Books 2006
11/19/06 - Very much not completed, there are quite a few more that I'm slowly remembering
...In more or less the order that I read them
-- My family and other animals [Gerald Durrell]
-- Birds, beasts, and relatives [Gerald Durrell]
-- Silent snow : the slow poisoning of the Arctic [Marla Cone]
-- Rich kid, smart kid : giving your child a financial head start [Robert T. Kiyosaki with Sharon L. Lechter]
-- Rich dad, poor dad : what the rich teach their kids about money - that the poor and middle class do not! [Robert T. Kiyosaki with Sharon L. Lechter]
-- Rich dad's guide to investing : what the rich invest in that the poor and middle class do not! [by Robert T. Kiyosaki with Sharon L. Lechter]
-- Rich dad's retire young, retire rich : how to get rich and stay rich forever [Robert T. Kiyosaki with Sharon L. Lechter]
-- Sales dogs : you do not have to be an attack dog to be successful in sales [Blair Singer; foreword by Robert Kiyosaki]
-- No touch monkey! : and other travel lessons learned too late [Ayun Halliday]
-- Liquor [Poppy Z. Brite]
-- Prime [Poppy Z. Brite]
-- The Value of X [Poppy Z. Brite]
-- We thought you would be prettier : true tales of the dorkiest girl alive [Laurie Notaro]
-- Fight Club [Chuck Palahniuk]
-- Are you loathsome tonight? : a collection of short stories [Poppy Z. Brite]
-- A cook's tour : in search of the perfect meal [Anthony Bourdain]
-- Kitchen confidential : adventures in the culinary underbelly [Anthony Bourdain]
-- Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles cookbook : strategies, recipes, and techniques of classic bistro cooking [Anthony Bourdain, with Jose de Meirelles & Philippe Lajaunie]
-- Typhoid Mary : an urban historical [Anthony Bourdain]
-- The Bobby Gold stories [Anthony Bourdain]
-- Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything [Stephen D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner]
-- The nasty bits : collected varietal cuts, usable trim, scraps, and bones [Anthony Bourdain]
-- My secret garden : women's sexual fantasies [Nancy Friday]
-- Men In Love: men's sexual fantasies [Nancy Friday]
-- Rex and the city : a woman, a man, and a dysfunctional dog [Lee Harrington]
-- My life in France [Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme]
-- The Kite Runner [Khaled Hosseini]
-- The Omnivore's Dilemma: A natural history of four meals [Michael Pollan]
-- Marley & me : life and love with the world's worst dog [John Grogan]
-- Choke [Chuck Palahniuk]
-- World War Z : an oral history of the zombie war [Max Brooks]
Books to be read:
Raw Meaty Bones: Promote Health [Tom Lonsdale]
Down and out in Paris and London [George Orwell]
Water for elephants [Sara Gruen]
Heat : an amateur's adventures as kitchen slave, line cook, pasta-maker, and apprentice to a Dante-quoting butcher in Tuscany [Bill Buford]
Cesar's way : the natural, everyday guide to understanding and correcting common dog problems [Cesar Millan and Melissa Jo Peltier]
Reading like a writer : a guide for people who love books and for those who want to write them [Francine Prose]
The God delusion [Richard Dawkins]
A commotion in the blood : life, death, and the immune system [Stephen S. Hall]
Barefoot Contessa at Home: Everyday Recipes You'll Make Over and Over Again [Ina Garten]
The greatest story ever sold : the decline and fall of truth from 9/11 to Katrina [Frank Rich]
For one more day [Mitch Albom]
Tempting faith : an inside story of political seduction [David Kuo]
How to be a domestic goddess : baking and the art of comfort cooking [Nigella Lawson]
Julie and Julia : 365 days, 524 recipes, 1 tiny apartment kitchen : how one girl risked her marriage, her job, and her sanity to master the art of living [Julie Powell]
An unspoken art : profiles of veterinary life [Lee Gutkind]
Veterinary medicine : an illustrated history [Robert H. Dunlop, David J. Williams]
Firehorse [Diane Lee Wilson]
Work Wonders: Feed Your Dog Raw Meaty Bones [Tom Lonsdale]
Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food [Ann N. Martin, Shawn Messonnier]
Don't Shoot the Dog!: The New Art of Teaching and Training [Karen Pryor]
The New Natural Cat [Anitra Frazier, Norma Eckroate]