{"id":957,"date":"2009-03-20T09:03:14","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T07:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/herebesubtlety.com\/?page_id=957"},"modified":"2009-09-05T18:00:19","modified_gmt":"2009-09-05T16:00:19","slug":"annes-book-list","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/herebesubtlety.com\/?page_id=957","title":{"rendered":"Anne&#8217;s Book List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s my very incomplete reading list, meaning books I have read. Though I think I might get it together from 2005 on everything before is destined to be incomplete and not in the right chronological order.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Read in 2009<\/span><\/p>\n<p>29. Jeff Smith: Bone &#8211; Old Man&#8217;s Cave (Vol. 6) (5 Sep)<br \/>\n28. Donald Norman: The Design of Future Things (28 Aug)<br \/>\n27. Andrew Stellman &#038; Jennifer Greene: Beautiful Teams (25 Aug)<br \/>\n26. David Mitchell: number9dream (13 Aug)<br \/>\n25. Jeff Smith: Bone &#8211; Rock Jaw, Master of the Eastern Border (Vol. 5) (31 Jul)<br \/>\n24. Scarlett Thomas: PopCo (31 Jul)<br \/>\n23. David Mitchell: Ghostwritten (23 Jul)<br \/>\n22. Jonathan Barnes: The Somnambulist (5 Jul)<br \/>\n21. Markus Zusak: The Book Thief (11 Jun)<br \/>\n20. Neal Stephenson: Cryptonomicon (1 Jun)<br \/>\n19. Carolyn Parkhurst: The Dogs of Babel (26 May)<br \/>\n18. The Productive Programmer by Neal Ford (6 May)<br \/>\n17. NHibernate in Action by Pierre Henri Kuat\u00e9, Tobin Harris, Christian Bauer, and Gavin King (3 May)<br \/>\n16. Don&#8217;t Make Me Think by Steve Krug (19 Apr)<br \/>\n15. The Little Book by Selden Edwards (19 Apr)<br \/>\n14. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski (13 Apr)<br \/>\n13. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini<br \/>\n12. Katherine Neville: The Eight (25 Mar)<br \/>\n11. Christopher Brookmyre: A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil (17 Mar)<br \/>\n10. Aravind Adiga: The White Tiger (17 Mar)<br \/>\n9. Neil Gaiman: Stardust (16 Mar)<br \/>\n8. Joel Spolsky: Joel on Software (1 Mar)<br \/>\n7. Chris Cleave: The Other Hand (1 Mar)<br \/>\n6. Jodi Picoult: My Sister&#8217;s Keeper (28 Feb)<br \/>\n5. Neil Gaiman &#038; Terry Pratchett: Good Omens (25 Feb)<br \/>\n4. David Sedaris: When You are Engulfed in Flames (21 Feb)<br \/>\n3. Junot Diaz: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (7 Feb)<br \/>\n2. Brenda Laurel: Computers as Theatre (1 Feb)<br \/>\n1. Ken Schwaber, Mike Beedle: Agile Software Development with Scrum (18 Jan) <em>(So?)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Read in 2008<\/span><\/p>\n<p>46. Scarlett Thomas: The End of Mr. Y (31 Dec)<br \/>\n45. Oliver Sacks: Musicophilia (25 Dec)<br \/>\n44. Julie Orringer: How To Breathe Underwater (24 Dec)<br \/>\n43. Barney Stinson: The Bro Code (6 Dec)<br \/>\n42. Neil Gaiman: The Graveyard Book (6 Dec)<br \/>\n41. Kathrin Passig &#038; Sascha Lobo: Die Dinge geregelt kriegen (1 Dec)<br \/>\n40. Stephenie Meyer: The Host (30 Nov)<br \/>\n39. Scott Smith: The Ruins (16 Nov)<br \/>\n38. Richard Adams: Watership Down (13 Nov)<br \/>\n37. Jonathan Coe: House of Sleep (21 Oct)<br \/>\n36. Neil Gaiman: Smoke and Mirrors (12 Oct)<br \/>\n35. Jeff Smith: Bone, Vol. 4 The Dragonslayer (2 Oct)<br \/>\n34. Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe (30 Sep)<br \/>\n33. Paul Torday: The Irresistible Inheritance Of Wilberforce (20 Sep)<br \/>\n32. William Gibson: Spook Country (15 Sep)<br \/>\n31. Kirsten Miller: Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City (15 Aug)<br \/>\n30. Vendela Vida: Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name (8 Aug)<br \/>\n29. Jonathan Carroll: Glass Soup (5 Aug)<br \/>\n28. Markus Zusak: I am the Messenger (29 Jul)<br \/>\n27. Stephen Fry: Making History (26 Jul)<br \/>\n26. Nicole Krauss: The History of Love (22 Jul)<br \/>\n25. Ken Follett: The Pillars of the Earth (17 Jul)<br \/>\n24. Mark Dunn: Ella Minnow Pea (9 Jul)<br \/>\n23. Matt Ruff: Bad Monkeys (6 Jul)<br \/>\n22. Ken Follett: World Without End (30 Jun)<br \/>\n21. Walter Moers: Ensel &#038; Krete (11 Jun)<br \/>\n20. Haruki Murakami: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (29 May)<br \/>\n19. David Weinberger: Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web (18 May)<br \/>\n18. Ahmet Zappa: The Monstrous Memoirs of a Mighty McFearless (8 May)<br \/>\n17. Meg Rosoff: How I Live Now (4 May)<br \/>\n16. Miranda July: No One Belongs Here More Than You (3 May)<br \/>\n15. Michael Chabon: The Yiddish Policemen&#8217;s Union (3 May)<br \/>\n14. Alan Weisman, The World Without Us<br \/>\n13. Karen Russell: St. Lucy&#8217;s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves<br \/>\n12. China Mi\u00e9ville: Un Lun Dun<br \/>\n11. Per Petterson: Stealing Horses<br \/>\n10. Jeff Smith: Bone Vol. 3: Eyes of the Storm (15 Mar)<br \/>\n9. Neal Stephenson: Snow Crash (13 Mar)<br \/>\n8. Neal Stephenson: Confusion (9 Mar)<br \/>\n7. Roald Dahl: Going Solo (1 Mar)<br \/>\n6. Steven Hall: The Raw Shark Texts (27 Feb)<br \/>\n5. Cormac McCarthy: The Road (24 Feb)<br \/>\n4. G.W. Dahlquist: The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters (23 Feb)<br \/>\n3. John Boyne: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2 Feb)<br \/>\n2. Anna Gavalda: Ensemble, C&#8217;est Tout (Hunting and Gathering) (1 Feb)<br \/>\n1. Keith Donohue: The Stolen Child (15 Jan)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Read in 2007<\/span><\/p>\n<p>56. China Mi\u00e9ville: King Rat (31 Dec)<br \/>\n55. Dieter Nuhr: Gibt es intelligentes Leben? (10 Dec)<br \/>\n54. Roderick Gordon &#038; Brian Williams: Tunnels (14 Oct)<br \/>\n53. Douglas Adams: Last Chance to See (I have read this before. More than once.)<br \/>\n52. Linwood Barclay: No Time for Goodbye (18 Sep)<br \/>\n51. Wolfram Fleischhauer: Das Buch, in dem die Welt verschwand<br \/>\n50. Walter Moers: Der Schrecksenmeister (28 Aug)<br \/>\n49. Albert Sanchez Pinol: Cold Skin (24 Aug)<br \/>\n48. Carson McCullers: The Member of the Wedding (19 Aug)<br \/>\n47. Kevin Guilfoile: Cast of Shadows (16 Aug)<br \/>\n46. Margaret Atwood: The Blind Assassin<br \/>\n45. Isabel Abedi: Whisper (27 Jul)<br \/>\n44. J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (22 Jul)<br \/>\n43. Kurt Vonnegut: Breakfast of Champions (12 Jul)<br \/>\n42. Nick Hornby: