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