Books Read in 2006

F = Fiction
NF = Non-Fiction
B = Biography
P = Poetry
PL = Play
GN = Graphic Novel


1) Bill Maher - When You Ride ALONE You Ride with bin Laden: What the Government SHOULD Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism. (NF)

2) Rainer Maria Rilke, trans. M.D. Herter Norton - Letters to a Young Poet. (NF)

3) Salman Rushdie - The Satanic Verses (F)

4) Kaoru Kurimoto, trans. Alexander O. Smith and Elye J. Alexander - The Guin Saga, Book Two: Warrior in the Wilderness (F)

5) Dick Francis - Rat Race (F)

6) Will Eisner - Last Day in Vietnam: A Memory (GN)

7) Anthony Bourdain - The Bobby Gold Stories (F)

8) Al Franken - The Truth: with jokes (NF)

9) Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming - Powers: Who Killed Retro Girl? (GN)

10) M. John Harrison - The Pastel City (F)

11) M. John Harrison - A Storm of Wings (F)

12) J.W.von Goethe, trans. Thomas James Arnold - The Story of Reynard the Fox (P)

13) Ben Edlund - The Tick: The Naked City (GN) (reread)

14) Sue Grafton - 'A' Is For Alibi (F)

15) Alfred Kazin - A Walker In The City (B)

16) Dick Francis - 10lb. Penalty (F)

17) John Maddox Roberts - SPQR: The Tribune's Curse (F)

18) Dante Alighieri, trans. Mark Musa - The Divine Comedy, Volume 1: Inferno (P)

19) John Maddox Roberts - SPQR: The River God's Vengeance (F)

20) Neil Gaiman - Anansi Boys (F)

21) Flann O'Brien - Stories and Plays (F and PL)

22) Petronius Arbiter, trans. falsely ascribed to Oscar Wilde - The Satyricon (F)

23) Sarah Vowell - The Partly Cloudy Patriot (NF)

24) George Orwell - Keep the Aspidistra Flying (F)

25) Zbigniew Herbert trans. Czeslaw Milosz and Peter Dale Scott - Selected Poems (P)

26) Flann O'Brien - The Hard Life (F)

27) Bram Stoker - Dracula (F)

28) P.G. Wodehouse - Jeeves and the Tie That Binds (F)

29) Edwin A. Abbott - Flatland (F)

30) Alan Alda - Never Have Your Dog Stuffed (B)

31) Ian Fleming - For Your Eyes Only (F)

32) Sarah Vowell - Assasination Vacation (NF)

33) Geoffrey Lloyd and Nathan Sivin - The Way and the Word: Science and Medicine in Early China and Greece (NF)

34) Eamon Grennan - Still Life with Waterfall (P)

35) Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone (F)

36) Anthony Bourdain - Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (B)

37) Terry Pratchett - The Unadulterated Cat (F)

38) Gustav Meyrink - The Golem (F)

39) Dan Brown - The Da Vinci Code (F)

40) Boris Akunin - Murder on the Leviathan (F)

41) Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot (PL)

42) Yamamoto Tsunetomo, trans. William Scott Wilson - The Hagakure (NF)

43) Frank Miller - The Big Fat Kill (GN)

44) Sholom Aleichem trans. Julius and Frances Butwin - The Old Country (F)

45) Dick Francis - Straight (F)

46) Aeschylus trans. Peter Meineck - Oresteia (PL)

47) Garth Ennis and John Higgins - Hellblazer: Son of Man (GN)

48) Russell Shorto - The Island at the Center of the World (NF)

49) Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon - Preacher: Gone to Texas (GN)

50) Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon - Preacher: Proud Americans (GN)

51) Michael Cunningham - Specimen Days (F)

52) Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon - Preacher: Dixie Fried (GN)

53) Lemony Snicket - A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning (F)

54) Flann O'Brien - The Third Policeman (F)

55) Jerry Holkins & Mike Krahulik - Penny Arcade: Attack of the Bacon Robots! (GN)

