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2006 in books.

Abigail on 2007-01-03T13:20:39

Last year, I spend a lot of time in trains, trams, busses (and on stations waiting for them). That gave me the time to read 48 books:

  1. The World according to Clarkson by Jeremy Clarkson.
  2. Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction by Sue Townsend.
  3. Van Santander naar Santander by Peter Winnen.
  4. The Double Eagle by James Twining.
  5. De blokjeslegger van Turijn.
  6. Elminster's Daughter by Ed Greenwood.
  7. My Life (vol. 1) by Bill Clinton.
  8. Quarterdeck by Julian Stockwin.
  9. Daar zit iets in by Maarten Toonder.
  10. Onder Professoren by Willem F. Hermans.
  11. Cryptonomia by Neal Stephenson.
  12. Geel by Mart Smeets.
  13. Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss.
  14. Goodnight Nobody by Jennifer Weiner.
  15. Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson.
  16. Practical Demon Keeping by Christopher Moore.
  17. The Man-Kzin Wars by Larry Niven, Poul Anderson, Dean Ing.
  18. The Mask by Dean Koontz.
  19. The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger.
  20. Shoot the Moon by Billie Letts.
  21. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain.
  22. Air Babylon by Imogen Edwards-Jones & Anonymous.
  23. People of the Mist by Kathleens O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear.
  24. I Know You Got Soul by Clarkson.
  25. Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov.
  26. The World's Stupidest Signs by Michael O'Mara.
  27. Penguin Lost by Andrey Kurkov.
  28. Who Moved My Blackberrie[TM] by Martin Lukes with Lucy Kellaway.
  29. Adrian Mole The Cappuccino Years by Sue Townsend.
  30. The Gunslinger by Stephen King.
  31. Motorworld by Jeremy Clarkson.
  32. Hotel Babylon by Imogen Edwards-Jones & Anonymous.
  33. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling.
  34. On Cars by Jeremy Clarkson.
  35. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins.
  36. Ik ben een New Yorker by Twan Huys.
  37. Down Under by Bill Bryson.
  38. Soest in Grootvaders Tijd by Engelbert Heupers.
  39. Time Management for System Administrator by Thomas A. Limoncelli.
  40. The Great War: American Front by Harry Turtledove.
  41. Perl Hacks by chromatic with Damian Conway and Curtis "Ovid" Poe.
  42. Amerikaanse Zaken by Charles Groenhuijsen.
  43. See Delphi and Die by Lindsey Davis.
  44. De Tor & De Koeskoes by Midas Dekkers.
  45. The Big over Easy by Jasper Fforde.
  46. Notes from a Big Country by Bill Bryson.
  47. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend.
  48. The Last Templar by Raymound Khoury.

keeping booklists

kudra on 2007-03-03T20:34:37

I feel better knowing that I'm not the only person who keeps track of books I've read. My list goes back to mid 2001.

Re:keeping booklists

arkturuz on 2008-05-14T11:56:57

Well, I'm tracking my readings since 1994/95. I have a record of every (non-technical) book I read together with the date I finished it. :)