High Fidelity (6 Jul)<br \/>\n41. Ray Bradbury: The Illustrated Man<br \/>\n40. John Marks: Fangland<br \/>\n39. Joan Didion: The Year of Magical Thinking (12 Jun)<br \/>\n38. Ray Bradbury: The Martian Chronicles (10 Jun)<br \/>\n37. Stephenie Meyer: Twilight (5 Jun)<br \/>\n36. Jeff Smith: Bone Vol. 2: The Great Cow Race<br \/>\n35. Jostein Gaarder: Der Geschichtenverk\u00c3\u00a4ufer<br \/>\n34. Anne Tyler: Digging to America<br \/>\n33. John Connolly: The Book of Lost Things (28 May)<br \/>\n32. Jeff Smith: Bone Vol. 1: Out of Boneville<br \/>\n31. Leonie Swann: Three Bags Full (23 May)<br \/>\n30. Neal Stephenson: Quicksilver (20 May)<br \/>\n29. Isabel Allende: City of the Beasts (7 May)<br \/>\n28. Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary (7 May)<br \/>\n27. Irene Nemirovsky: Suite francaise (1 May)<br \/>\n26. Jules Verne:  20,000 Leagues Under the Sea \t(27 Apr)<br \/>\n25. David Mitchell: Black Swan Green<br \/>\n24. Neil Gaiman: Fragile Things (16 Apr)<br \/>\n23. Frank Sch\u00e4tzing: Nachrichten aus einem unbekannten Universum (14 Apr)<br \/>\n22. Zadie Smith: On Beauty (4 Apr)<br \/>\n21. Sara Gruen: Water for Elephants (30 Mar)<br \/>\n20. Stephen King: Cell (27 Mar)<br \/>\n19. Marilynne Robinson: Gilead (25 Mar)<br \/>\n18. Umberto Eco: The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (22 Mar)<br \/>\n17. Haruki Murakami: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (19 Mar)<br \/>\n16. Tove Jansson: Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip (15 Mar)<br \/>\n15. Karen Duve: Die entf\u00c3\u00bchrte Prinzessin (11 Mar)<br \/>\n14. Neil Gaiman: American Gods (9 Mar)<br \/>\n13. The Best American Comics 2006 (6 Mar)<br \/>\n12. Gregory Maguire: Son of a Witch<br \/>\n11. Max Barry: Jennifer Government (27 Feb)<br \/>\n10. Henning Mankell: Before the Frost (25 Feb)<br \/>\n9. Alison Bechdel: Fun Home (18 Feb)<br \/>\n8. Diane Setterfield: The Thirteenth Tale (18 Feb)<br \/>\n7. Kai Meyer: The Stone Light (13 Feb)<br \/>\n6. Clifford Chase: Winkie (10 Feb)<br \/>\n5. David Sedaris: Me Talk Pretty One Day<br \/>\n4. Chuck Palahniuk: Lullaby<br \/>\n3. Sarah Waters: The Night Watch<br \/>\n2. China Mi\u00c3\u00a9ville: Looking for Jake<br \/>\n1. Elizabeth Kostova: The Historian (5 Jan)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Read in 2006<\/span><\/p>\n<p>56. Walter Moers: Wilde Reise durch die Nacht<br \/>\n55. John Haskell: American Purgatorio (12 Dec)<br \/>\n54. Charles Dickens: Great Expectations (10 Dec)<br \/>\n53. Benjamin Kunkel: Indecision (27 Nov)<br \/>\n52. Marisha Pessl: Special Topics in Calamity Physics (18 Nov)<br \/>\n51. A. Lee Martinez: Gil&#8217;s All Fright Diner<br \/>\n50. Marc Levy: Et si c&#8217;\u00c3\u00a9tait vrai<br \/>\n49. Carlos Ruiz Zafon: The Shadow of the Wind (1 Okt)<br \/>\n48. Meg Cabot: Princess in Love<br \/>\n47. Christopher Paolini: Eldest<br \/>\n46. Ralf Isau: Das Netz der Schattenspiele<br \/>\n45. Conor Kostick: Epic<br \/>\n44. David Sedaris: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim<br \/>\n43. Anthony Bourdain: A Cook\u00e2??s Tour<br \/>\n42. Janet Evanovich: One For the Money<br \/>\n41. Jasper Fforde: The Well of Lost Plots<br \/>\n40. Daniel Pennac: Comme un roman (24 Aug)<br \/>\n39. Mireille Guiliano: French Women Don&#8217;t Get Fat<br \/>\n38. Naomi Moriyama: Japanese Women Don&#8217;t Get Old or Fat<br \/>\n37. Ann Patchett: Bel Canto (2 Aug)<br \/>\n36. Bo Fowler: Scepticism Inc. (23 July)<br \/>\n35. Jasper Fforde: Lost in a Good Book (21 July)<br \/>\n34. Walter Moers: Rumo &#038; Die Wunder im Dunkeln (16 July)<br \/>\n33. Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go<br \/>\n32. Meg Cabot: Princess in the Spotlight<br \/>\n31. Jostein Gaarder: Bibbi Bokkens magiske bibliotek (Bibbi Bokkens magic library)<br \/>\n30. Walter Moers: Ensel &#038; Krete<br \/>\n29. Meg Cabot: The Princess Diaries (27 June)<br \/>\n28. Amber Benson &#038; Christopher Golden: Ghosts of Albion: Accursed (25 June)<br \/>\n27. Philip Pullman: The Amber Spyglass (20 June)<br \/>\n26. Roald Dahl: The BFG (16 June)<br \/>\n25. Walter Moers: Die 13 1\/2 Leben des K\u00c3\u00a4pt&#8217;n Blaub\u00c3\u00a4r (15 June)<br \/>\n24. Bastian Sick: Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod (12 June)<br \/>\n23. Neil Gaiman: Anansi Boys (10 June)<br \/>\n22. Stephen King: Wizard and Glass (Dark Tower IV) (8 June)<br \/>\n21. Sarah Kuttner: Das oblatend\u00c3\u00bcnne Eis des halben Zweidrittelwissens (2 June)<br \/>\n20. Philip Pullman: The Subtle Knife (17 May)<br \/>\n19. Arto Paasilinna: Im Wald der gehenkten F\u00c3\u00bcchse (13 May)<br \/>\n18. Philip Pullman: The Golden Compass (9 May)<br \/>\n17. Marjane Satrapi: Persepolis I (1 May)<br \/>\n16. Tom Wolfe: I Am Charlotte Simmons (30 Apr)<br \/>\n15. Julian Barnes: The History of the World in 10 1\/2 Chapters (19 Apr)<br \/>\n14. Lois Lowry: Gathering Blue (14 Apr)<br \/>\n13. David Mitchell: Cloud Atlas (12 Apr)<br \/>\n12. Kai Meyer: The Water Mirror (aka The Flowing Queen) (4 Apr)<br \/>\n11. Stephen King: On Writing (2 Apr)<br \/>\n10. Susanna Clarke: Jonathan Strange &#038; Mr Norrell (30 Mar)<br \/>\n9. Roald Dahl: Boy (27 Feb)<br \/>\n8. Haruki Murakami: Kafka on the Shore (25 Feb)<br \/>\n7. Khaled Hosseini: The Kite Runner (15 Feb)<br \/>\n6. Alexander McCall Smith: The No. 1 Ladies&#8216; Detective Agency (8 Feb)<br \/>\n5. Kate Atkinson: Case Histories (2 Feb)<br \/>\n4. Jonathan Lethem: The Fortress of Solitude (28 Jan)<br \/>\n3. Jon Stewart: America (The Book) (17 Jan)<br \/>\n2. Andrew Sean Greer: The Confessions of Max Tivoli (13 Jan)<br \/>\n1. Dan Brown: Deception Point (2 Jan)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Read in 2005<\/span><\/p>\n<p>42. Neil Gaiman: Neverwhere<br \/>\n41. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0142004812\/herebesubtlet-20\/\" target=\"_blank\">J.M. Coetzee: Elizabeth Costello<\/a><br \/>\n40. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0380977788\/herebesubtlet-20\/\" target=\"_blank\">Neil Gaiman: Coraline<\/a><br \/>\n39. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0060577312\/herebesubtlet-20\/\" target=\"_blank\">Angie Sage: Magyk<\/a><br \/>\n38. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0345348036\/herebesubtlet-20\/\" target=\"_blank\">William Goldman: The Princess Bride<\/a><br \/>\n37. