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Books Read in 2006

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Rank Title Author Added

1

The Glass Castle: A Memoir

by Jeannette Walls

20,559 members

798 reviews

4.2

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

2

My Sister's Keeper

by Jodi Picoult

20,966 members

687 reviews

4

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

3

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

72,604 members

1,176 reviews

3.8

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

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

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

5

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

by Anne Brontë

7,614 members

169 reviews

3.9

2 Members: waxflower, ManWithAnAgenda

6

by Kate Atkinson

7,945 members

350 reviews

3.8

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

7

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

1,504 members

30 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

8

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

44,516 members

1,334 reviews

3.9

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

9

No Country for Old Men

by Cormac McCarthy

11,168 members

292 reviews

4

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

10

Al Capone Does My Shirts

by Gennifer Choldenko

5,590 members

330 reviews

4

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

11

by Stephen R. Lawhead

2,148 members

18 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: waxflower

12

by Kim Stanley Robinson

867 members

11 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: sturlington

13

The Pilgrim Hawk

by Glenway Wescott

468 members

7 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

14

Learning Perl [3rd edition]

by Randal L. Schwartz

395 members

1 review

4.1

Member: aethercowboy

15

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

10,232 members

240 reviews

4.1

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

16

Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro

23,037 members

941 reviews

3.8

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

17

A Million Little Pieces

9,747 members

230 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

18

by Christopher Moore

6,864 members

269 reviews

4

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

19

The Memory Keeper's Daughter

17,407 members

480 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

20

by Marilynne Robinson

10,866 members

364 reviews

3.9

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

21

A Long Way Down

8,683 members

192 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

22

by Stephen King

11,042 members

149 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

23

Forty Signs of Rain

by Kim Stanley Robinson

1,429 members

47 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: sturlington

24

by Stephen R. Lawhead

1,406 members

8 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: waxflower

25

Eight Great Tragedies

by Sylvan Barnet

390 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: aethercowboy

26

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

7,419 members

61 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda

27

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

17,237 members

318 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: waxflower, ManWithAnAgenda

28

Programming Perl [4th edition, blue camel]

1,721 members

9 reviews

4.1

Member: aethercowboy

29

by Stephen R. Lawhead

1,147 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: waxflower

30

The Mouse and His Child

by Russell Hoban

1,059 members

30 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

31

The Virgin of Small Plains

by Nancy Pickard

822 members

50 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

32

Bad Haircut: Stories of the Seventies

by Tom Perrotta

357 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

33

by Stephen King

8,570 members

197 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

34

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

19,278 members

248 reviews

3.8

Member: waxflower

35

The Ballad of Frankie Silver

by Sharyn McCrumb

919 members

22 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

36

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

by Gordon Van Gelder

15 members

½ 3.5

Member: aethercowboy

37

The Mayor of Casterbridge

by Thomas Hardy

8,339 members

114 reviews

3.9

Member: waxflower

38

by Elizabeth Flock

1,233 members

48 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

39

Fifty Degrees Below

by Kim Stanley Robinson

1,035 members

31 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

40

Marvel 1602: New World

137 members

5 reviews

3

Member: aethercowboy

41

by Terry Pratchett

12,179 members

181 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

42

S is for Silence

4,261 members

84 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

43

The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers

by Margaret George

2,701 members

63 reviews

4.1

Member: waxflower

44

469 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: aethercowboy

45

101 members

4 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: sturlington

46

Version Control with Subversion

by C. Michael Pilato

248 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: aethercowboy

47

Chronicles of the House of Borgia

by Frederick Baron Corvo

159 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

48

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

by Anthony Bourdain

10,150 members

274 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

49

Sea of Silver Light

by Tad Williams

3,042 members

25 reviews

4

Member: aethercowboy

50

by David Baldacci

3,023 members

72 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

51

by Hermann Hesse

844 members

11 reviews

3.8

Member: waxflower

52

The Girl in a Swing

by Richard Adams

840 members

14 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

53

by Stephen King

9,649 members

106 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

54

Means of Evil and Other Stories

by Ruth Rendell

211 members

6 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: waxflower

55

by Lee Anne Phillips

29 members

2 reviews

2.9

Member: aethercowboy

56

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

27 members

3.2

Member: dara85

57

by Frank Herbert

16,577 members

169 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

58

by Terry Pratchett

12,515 members

189 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

59

I Capture the Castle

9,240 members

295 reviews

4.1

Member: waxflower

60

The Whipping Boy

by Sid Fleischman

7,910 members

125 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

61

Dive Into Python

by Mark Pilgrim

252 members

5 reviews

4

Member: aethercowboy

62

Guards! Guards!

by Terry Pratchett

14,203 members

242 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

63

1,879 members

38 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: waxflower

64

Just a Couple of Days

by Tony Vigorito

399 members

7 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

65

Cause For Alarm

by Erica Spindler

282 members

4 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85

66

How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python

by Allen B. Downey

85 members

1 review

3.8

Member: aethercowboy

67

by Terry Pratchett

10,905 members

129 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

68

A Mind to Murder

2,293 members

51 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: waxflower

69

Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping

by Judith Levine

740 members

47 reviews

3.1

Member: sturlington

70

by Joseph Wambaugh

364 members

9 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85

71

A Byte of Python

21 members

3.2

Member: aethercowboy

72

by Terry Pratchett

8,900 members

130 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

73

The Courtship of Princess Leia

by Dave Wolverton

2,471 members

24 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: waxflower

74

The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales

by Brothers Grimm

874 members

8 reviews

4.2

Member: aethercowboy

75

The Soul of a Chef: The Journey Toward Perfection

by Michael Ruhlman

859 members

15 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

76

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

by Douglas Adams

13,896 members

232 reviews

3.9

Member: waxflower

77

Moving Pictures

by Terry Pratchett

9,708 members

107 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

78

The Polysyllabic Spree

2,113 members

71 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

79

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

by Josh McDowell

763 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aethercowboy

80

by Kashmira Sheth

163 members

9 reviews

4.1

Member: dara85

81

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

by Douglas Adams

12,263 members

120 reviews

3.9

Member: waxflower

82

by Terry Pratchett

11,610 members

151 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

83

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

by Gordon Van Gelder

12 members

3.2

Member: aethercowboy

84

Gravity's Rainbow

by Thomas Pynchon

10,810 members

141 reviews

4.1

Member: aethercowboy

85

by Terry Pratchett

10,213 members

141 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

86

The Colorado Kid

by Stephen King

3,859 members

147 reviews

3.2

Member: sturlington

87

Hello, Darkness

by Sandra Brown

1,639 members

22 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

88

Australian Stories of Today

by Charles Osborne

2 members

Member: waxflower

89

Lords and Ladies

by Terry Pratchett

9,767 members

125 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

90

The Number of the Beast

by Robert A. Heinlein

3,926 members

45 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: aethercowboy

91

The Lonely Hearts Club

7 members

½ 3.5

Member: waxflower

92

The Da Vinci Code

70,518 members

1,312 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: waxflower

93

by Terry Pratchett

10,489 members

122 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

94

It Must've Been Something I Ate

by Jeffrey Steingarten

922 members

12 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

95

The Morning After

by Lisa Jackson

725 members

9 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

96

2600: The Hacker Quarterly, Spring 2006

by Emmanuel Goldstein

5 members

½ 3.5

Member: aethercowboy

97

by José Saramago

13,105 members

391 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

98

The Illuminatus! Trilogy

4,598 members

53 reviews

3.9

Member: aethercowboy

99

by Gareth Roberts

680 members

18 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: waxflower

100

by Francine Prose

525 members

10 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: sturlington

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