2006: The Year in Books

(those with # are my faves)

The News From Paraguay
Tales of a Female Nomad #
A Very Fine Balance
Sarge #
Tortilla Curtain, WC Boyle #
Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants #
The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom
High Fidelity, Nick Hornby (twice) #
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen (twice) #
Third Chimpanzee, Jared Diamant #
Secret Life of Bees
To Kill a Mockingbird #
Harry Potter 5, JK Rowling (in Spanish!)
Harry Potter 6, JK Rowling (twice)
Best American Travel Writing
100 Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Making a Difference: 25 Years of the Peace Corps #
Two Ears of Corn #
a book about women and participatory community analysis
a book of African short stories
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
Calvin & Hobbes: Attack of the Snow Monster somethings
The General (?), Graham Greene
Esperanza, Danielle Steel (in Spanish!)
Mountains beyond Mountains, Tracy Kidder
Frankenstein Syndrome, Len Sandler (draft of my dad’s soon-to-be-published book!!) #
Running with Scissors, Augusten Burroughs
A Man on the Moon #
Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
El Principito (in Spanish!)
Animal Dreams, Barbara Kingsolver (about 2/3 of it)
The Kite Runner #
The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter #
Deception Point, Dan Brown
Seasons of Her Life: Madeleine Albright
Feel This Book, Ben Stiller and Janeane Garafolo
The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama #
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Edward Murray #