I read more than a hundred books in 2006, almost none of them edifying. Science books are in bold:
- The Seashell on the Mountaintop: …a New History of the Earth by Alan Cutler
- The Walls of Air by Barbara Hambly (re-read)
- The Ice Finders by Edmund Blair Bolles
- Bonecrack by Dick Francis
- Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Wittgenstein and the Goshawk by Patrick Watson
- The Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman
- The Shadow in the North by Philip Pullman
- Chasing Science: Science as a Spectator Sport by Frederik Pohl
- “The Armies of Daylight by Barbara Hambly
- The Tiger in the Well by Philip Pullman
- The Mouse Hunter by Lucile Hasley
- Incident at Hawk’s Hill by Allan W. Eckert
- The School for Cats by Esther Averill
- The Boys’ Book of the Sea edited by Nicholas Monsarrat
- Asimov’s Science Fiction: Kin/Under the Graying Sea/Unbending Eye
- Jack Miner and the Birds by Jack Miner
- Proof by Dick Francis
- Newton’s Tyranny: The Suppressed Scientific Discoveries of Stephen Gray and John Flamsteed by David & Stephen Clark
- What If the Moon Didn’t Exist? by Neil F. Comins
- The Eternal Frontier by James H. Schmitz
- The Hua Shan Hospital Murders by David Rotenberg
- Catwitch by Uma Woodruff, Lisa Tuttle
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling
- King Solomon’s Ring by Konrad Lorenz
- Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince by J. K. Rowling
- Sarah’s Unicorn by Bruce & Katharine Coville
- Catwings by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
- Everything Your Kids Ever Wanted to Know About Dinosaurs… by Teri Degler
- The House With a Clock in Its Walls by John Bellairs, Edward Gorey
- The Cats History of Western Art by Susan Herbert
- Bolt by Dick Francis
- Odds Against by Dick Francis
- Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy (anthology)
- I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
- Straight by Dick Francis
- No Highway by Nevil Shute
- Longshot by Dick Francis
- The Last Detective by Peter Lovesey
- Nerve by Dick Francis
- Young Witches and Warlocks edited by Isaac Asimov et al. (anthology)
- The Evening and the Morning and the Night by Octavia E. Butler
- Great Tales of Fantasy and Science Fiction (anthology)
- Hot Money by Dick Francis
- Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
- Journey to the Centre by Brian Stableford
- Never Pick Up Hitch-hikers! by Ellis Peters (re-read)
- The King Must Die by Mary Renault
- Storm Ahead by Monica Edwards
- Inherit the Earth by Brian Stableford
- You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down by Alice Walker
- Those Who Hunt the Night by Barbara Hambly (re-read)
- The John McPhee Reader by John McPhee, edited by William L. Howarth
- The Nine Tailors by Dorothy Sayers (re-read)
- Big Cat Dreaming (children’s book)
- A Scientific Romance by Ronald Wright
- Red Wolves and Black Bears by Edward Hoagland
- Half Magic (children’s book) by Edward Eager
- The Forge of Heaven (Gene Wars 2) by C. J. Cherryh
- Wildflowers, Golden Guide to by Herbert S. Zim
- Murder Most Feline (anthology)
- Why We Run by Bernd Heinrich
- The Littles (children’s book)
- A Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
- One Step from Earth by Harry Harrison
- Cat in a Midnight Choir (re-read) by Carole Nelson Douglas
- Gargoyles and Port by Mary Selby
- The New Hugo Winners 3 edited by Connie Willis et al. (re-read)
- The Wizard of Karres by Mercedes Lackey et al.
- Power Lines by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Anne Scarborough
- Terry Carr’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year #16 (anthology)
- Cat in the Mirror by Mary Stolz
- Tesseracts 4 (anthology)
- A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin
- My Lead Dog Was a Lesbian by Brian O’Donaghue
- Fred’s Garden (children’s book)
- A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond
- Destroyer (First Contact 7) by C. J. Cherryh
- The Ancestor’s Tale by Richard Dawkins
- The Power of Generosity by Dave Toycen
- How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days by Michelle Alexander, Jeannie Long
- Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb
- Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow
- Tentacles (children’s book)
- Nerve by Dick Francis (re-read)
- Odds Against by Dick Francis (re-read)
- The Danger by Dick Francis
- The Silver Wolf by Alice Borchardt
- The Tainted Relic by ‘Medieval Murderers’
- Tales from the Arabian Nights edited by E. O. Lorimer, translated by E. W. Lane, illustrated by Brian Wildsmith
- Underground to Canada (children’s book) by Barbara Smucker
- The Wolf Worlds by Allan Cole, Chris Bunch
- Horse Under Water by Len Deighton
- Rumpole and the Angel of Death (stories) by John Mortimer
- Valor’s Choice by Tanya Huff (re-read)
- A Stroke of Midnight by Laurell K. Hamilton
- Old Testament, “Genesis” to “Judges”
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