Books
I would like to maintain some record of my literary pleasures. I was happily surprised by the amount I read in 2006, especially given that there are books I certainly forgot. Over thirty books is was my target for 2007 but 25 looks to be more likely.
I Am Currently Reading
Underground by Haruki Murakami
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
I Would Like to Read
Failed States by Noam Chomsky
The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
300 by Frank Miller
The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler by Italo Calvino
I Read in 2008
Bel Canto by Anne Patchett
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
The Pilgrimage by Paolo Coehl
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins
I Read in 2007
Into the Wild by John Krakauer
Zorro by Isabel Allende
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
The Double by Jose Saramago
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Oaxaca Journal by Oliver Sacks
Eldest by Christopher Paolini
Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means by Alberto-Laszlo Barabasi
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates by Tom Robbins
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization by Franklin Foer
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
Getting Real by 37Signals
Portofino by Frank Schaeffer
The Alienist by Caleb Carr
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Blindness by Jose Saramago
Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis
I Read in 2006
This list is partial, as I do not recall all that I read before I started maintaining it.
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Ultra Marathon Man by Dean Karnazes
Earthy Odyssey by Mark Hertsgaard
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
Deception Point by Dan Brown
Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy
Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros
Marley and Me by John Grogan
The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever
iWoz by Steve Wozniak and Gina Smith