublin Saga – by Edward Rutherfurd
Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) – by Neal Stephenson
Stranger In a Strange Land – by Robert Heinlein
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Slammerkin – by Emma Donoghue
The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley’s Game – by Patricia Highsmith
The Time Traveler’s Wife – by Audrey Niffenegger
Trace Elements of Random Tea Parties – by Felicia Luna Lemus
Non-Fiction
The Classic Hundred Poems – by William Harmon
The Experts’ Guide to 100 Things Everyone Should Know How to Do – by Samantha Ettus
The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty – by Kitty Kelley
Heavy Words Lightly Thrown: The Reason Behind the Rhyme – by Chris Roberts
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The Hero with a Thousand Faces – by Joseph Campbell
How the Homosexuals Saved Civilization : The Time and Heroic Story of How Gay Men Shaped the Modern World – by Cathy Crimmins
I ended up not finishing this book because it wasn’t a serious history book. It was a tongue-in-cheek satire of other books on subculture groups that have an impact on mainstream culture. Funny, but not what I was interested in reading.
Jesus Is Not a Republican: The Religious Right’s War on America – by Clint Willis
Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich–and Cheat Everybody Else – by David Cay Johnston
The Right Decision Every Time : How to Reach Perfect Clarity on Tough Decisions – by Luda Kopeikin
Scaling Down – by Judi Culbertson and Marj Decker
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The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry – by Bryan Sykes
A Short History of Nearly Everything – by Bill Bryson
Unwritten Laws: The Unofficial Rules of Life As Handed Down by Murphy and Other Sages – by Hugh Rawson
You Already Know What to Do: Ten Invitations to the Intuitive Life – by Sharon Franquemont