Karen's 2010 Reading List

In 2010, I kept my lists in LibraryThing, but started adding the more recent books at the top of the list. I thought it might make it easier for my LT friends to see what I had most recently read (of course, they could just scroll down!) So, here's what I read in 2010:

Work in progress: I have to figure out how to copy from Word into a blog post. Is it possible? Answer: Yes, it is possible! Switch to "Edit HTML" and then paste. Works like a charm!

So, since I made my list in reverse chronological order, you'll see right below that I read 148 books in 2010. A huge increase, due in large part to LibraryThing and the so-called Take It or Leave It challenges (TIOLI)--I started broadening my reading and having even more fun.

148. An Assembly Such as This: Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman by Pamela Aidan
147. Skipping Christmas by John Grisham
146. The Father Christmas Letters by J.R.R. Tolkien
145. 365 Thank Yous: The Year a Simple Act of Daily Gratitude Changed My Life by John Kralik
144. The Midnight Examiner (Book 133 of 1001) by William Kotzwinkle
143. A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle
142. The Natural History, Volume 1 by Pliny the Elder
141. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
140. The Eleven Religions and Their Proverbial Lore: a Comparative Study by Selwyn Gurney Champion
139. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
138. The Alchemyst: Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott
137. The Emerald City of Oz by L.Frank Baum (6 of 14)
136. The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
135. A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny
134. Dream Angus: The Celtic God of Dreams by Alexander McCall Smith
133. Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern
132. It's a Book by Lane Smith
131. The Shepherd, the Angel, and Walter the Christmas Wonder Dog
130. The White Stag by Kate Seredy
129. The Extra Large Medium by Helen Slavin
128. The Road to Oz by L.Frank Baum (5 of 14)
127. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
126. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
125. Darcy's Story by Janet Aylmer
124. Room by Emma Donoghue
123. A River in the Sky by Elizabeth Peters
122. Still Alice by Lisa Genova
121. Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
120. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange
119. The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
118. World War Z by Max Brooks
117. Living With Books by Helen E. Haines
116. The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan
115. Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum (4 of 14)
114. Silk by Alessandro Baricco (Book 132 of 1001)
113. The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling
112. How Reading Changed My Life by Anna Quindlen
111. The Charming Quirks of Others by Alexander McCall Smith
110. The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart
109. The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (book 131 of 1001)
108. Naked Heat by Richard Castle
107. Nowhere Man by Aleksandar Hemon (book 130 of 1001)
106. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
105. Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum
104. The Story of O by Pauline Reage (book 129 of 1001)
103. Persuasion by Jane Austen (book 128 of 1001)
102. The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan
101. Out of the Whirlwind by Kathryn Schifferdecker
100. Into the Mummy's Tomb ed. John Richard Stephens
99. Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz
98. The Woman's Migraine Toolkit by Dawn A. Marcus and Philip A. Bain
97. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (book 127 of 1001)
96. Still Life by Louise Penny
95. The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum
94. The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
93. If Books Could Kill by Kate Carlisle
92. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (Book 126 of 1001)
91. The Joy of Cataloging by Sanford Berman
90. Prejudices and Antipathies by Sanford Berman
89. Old School by Tobias Wolff
88. Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name by Vendela Vida
87. The Journal of Hildegard of Bingen by Barbara Lachman
86. Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things by Randy O. Frost & Gail Steketee
85. Homicide in Hardcover by Kate Carlisle
84. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
83. The Awakening by Kate Chopin (Book 125 of 1001)
82. Beowulf on the Beach by Jack Murnighan
81. The Double Comfort Safari Club by Alexander McCall Smith
80. Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
79. Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World by Moskowitz and Romero
78. A Perfect Evil by Alex Kava
77. The Reveries of the Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Book 124 of 1001)
76. Kim by Rudyard Kipling (Book 123 of 1001)
75. This Book is Overdue! How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All by Marilyn Johnson
74. The Arabian Nights, tr. Husain Haddawy (Book 122 of 1001)
73. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (Book 121 of 1001)
72. Librarians as Learning Specialists by Allison Zmuda and Violet H. Harada
71. Montana 1948 by Larry Watson
70. V for Vendetta by Alan Moore et al.
69. Roman Soldier's Handbook by Lesley Sims
68. Stone Heart by Diance Glancy
67. The Book of Merlyn by T.H. White
66. Microterrors by Tony Hart
65. The Mystery of the Jeweled Cross: A Shadwell Rafferty Adventure by Larry Millett
64. Built of Books: How Reading Defined the Life of Oscar Wilde by Thomas Wright
63. The Once and Future King by T.H. White (Book 120 of 1001) - A.R.T.
62. I Thought You Were Dead: A Love Story by Pete Nelson - A.R.T.
61. Harriet Hume by Rebecca West (Book 119 of 1001)
60. Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud (Book 118 of 1001)
59. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (Book 117 of 1001)
58. This is Getting Old: Zen Thoughts on Aging with Humor and Dignity by Susan Moon
57. The Whole Five Feet: What the Great Books Taught Me About Liife, Death, and Pretty Much Everything Else by Christopher R. Beha
56. Stephen Fry in America by Stephen Fry - A.R.T.
55. Blockade Billy by Stephen King
54. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
53. Civilization Before Greece and Rome by H.W.F. Saggs - A.R.T.
52. Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
51. Lugalbanda: The Boy Who Got Caught in a War by Kathy Henderson
50. Sharp Teeth by Toby Barlow (ART)
49. I'll Mature When I'm Dead by Dave Barry
48. August is a Wicked Month by Edna O'Brien (Book 116 of 1001)
47. The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley (Book 115 of 1001)
46. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
45. A Guide to the Birds of East Africa by Nicholas Drayson
44. The Magdalen Martyrs by Ken Bruen
43. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Marilyn Barbery (ART)
42. Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King
41. At Witt's End by Beth Solheim
40. The Unbearable Lightness of Scones by Alexander McCall Smith
39. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (Book 114 of 1001)
38. Mama's Bank Account by Kathryn Forbes
37. Dear Enemy by Jean Webster
36. I Remember Mama (play) by John van Druten
35. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
34. Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster
33. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls by Steve Hockensmith
32. The Three Weissmanns of Westport by Cathleen Schine
31. Moby Dick by Herman Melville (Book 113 of 1001)
30. Winter Rose by Patricia A. McKillip
29. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (Book 112 of 1001)
28. The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
27. Solaris by Stanislaw Lem (Book 111 of 1001)
25. Sarah the Priestess: The First Matriarch of Genesis by Savina
23. The Egyptian by Mika Waltari
22. Wormwood, Nevada by David Oppegaard
21. The Willows in Winter by William Horwood
20. Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
19. Biblioholism:The Literary Addiction by Tom Raabe
18. Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
17. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (Book 109 of 1001)
16. Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
15. The Book of Genesis, Illustrated by R. Crumb
14. Make It Fast, Cook It Slow by Stephanie O'Dea
13. Miss Buncle Married by D.E. Stevenson
12. The Giant, O'Brien by Hilary Mantel
11. Miss Buncle's Book by D.E. Stevenson
10. 9 Dragons by Michael Connelly
9. Homer's Odyssey: A fearless feline tale, or how I learned about love and life with a blind wonder cat by Gwen Cooper
8. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett -
7. The Education of H*y*m*a*n K*a*p*l*a*n by Leonard Q. Ross
6. Stardust by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess
5. La's Orchestra Saves the World by Alexander McCall Smith
4. The Education of a Wandering Man by Louis L'Amour
3. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (Book 108 of 1001)
2. Coraline by Neil Gaiman
1. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Karen's 2009 Reading List

