Bibliophile (2005)

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Book List - 2005
I decided early in 2005 that I would track the number of books that I read during the year. I consider myself to be a fast reader, and somebody who devours masses of books. I found myself surprised, therefore, when I realized in mid-November that it was possible that I might not clear 100 books for the year. I made it, but only just.

For 2006, I hope to read at least 100 books that aren't related to school, and I'm going to make an effort to get 100 new books under my belt this year.

1. Eoin Colfer - Artemis Fowl: the Arctic incident (12/29/04 - 1/1/05)
2. Eoin Colfer - Artemis Fowl : the eternity code (1/1/05 - 1/3/05)
3. James Campbell - The final frontiersman: Heimo Korth and his family, alone in Alaska's arctic wilderness (1/14 - 1/18)
4. Robin McKinley and Peter Dickinson - Water : tales of elemental spirits (1/3 - 1/30)
5. Robin McKinley - Sunshine (1/22 - 1/30, and 09/03 - 09/07) - Love it! Love it love it love it. Doesn't hurt that I read it for the first time while in Greece, while getting engaged.
6. Andrew Ede and Lesley Cormack - A history of science in society (1/20 - 3/18)
7. Peter Dear - Revolutionizing the sciences : European Knowledge and Its Ambitions, 1500-1700 (1/27 - 2/3)
8. Thomas Kuhn - Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1/30 - 2/26)
9. Eloisa James - Potent Pleasures (2/10 - 2/11)
10. Eloisa James - Midnight Pleasures. (2/11 - 2/12) - Too stupid to live issues, but otherwise well-written. Hot stuff, if somewhat anachronistic
11. Julia Quinn - The Duke and I (2/14)
12. Julia Quinn - Romancing Mr. Bridgerton (2/14 - 2/16)
13. Julia Quinn - The Viscount who Loved Me (2/18)
14. Julia Quinn - An Offer from a Gentlemen (2/18 - 2/19)
15. Julia Quinn - To Sir Phillip with Love (2/19)
16. Julia Quinn - When He Was Wicked (2/22 and 08/27) - Finally! Book #6 of 8 in the series.
17. H. Floris Cohen - The Scientific Revolution: A Historiographical Inquiry
18. Elizabeth Lowell - To the Ends of the Earth (2/27)
19. Patricia Ryan - Silken Threads (3/03) - I forgot how good these two are; a retelling of Rear Window as a medieval romance/mystery, and a companion medieval spy/romance novel. Done well, they're not as dumb as they sound.
20. Patricia Ryan - The Sun and the Moon (3/04)
21. Elizabeth Lowell - Only His (3/05)
22. Elizabeth Lowell - Only You, Only Mine (3/05 - 3/07)
23. Elizabeth Lowell - A Woman Without Lies (3/07) - Why, oh why do I persist in thinking that Elizabeth Lowell is any good? It's like picking a scab, I swear...
24. Karen Ranney - Heaven Forbid (3/07 - 3/12) - eh. Not her usual standard
25. John North - The Norton History of Astronomy and Cosmology (3/13 - 3/17)
26. Anton Pannekoek - A History of Astronomy (3/14 - 3/17)
27. Karen McCullah Lutz - The Bachelorette Party (3/20 - 04/02) - eh. The parents said it was hilarious, I find it tolerably amusing.
28. Katherine Sutcliffe - Devotion (3/24 - ) - Procrastinating on a paper led me to this one. I'm not sure if I liked it, but the cliffhanger ending means that I'll probably hunt up its sequel, Obsession.
29. Tom Douglas - Tom's big dinners : big-time home cooking for family and friends (03/25 - 03/27)
30. Justine Dare - Night Fires (4/05 - 4/06)
31. David Weber and John Ringo - March Upcountry (4/07 - 4/10) - ebook! Free! Not bad, either…
32. Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar - Laboratory Life (4/11 - 4/15)
33. Raymond Haynes et. al. - Explorers of the southern sky : a history of Australian astronomy (4/18 - 4/22)
34. Roberta Olson and Jay Pasachoff - Fire in the sky : comets and meteors, the decisive centuries, in British art and science (4/18 - 4/22)
35. Susan Isaacs - Any Place I Hang my Hat (4/22 - 4/27)
36. Jo Goodman - More than You Wished (4/23 - 4/25)
37. Anne Stuart - Into the Fire (4/24 - 4/25)
