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Laural Hill ([personal profile] lauralh) wrote2005-12-30 03:15 pm
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2005:books

every (new) book I've read, total 67
Teen/juvenile:
Snow White & Rose Red, Patricia C. Wrede
Why Girls Are Weird, Pamela Ribon
East, Edith Pattou
Planet Janet, Dyan Sheldon
The House of the Scorpion, Nancy Farmer
the perks of being a wallflower, chobski
Shade's Children, Garth Nix
Tithe, Holly Black
just like beauty, lisa lerner
Feed, mt anderson
Sloppy Firsts, Megan McCafferty


Historical Fiction:
Hollywood, Gore Vidal
Aztec, Gary Jennings
Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
Sarah, Orson Scott Card
Rebekah, OSC
Rachael & Leah, Oscar Wilde
The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
oscar and lucinda, peter carey

Autobiographical/memoirs:
Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel
Permanent Midnight, Jerry Stahl
The Salmon of Doubt, Douglas Adams
running with scissors, augusten burroughs
A Million Little Pieces, james frey
Dry, Augusten Burroughs
Traveling Mercies, Anne Lamott
Geisha: A life, Mineko Iwasaki
From paris to the moon, Adam Gopnick

Scientific:
Boca's Brain, Carl Sagan
River out of Eden, Richard Dawkins
Rational Mysticism, John Horgan
Darwin's dangerous idea, dennett
The Aquatic Ape, Elaine Morgan
The Descent of the Child, Elaine Morgan

SF/Fantasy:
Singularity Sky, Charles Stross
Gold, Isaac Asimov
Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov
The Hollow Man, Dan Simmons
Idlewild, nick sagan
anansi boys, Neil Gaiman
troublemakers, Harlan Ellison
Knife of Dreams, Robert Jordan

Humanities:
Skipping Towards Gomorrah, Dan Savage
Genghis Khan, Harold Lamb
The Power of Myth, Joseph Campbell
Shakespeare of London, Marchette Gaylord Chute
Oscar Wilde : A Certain Genius, Barbara Belford
Dude Where's My Country?, Michael Moore
Civilization and its Discontents, Sigmund Freud
1491, Charles C. Mann

General Fiction:
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
The Hours, Michael Cunningham
Never Cry Wolf, Farley Mowat
Dirty Tricks, Michael Dibdin
Jitterbug Perfume, Tom Robbins
Requiem, Curtis White
Sin City series, Frank Miller
I am Charlotte Simmons, Tom Wolfe
Life of Pi, Yann Martel
the wave and other stories, caren gusoff
the Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
A Severed Head, Iris Murdoch
the Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
The New York Trilogy, Paul Auster
Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Microserfs, Douglas Coupland

[identity profile] perich.livejournal.com 2005-12-31 03:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Show me up, why don't ya. My grand total is about half that.

[identity profile] herbaliser.livejournal.com 2006-01-01 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
yeah but 12 were kiddie books!

[identity profile] herbaliser.livejournal.com 2006-01-01 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
also you actually finished 100 Years, I couldn'

[identity profile] herbaliser.livejournal.com 2006-01-01 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Did you write an entry about Hyperion, or did you just not like it

[identity profile] perich.livejournal.com 2006-01-01 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I read Hyperion years ago. It doesn't officially count, which is why I listed it with an (a) on the end.

I really liked it. The sequel not as much.

[identity profile] perich.livejournal.com 2006-01-01 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Also: people read my book reviews?

[identity profile] herbaliser.livejournal.com 2006-01-01 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
JUST JOEL