Now firmly active in LibraryThing, I started keeping very careful track of my reading, even posting little reviews of the books I was reading.

Here's what I read in 2009:

Night of the Gun by David Carr
Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Best American Short Stories (2008) ed. Salman Rushdie
Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
2010: Odyssey Two by Arthur C. Clarke
Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men by Michael Kimmel
Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
Slaughterhouse-Five or the Childrens Crusade by Kurt Vonnegut
2061: The Third Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The World According to Bertie by Alexander McCall Smith
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders by Larry Millett
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
The Nineteenth Wife by David Ebershoff
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
Ibsen: Four Major Plays by Henrik Ibsen
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
The Diary of a Nobody by George and Wheedon Grossmith
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris by Paul Gallico
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
The Suicide Collectors by David Oppegaard
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Gudwulf Manuscript by Robert. B. Parker
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
Justine: or The Misfortunes of Virtue by Marquis de Sade
Metamorphoses by Ovid
Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John LeCarre
The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne
Aging with Grace: What the Nun Study Teaches Us About Leading Longer, Healthier, and More Meaningful Lives by David Snowdon
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
Losing Mum and Pup by Christopher Buckley
God Is My Broker by Christopher Buckley
The Enchanted Places by Christopher Milne
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
The Narcissism Epidemic by Twenge and Campbell
The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
Heartburn by Nora Ephron
Thank You, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
Not So Big Remodeling by Sarah Susanka
Blind Sight by Terri Persons
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
Decoding the Heavens by Jo Marchant
The Nun by Denis Diderot
Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark
Barbarians by Terry Jones
Basilica: The Splendor and the Scandal: Building St. Peter's by R.A. Scotti
Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
Veronika Decides to Die by Paolo Coelho
Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Count of Monte Christo by Alexandre Dumas
Origins: Creation Texts from the Ancient Mediterranean by Doria and Lenowitz
Homer and Langley by E.L. Doktorow
Adjunct: An Undigest by Peter Manson
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Heat Wave by Richard Castle
The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan
The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
The National Parks: America's Best Ideas: An Illustrated History by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns
Ten Books That Screwed Up the World: And Five Others That Didn't Help by Benjamin Wiker
The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
Good Dog. Stay by Anna Quindlen
Guernica: The Biography of a Twentieth-Century Icon by Gijs van Hensbergen
Pilgrims: A Lake Wobegone Romance by Garrison Keillor
The Book of Kells: An Illustrated Introduction by Bernard Meehan
The Christmas Blizzard by Garrison Keillor
The Lost Art of Gratitude by Alexander McCall Smith
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borge

Books read in 2009: 95

Karen's 2008 Reading List

Now I started cooking with gas. I discovered LibraryThing and started cataloging my collection (I have a long ways to go, but I've made a start). I hadn't yet discovered the active and vibrant posting on the LT site, from people who care about books, who read a LOT, and who recommend a LOT.

I also came across 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die and started trying to read more and more of the "better" books, while still reading books that I simply wanted to read.

Here's what I read in 2008:

Feast of Love by Charles Baxter
Pride and Prescience, or, a Truth Universally Acknowledged by Carrie Bebris
Book of the Dead by Patricia Cornwell
Interred with Their Bones by Jennifer Lee Carrell
The Not So Big Life by Sarah Susanka
The Assault on Reason by Al Gore
Murder in the Stacks by Marion Boyd Havighurst
Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity by Elaine Bagels
The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany
The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
All Aboard for Ararat by H.G. Wells
Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Programming Sentences by Kitty Burns Florey
Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic by Frank Moore Cross
Suspense and Sensibility, or First Impressions Revisited by Carrie Bebris
20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill
A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel
She Got Up Off the Couch by Haven Kimmel
Lives of the Rakes: The Hell Fire Club by E. Beresford Chancellor
North by Northanger, or, The Shades of Pemberley by Carrie Bebris
The Dirt on Clean by Katherine Ackenburg
The Careful Use of Compliments by Alexander McCall Smith
1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England by Seller and Yeatman
The Good Husband of Zebra Drive by Alexander McCall Smith
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs by Alexander McCall Smith
Letters from Iceland by W.H. Auden
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Bleeding Kansas by Sara Paretsky
Friends, Lovers, Chocolate by Alexander McCall Smith
Confessions of a Pagan Nun by Kate Horsley
Clean Cut by Theresa Monsour
Phantom Prey by John Sandford
Espresso Tales by Alexander McCall Smith
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
Staggerford by Jon Hassler
The Miracle at Speedy Motors by Alexander McCall Smith
Cold Blood by Theresa Monsour
Dark House by Theresa Monsour
At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances by Alexander McCall Smith
Herstory ed. Ruth Ashley and Deborah Gore Ohrn
A Reader's Manifesto: An Attack on the Growing Pretentiousness in American Literary Prose by B.R. Myers
The Last Camel Died at Noon by Elizabeth Peters
The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog by Elizabeth Peters
Free for All by Don Borchert
Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands by Michael Chabon
Love Over Scotland by Alexander McCall Smith
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
Night Train to Memphis by Elizabeth Peters
D'Aulaire's Book of Norse Myths (was Norse Gods and Giants) by D'Aulaires
Blind Rage by Terri Persons
Blind Spot by Terri Persons
Yeh Yeh's House by Evelina Chao
House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Emma by Jane Austen
Creation in the Old Testament ed. Bernhard W. Anderson
Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
Comforts of a Muddy Saturday by Alexander McCall Smith
Around the World in Eighty Days by H.G. Wells
The Florist's Daughter by Patricia Hampl
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Notre Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) by Victor Hugo
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Sorrow of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
Aesop's Fables
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Warrior by Frances Richey
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
Liberty by Garrison Keillor
Ain't Nothin' As Sweet As My Baby by Jett Williams
God Said, "Ha!" by Julia Sweeney
Slavery By Another Name by Douglas Blackmon
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
The Cat Who Came for Christmas by Cleveland Amory
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
Love Songs of Asia by Powys Mathers
Dewey: The Small Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron
De occulta philosophia (vol. 1, Natural World) by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
Widows of Eastwick by John Updike

