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Books Read in 2006

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ManWithAnAgenda, aethercowboy, dara85, sturlington, ahef1963

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Rank Title Author Added

1

The Glass Castle: A Memoir

by Jeannette Walls

19,486 members

779 reviews

4.2

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

2

My Sister's Keeper

by Jodi Picoult

20,177 members

680 reviews

4

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

3

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

67,924 members

1,103 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

Secret Daughter: A Mixed-Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her Away

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

5

by Kate Atkinson

7,828 members

336 reviews

3.8

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

6

Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family

1,394 members

30 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

7

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

42,761 members

1,297 reviews

3.9

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

8

No Country for Old Men

by Cormac McCarthy

10,606 members

284 reviews

4

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

9

Al Capone Does My Shirts

by Gennifer Choldenko

5,174 members

326 reviews

4

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

10

by Kim Stanley Robinson

825 members

11 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: sturlington

11

The Pilgrim Hawk

by Glenway Wescott

440 members

8 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

12

Learning Perl [3rd edition]

by Randal L. Schwartz

390 members

4.1

Member: aethercowboy

13

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

9,592 members

226 reviews

4.1

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

14

Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro

21,569 members

917 reviews

3.8

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

15

A Million Little Pieces

9,458 members

227 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

16

by Christopher Moore

6,611 members

261 reviews

4

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

17

The Memory Keeper's Daughter

16,742 members

474 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

18

by Marilynne Robinson

10,437 members

359 reviews

3.9

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

19

A Long Way Down

8,499 members

190 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

20

by Stephen King

10,469 members

146 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

21

Forty Signs of Rain

by Kim Stanley Robinson

1,369 members

44 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: sturlington

22

Eight Great Tragedies

by Sylvan Barnet

373 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: aethercowboy

23

America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction

7,206 members

61 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda

24

Programming Perl [4th edition, blue camel]

1,684 members

9 reviews

4.1

Member: aethercowboy

25

The Mouse and His Child

by Russell Hoban

996 members

29 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

26

The Virgin of Small Plains

by Nancy Pickard

804 members

49 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

27

Bad Haircut: Stories of the Seventies

by Tom Perrotta

342 members

7 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

28

by Stephen King

8,138 members

192 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

29

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

by Anne Brontë

6,981 members

160 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

30

The Ballad of Frankie Silver

by Sharyn McCrumb

903 members

20 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

31

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 2006, Vol. 110, No. 4

by Gordon Van Gelder

15 members

½ 3.5

Member: aethercowboy

32

by Elizabeth Flock

1,209 members

48 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

33

Fifty Degrees Below

by Kim Stanley Robinson

1,002 members

31 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

34

Marvel 1602: New World

132 members

4 reviews

3

Member: aethercowboy

35

by Terry Pratchett

11,515 members

171 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

36

S is for Silence

4,106 members

80 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

37

460 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: aethercowboy

38

101 members

4 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: sturlington

39

Version Control with Subversion

by C. Michael Pilato

242 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: aethercowboy

40

Chronicles of the House of Borgia

by Frederick Baron Corvo

153 members

3 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

41

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

by Anthony Bourdain

9,632 members

260 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

42

Sea of Silver Light

by Tad Williams

2,921 members

23 reviews

4

Member: aethercowboy

43

by David Baldacci

2,867 members

67 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

44

The Girl in a Swing

by Richard Adams

810 members

15 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

45

by Stephen King

9,072 members

102 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

46

by Lee Anne Phillips

28 members

2 reviews

2.9

Member: aethercowboy

47

Please Don't Kill Mommy!: The True Story of a man who killed his wife, got away with it, then killed again (St. Martin's

by Fannie Weinstein

26 members

3.2

Member: dara85

48

by Frank Herbert

14,971 members

151 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

49

by Terry Pratchett

11,843 members

175 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

50

The Whipping Boy

by Sid Fleischman

7,189 members

119 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

51

Dive Into Python

by Mark Pilgrim

250 members

5 reviews

4.1

Member: aethercowboy

52

Guards! Guards!

