Books read in 2006

I read more than a hundred books in 2006, almost none of them edifying. Science books are in bold:

  1. The Seashell on the Mountaintop: …a New History of the Earth by Alan Cutler
  2. The Walls of Air by Barbara Hambly (re-read)
  3. The Ice Finders by Edmund Blair Bolles
  4. Bonecrack by Dick Francis
  5. Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
  6. Wittgenstein and the Goshawk by Patrick Watson
  7. The Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman
  8. The Shadow in the North by Philip Pullman
  9. Chasing Science: Science as a Spectator Sport by Frederik Pohl
  10. “The Armies of Daylight by Barbara Hambly
  11. The Tiger in the Well by Philip Pullman
  12. The Mouse Hunter by Lucile Hasley
  13. Incident at Hawk’s Hill by Allan W. Eckert
  14. The School for Cats by Esther Averill
  15. The Boys’ Book of the Sea edited by Nicholas Monsarrat
  16. Asimov’s Science Fiction: Kin/Under the Graying Sea/Unbending Eye
  17. Jack Miner and the Birds by Jack Miner
  18. Proof by Dick Francis
  19. Newton’s Tyranny: The Suppressed Scientific Discoveries of Stephen Gray and John Flamsteed by David & Stephen Clark
  20. What If the Moon Didn’t Exist? by Neil F. Comins
  21. The Eternal Frontier by James H. Schmitz
  22. The Hua Shan Hospital Murders by David Rotenberg
  23. Catwitch by Uma Woodruff, Lisa Tuttle
  24. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling
  25. King Solomon’s Ring by Konrad Lorenz
  26. Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince by J. K. Rowling
  27. Sarah’s Unicorn by Bruce & Katharine Coville
  28. Catwings by Ursula K. Le Guin
  29. Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
  30. Everything Your Kids Ever Wanted to Know About Dinosaurs… by Teri Degler
  31. The House With a Clock in Its Walls by John Bellairs, Edward Gorey
  32. The Cats History of Western Art by Susan Herbert
  33. Bolt by Dick Francis
  34. Odds Against by Dick Francis
  35. Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy (anthology)
  36. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
  37. Straight by Dick Francis
  38. No Highway by Nevil Shute
  39. Longshot by Dick Francis
  40. The Last Detective by Peter Lovesey
  41. Nerve by Dick Francis
  42. Young Witches and Warlocks edited by Isaac Asimov et al. (anthology)
  43. The Evening and the Morning and the Night by Octavia E. Butler
  44. Great Tales of Fantasy and Science Fiction (anthology)
  45. Hot Money by Dick Francis
  46. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
  47. Journey to the Centre by Brian Stableford
  48. Never Pick Up Hitch-hikers! by Ellis Peters (re-read)
  49. The King Must Die by Mary Renault
  50. Storm Ahead by Monica Edwards
  51. Inherit the Earth by Brian Stableford
  52. You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down by Alice Walker
  53. Those Who Hunt the Night by Barbara Hambly (re-read)
  54. The John McPhee Reader by John McPhee, edited by William L. Howarth
  55. The Nine Tailors by Dorothy Sayers (re-read)
  56. Big Cat Dreaming (children’s book)
  57. A Scientific Romance by Ronald Wright
  58. Red Wolves and Black Bears by Edward Hoagland
  59. Half Magic (children’s book) by Edward Eager
  60. The Forge of Heaven (Gene Wars 2) by C. J. Cherryh
  61. Wildflowers, Golden Guide to by Herbert S. Zim
  62. Murder Most Feline (anthology)
  63. Why We Run by Bernd Heinrich
  64. The Littles (children’s book)
  65. A Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
  66. One Step from Earth by Harry Harrison
  67. Cat in a Midnight Choir (re-read) by Carole Nelson Douglas
  68. Gargoyles and Port by Mary Selby
  69. The New Hugo Winners 3 edited by Connie Willis et al. (re-read)
  70. The Wizard of Karres by Mercedes Lackey et al.
  71. Power Lines by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Anne Scarborough
  72. Terry Carr’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year #16 (anthology)
  73. Cat in the Mirror by Mary Stolz
  74. Tesseracts 4 (anthology)
  75. A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin
  76. My Lead Dog Was a Lesbian by Brian O’Donaghue
  77. Fred’s Garden (children’s book)
  78. A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond
  79. Destroyer (First Contact 7) by C. J. Cherryh
  80. The Ancestor’s Tale by Richard Dawkins
  81. The Power of Generosity by Dave Toycen
  82. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days by Michelle Alexander, Jeannie Long
  83. Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb
  84. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow
  85. Tentacles (children’s book)
  86. Nerve by Dick Francis (re-read)
  87. Odds Against by Dick Francis (re-read)
  88. The Danger by Dick Francis
  89. The Silver Wolf by Alice Borchardt
  90. The Tainted Relic by ‘Medieval Murderers’
  91. Tales from the Arabian Nights edited by E. O. Lorimer, translated by E. W. Lane, illustrated by Brian Wildsmith
  92. Underground to Canada (children’s book) by Barbara Smucker
  93. The Wolf Worlds by Allan Cole, Chris Bunch
  94. Horse Under Water by Len Deighton
  95. Rumpole and the Angel of Death (stories) by John Mortimer
  96. Valor’s Choice by Tanya Huff (re-read)
  97. A Stroke of Midnight by Laurell K. Hamilton
  98. Old Testament, “Genesis” to “Judges”

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