2006 List

Here's the list of books I read this year -- annual essay to follow.

January
1. The Elementary Particles, by Michel Houellebecq, 264
2. Deep Blues, by Robert Palmer, 277
3. The Seas, by Samantha Hunt, 192
February
4. The Assassins' Gate, by George Packer, 451
5. Chip Kidd: Book One, by Chip Kidd
6. Pattern Recognition, by Wm. Gibson, 356
7. Everything That Rises, by Lawrence Weschler, 232
8. Other Electricities, by Ander Monson, 164
March
9. The Trouble with Tom, by Paul Collins, 275
10. Perfume, by Patrick Suskind, 255
11. The Anarchist in the Library, by Siva Vaidhyanathan, 256
12. The Man of Feeling, by Javier Marias, 187
April
13. Black Swan Green, by David Mitchell, 295
May
14. This Side of Paradise, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 322
15. Time Was Soft There, by Jeremy Mercer, 267
16. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, by Michael Chabon, 297
17. The Whitsun Weddings, by Philip Larkin, 46
18. V. and other poems, by Tony Harrison, 86
19. King of the Jews, by Nick Tosches, 316
June
20. Hide & Seek, by Ian Rankin, 261
21. Your Face Tomorrow Vol. 1: Fever and Spear, by Javier Marias, 387
22. Voyage Along the Horizon, by Javier Marias, 171
July
23. About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made, by Ben Yagoda, 479
24. Cold Skin, by Albert Sanchez Pinol, 182
25. Banvard's Folly, by Paul Collins, 287
August
26. Killings, by Calvin Trillin, 231
27. The Gift, by Vladimir Nabokov, 366
28. The Thin Place, by Kathryn Davis, 275
September
29. Killing Yourself to Live, by Chuck Klosterman, 257
30. Staying Up Much Too Late, by Gordon Theisen, 256
31. The Adversary, by Emmanuel Carrere, 216
32. Dermaphoria, by Craig Clevenger, 215
October
33. The Caretaker & The Dumb Waiter: Two Plays, by Harold Pinter, 121
34. Shoedog, by George Pelecanos, 286
35. Diary of a Madman and Other Stories, by Nikolai Gogol, 236
36. The Journalist and the Murderer, by Janet Malcolm, 162
37. The Woods; Lakeboat; and Edmond (three plays), by David Mamet, 298
November
38. English, August: An Indian Story, by Upamanyu Chatterjee, 326
39. Radio Free Albemuth, by Phillip K. Dick, 224
December
40. The Innocents Abroad, by Mark Twain, 52?
41. Little Girl Lost, by Richard Aleas, 220
42. In Defense of English Cooking, by George Orwell, 56