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0439372976\/herebesubtlet-20\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Balliett: Chasing Vermeer<\/a><br \/>\n36. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0380731851\/herebesubtlet-20\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dennis Lehane: Mystic River<\/a><br \/>\n35. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0312282990\/herebesubtlet-20\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Chabon: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay<\/a><br \/>\n34. Harry Mulisch: The Procedure (in Dutch, mind you)<br \/>\n33. Dave Eggers: You Shall Know Our Velocity<br \/>\n32. Anthony Bourdain: Kitchen Confidential<br \/>\n31. Barbara Kingsolver: The Poisonwood Bible<\/p>\n<p>30. Joanne K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (got it on July 16th at 10 am, finished on July 17th at 4pm&#8230; take that!)<br \/>\n29. Michel Houellebecq: Platform (in French)<br \/>\n28. Paul Burke: Father Frank<br \/>\n27. Cornelia Funke: Inkheart (in German)<br \/>\n26. Charles Baxter: Saul &#038; Patsy<br \/>\n25. Robert Harris: Pompeii<br \/>\n24. Edith Nesbit: Five Children and It<br \/>\n23. Christopher Moore: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ&#8217;s Childhood Pal<br \/>\n22. Margaret Atwood: Oryx and Crake<br \/>\n21. Laurell K. Hamilton: The Laughing Corpse<br \/>\n20. Dan Brown: Angels &#038; Demons<br \/>\n19. Stephen King: The Waste Lands (Dark Tower III)<br \/>\n18. Jane Austen: Emma<br \/>\n17. Stephen King: The Drawing of the Three (Dark Tower II)<br \/>\n16. Mitch Albom: The Five People You Meet in Heaven<br \/>\n15. Stephen King: The Gunslinger (Dark Tower I)<br \/>\n14. Tanuja Desai Hidier: Born Confused<br \/>\n13. Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre<br \/>\n12. Sarah Waters: Fingersmith<br \/>\n11. Laurell K. Hamilton: Guilty Pleasures<br \/>\n10. Christopher Paolini: Eragon<br \/>\n9. Christopher Brookmyre: Quite Ugly One Morning<br \/>\n8. William Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity Fair<br \/>\n7. L. Frank Baum: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz<br \/>\n6. Gregory Maguire: Wicked: The Times and Life of the Wicked Witch of the West<br \/>\n5. Frank Sch\u00c3\u00a4tzing: Der Schwarm<br \/>\n4. Jasper Fforde: The Eyre Affair<br \/>\n3. Carolyn Parkhurst: The Dogs of Babel<br \/>\n2. David Guterson: Our Lady of the Forest<br \/>\n1. Judith Hermann: Summerhouse, Later (in German)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Read in 2004<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Marlen Haushofer: Die Wand<br \/>\nAudrey Niffenegger: The Time-Traveler&#8217;s Wife<br \/>\nAugusten Burroughs: Running With Scissors<br \/>\nMatt Ruff: Set This House in Order<br \/>\nJ.M. Barrie: Peter Pan<br \/>\nRuss Rymer: Genie. A Scientific Tragedy<br \/>\nAngela Carter: The Magic Toyshop<br \/>\nKate Chopin: Awakening<br \/>\nJ.M. Coetzee: Disgrace<br \/>\nMark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time<br \/>\nSteven Pinker: The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language<br \/>\nLouis Sachar: Holes<br \/>\nDan Brown: Digital Fortress<br \/>\nDonald A. 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