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In 2005 I set my hands on 33 books and finished 24 of them. It’s disappointing that my numbers are down from 2004, but I think I was busier so I’m still proud that I finished a couple dozen. My favorite books from the year were:
Nonfiction:
Fiction:
Here’s a complete list of the books I’ve read this year:
- Body of Evidence by Patricia Cornwell finished 12.26.05
- The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling finished 12.09.05
- Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving finished 11.23.05
- The Columnist by Jeffrey Frank finished 11.08.05
- The Road to Wellville by T. C. Boyle finished 10.30.05
- The Alienist by Caleb Carr finished 10.09.05
- Book of Ages 30 by Lockhart Steele, Joshua Albertson, Jonathan Van Gieson
- The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova finished 09.30.05
- Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire finished 09.11.05
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon finished 08.14.05
- The Kaua’i Movie Book by Chris Cook, David Boynton
- Pupus to Da Max by Douglas Simonson, Pat Sasaki, Ken Sakata
- A Concise History of the Hawaiian Islands by Phil Barnes finished 07.17.05
- The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Kidd finished 07.17.05
- Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner finished 07.17.05
- The Time Traveler’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger finished 07.08.05
- Pidgin to Da Max by Douglas Simonson, Pat Sasaki, Ken Sakata
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain finished 06.26.05
- Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom finished 06.13.05
- The East of Eden by John Steinbeck finished 06.07.05
- The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark finished 05.21.05
- Tales From The Scale by Erin J. Shea
- The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell finished 04.25.05
- The Quince Seed Potion by Morteza Baharloo finished 04.21.05
- The Little Black Book Of Sushi by Day Zschock finished 04.14.05
- The Broker by John Grisham finished 04.07.05
- Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres finished 03.20.05
- The Namesake: A Novel by Jhumpa Lahiri finished 02.04.05
- Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver
- The Perfect Storm : A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger finished 01.22.05