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The following is a list of the books I 'consumed' during 2006. That means I read, or listened, to the, unless noted otherwise, unabridged book.         
If I note a book is Okay, that means I enjoyed it, but it didn't move me to hype it or go out of my way to recommend it.
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Title
Author
ISBN or comment
Source
One Man’s Wilderness—An Alaskan Odyssey
Sam Keith (Journals of Richard Proenneke)
0882405136
Library paperback
House of Mirth
Edith Warton
 
Audio
Second Year of Pants Sisterhood
 
 
Audio
The Winemaker’s Daughter
Timothy Egan
1-4000-3410-8
Paperback
Margarita—A Guatemalan Peace Corps Experience
Marjorie DeMoss Casebolt
1-880222-38-8
Paperback
The Dew Breaker
Edwidge Danticat
1-4000-3429-9
Paperback
The Serpent on the Crown
Elizabeth Peters
 
Audio
Coming About—A Family Passage at Sea
Susan Tyler Hitchock
0-345-40663-X
Library paperback
Darjeeling
Bharti Kirchner
312-31606-2
Paperback
Rigaberta Menchu, Defending Human Rights in Guatemala
 
Michael Silverstone
1-55861-198-3 (lc)
1-55861-199-1 (pb)
Library NF (JR Bio) HB
Bait and Switch
Larry Brooks
0-451-21247-9 (pb)
Paperback
Long Time Gone
J. A. Jance
 
Audio
The Full Cupboard of Life
Alexander Smith
0375422188
Paperback
The Lost Continent
Bill Bryson
0-06-092008-4
Paperback
An Inmate’s Daughter
Jan Walker
0-97-9714161-9-2
Paperback
The Three Junes
 
 
Audio
Touching the Void
Joe Simpson
0-06-073055-2
Paperback
R is for Ricochet
Sue Grafton
 
Audio
S is for Silence
Sue Grafton
 
Audio
New Mercies
Sandra Dallas
0-312-33620-9
Paperback
The Forest Lover
Susan Vreeland
 
Audio
Tikal (unfinished)
 
 
Library HB
Did not finish…might check it out again before returning to Guatemala
Waxwings
Jonathan Raban
 
Library HB
The Lighthouse
P.D. James
 
Audio
A Year by the Sea—Thoughts of an An Unfinished Woman
Joan Anderson
0-7679-0593-8
Lit. Paperback (jan walker’s book)
The Broker
John Grisham
 
Hardback
The Lost Painting
Johnathan Harr
 
Audio
The Last Girls
Lee Smith
 
Audio
This Old House
Mary Daheim
OK
Library Paperback
Death Trap
Sue Henry
OK
Audio
An American Summer
Frank Deford
V. Good
Literary paperback
Rowing to Latitude—Journeys Along the Arctic’s Edge
Jill Fredston
Good
Literary paperback
First Victim
Ridley Pearson
Good
Hardback
Wild Woman
 
Good
Lit. Paperback
Lobster Chronicles/Life on a very Small Island
Linda Greenlaw
Good
Lit. Paperback
Holy Cow
Sarah McDonald
Good
Audio
Rogue River Journal
John Daniel
OK
Lit. paperback
Guardian of the Horizon
Elizabeth Peters
OK
Audio
The Alpine Quilt
Mary Daheim
Ok
Paperback
Gunpowder Green
Laura Childs
Ok
Paperback
Fraud
Anita Brookner
Ugh!
Lit. Paperback
Skeleton Man
Tony Hillerman
Ok
Paperback
Travels with Alice
Calvin Trillin
Good
Paperback
Confessions of a Reformed Dieter
A. J. Rochester
V. Good
Audio
The Hungry Ocean
Linda Greenlaw
V. Good
Lit. paperback
Death on a Casual Friday
 
okay
Paperback
An Unfinished Marriage
 
 Ok
Lit. Paperback
(fr. Jan
The Lincoln Lawyer
 
 Ok
Audio
The Perfect Storm
Sebastian Junger
Good
Lit Paperback
A Case of Need
Michael Crichton
OK
Paperback
The Island Gang
 
YA, local,
poorly written
Lit Paperback
The Rug Merchant
 
Ok
Audio
Where There’s A Will
Aaron Elkins
Good
Paperback
 
Success on the Step
C. Marin Faure
ISBN 0-9760200-0-9
Good
Lit paperback
Edge of Evil?
J. A. Jance
 
Paperback
My Sister’s Keeper
Jodi Picoult
Good!
Audio
Neither Here Nor There
Bill Bryson
Ok
Audio
The Iron Orchid
Stuart Wood
Ok
Paperback
Break No Bones
Kathy Reichs
Ok
Audio
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Ann Brashares
 Ok
Audio
Ghost Writer
John Harwood
Nah…don’t bother
Lit. paperback
Amelia Peabody book Temple
Elizabeth Peters
 Ok
Audio
Through a Glass Darkly
Kaarleen Koen
Long…but good/ok
Lit. paperback
Driven to Distraction
 
 not finished
NF
The Highest Tide
Jim Lynch
V. Good…local (Olympia) coming of age novel
Lit. paperback
Mayflower
Nathan Philbrick
Good…might buy book due to genealogy connection
Audio
Sex Murder and a Double Latte
Kyra Davis
ok
Audio
 
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