38. Catherine Anderson - My Sunshine (4/24 - 4/25) - too sappy for words, but I read it anyway. Procrastination!
39. David Weber - Mutineer's Moon (4/25)
40. David Weber - Armageddon Inheritance (4/26)
41. Garrison Keillor - Love Me (5/04 - 5/10.)
42. Ruth Reichl - Comfort Me with Apples (5/04 - 5/10 ) - read it in office. Amazing how she can be sympathetic while doing reprehensible things.
43. Marian Keyes - Sushi for Beginners (5/11)
44. Marian Keyes - Last Chance Saloon (5/12 - 5/13)
45. Marian Keyes - Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married (5/15)
46. Mary Balogh - Slightly Dangerous (05/25 - 05/27)
47. Mary Balogh - Slightly Married (05/29 - 06/01)
48. Mary Balogh - Slightly Scandalous (06/02 - 06/05)
49. Nick Hornby - High Fidelity (06/13 - 06/15)
50. Andrew Doughty - Maui Revealed: The Ultimate Guidebook (06/15 - 06/18)
51. Adriana Trigiani - Big Stone Gap (06/22 - 06/23)
52. Witi Ihimaera - The Whale Rider (06/27 - 06/29)
53. Adriana Trigiani - Lucia, Lucia (06/28 - 30)
54. Jennifer Weiner - Good in Bed (07/04 - 07/09)
55. Lois McMaster Bujold - Diplomatic Immunity (07/12 - 07/13)
56. Lois McMaster Bujold - Komarr (07/13)
57. J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (07/14)
58. Lois McMaster Bujold - A Civil Campaign (07/16)
59. Lois McMaster Bujold - Memory (07/16)
60. Suzanne Brockman - Bodyguard (07/16 - 07/17)
61. J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (07/17 - 07/19)
62. Judith Ivory - Sleeping Beauty (07/19)
63. J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (07/20 - 07/25)
64. Lois McMaster Bujold - The Hallowed Hunt (07/29 - 09/15)
65. Jon Krakauer - Into Thin Air (08/06 - 08/09)
66. Jennifer Crusie - Faking It (08/12 - 08/13)
67. Jennifer Crusie - Bet Me (08/13 - 08/14)
68. Julia Ross - Night of Sin (08/14 - 08/15)
69. Emma Holly - Strange Attractions (08/15 - 08/16)
70. Patricia Gaffney - Wild at Heart (08/28)
71. Patricia Gaffney - Thief of Hearts (08/28)
72. Sophie Kinsella - Confessions of a Shopaholic (08/30 - 08/31)
73. Sophie Kinsella - Shopaholic takes Manhattan (08/31 - 09/01) - *sigh* I couldn't take any more of Becky and the shopping.
74. Sophie Kinsella - Can You Keep A Secret? (09/02 - 9/13).)
75. Jennifer Weiner - In Her Shoes (09/15 - 10/01)
76. Mary Balogh - Heartless (09/17)
77. Mary Balogh - Silent Melody (09/17)
78. Ruth Wind - Last Chance Ranch (09/22)
79. Joan Wolf - The Guardian (09/22)
80. Joan Wolf - The Gamble (09/23)
81. Joan Wolf - The Deception (09/23 - 09/24)
82. Joan Wolf - The Pretenders (09/25)
83. Christopher Moore - Practical Demonkeeping (09/27 - 9/29) - Find Moore disappointing; he's kind of amusing, but the characters are typically pretty stupid, unbelieveable, and I don't always find humor in introducing random elements to a story for the hell of it.
84. Robin McKinley - The Blue Sword (09/28)
85. Dave King - The Ha-Ha (10/03 - 10/07) - Interesting and well written, but didn't really get my teeth into it.
86. Susan Elizabeth Phillips - Honey Moon (10/21)
87. Susan Elizabeth Phillips - Kiss an Angel (10/21 - 10/22)
88. Susan Elizabeth Phillips - Dream a Little Dream (10/22 - 10/23)
89. Rachel Gibson - See Jane Score (10/23)
90. Laurell Hamilton - Guilty Pleasures (10/23 - 10/24)
91. Laurell Hamilton - The Laughing Corpse (10/24 - 10/25)
92. Ruth Schwartz Cowan - More Work for Mother (10/28 - 11/06)
93. Nathan Rosenberg - Perspectives on Technology (11/07 - 12/20)
94. Alan Pred - Urban growth and the circulation of information (11/07 - 12/21)
95. Nathan Rosenberg - Technology & American Economic Growth (11/11 - 11/20)
96. Ruth Wind - In the Midnight Rain (11/21 - 11/22)
97. Harold Strassman - Risk & Technological Innovation (11/25 - 11/27)
98. Susan Elizabeth Phillips - Ain’t She Sweet (12/24 - 12/25)
99. Susan Wiggs - Lakeside Cottage (12/25 - 12/27)
100. Jennifer Weiner - Goodnight, Nobody (12/26 - 12/29)
101. Katherine Sutcliffe - Jezebel (12/27 - 12/28)
102. Terry Pratchett - Going Postal (12/30 - 1/1)