56) Rex Stout - Too Many Cooks (F) (reread)

57) Kurt Vonnegut - Player Piano (F)

58) Dave Barry - Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway (H)

59) Boris Akunin - The Turkish Gambit (F)

60) Dante Alighieri, trans. Mark Musa - The Divine Comedy, Volume 2: Purgatorio (P)

61) ed. and trans. Moss Roberts - Chinese Fairy Tales & Fantasies (F)

62) I.J. Parker - Rashomon Gate (F)

63) Lenny Bruce - How to Talk Dirty and Influence People (B)

64) Boris Akunin - The Death of Achilles (F)

65) Marilyn Johnson - The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries (NF)

66) George Bernard Shaw - Man and Superman (PL)

67) David Sedaris - Naked (B)

68) W. Somerset Maugham - Cakes and Ale (F)

69) Sofka Zinovieff - Eurydice Street: A Place in Athens (NF)

70) Rene Descartes, trans. Donald A. Cross - Meditations on First Philosophy (NF)

71) Ha Jin - War Trash (F)

72) Paul Auster - City of Glass (F)

73) Colette, trans. Enid McLeod - The Vagabond (F)

74) Robert Sullivan - The Meadowlands: Wilderness Adventures on the Edge of a City (NF)

75) Ian Fleming - Moonraker (F)

76) Charles MacLean - MacLean's Miscellany of Whisky (NF)

77) Ian Fleming - Thunderball (F)

78) Steven Brust - Dzur (F)

79) Fred Saberhagen - The Book of Swords Vol. 1 (F)

80) Fred Saberhagen - The Book of Swords Vol. 2 (F)

81) Fred Saberhagen - The Book of Swords Vol. 3 (F)

82) Bill Buford - Heat (An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany) (NF)

83) Neil Gaiman - Stardust (F)

84) Sholem Aleichem, Trans. Hillel Halkin - Tevye The Dairyman and the Railroad Stories (F)

85) O.Henry - The Best Short Stories of O.Henry (F)

86) John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces (F)

87) E.B. White - Here is New York (NF)

88) Martin Millar - The Good Fairies of New York (F)

89) Terry Pratchett - Wintersmith (F)

90) James Joyce - Dubliners (F)

91) Vassar College - Albert Einstein: Life and Letters, 1905-1955 (NF)

92) Dick Francis - Wild Horses (F)

93) Guy Delisle - Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea (GN)

94) Terry Pratchett - The Last Continent (F) (reread)

95) Terry Pratchett - Small Gods (F) (reread)

96) C.S. Forester - Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (F)

97) C.S. Forester - Lieutenant Hornblower (F)

98) C.S. Forester - Hornblower and the Hotspur (F)

99) C.S. Forester - Hornblower and the Atropos (F)

100) C.S. Forester - Beat to Quarters (F)

101) C.S. Forester - Ship of the Line (F)

102) C.S. Forester - Flying Colours (F)

103) C.S. Forester - Commodore Hornblower (F)

104) C.S. Forester - Lord Hornblower (F)

105) Guy Delisle - Shenzen: A Travelogue From China (GN)

106) C.S. Forester - Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies (F)

107) C.S. Forester - Hornblower During the Crisis (F)

108) Patrick O'Brian - Master & Commander (F)

109) Patrick O'Brian - Post Captain (F)

110) Patrick O'Brian - H.M.S. Surprise (F)

111) Eric Hobsbawm - The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848 (NF)

112) Patrick O'Brian - The Mauritius Command (F)

113) Patrick O'Brian - Desolation Island (F)

114) Patrick O'Brian - The Fortune of War (F)

115) Patrick O'Brian - The Surgeon's Mate (F)

116) Patrick O'Brian - The Ionian Mission (F)

117) Alec Guinness - My Name Escapes Me (B)

118) Adam Zagajewski, asstd. trans. - Without End (P)