This is the list of books I read in 2006, in the order that I read them. For an explanation of my rating system, see here.
Jackson’s Dilemma by Iris Murdoch (3.5/5)
The Oath by John Lescroart (3.5/5)
Life of Pi by Yan Martel (winner of the Booker Prize; 4/5)
The Old Man and the Sea by Earnest Hemingway (winner of the Pulitzer Prize; 3/5)
The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan (3/5)
Without Fail by Lee Child (3.5/5)
Blood Tie by Mary Lee Settle (winner of the National Book Award; 3.5/5)
Ambrose Bierce and the One-Eyed Jacks by Oakley Hall (2/5)
Echo Burning by Lee Child (3/5)
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (on the Modern Library Top 100 list; 4/5)
The Good Apprentice by Iris Murdoch (3.5/5)
Peter the Great by Robert Massie (3.5/5)
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (on the Modern Library Top 100 list; 5/5)
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey (5/5)
Theirs Was the Kingdom by R.H. Delderfield (reviewed here; 3/5)
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane (4/5)
Oh, the Glory of it All! by Sean Wilsey (3.5/5)
Lord of the Flies by William Golding (on the Modern Library Top 100 list; 4.5/5)
In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer Fleming (3.5/5)
Do-Gooders by Mona Charen (3/5)
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (on the Modern Library Top 100 list; 4/5)
Cut and Run by Ridley Pearson (3/5)
First Things First by Stephen Covey (3.5/5)
The Real Jimmy Carter by Steven Hayward (3.5/5)
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford (on the Modern Library Top 100 list; 4/5)
The Zero Game by Brad Meltzer (3/5)
The Bridge of San Luis Ray by Thorton Wilder (on the Modern Library Top 100 list; 3/5)
Tripwire by Lee Child (3.5/5)
The River at the Center of the World by Simon Winchester (3.5/5)
The Darkness Around Us is Deep by William Stafford (Winner of the National Book Award for poetry)
The Traveling Curmudgeon by John Winokur (Ed.) (3/5)
Armadillo by William Boyd (3.5/5)
San Francisco: The Unknown City by Josh Krist (3.5/5)
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (3/5)
No Lesser Plea by Robert Tannenbaum (3/5)
Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald (winner of the Booker Prize) (3.5/5)
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (winner of the Booker Prize) (3/5)
The Ambassadors by Henry James (on the Modern Library Top 100 list) (3/5)
Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo (2.5/5)
Bait and Switch by Larry Brooks (3/5)
The Wake Up by Robert Ferrigno (3/5)
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (3/5)
Middle Passage by Charles Johnson (reviewed here; winner of the National Book Award; 3/5)
Treason by Ann Coulter (3.5/5)
Young Lonigan by James Farrell (reviewed here; on the Modern Library Top 100 list; 3/5)
The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan by James Farrell (reviewed here; on the Modern Library Top 100 list; 3/5)
Judgment Day by James Farrell (reviewed here; on the Modern Library Top 100 list; 4/5)
In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul (winner of the Booker Prize; 3/5)
Cowboy Boots by Tyler Beard (3/5)
Post Office by Charles Bukowski (3/5)
The Archivist by Martha Cooley (3.5/5)
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (winner of the Pulitzer Prize) (3/5)
Persuader by Lee Child (3.5/5)
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (3/5)
Memoirs of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriella Garcia Marquez (4/5)
Sophie’s Choice by William Styron (reviewed here; on the Modern Library Top 100 list; 5/5)
The Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetze (notes here; winner of the Booker Prize; 2/5)
The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket (3/5)
A Grave Talent by Laurie King (reviewed here; 3/5)
Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman (4.5/5)
Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley (4/5)
The Triumphant Cat by Marmaduke Skidmore (Ed.) (3/5)
Murder in the Sentier by Cara Black (3.5/5)
Notes from the Underground by Foder Dosteyeskey (3/5)
Martin Dressler by Stephen Millhausen (reviewed here; winner of the Pulitzer Prize; 2/5)
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann (4/5)
Being Dead by Jim Crace (notes here; winner of the National Book Critics’ Circle Award; 2/5)
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard (reviewed here; winner of the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction; on the Modern Library’s Top 100 nonfiction list; 3.5/5)
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh (notes here; 3.5/5)
The First Law by John Lescroart (3.5/5)
The Death of Outrage by William Bennett (3.5/5)
Money by Martin Amis (reviewed here; 3.5/5)
The Enemy by Lee Child (3.5/5)
Death by the Glass by Nadine Gordon (3.5/5)
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (2.5/5)
A Cook’s Tour by Anthony Bourdain (3.5/5)
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Latham (winner of the National Book Critics’ Circle Award; 4/5)
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (reviewed here; winner of the Pulitzer Prize; 3.5/5)
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding (3/5)
The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor (winner of the National Book Critics’ Circle Award; 3/5)
Blink by Malcom Gladwell (3/5)
How to Cook A Wolf by M.F.K. Fisher (3.5/5)
Murder on the Potomac by Margaret Truman (3/5)
Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook by Alice Waters (reviewed here; 3/5)
Angels & Demons by Dan Brown (3/5)
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenedis (winner of the Pulitzer Prize; 4/5)
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James Cain (notes here; on the Modern Library Top 100 list; 4/5)
Double Indemnity by James Cain (4/5)
Mildred Pierce by James Cain (3.5/5)
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (3.5/5)
Nostromo by Joseph Conrad (on the Modern Library Top 100 list; 3.5/5)
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (4/5)
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (3/5)
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (4/5)
New Year’s Eve Murder by Lee Harris (2.5/5)
The Orientalist by Tim Riess (3.5/5)
Fanny Hill by John Cleland (3/5)
A View of the Bay by Richard Scowcroft (out of print; 3/5)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (3/5)
Crusader’s Cross by James Lee Burke (3/5)
French Lessons by Peter Mayles (3.5/5)
Postmark Paris by Leslie Jonath (3/5)
Bel Canto by Ann Patchet (3/5)
A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (winner of the Pulitzer Prize; 4/5)
One Shot by Lee Child (3/5)
