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1001 Books for Every Mood /Hallie Ephron
Alexander and the Wonderful, Marvelous, Excellent, Terrific Ninety Days /Judith Viorst
Ally /Karen Traviss
Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Guilty Pleasures /Hamilton et al
Apostate's Tale, The /Margaret Frazer
Are we Rome /Cullen Murphy
Ash Wednesday /Ralph McInerny
*Automatic Detective, the /A. Lee Martinez'
Bedlam, Bath and Beyond /JD Warren
Book of Ballads /Charles Vess
Cheating at Solitaire /Jane Haddam
Circular Staircase, The /Mary Roberts Rinehart
City of Pearl /Karen Traviss
Cockatiels at Seven /Donna Andrews
Cold Case /Kate Wilhelm
*Cold Comfort Farm /Stella Gibbons
Conscientious Objections /Neil Postman
Cravings /anthology
Creation in Death /JD Robb
Crimson Moon /Rebecca York
Crossing the Line /Karen Traviss
Daddy's Girl /Lisa Scottoline
Damage Control /JA Jance
Damsels in Distress /Joan Hess
Dark Watcher /Lilith Saintcrow
Dead of Night /anthology, includes JD Robb
Dead Over Heels /MaryJanice Davidson
Dead Travel Fast, The /Eric Nazum
Death Walked In /Carolyn Hart
Does This Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat /Peter Walsh
Downsizing Your Home With Style /Lauri Ward.
Dyer Consequences /Maggie Sefton
Edge of the Moon /Rebecca York
Eight, The /Katherine Neville
Even Cat-Sitters Get the Blues /Blaize Clement
Falling Behind: How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class /Robert Frank
Farewell My Subaru /Doug Fine
Farewell to Alms, A /Gregory Clark
Father Knows Less, or, Can I Cook My Sister? /Wendell Jamieson
Fidelity /Thomas Perry
Final Solution, The /Michael Chabon
Fish That Fake Orgasms, and other zoological curiosities /Matt Walker
Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition /Marion Nestle
Food: The History of Taste /edited by Paul Freedman
*Fortune Cookie Chronicles, The /Jennifer 8. Lee
From Dead to Worse /Charlaine Harris
From Doon With Death /Ruth Rendell
Funny Ladies: The New Yorker's Greatest Women Cartoonists And Their Cartoons /Liza Donnelly
GastroAnomalies /James Lileks
Geekspeak: How Life + Mathematics = Happiness /Graham Tattersall
*Grease Monkey /Tim Eldred
Guild of Xenolinguists /Sheila Finch
Guinea Pig's History of Biology, A /Jim Endersby
Halting States /Charles Stross
Head Cases /Michael Mason
Head Trip /Jeff Warren
Here Comes Everybody /Clay Shirky
Historian, The /Elizabeth Kostova
History of the Snowman /Bob Eckstein
Hitman /Parnell Hall
Holy Moley /Ben Rehder
Homo Politicus /Dana Milbank
How to Spell Chanukah /Emily Franklin
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read /Pierre Bayard
I am America and So Can You /Stephen Colbert
Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language /Seth Lerer
Jew of Home Depot /Max Apple
Judge /Karen Traviss
Killing Moon /Rebecca York
Kitty and the Silver Bullet /Carrie Vaughn
Knit Kimono /Vicki Squares
Leisureville: Adventures in Retiremt /Andrew Blechman
Life Sucks /Jessica Abel
Lost on Planet China /J. Maarten Troost
Magic Bites /Ilona Andrews
Manga Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet
Mankind Witch, A /Dave Freer
Marvel 1602 /Neil Gaiman
Matriarch /Karen Traviss
Mausoleum /Justin Scott
Mercedes Coffin /Faye Kellerman
Merchants War /Charles Stross
Musicophilia /Oliver Sachs
My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding /ed PN Elrod
Nameless Night /GM Ford
*Odysseus on the Rhine /Edward Louis
Of All Sad Words /Bill Crider
On Being Certain /Robert Burton
Opening Atlantis /Harry Turtledove
Outlaw Demon Wails Kim Harrison
Paradox of Choice, the /Barry Schwartz
Parrot Who Thought She Was a Dog /Nancy Ellis-Bell
Planet Cat /Sandra Choron
*Predictably Irrational /Dan Ariely
Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants /Robert Sullivan
Right is Wrong /Arianna Huffington
Saturn's Children /Charles Stross
Short History of Rudeness /Mark Caldwell
Six Geese a-Slaying /Donna Andrews
Sky Horizon /David Brin
Small Favors /Jim Butcher
Smoke-Filled Rooms /Kris Nelscott
Snake Oil Science /R. Barker Bausell
Snoop /Sam Gosling
Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain /Scott Adams
Strangers in Death /JD Robb
Surgeons, the /Charles Morris
Sway /Ori Brafman
Swine Not? /Jimmy Buffet
Take the Cannoli /Sarah Vowell
Ten Tortured Words /Stephen Mansfield
Then She Found Me /Elinor Lipman
Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself /Alan Alda
This is My Funniest /Mike Resnick, ed
This Land is Their Land /Barbara Ehrenreich
This Might Not Be Pretty /Jan Eliot
Thursday Next: First Among Sequels /Jasper Fforde
Undead and Unworthy /MJ Davidson
Watchers /Dean Koontz
Welcome to the Jungle /Jim Butler et al.