In addition to the books above, I also read significant portions of:

• Simon Winchester - Krakatoa : the day the world exploded (1/3 - )
• Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner (02 - 24) - gorgeous, brutal, want to read more of it when feeling stalwart.
• Penny LeCouteur and Jay Burreson - Napoleon's Buttons (03/06 - )
• Jasper Fforde - The Eyre Affair (3/07 - )
• Agnes Clerke - A popular history of astronomy during the nineteenth century (4/18 - 4/29)
• Hector Macpherson - A century's progress in astronomy (4/18 - 4/29)
• Herbert Hall Turner - Modern astronomy; being some account of the revolution of the last quarter of a century (4/18 - 4/29) - published 1902
• Herbert Hall Turner - Astronomical discovery (4/18 - 4/29) - published 1904
• Adriana Trigiani - Big Cherry Holler (06/23 - )
• Natalie Krinsky - Chloe does Yale (09/28 - ) - I could NOT finish this one - Amazon reviews say it all. It was unbearable.
• Nigella Lawson - Feast : food that celebrates life (11/14 - 11/21)
• Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin (11/21 - 11/28) - The paper of doom stopped me from finishing; I must get back to this soon!
• Jeremy Atack and Peter Passell - A New Economic View of American History from Colonial Times to 1940 (12/12 - 12/22)
• assorted history journal and magazine articles - too many journal articles to list.

The breakdown

Books read for school this year:

1. Andrew Ede and Lesley Cormack - A history of science in society
2. Peter Dear - Revolutionizing the sciences : European Knowledge and Its Ambitions, 1500-1700
3. Thomas Kuhn - Structure of Scientific Revolutions
4. H. Floris Cohen - The Scientific Revolution: A Historiographical Inquiry
5. John North - The Norton History of Astronomy and Cosmology
6. Anton Pannekoek - A History of Astronomy
7. Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar - Laboratory Life
8. Raymond Haynes et. al. - Explorers of the southern sky : a history of Australian astronomy
9. Roberta Olson and Jay Pasachoff - Fire in the sky : comets and meteors, the decisive centuries, in British art and science
10. Ruth Schwartz Cowan - More Work for Mother
11. Nathan Rosenberg - Perspectives on Technology
12. Alan Pred - Urban growth and the circulation of information
13. Nathan Rosenberg - Technology & American Economic Growth
14. Harold Strassman - Risk & Technological Innovation

Books read for the first time this year, for fun:

