In 2004 I finished 33 books and last year I finished 24. This year I came in at 28 books completed. It’s slightly more than last year and probably due to the fact that my commute has doubled… although I do fall asleep on the train frequently!
Here are all the books I’ve read since the beginning of 2004.
These are the books I finished this year, with my favorites bolded –
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini finished 12.19.06
- The Last Great Dance on Earth by Sandra Gulland finished 12.12.06
- Eight Million Stories in a New York Minute by Heather Holland Wheaton finished 12.12.06
- Why New Orleans Matters by Tom Piazza finished 12.01.06
- Tales Of Passion Tales Of Woe by Sandra Gulland finished 11.30.06
- The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. by Sandra Gulland finished 11.22.06
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck finished 11.13.06
- About Schmidt by Louis Begley finished 10.16.06
- The Known World by Edward P. Jones finished 09.28.06
- Saturday by Ian Mcewan finished 09.02.06
- Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich finished 08.20.06
- Close Range: Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx finished 08.11.06
- The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger finished 08.05.06
- The World According to Garp by John Irving finished 07.17.06
- Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld finished 07.06.06
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro finished 06.06.06
- When Corruption Was King : How I Helped the Mob Rule Chicago, Then Brought the Outfit Down by Robert Cooley and Hillel Levin finished 05.30.06
- Why Do Men Have Nipples? Hundreds of Questions You’d Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini by Mark Leyner & Billy Goldberg finished 05.28.06
- Blink : The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell finished 04.20.06
- Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett, Brett Helquist (Illustrator) finished 04.16.06
- The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans finished 04.01.06
- Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton finished 03.24.06
- Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier finished 03.18.06
- The Dim Sum of All Things by Kim Wong Keltner finished 03.12.06
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen finished 02.26.06
- Tainted Evidence by Robert Daley finished 01.28.06
- My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult finished 01.14.06
- The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster finished 01.08.06
What do you do with your books after you’ve read them? Do you keep them? Sell them? or Donate them?
I keep them, although I have donated books to charity on occasion when I have too many.
Don’t forget…Forgotten New York!
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why are some BOLD ?
Hi Rachel, Happy new year!
I read “Ethan Frome” in 2006 also, how about that?
Poor Ethan, he sure had a hard life and a life of tragically unfulfilled promise. But he was Calvinist, and for better or worse they are taught to accept the hand they’re dealt.
btw how’s my old pal “Ma Bowden”? Hey Ma, if you read this, All The Best!
Hi ChrisM, I’m fine, thanks! p.s. our daughter’s name is rachelLE… you forgot the last two letters!
Doing one of those egotistical searches for myself on bing and found that you read Eight Million Stories in 2004. Seeing that made my day. Thank you. Hope you liked it.