For the past two years, see here and here , I’ve posted what I managed to read over the year.
So here’s the 2006 list.
The Bell Jar
The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe
The Bluest Eyes
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters
Go Tell It On The Mountain
We
Night
Prodigal Summer
Quinn’s Book
The Bean Trees
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Now Is The Time To Open Your Heart
The Magician’s Nephew
Corelli’s Mandolin
Darkness At Noon
Alas, Babylon
Black Boy
Lost Horizon
The Ox-Bow Incident
Death On The Installment Plan
A Horse And His Boy
The Jungle
Out of Africa
Prince Caspian
Jane Eyre
Kaffir Boy
Anna Karinina
Arrowsmith
Frankenstein
A Burnt Out Case
Independent People
Moll Flanders
The Sorrow of War
Novel Without A Name
The Awakening
The Crying of Lot 49
The Plot Against America
Ecotopia
Death In Venice
Sometimes A Great Notion
Too Late The Phalarope
Inca Gold
The Lovely Bones
The Rat
Flags Of Our Fathers
Rebecca
Slaves Of Obsession
Therapy
Anthem
Last Exit to Brooklyn
The Alienist
The Rise of Silas Lapham
Our Town
The Beans of Egypt Maine
The Brothers Karamazov
Telegraph Days
The Reivers
Satanic Verses
The First Circle
Whiteout
The Honorary Counsul
The House of Mirth
Can’t Wait To Get To Heaven
The Hot Kid
Loop Group
When Women Come Out To Dance
London Bridge
Les Miserables
I’ll play – have we already done this for this year? Seems like we did, but maybe that was limited to favorites.
The End of the Battle – Evelyn Waugh
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
Honor’s Kingdom by Owen Parry
The Brothers of Gwynedd Quartet by Ellis Peters, aka Edith Pargeter
Cell by Stephen King
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
The Darkness That Comes Before by R. Scott Bakker
Eyes of the Carp by T. M. Wright
Daughters of the House by Michele Roberts
Bold Sons of Erin – Owen Parry
In the Place of Fallen Leaves – Tim Pears
Water, Carry Me – Charles Moran
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
Year of Wonders – Geraldine Brooks
Rebels of Babylon – Owen Parry
The Great Mortality – John Kelly
The Breaker – Minette Walters
Vespers – Jeff Ronin
A Morbid Taste for Bones – Ellis Peters
The Shape of Snakes – Minette Walters
The Warrior Prophet – R. Scott Bakker
The Thousandfold Thought – R. Scott Bakker
The Last Witchfinder – James Morrow
In the Fall – Jeffrey Lent
In the Lake of the Woods – Tim O’Brien
City of Truth – James Morrow
This is the Way the World Ends – James Morrow
Bible Stories for Adults – James Morrow
Crows – Charles Dickinson
The Secret History – Donna Tartt
20th Century Ghosts – Joe Hill
Expiration Date – Tim Powers
Floating Dragon – Peter Straub (re-read)
Mrs. Bridge – Evan Connell
The Widows’ Adventures – Charles Dickinson
The Rift – Walter Jon Williams
A Shortcut in Time – Charles Dickinson
A Feast for Crows – George R. R. Martin
Quartet in Autumn – Barbara Pym
Waltz in Marathon – Charles Dickinson
Rumor Has It – Charles Dickinson
Goodnight, Nebraska – Tom McNeal
Bringing Out the Dead – Joe Connelly
The Dollmaker – Harriett Arnow (re-read)
The Lies of Locke Lamora – Scott Lynch
The Diviners – Margaret Laurence
Provinces of Night – William Gay
The L-Shaped Room – Lynn Reid Banks
House of Chains – Steven Erikson
The Long Home – William Gay
Forever – Pete Hamill
The Dogs of Winter – Kem Nunn
The Road – Cormac McCarthy
Master of All Desires – Judith Merkle Riley
Martha Peake – Patrick McGrath
The Lincoln Lawyer – Michael Connelly
In a Dark Time – Larry Watson
Kristin Lavransdatter – Sigrid Undsett
Six Figures – Fred Leebron
The End – Lemony Snicket
The Journey Home – Olaf Olafsson
On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon – Kay Gibbons
The Contract Surgeon – Dan O’Brien
The World I Made for Her – Thomas Moran
Falling Angels – Barbara Gowdy
The Cunning Man – Robertson Davies
Murther & Walking Spirits – Robertson Davies
Batavia’s Graveyard – Michael Dash
Praise the Human Season – Don Robertson
Zeke and Ned – Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana
Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven’s Time - Nicolas Slonimsky
Slonimsky’s Book of Musical Anecdotes - Nicolas Slonimsky
Conversations with Madeleine Milhaud - Roger Nichols/Madeleine Milhaud
Mon XXème Siècle - Madeleine Milhaud
Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith - Anne Lamott
Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
The Ringmaster’s Daughter - Jostein Gaarder
Don’t Panic: Douglas Adams and the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Neil Gaiman
Mademoiselle: Conversations with Nadia Boulanger - Nadia Boulanger and some other person
Arthur Honegger - Harry Halbreich
Perfect Pitch - Nicolas Slonimsky
Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela - Elena Poniatowska
The Irresistable Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical - Shane Claiborne
Lettres à ses parents - Arthur Honegger
Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters
Freedom’s Sisters - Naomi Kritzer
Through a Glass, Darkly - Jostein Gaarder
She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders - Jennifer Finney Boylan
The Lies of Locke Lamora - Scott Lynch
The Chosen - Chaim Potok
The Inner Game of Music - Barry Green
Music, My Love - Jean-Pierre Rampal
The Promise - Chaim Potok
The Student Conductor - Robert Ford
Music to my Sorrow - Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill
The Areas of my Expertise - John Hodgman
Moab is my Washpot - Stephen Fry
Making History - Stephen Fry
Naked in the Promised Land - Lillian Faderman
Free Play - Stephen Nachmanovitch
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders - Neil Gaiman
July, July! - Tim O’Brien
Aaron Copland: The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man - Howard Pollack
Revenge - Stephen Fry
Assassination Vacation - Sarah Vowell
Stephen Fry’s Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music - Tim Lihoreau/Stephen Fry
The Audacity of Hope - Barack Obama
Now if we could get some more Dopers in here with their lists, and if someone was willing do a database, we could determine a Doper Book of the Year or something.
I read The Lies of Locke Lamora this year, but that’s the only 2006 match, so far.
I think several dopers read The Last Witchfinder and The Road.