1. Eoin Colfer - Artemis Fowl: the Arctic incident
2. Eoin Colfer - Artemis Fowl : the eternity code
3. James Campbell - The final frontiersman: Heimo Korth and his family, alone in Alaska's arctic wilderness
4. Robin McKinley and Peter Dickinson - Water : tales of elemental spirits
5. Julia Quinn - When He Was Wicked
6. Elizabeth Lowell - Only You, Only Mine
7. Elizabeth Lowell - A Woman Without Lies
8. Karen Ranney - Heaven Forbid
9. Karen McCullah Lutz - The Bachelorette Party
10. Katherine Sutcliffe - Devotion
11. Tom Douglas - Tom's big dinners : big-time home cooking for family and friends
12. Justine Dare - Night Fires
13. David Weber and John Ringo - March Upcountry
14. Susan Isaacs - Any Place I Hang my Hat
15. Anne Stuart - Into the Fire
16. Catherine Anderson - My Sunshine
17. Garrison Keillor - Love Me
18. Ruth Reichl - Comfort Me with Apples
19. Mary Balogh - Slightly Dangerous
20. Mary Balogh - Slightly Married
21. Mary Balogh - Slightly Scandalous
22. Nick Hornby - High Fidelity
23. Andrew Doughty - Maui Revealed: The Ultimate Guidebook
24. Adriana Trigiani - Big Stone Gap
25. Witi Ihimaera - The Whale Rider
26. Adriana Trigiani - Lucia, Lucia
27. Jennifer Weiner - Good in Bed
28. J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
29. Lois McMaster Bujold - The Hallowed Hunt
30. Jon Krakauer - Into Thin Air
31. Sophie Kinsella - Confessions of a Shopaholic
32. Sophie Kinsella - Shopaholic takes Manhattan
33. Sophie Kinsella - Can You Keep A Secret?
34. Jennifer Weiner - In Her Shoes
35. Ruth Wind - Last Chance Ranch
36. Joan Wolf - The Guardian
37. Joan Wolf - The Gamble
38. Joan Wolf - The Deception
39. Christopher Moore - Practical Demonkeeping
40. Dave King - The Ha-Ha
41. Susan Elizabeth Phillips - Honey Moon
42. Susan Elizabeth Phillips - Kiss an Angel
43. Rachel Gibson - See Jane Score
44. Laurell Hamilton - Guilty Pleasures
45. Laurell Hamilton - The Laughing Corpse
46. Ruth Wind - In the Midnight Rain
47. Susan Elizabeth Phillips - Ain’t She Sweet
48. Susan Wiggs - Lakeside Cottage
49. Jennifer Weiner - Goodnight, Nobody
50. Katherine Sutcliffe - Jezebel
51. Terry Pratchett - Going Postal

Books I re-read this year:

1. Eloisa James - Potent Pleasures
2. Eloisa James - Midnight Pleasures.
3. Julia Quinn - The Duke and I
4. Julia Quinn - Romancing Mr. Bridgerton
5. Julia Quinn - The Viscount who Loved Me
6. Julia Quinn - An Offer from a Gentlemen
7. Julia Quinn - To Sir Phillip with Love
8. Robin McKinley - Sunshine (Re-read Twice!)
9. Elizabeth Lowell - To the Ends of the Earth
10. Patricia Ryan - Silken Threads
11. Patricia Ryan - The Sun and the Moon
12. Elizabeth Lowell - Only His
13. Jo Goodman - More than You Wished
14. David Weber - Mutineer's Moon
15. David Weber - Armageddon Inheritance
16. Marian Keyes - Sushi for Beginners
17. Marian Keyes - Last Chance Saloon
18. Marian Keyes - Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married
19. Lois McMaster Bujold - Diplomatic Immunity
20. Lois McMaster Bujold - Komarr
21. J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
22. Lois McMaster Bujold - A Civil Campaign
23. Lois McMaster Bujold - Memory
24. Suzanne Brockman - Bodyguard
25. J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
26. Judith Ivory - Sleeping Beauty
27. Jennifer Crusie - Faking It
28. Jennifer Crusie - Bet Me
29. Julia Ross - Night of Sin
30. Emma Holly - Strange Attractions
31. Patricia Gaffney - Wild at Heart
32. Patricia Gaffney - Thief of Hearts
33. Mary Balogh - Heartless
34. Mary Balogh - Silent Melody
35. Joan Wolf - The Pretenders
36. Robin McKinley - The Blue Sword
37. Susan Elizabeth Phillips - Dream a Little Dream