{"id":3240,"date":"2005-12-31T10:05:31","date_gmt":"2005-12-31T16:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2005\/12\/books-read-in-2005.html"},"modified":"2005-12-31T10:05:31","modified_gmt":"2005-12-31T16:05:31","slug":"books-read-in-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2005\/12\/books-read-in-2005.html","title":{"rendered":"Books Read in 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(In descending order this time around!)<br \/>\n<UL type=\"square\"><LI>An Unfinished Season, by Ward Just<br \/>\n<LI>Author, Author, by David Lodge<br \/>\n<LI>The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters, by Elisabeth Robinson<br \/>\n<LI>Quicksilver, by Neal Stephenson<br \/>\n<LI>She Is Me, by Cathleen Schine<br \/>\n<LI>The World According to Mimi Smartypants<br \/>\n<LI>Neighboring Lives, by Thomas Disch and Charles Naylor<br \/>\n<LI>The Shape of Water, by Andrea Camilleri<br \/>\n<LI>Home Land, by Sam Lipsyte<br \/>\n<LI>Behind the Scenes at the Museum, by Kate Atkinson<br \/>\n<LI>The Devil&#8217;s Tour, by Mary Karr (poetry)<br \/>\n<LI>Criminals, by Margot Livesey<br \/>\n<LI>Samaritan, by Richard Price<br \/>\n<LI>A Changed Man, by Francine Prose<br \/>\n<LI>Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell<br \/>\n<LI>Dreamer, by Charles Johnson<br \/>\n<LI>Camp Concentration, by Thomas Disch<br \/>\n<LI>The Translator, by Ward Just<br \/>\n<LI>Blue Hour, by Carolyn Forche (poetry)<br \/>\n<LI>Paradise, by A.L.Kennedy<br \/>\n<LI>Sixpence House, by Paul Collins<br \/>\n<LI>Saturday, by Ian McEwan<br \/>\n<LI>A Girl Named Zippy, by Haven Kimmel<br \/>\n<LI>The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls<br \/>\n<LI>Oracle Night, by Paul Auster<br \/>\n<LI>The Lives of the Muses, by Francine Prose<br \/>\n<LI>Hamlet, by Shakespeare (reread)<br \/>\n<LI>The Preservationist, by David Maine<br \/>\n<LI>Monkeewrench, by P.J. Tracy<br \/>\n<LI>Live Bait, by P.J. Tracy<br \/>\n<LI>The Company of Strangers, by Robert Wilson<br \/>\n<LI>Dead Run, by P.J. Tracy<br \/>\n<LI>The James Joyce Murders, by Amanda Cross<br \/>\n<LI>The History of Love, by Nicole Krauss<br \/>\n<LI>Wine &#038; War, The French, the Nazis and the Battle for France&#8217;s Greatest Treasure, by Don &#038; Petie Kladstrup<br \/>\n<LI>Housekeeping, by Marilynne Robinson<br \/>\n<LI>Rhapsody, by Elizabeth Haydon<br \/>\n<LI>Prophecy, by Elizabeth Haydon<br \/>\n<LI>Destiny, by Elizabeth Haydon<br \/>\n<LI>Across the Nightingale Floor, by Lian Hearn<br \/>\n<LI>The Falls, by Ian Rankin<br \/>\n<LI>Nam-A-Rama, by Phillip Jennings<br \/>\n<LI>Sidetracked, by Henning Mankell<br \/>\n<LI>Bankok 8, by John Burdett<br \/>\n<LI>Foreign Babes in Beijing, by Rachel DeWoskin<br \/>\n<LI>Travels with a Tangerine, by Tim MacKintosh-Smith<br \/>\n<LI>The Closed Circle, by Jonathan Coe<br \/>\n<LI>Wish You Were Here, by Stewart O&#8217;Nan<br \/>\n<LI>The Wonder Spot, by Melissa Bank<br \/>\n<LI>Dragon&#8217;s Winter, by Elizabeth A. Lynn (re-read)<br \/>\n<LI>Dragon&#8217;s Treasure, by Elizabeth A. Lynn<br \/>\n<LI>Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak<br \/>\n<LI>Why Are We at War?, by Norman Mailer<br \/>\n<LI>Sleep With Me, by Joanna Briscoe<br \/>\n<LI>The Ha-Ha, by Dave King<br \/>\n<LI>Specimen Days, by Michael Cunningham<br \/>\n<LI>Echo House, by Ward Just<br \/>\n<LI>Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson<br \/>\n<LI>Crossing California, by Adam Langer<br \/>\n<LI>The Dreams, by Naguib Mahfouz<br \/>\n<LI>The Blackbird Papers, by Ian Smith<br \/>\n<LI>Here is Where We Meet, by John Berger<br \/>\n<LI>Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro<br \/>\n<LI>Birds of a Feather, (Maisie Dobbs #2) by Jaqueline Winspear<br \/>\n<LI>Indelible Acts, by A.L. Kennedy<br \/>\n<LI>Maisie Dobbs, by Jacqueline Winspear<br \/>\n<LI>On Beauty, by Zadie Smith<br \/>\n<LI>A Gentleman&#8217;s Game, by Greg Rucka<br \/>\n<LI>Nobody&#8217;s Warriors, by Maurice Shadbolt<br \/>\n<LI>Mothers &#038; Other Monsters, by Maureen F. McHugh<br \/>\n<LI>Knife of Dreams (Wheel of Time Book 11), by Robert Jordan<br \/>\n<LI>Digital Fortress, by Dan Brown (blech. Airport reading. &#8217;nuff said.)<br \/>\n<LI>(half of) Henderson the Rain King, by Saul Bellow<br \/>\n<LI>Willful Creatures, by Aimee Bender<br \/>\n<LI>The House of Sleep, by Jonathan Coe<br \/>\n<LI>Silent Bob Speaks, the Collected Writings of Kevin Smith<br \/>\n<LI>Burr, by Gore Vidal<br \/>\n<LI>To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee<br \/>\n<LI>Birthmarks, by Sarah Dunant<br \/>\n<LI>The Way by Swann&#8217;s, by Marcel Proust<br \/>\n<LI>In a Sunburned Country, by Bill Bryson<br \/>\n<LI>The Whore&#8217;s Child (and Other Stories) , by Richard Russo<br \/>\n<LI>The Universe and the Teacup: The Mathematics of Truth and Beauty, by K.C. Cole<br \/>\n<LI>Cherry Ames, Student Nurse, by Helen Wells (reread)<br \/>\n<LI>Cherry Ames, Senior Nurse, by Helen Wells (reread)<br \/>\n<LI>The Philosopher&#8217;s Demise, Learning to Speak French, by Richard Watson<br \/>\n<LI>Cherry Ames, Army Nurse, by Helen Wells (reread)<br \/>\n<LI>Cherry Ames, Chief Nurse, by Helen Wells (reread)<br \/>\n<LI>The Magician&#8217;s Nephew, by C.S. Lewis (reread)<br \/>\n<LI>The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis (reread)<br \/>\n<LI>Thank You for Not Smoking, by Christopher Buckley<br \/>\n<LI>Old School, by Tobias Wolff<br \/>\n<LI>The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins<br \/>\n<LI>Siren Song (Royal Dynasty, Bk 1), by Roberta Gellis (reread)<br \/>\n<LI>To the Castle, by Joan Wolf<br \/>\n<LI>The Diamond King, by Patricia Potter <\/UL><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(In descending order this time around!) 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