Saturday, January 2, 2010

2006 Book Reads

My 2006 reads - from my notebook
* Mother/Daughter book club read

January

 Shadow Divers, Robert Kurson





Danny, Champion of the World, Roald Dahl *





The Mysterious Commission, Michael Innes
Blue Heaven, Joe Keenan

February

Exile, Lady Grace Cavendish





The Forty Niners, Alan Moore





Gentlemen and Players, Joanne Harris
The Wright 3, Blue Balliett

March




Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors, Lizzie Collingham




Waiting Wind, Tony Hillerman
My Brother's Farm Doug Jones
Sinister Pig, Tony Hillerman

April

Fallen Man, Tony Hillerman
Murder Must Advertise Dorothy Sayers
The Tale of Despereaux , Kate DiCamillo
The Lightning Thief, Rick Riordan *





The Yarn Harlot, Stephanie Peral-McPhee





May

Hoot, Carl Hiaasen *
Skeleton Man, Tony Hillerman




The $64 Tomato, William Alexander





June






The Orchard, Adele Crockett Robertson







The Penderwicks, Jeanne Birdsall *
What Happened at Hazelwood, Michael Innes
The Last Best League: One Summer, One Season, One Dream, Jim Collins

July

The Coffee Trader, David Liss
The Shape Shifter, Tony Hillerman

August

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, JK Rowlings
The View from Saturday, E. L. Konigsburg *




The Sea of Monsters, Rick Riordan





The Mixed-up Files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg
Charlie Bone and the Time Twister, Jennie Nimmo

September

Book by Book, Michael Dirda




Mostly True: A Memoir of Family, Food and Baseball, Molly O'Neil




The Tiger in the Well, Philip Pullman
Hunting Season, Nevada Barr
This Organic Life: Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader, Joan Dye Gussow
The Big Over Easy, Jasper Fforde

October

The Devil in the Big City, Erik Larson
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson, Bette Bao Lord *
The Witches, Roald Dahl
The Fourth Bear, Jasper Fforde




The Water Room, Christopher Fowler





Charlie Bone and the Invisible Boy, Jenny Nimmo
The Colossus of Rhodes, Caroline Lawrence

November
 




The Art of Eating, M.F.K. Fisher





The Echoing Green, Joshua Prager
Saffy's Angel, Hilary McKay *
The First Eagle, Tony Hillerman

December

Charlie Bone and the Hidden King, Jenny Nimmo
Seventy-Seven Clocks, Christopher Fowler




Caddie Woodlawn, Carol Ryrie Brink *



3 comments:

  1. Great list - thanks for posting it! I'm particularly interested in the mother/daughter reads. (We read Saffy's Angel too!) Did the girls like the Bette Bao Lord? What about the Roald Dahl? That might be one they haven't read.

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  2. Interesting -- I recognize the names of most of the YA/ children's lit on your list, but not much of the other.

    Did you review any of your books?

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  3. I haven't reviewed any of those books - I only do reference/business type books for review - snore. I'm not sure I would make a good fiction reviewer.

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