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
Proust was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer
Cadence and Slang by Nick Disabato
I Wonder by Marian Bantjes
I Would Like to Read
If On A Winter's Night A Traveler by Italo Calvino
The Book of the Courtier by Baldesar Castiglione
I Read in 2011
Gourmet Rhapsody by Muriel Barbery
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Selected Stories by Alice Munro
Memoir from Antproof Case by Mark Helprin
Hint Fiction, edited by Robert Swartwood
I Read in 2010
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
Dune by Frank Herbert
Baltasar and Blimunda by José Saramago
Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins
This Year It Will Be Different by Maeve Binchy (Do Not Read These Stories. Ugh.)
The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
A Son of the Circus by John Irving
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays by Oscar Wilde
The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa
Talon of the Silver Hawk by Raymond Feist
The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Animal Vegetable Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
Lost In A Good Book by Jasper Fforde
Third Class Superhero by Charles Yu
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by José Saramago
Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
AM/PM by Amelia Gray
Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
The Black Company by Glen Cook
Shadows Linger by Glen Cook
The White Rose by Glen Cook
Machine of Death edited by Ryan North, Matthew Bennardo, and David Malki !
Ilium by Dan Simmons
I Read in 2009
What Is the What by Dave Eggers
Watchmen by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons and John Higgins
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins
When You Are Engulfed In Flames by David Sedaris
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R Tolkien
The Two Towers by by J.R.R Tolkien
The Return of the King by J.R.R Tolkien
The Principles of Uncertainty by Maira Kalman
All the Names by José Saramago
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Difficult Loves 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 Coehlo
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Drown by Junot Díaz
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
Brisingr by Christopher Paolini
Liars and Saints by Maile Meloy
Freddy and Fredericka by Mark Helprin
The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe
Taft by Ann Patchett
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