Karen's 2006 Reading List

Things really start looking up in 2006, at least as far as the amount of reading I was doing and the records I was keeping. I was still at St. Catherine's, working on my MLIS, so reading a lot of research articles and textbooks. No wonder that I found time to do some "fun" reading!

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Clark Fowler
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Clerkenwell Tales by Peter Ackroyd
Trace by Patricia Cornwell
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World by A.J. Jacobs
The Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall Smith
Black Wind by Clive Cussler
Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination by Helen Fielding
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Prep: A Novel by Curtis Sittenfield
Runny Babbitt by Shel Silverstein
Codex by Lev Grossman
Ya-yas in Bloom by Rebecca Wells
The Day the Universe Changed by James Burke
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Evening Land by John Crowley
Fire Sale by Sara Paretsky
True Believer by Nicholas Sparks
44 Scotland St. by Alexander McCall Smith
Mercy Falls by William Kent Krueger
Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire
Predator by Patricia Cornwell
Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith
Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss
Morality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith
The Full Cupboard of Life by Alexander McCall Smith
Dreaming the Hound by Manda Scott
The Sea Peoples: Warriors of the Ancient Mediterranean, 1250-1150 BC by Nancy K. Sandars
Grendel by John Gardner
Gilgamesh by Stephen Mitchell
The Book of Job by Stephen Mitchell
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Not So Fast by Phoebe Hansen and Joan Murphy
Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth by DianeWolkstein
Atrahasis: The Babylonian Story of the Flood by W.G. Lambert
The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts by James P. Allen
The Truth (With Jokes) by Al Franken
The Preservationist by David Maine
Nineveh and Its Remains by Austen Henry Layard
Fallen by David Maine
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. LeGuin
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies by Alexander McCall Smith
When In Rome by Ngaio Marsh
How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill
Portuguese Irregular Verbs by Alexander McCall Smith
The Kalahari Typing School for Men by Alexander McCall Smith
The Right Attitude for Rain by Alexander McCall Smith
The Grand Complication by Allen Kurzweil
Celtic Mythology by Proinsias Mac Cana
Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith

So, I read 52 books in 2006.