Welcome to Tranquility /Gail Simone and Neil Googe
What to Eat /Marion Nestle
Where the Heart Leads /Stephanie Laurens
Where's My Jetpack?: A Guide to the Amazing Science Fiction Future That Never Arrived /Daniel H Wilson
White Oleander /Janet Fitch
Witching Moon /Rebecca York
World Before, The /Karen Traviss
Wrongful Death /Kate Wilhelm
Year of Living Biblically /AJ Jacobs
Year Without "Made in China" /Sara Bongiorni
*Your Inner Fish /Neil Shubin
Zookeeper's Menagerie /Joanne Duncalf
Not all of those were books I liked. The ones with asterisks are the ones that I guess I'd characterize as my "favorites" for the year. Hmmm, two science fiction, one historical fantasy, one fiction classic, and two nonfiction - not bad! One thing I was pleased at was meeting the goal I had set for myself back at the beginning of the year, of reading a bit more nonfiction, and rather fewer murder mysteries; there are only 30 books on the list that are mysteries, and considerably more nonfiction than last year! 48 of them are nonfiction - an average of nearly one a week! I feel so intellectual.
1001 Books for Every Mood /Hallie Ephron
Alexander and the Wonderful, Marvelous, Excellent, Terrific Ninety Days /Judith Viorst
Ally /Karen Traviss
Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Guilty Pleasures /Hamilton et al
Apostate's Tale, The /Margaret Frazer
Are we Rome /Cullen Murphy
Ash Wednesday /Ralph McInerny
*Automatic Detective, the /A. Lee Martinez'
Bedlam, Bath and Beyond /JD Warren
Book of Ballads /Charles Vess
Cheating at Solitaire /Jane Haddam
Circular Staircase, The /Mary Roberts Rinehart
City of Pearl /Karen Traviss
Cockatiels at Seven /Donna Andrews
Cold Case /Kate Wilhelm
*Cold Comfort Farm /Stella Gibbons
Conscientious Objections /Neil Postman
Cravings /anthology
Creation in Death /JD Robb
Crimson Moon /Rebecca York
Crossing the Line /Karen Traviss
Daddy's Girl /Lisa Scottoline
Damage Control /JA Jance
Damsels in Distress /Joan Hess
Dark Watcher /Lilith Saintcrow
Dead of Night /anthology, includes JD Robb
Dead Over Heels /MaryJanice Davidson
Dead Travel Fast, The /Eric Nazum
Death Walked In /Carolyn Hart
Does This Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat /Peter Walsh
Downsizing Your Home With Style /Lauri Ward.
