Books I Read In 2006
Because I'm a dork, I keep track of what books I read each year, and when so inclined, comment on them.
Books marked with blue are ones I really enjoyed.
Those marked in orange are titles I didn't even finish, for one reason or another.
The rest...somewhere in between.
Also, and this note is mainly for me since I can't imagine anyone else reading this, the reason the date of this original post is mid-2006, yet this is a post about the entire year is NOT because I'm psychic, because this would be a pretty dumb way to leverage psychic powers. Instead, I updated this as an overall list for quite awhile,then changed it to a 2006 list for indexing. OK, done now.
Book TitleAuthor Rating (out of 10.0)ThoughtsCandy Girl: A Year In The Life of an Unlikely StripperDiablo Cody6.0 The Final SolutionMichael Chabon6.0 Honeymoon With My BrotherFranz Wisner7.0 Blue LatitudesTony Horowitz7.5 The History of LoveNicole Krauss8.5 Dance, Dance, DanceHaruki Murakami8.0 Touching The VoidJoe Simpson6.5 The Know It AllAJ Jacobs8.0 The Blind SideMichael Lewis9.0ReviewEnder's GameOrson Scott Card6.5 Battle RoyaleKoushon Takami7.5ReviewJohn AdamsDavid McCullough8.5ReviewFlorence of ArabiaChristopher Buckley6.0 No Way To Treat A First LadyChristopher Buckley7.0 Never Let Me GoKazuo Ishiguro9.0ReviewShadow Of The WindCarlos Ruiz Zafon8.5ReviewThe Tipping PointMalcolm Gladwell8.0 Everything ChangesJonathan Tropper7.0 The Book of JoeJonathan Tropper8.5ReviewYou Look Nice TodayStanley Bing6.5 Never Mind The PollacksNeal Pollack8.0 A Ship Made of PaperScott Spencer7.5 A Wild Sheep ChaseHaruki Murakami7.0 A Year In Provence Peter Mayle7.5 Norwegian WoodHaruki Murakami8.0 The Revolution Will Not Be TelevisedJoe Trippi8.0 ConvictionRichard North Patterson6.5 Chasing The DimeMichael Connolly7.0 The Girls of SummerJere Longman N/ADid Not FinishThe Truth (with jokes)Al Franken8.0 The Defining Moment: FDR's First Hundred DaysJonathan Alter8.0 PrepCurtis Sittenfeld7.5 blink: Think Without ThinkingMalcolm Gladwell8.5 How To Make Love Like A Porn StarJenna Jameson7.0 FreakonomicsSteven Levitt and Stephen Dubner 8.5 Lucky: A MemoirAlice SeboldN/ADid Not FinishTwelveNick McDonell7.0 The Year of Magical ThinkingJoan Didion7.5 FantasylandSam Walker8.5 The Wind-Up Bird ChronicleHaruki Murakami8.5ReviewThe Lincoln LawyerMichael Connolly7.0 House of Bush, House of Saud Craig Unger8.0 Lost LakePhillip Margolin5.0 Fraud: EssaysDavid RakoffN/ADid Not FinishFreedomlandRichard Price7.0 Three JunesJulia Glass8.5 Crashing The GateMarkos Moulitsas Zuniga and Jerome Armstrong7.0 The Dante ClubMatthew Pearl8.0 The Fruit of StoneMark Spragg8.0 Love MonkeyKyle Smith 7.0 Lucky GirlsNell FreudenbergerN/ADid Not FinishThe Devil In The White CityErik Larson7.5 The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob GreenJosh Braff6.5 What Was She Thinking? Notes on a ScandalZoe HellerN/ADid Not FinishKafka On The ShoreHaruki Murakami9.5ReviewWho’s Your Caddy?Rick Reilly7.5 The Los Angeles DiariesJames Brown7.5 I Have Chosen To Stay and FightMargaret Cho5.0 Look At MeJennifer Egan8.0 Dreams From My FatherBarack Obama8.0Review The Best American Sports Writing 2005 Mike Lupica (editor)7.0Review Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller6.0Review Triangle: The Fire That Changed America David Von Drehle 5.0Review FatherlandRobert Harris7.0Review Extremely Loud and Incredibly CloseJonathan Safran Foer9.0Review The Brooklyn FolliesPaul Auster8.5Review Killing Yourself To LiveChuck Klosterman6.5Review The Patriots ClubChristopher Reich5.5ReviewJonathan Strange & Mr. NorrellSusana Clarke8.5Review2006200620062006