Since I started this blog just a couple of months ago, I thought I'd post a list of books I finished in 2006. Why? I've always kept a list of books I read, and I guess I'm just a nerd like that.
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Lake Wobegone Summer 1956 - Garrison Keillor
Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
My Antonia - Willa Cather
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
The Hours - Michael Cunningham
Eventide - Kent Haruf
My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult
Red Azalea - Anchee Min
The Loch - Steve Alten
The Man Who Ate the 747 - Ben Sherwood
The Mineral Palace - Heidi Julavits
A Room With a View - EM Forster
Because of Winn Dixie - Kate DiCamillo
Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
The Four Agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz
March - Geraldine Brooks
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - Mark Haddon
Hummingbird House - Patricia Henley
La Charette: Village Gateway to the American West - Lowell Schaake
The Birth of Venus - Sarah Dunant
Stats for other book nerds:
23 books totaling 6,759 pages
Average 294 pages
12 by female authors, 11 by male authors
21 fiction, 1 non-fiction, 1 memoir
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Hi Jessica--thought I'd return the favor and check out your blog as well. That's an amazingly diverse and impressive list, and as an English professor I'm legally authorized to make that kind of judgment. If you had to narrow it down to just two, which ones would you pick?
Hi Ben! Thanks for checking out my book blog. If I had to pick 2 - Kite Runner and Red Azalea. Kite Runner was a tough read at times, but it is beautifully written and really affected me in a way that a book has not in a long time. Red Azalea is a memoir, set in China during the cultural revolution of 1960s & 70s. An amazing tale.
If you have any recommendations, please share!
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