Dyer Consequences /Maggie Sefton
Edge of the Moon /Rebecca York
Eight, The /Katherine Neville
Even Cat-Sitters Get the Blues /Blaize Clement
Falling Behind: How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class /Robert Frank
Farewell My Subaru /Doug Fine
Farewell to Alms, A /Gregory Clark
Father Knows Less, or, Can I Cook My Sister? /Wendell Jamieson
Fidelity /Thomas Perry
Final Solution, The /Michael Chabon
Fish That Fake Orgasms, and other zoological curiosities /Matt Walker
Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition /Marion Nestle
Food: The History of Taste /edited by Paul Freedman
*Fortune Cookie Chronicles, The /Jennifer 8. Lee
From Dead to Worse /Charlaine Harris
From Doon With Death /Ruth Rendell
Funny Ladies: The New Yorker's Greatest Women Cartoonists And Their Cartoons /Liza Donnelly
GastroAnomalies /James Lileks
Geekspeak: How Life + Mathematics = Happiness /Graham Tattersall
*Grease Monkey /Tim Eldred
Guild of Xenolinguists /Sheila Finch
Guinea Pig's History of Biology, A /Jim Endersby
Halting States /Charles Stross
Head Cases /Michael Mason
Head Trip /Jeff Warren
Here Comes Everybody /Clay Shirky
Historian, The /Elizabeth Kostova
History of the Snowman /Bob Eckstein
Hitman /Parnell Hall
Holy Moley /Ben Rehder
Homo Politicus /Dana Milbank
How to Spell Chanukah /Emily Franklin
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read /Pierre Bayard
I am America and So Can You /Stephen Colbert
Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language /Seth Lerer
Jew of Home Depot /Max Apple
Judge /Karen Traviss
Killing Moon /Rebecca York
Kitty and the Silver Bullet /Carrie Vaughn
Knit Kimono /Vicki Squares
Leisureville: Adventures in Retiremt /Andrew Blechman
Life Sucks /Jessica Abel
Lost on Planet China /J. Maarten Troost
Magic Bites /Ilona Andrews
Manga Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet
Mankind Witch, A /Dave Freer
Marvel 1602 /Neil Gaiman
Matriarch /Karen Traviss
Mausoleum /Justin Scott
Mercedes Coffin /Faye Kellerman
Merchants War /Charles Stross
Musicophilia /Oliver Sachs
My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding /ed PN Elrod
Nameless Night /GM Ford
*Odysseus on the Rhine /Edward Louis
Of All Sad Words /Bill Crider
On Being Certain /Robert Burton
Opening Atlantis /Harry Turtledove
Outlaw Demon Wails Kim Harrison
Paradox of Choice, the /Barry Schwartz
Parrot Who Thought She Was a Dog /Nancy Ellis-Bell
Planet Cat /Sandra Choron
*Predictably Irrational /Dan Ariely
Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants /Robert Sullivan
Right is Wrong /Arianna Huffington
Saturn's Children /Charles Stross
Short History of Rudeness /Mark Caldwell
Six Geese a-Slaying /Donna Andrews
Sky Horizon /David Brin
Small Favors /Jim Butcher
Smoke-Filled Rooms /Kris Nelscott
Snake Oil Science /R. Barker Bausell
Snoop /Sam Gosling
Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain /Scott Adams
Strangers in Death /JD Robb
Surgeons, the /Charles Morris
Sway /Ori Brafman
Swine Not? /Jimmy Buffet
Take the Cannoli /Sarah Vowell
Ten Tortured Words /Stephen Mansfield
Then She Found Me /Elinor Lipman
Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself /Alan Alda
This is My Funniest /Mike Resnick, ed
This Land is Their Land /Barbara Ehrenreich
This Might Not Be Pretty /Jan Eliot
Thursday Next: First Among Sequels /Jasper Fforde
Undead and Unworthy /MJ Davidson
Watchers /Dean Koontz
Welcome to the Jungle /Jim Butler et al.
Welcome to Tranquility /Gail Simone and Neil Googe
What to Eat /Marion Nestle
Where the Heart Leads /Stephanie Laurens
Where's My Jetpack?: A Guide to the Amazing Science Fiction Future That Never Arrived /Daniel H Wilson
White Oleander /Janet Fitch
Witching Moon /Rebecca York
World Before, The /Karen Traviss
Wrongful Death /Kate Wilhelm
Year of Living Biblically /AJ Jacobs
Year Without "Made in China" /Sara Bongiorni
*Your Inner Fish /Neil Shubin
Zookeeper's Menagerie /Joanne Duncalf
Not all of those were books I liked. The ones with asterisks are the ones that I guess I'd characterize as my "favorites" for the year. Hmmm, two science fiction, one historical fantasy, one fiction classic, and two nonfiction - not bad! One thing I was pleased at was meeting the goal I had set for myself back at the beginning of the year, of reading a bit more nonfiction, and rather fewer murder mysteries; there are only 30 books on the list that are mysteries, and considerably more nonfiction than last year! 48 of them are nonfiction - an average of nearly one a week! I feel so intellectual.