by Terry Pratchett

13,272 members

215 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

53

Just a Couple of Days

by Tony Vigorito

387 members

7 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

54

Cause For Alarm

by Erica Spindler

269 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

55

How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python

by Allen B. Downey

84 members

1 review

½ 3.7

Member: aethercowboy

56

by Terry Pratchett

10,405 members

122 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

57

Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping

by Judith Levine

733 members

47 reviews

3.1

Member: sturlington

58

by Joseph Wambaugh

346 members

8 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85

59

A Byte of Python

21 members

½ 3.5

Member: aethercowboy

60

by Terry Pratchett

8,429 members

122 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

61

The Soul of a Chef: The Journey Toward Perfection

by Michael Ruhlman

844 members

15 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

62

The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales

by Brothers Grimm

811 members

8 reviews

4.2

Member: aethercowboy

63

Moving Pictures

by Terry Pratchett

9,246 members

102 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

64

The Polysyllabic Spree

2,078 members

68 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

65

Don't Check Your Brains at the Door: A Book of Christian Evidences (Know What You Believe and Why)

by Josh McDowell

700 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aethercowboy

66

by Kashmira Sheth

152 members

9 reviews

4.1

Member: dara85

67

by Terry Pratchett

11,003 members

143 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

68

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction May 2006, Vol. 110, No. 5

by Gordon Van Gelder

13 members

3.2

Member: aethercowboy

69

Gravity's Rainbow

by Thomas Pynchon

10,318 members

137 reviews

4.1

Member: aethercowboy

70

by Terry Pratchett

9,655 members

132 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

71

The Colorado Kid

by Stephen King

3,559 members

143 reviews

3.2

Member: sturlington

72

Hello, Darkness

by Sandra Brown

1,563 members

20 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

73

Lords and Ladies

by Terry Pratchett

9,312 members

120 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

74

The Number of the Beast

by Robert A. Heinlein

3,784 members

44 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: aethercowboy

75

by Terry Pratchett

9,963 members

114 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

76

It Must've Been Something I Ate

by Jeffrey Steingarten

903 members

10 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

77

The Morning After

by Lisa Jackson

679 members

9 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

78

2600: The Hacker Quarterly, Spring 2006

by Emmanuel Goldstein

4 members

½ 3.5

Member: aethercowboy

79

Blindness (Harvest Book)

by José Saramago

12,396 members

373 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

80

The Illuminatus! Trilogy

4,466 members

52 reviews

3.9

Member: aethercowboy

81

by Francine Prose

516 members

10 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: sturlington

82

by Donald Harstad

282 members

10 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

83

The Lincoln Lawyer

by Michael Connelly

6,967 members

209 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

84

3,359 members

97 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

85

Beginning Active Server Pages 2.0

by Brian Francis

33 members

1 review

½ 2.5

Member: aethercowboy

86

The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1)

by Philip Pullman

34,455 members

721 reviews

4.1

Member: aethercowboy

87

Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus

12,346 members

49 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

88

Jitterbug Perfume

5,713 members

84 reviews

4.2

Member: sturlington

89

What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love

by Carole Radziwill

617 members

26 reviews

4

Member: dara85

90

by Seamus Heaney

23,853 members

320 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

91

The Man Who Ate Everything

by Jeffrey Steingarten

1,643 members

28 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

92

by Alice Hoffman

1,643 members

38 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

93

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction June 2006, Vol. 110, No. 6

by Gordon Van Gelder

13 members

½ 3.5

Member: aethercowboy

94

The Subtle Knife

by Philip Pullman

23,865 members

350 reviews

4.1

Member: aethercowboy

95

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

7,993 members

101 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

96

At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances

by Alexander McCall Smith

865 members

18 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: sturlington

97

19 members

4

Member: dara85

98

Back When We Were Grownups

3,547 members

59 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: sturlington

99

The Life of Charlotte Brontë

by Elizabeth Gaskell

1,415 members

20 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

100

Fundamentals of Database Systems

by Ramez Elmasri

595 members

3 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: aethercowboy

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