What I Read in 2006
* - books I really liked


Previous Years
2005

 
 

December
Full Moon. P.G. Wodehouse
The Emperor's Children. Claire Messud
Citizen Vince. Jess Walter 
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Mediated. Thomas De Zengotita *
On Beauty. Zadie Smith *
Darkness Take My Hand. Dennis Lehane *
Do Butlers Burgle Banks? P. G. Wodehouse
Special Topics in Calamity Physics. Marisha Pessl 
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Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness. Bhante Henepola Gunaratana

November
Housekeeping vs. The Dirt. Nick Hornby
Mindfulness in Plain English. Henepola Gunaratana
Chips off the Old Benchley. Robert Benchley
Shakedown Beach. Eric Dezenhall
Wanting Enlightenment is a Big Mistake. Seung Sahn
The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008. Mark Halperin and John F. Harris

October
The Sirens of Titan. Kurt Vonnegut 
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Hundred-Dollar Baby
. Robert Parker
Lolita. Vladimir Nabokov 
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The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game. Michael Lewis
How to Raise an Ox. Francis Cook
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. Shunryu Suzuki

September
Pornocopia. Laurence O'Toole
On Bullshit. Harry G. Frankfurt
A Drink Before The War. Dennis Lehane 
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Mount Appetite. Bill Gaston
Friendship: An Expose. Joseph Epstein
The Substance of Style. Virginia Postrel
Shutter Island. Dennis Lehane 
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Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories. Chuck Palahniuk

August
The Omnivore's Dilemma. Michael Pollan
The Ruins
. Scott Smith
Buddhism is Not What You Think. Steve Hagen
Pro Football Prospectus 2006. Aaron Schatz
One Party Country. Tom Hamburger and Peter Wallsten
I also started on the last book by P.G. Wodehouse featuring the character Jeeves. Once I finish it, I'll have read all of Wodehouse's Jeeves stories . Finding all of the books has been something of a challenge, but it was well worth it. Wodehouse was a genius of reserved English comedy, and I feel really lucky to have accidentally stumbled across his work. This is great stuff.

July
An Army of Davids. Glenn Reynolds
The Life and Letters of Tofu Roshi. Susan Moon
Enlightenment Blues. Andre van der Braak
Blue Screen. Robert B. Parker

March
Arthur and George. Julian Barnes

February
Cell. Stephen King
The Happiness Hypothesis. Jonathan Haidt 
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Benjamin Franklin. Walter Isaacson

January
Next Man Up. John Feinstein
The River of Doubt. Candice Millard 
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Ordinary Mind. Barry Magid