I've always liked it when other people keep track of the books they read on their websites, so lately I've been doing it too. Books are recorded in the month, and usually the order, they were finished.


December 2006

Eragon by Christopher Paolini
How to Buy and Manage a Fitness Center by Edward Braun

October/November 2006, partial listing

The End (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 13) by Lemony Snicket
The Genius Factory by David Plotz
The Glass Castle by
Thinking in Pictures by Temple Grandin
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Digital Fortress by Dan Brown
...here I got bored and didn't list books for a while...

September 2006

Men and Cartoons by Jonathan Lethem
Dirty Blonde and Half Cuban by Lisa Wexler
The City of White Donkeys and other poems by James
Other People's Money by Jerry Steiner Furies of Calderon by Jim Butcher

August 2006

pretty little dirty by Amanda Boyden
Banker to the Poor: Microlending and the battle against World Poverty by Muhammad Yunus
The Dark Beyond the Stars by Frank M. Robinson
Orbit by John J. Nance
The Tennis Machine by Helen Hull Jacobs
Self-Help by Laynie Brown
The Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman
The Shadow in the North by by Philip Pullman

July 2006

Dracula by Bram Stoker
Linked by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
Acts of Levitation by Laynie Browne

May and June 2006

King Dork by Frank Portman
Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich
Dreamcatcher by Stephen King
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling (reread)
In Our Hands by Arnold Arem
A Technique for Producing Ideas by James Young

April 2006

A Man After His Own Heart by Charles Siebert
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd
Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld (reread)

March 2006

The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Shadow Syndromes by Ratey and Johnson
Idlewild by Nick Sagan
The Book of Skulls by Robert Silverberg
The God Project by John Saul
Listening to Prozac by
Edenborn by Nick Sagan
Passages by Gail Sheehy

February 2006

Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
The Penultimate Peril (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 12) by Lemony Snicket
Getting Things Done by David Allen
Metaplanetary by Tony Daniel (reread)
Superluminary by Tony Daniel

January 2006

The Slippery Slope (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 10) by Lemony Snicket
The Grim Grotto (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 11) by Lemony Snicket
Across the Nightingale Floor by
Grass For His Pillow by
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Counting Heads by David Marusek
The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Forty Signs of Rain by Kim Stanley Robinson

December 2005

A Feast For Crows by George. R. R. Martin
Metallic Love by Tanith Lee
The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 1) by Lemony Snicket
The Reptile Room (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 2) by Lemony Snicket
The Wide Window (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 3) by Lemony Snicket
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
The Miserable Mill (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 4) by Lemony Snicket
Carrie's Story by Molly Weatherfield
The Austere Academy (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 5) by Lemony Snicket
The Ersatz Elevator (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 6) by Lemony Snicket
Cliffs Notes on Joyce's Ulysses After by Francine Prose
The Vile Village (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 7) by Lemony Snicket
The Hostile Hospital (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 8) by Lemony Snicket
The Carnivorous Carnival (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 9) by Lemony Snicket
Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos

November 2005

The Greatest White Trash Love Story Ever Told by Rhett Ellis
The World Doesn't End by Charles Simic
The Hopes of Snakes by Couturier
The Garden by Elsie V. Aidinoff
Being Logical by D.Q. McInerny
Alvin Fernald, Superweasel by Hicks

Sept and Oct 2005

Discovering your Writer's Voice We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Chang and Eng by Darin Strauss
The City of Ember by Jeanne Duprau
The People of Sparks by Jeanne Duprau
God's Debris by Scott Adams
Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling
Stalking Darkness by Lynn Flewelling
Traitor's Moon by Lynn Flewelling
Across the Dark Metropolis by Michael Larrabeiti
The Atrocity Archives by Charles Strauss

August 2005

Perdido Street Station by China Mieville (reread)
No Logo by Naomi Klein
The Locus Awards edited by Brown and Strahan

July 2005

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling (reread)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling (reread)
Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone by J.K. Rowling (reread)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
The Big Questions: Philosophy for Everyone by Nils Rauhut
The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs

June 2005

The Wall Around Eden by Joan Slonczewski (reread)
SuperFoods Rx by Pratt and Matthews
The Door in the Air by Margaret Mahy
The Door in the Hedge by Robin McKinley
Spacetime Donuts by Rudy Rucker
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling (reread)
The Salmon of Doubt (essays) by Douglas Adams

May 2005

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing by Rapoport
Ellis Island by Mark Helprin
Living the g.i. Diet by Gallop
Freakonomics by Levitt and Dubner
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Izar Nafisi

April 2005

End of Days by Dennis Danvers (reread)
The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway
Open Shutter by Michael Wesely
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham (reread)

March 2005

On Bullshit by Harry Frankfurt

February 2005

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides (reread)
Waking the Moon by Elizabeth Hand
A Choir of Ill Children by Thomas Piccolini
The Scar by China Mieville
The Language of Goldfish by (reread)
Dreams Underfoot by Charles de Lint (reread)
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (reread)

January 2005

After Long Silence by Sheri Tepper
The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder (reread)
The Pursuit of Happiness by David Myers
The Bastard on the Couch by Daniel Jones
Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon (reread)
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson (reread)
Idoru by William Gibson (reread)

December 2004

Smoking Poppy by Graham Joyce
Alvin Journeyman by Orson Scott Card
Heartfire by Orson Scott Card
The Crystal City by Orson Scott Card
White Noise by Don deLillo
Starfish by Peter Watts (reread)
Maelstrom by Peter Watts
Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake

November 2004

Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey (reread)
Hybrids by Robert Sawyer
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
Jumping off the Planet by David Gerrold
Bouncing off the Moon by David Gerrold
Leaping to the Stars by David Gerrold
Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card (reread)
Red Prophet by Orson Scott Card
Prentice Alvin by Orson Scott Card

October 2004

The Companions by Sheri S. Tepper
Light by John Harrison
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
American Gods by Neil Gaiman (reread)

September 2004

The Wreck of the River of Stars by Michael Flynn
Black Rain by Masuji Ibuse
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JKR (reread)
The Red Tent by Anita Diamante

August 2004

Metaplanetary by Tony Daniel
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
The Golden Transcendence by John C. Wright
Logan's Run by Nolan and Johnson
Biting the Sun by Tanith Lee (reread)

July 2004

The Bathroom Idea Book by Andrew Wormer
The Smart Guide to Bath Design by ?
The Onion Girl by Charles de Lint
Winning Office Politics by Andrew DuBrin
The Mount by Carol Emshwiller
Patternmaster by Octavia Butler
A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin
The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke

June 2004

Calculating God by Robert Sawyer
The Bone Doll's Twin by Lynn Flewelling (reread)
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
True Notebooks by Mark Salzman
Hidden Warrior by Lynn Flewelling (reread)

May 2004

The Infinitive of Go by John Brunner
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
White Oleander by Jane Fitch
The Wall Around Eden by Joan Slonczewski
What Should I Do With My Life? by Po Bronson
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Childfree and Sterilized: Women's Decisions and Medical Responses by Annily Campbell
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Starfish by Peter Watts

April 2004

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dun
Interruptions by Ursula Hegi
A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin

March 2004

Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan
Kushiel's Avatar by Jacqueline Carey
Choosing Civility by P.M. Forni
Moonheart by Charles de Lint
Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements
The Two-Income Trap by Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi
Grass by Sheri S. Tepper (reread)
Girl in Landscape by Jonathan Lethem (reread)

February 2004

Henry Reed, Inc. by Keith Robertson
Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend by Robert Waller
Humans by Robert Sawyer
The Wolves in the Walls by Neil Gaiman

January 2004

The Bitch in the House by Cathi Hanauer
House of the Wolf by M.K. Wren
Wheedle on the Needle
The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King
Secret of the Seven Crows by Wylly Folk St. John
The Wizard's Dilemma by Diane Duane
A Door into Ocean by Joan Slonczewski
The Sandman: The Dream Hunters by Neil Gaiman and Yoshitaka Amano
The Acne Cure by Terry Dubrow and Brenda Adderly
Bring the Jubilee by Ward Moore
Reefer Madness by Eric Schlosser

December 2003

Thank You For Smoking by Chris Buckley
Magazine Beach by Lewis Gannett
Sword of the Lamb by M.K. Wren
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Shadow of the Swan by M.K.Wren

November 2003

White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Kushiel's Chosen by Jacqueline Carey
Oath of Fealty by Niven and Pournelle
Lincoln the Unknown by Dale Carnegie
Magic Words by Alexandra and Howard
Camelot 30K by Robert Forward (reread)
Bellwether by Connie Willis (reread)
Hominids by Robert J. Sawyer
The Sky so Big and Black by John Barnes

October 2003

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Murakawi
Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey
Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud (reread)
Kiln People by David Brin
Ordinary Jack by Helen Cresswell
The Phoenix Exultant by John C. Wright
Dogsbody by Diana Wynne Jones

September 2003

Hidden Warrior by Lynn Flewelling
Coraline by Neil Gaiman (reread)
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wills
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis (reread)

August 2003

The Golden Age by John C. Wright
Rite of Passage by Alexei Panshin
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri Tepper
Prospero's Children by Jan Siegel (reread)
The Classic Philip Jose Farmer 1964-1973 by Philip Jose Farmer
The Bone Doll's Twin by Lynn Flewelling

July 2003

The Kid by Dan Savage (reread)
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin (reread)
The Skeptical Environmentalist by Bjorn Lomborg
Robert Silverberg's Worlds of Wonder by Robert Silverberg
Bellwether by Connie Willis

June 2003

Venus plus X by Theodore Sturgeon
The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs
The Martian Child by David Gerrold
Fifth Life of the Cat Woman by Kathleen Dexter
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
Mother of Winter by Barbara Hambly (reread)
Beauty's Punishment by A. Roquelaire

May 2003

The Marriage of Sticks by Jonathan Carroll
Adulthood Rites by Octavia Butler
Imago by Octavia Butler
Bodymakers: A Cultural Anatomy of Women's Bodybuilding by Leslie Heywood
Rebirth by John Wyndham
Six Moon Dance by Sheri Tepper (reread)
Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link
Wolf Kahn Pastels by Wolf Kahn
Crossroads of Twilight by Robert Jordan
Candle by John Barnes
The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner

April 2003

Topping from Below by Laura Reese
Dune by Frank Herbert
War for the Oaks by Emma Bull
City Come A Walkin' by John Shirley
The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
Heavy Water and Other Stories by Martin Amis
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
Dawn by Octavia Butler
The Wooden Sea by Jonathan Carroll
Boggs: A Comedy of Values by Lawrence Weschler

March 2003

Girl in Landscape by Jonathan Lethem
The Watch by Dennis Danvers
The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus by John Gray
The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
Lonely Planet Frankfurt, condensed (Lonely Planet press)
Passage by Connie Willis

Feb 2003

Ben, in the World by Doris Lessing
What No One Tells the Bride by Marg Stark
Cities in Flight by James Blish
...not sure what else...

And yes, yes, I have read Dickens, Heinlein, Mieville, Pullman, Barnes, Yolen, Vinge, Courtenay, Rand, Eggers, Oates, Atwood, Block, and a bunch of others.