So, here I am, in the early hours of the second half of 2006, and since I started this blog as a way for me to keep track of the books I’ve read and what I thought of them, I figured I’d list a recap of the books I’ve read thus far this year. Starting with January’s books, and ending with the one I finished just a couple hours ago:
Fast Food Nation ~ Eric Schlosser
Tales of a Female Nomad ~ Rita Golden Gelman
Julie & Julia ~ Julie Powell
Life of Pi ~ Yann Martel
A Field Guide to Buying Organic ~ Luddene Perry and Dan Schultz
Prodigal Summer ~ Barbara Kingsolver
Fingersmith ~ Sarah Waters
Imagined London ~ Anna Quindlen
Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction ~ Sue Townsend
So Many Books, So Little Time ~ Sara Nelson
The Thrall’s Tale – Judith Lindbergh
Into the Wild ~ Jon Krakauer
Kitchen Confidential ~ Anthony Bourdain
Fat Girl ~ Judith Moore
The Minister’s Daughter ~ Julie Hearn
How Reading Changed My Life – Anna Quindlen
The Readers’ Choice ~ Victoria Golden McMains
What to Read ~ Mickey Pearlman
A Year of Reading ~ Elisabeth Ellington and Jane Freimiller
The Reading Group Handbook ~ Rachel Jacobsohn
The Reading Group ~ Elizabeth Noble
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down – Anne Fadiman
My Sister’s Keeper ~ Jodi Picoult
Once Upon a Day ~ Lisa Tucker
The Reckoning ~ Sarah Pinborough
A Northern Light ~ Jennifer Donnelly
The Photograph ~ Penelope Lively
Sharp North ~ Patrick Cave
Birds in Fall ~ Brad Kessler
Summer Sisters ~ Judy Blume
Passing For Thin ~ Frances Kuffel
Kindred ~ Octavia Butler
Women of the Silk ~ Gail Tsukiyama
In Cold Blood ~ Truman Capote
Sand Dollar Summer ~ Kimberly Jones
The Kite Runner ~ Khaled Hosseini
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ~ Muriel Sparks
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time ~ Mark Haddon
Bloodsucking Fiends ~ Christopher Moore
Atonement ~ Ian McEwan
Mayflower ~ Nathaniel Philbrick
Some initial thoughts: I read more than I thought I did; I also read quite a bit of non-fiction, which seems unusual for me; the majority of authors are women; I read probably more YA fiction than the average adult; and I liked more books than I didn’t.