Books read in 2008: 88 (that's a lot of "8"s!)

Karen's 2007 Reading List

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Mysteries of the Middle Ages by Thomas Cahill
Tales of King Arthur by Sir Thomas Mallory
Cory's Ancient Fragments of the Phoenician, Carthaginian, Babylonian, Egyptian, and Other Authors by Isaac Preston Cory
The Ruins by Scott Smith
A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George
Too Soon to Say Goodbye by Art Buchwald
Lion in the Valley by Elizabeth Peters
Giotto by Francesca Flores D'Arcais
Children of Men by P.D. James
Payment in Blood by Elizabeth George
Trojan Gold: A Vicky Bliss Mystery by Elizabeth Peters
Pemberley by Emma Tennant
Leap Days: Chronicles of a Midlife Move by Katherine Lanpher
The Deeds of the Disturber by Elizabeth Peters
The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop by Lewis Buzbee
Well-Schooled in Murder by Elizabeth George
Naked Once More by Elizabeth Peters
LEAP: What Do We Do with the Rest of Our Lives? by Sara Davidson
Finn by Jon Clinch
In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien
The Discovery of King Arthur by Geoffrey Ashe
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Bestiary by Nicholas Christopher
Death Roll by Marilyn Victor and Michael Allan Mallory
Dreaming the Serpent-Spear by Manda Scott
Gilgamesh by David Ferry
The Extra Large Medium by Helen Slavin
The Dogs of Bedlam Farm by Jon Katz
Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon by Garrison Keillor
Marley and Me by John Grogan
The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold
Best American Short Stories--2007 edited by Stephen King
Sweet Land by Will Weaver
At Home with Books by Ellis, Seebohm, Sykes
Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's by John Elder Robison
Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

In 2007, 39 books read.

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.

Karen's 2005 Reading List

The record of my reading in 2005 continues very patchy. I was continuing my read of Elizabeth Peters, and that's all I have to post for 2005:

Crocodile on the Sandbank
The Curse of the Pharaohs
Legend in Green Velvet
Devil-May-Care
Secret of the Five Moons
Summer of the Dragon
The Love Talker
The Copenhagen Connection
Silhouette in Scarlet
Die for Love
The Mummy Case

Karen's 2004 Reading List

In summer of 2004 I started my Master's program at St. Catherine's. I was still limited in the outside reading I could do, and I wasn't keeping really careful track. But here's some books I read that year:

Dreaming the Bull by Manda Scott
Metamorphoses/The Golden Ass by Apulius
The Jackal's Head by Elizabeth Peters
The Camelot Caper by Elizabeth Peters
The Dead Sea Cipher by Elizabeth Peters (are you sensing a trend?? I was reading through Peters's book, chronologically)
The Night of Four Hundred Rabbits by Elizabeth Peters
The Seventh Sinner by Elizabeth Peters
Borrower of the Night by Elizabeth Peters
The Murders of Richard III by Elizabeth Peters