What books did you read in 2006?

[LSK]

I finished
Big Lies - Joe Conason
Fooled Again - Mark Crispin Miller
Fubar - Sam Seder
1776 - David McCullough
State of Denial - Bob Woodward
ISG Report

In the middle of
The European Dream - Jeremy Rifkin
The Great Unraveling - Paul Krugman

Just starting
Fiasco - Thomas Ricks

[Flarney]

1. I read at least 2 or 3 Shakespeares...

Edit, seriously though:

Armed Madhouse by Greg Palast
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken
Fubar by Sam Sedar
9/11 and American Empire: Intellectuals Speak Out by David Ray Griffin and Peter Dale Scott
The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions And Distortions by David Ray Griffin
The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11 by David Ray Griffin and Richard Falk
Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can't Stand Up to the Facts by The Editors of Popular Mechanics
Towers of Deception: The Media Cover-up of 9/11 by Barrie Zwicker
We the People: A Call to Take Back America by Thom Hartmann
The Worst Person in the World: And 202 Strong Condenders by Keith Olbermann
Saving General Washington by J.R. Norton

Working On:

Screwed: The Undeclared War on the Midde Class by Thom Hartmann
Watchmen by Alan Moore

[CGowen]

20. lots of 911 books

Are you going to read

Debunking 9/11 Debunking: An Answer to Popular Mechanics and Other Defenders of the Official Conspiracy Theory by David Ray Griffin ?

[Mr Rabble]

2. only a few new books

Chomsky- Failed States
Suskind- 1% Doctrine
Sagan- Demon Haunted World
Harris- Letters to a Christian Nation
Crispin Miller- Fooled Again


Really looking forward to the new Chalmers Johnson, due in March.

[PRETZEL]

3. Off the top of my head,

State of Denial - Woodward
Hubris - Corn & Isakoff
Ghost Wars - Steve Coll
America at the Crossroads - Francis Fukuyama
Shadow Wars (?) - Richard Miniter

and of course, Harry Potter

I think there were a couple more, but can't remember that far back.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

15. We have similar tastes.

I "read" the first four Harry Potter books on CD while driving to work and back, and have the next two lined up to go as soon as my audio rental place sends them. The narration is wonderful.

I read State of Denial "manually" and Hubris is next.

And a bunch of others that weren't memorable.

[Warpy]

4. I had eye surgery this year

and still have piss poor vision. I have NO close vision, and need to wear two pairs of +300 reading glasses, one on top of the other, to read anything. I've managed to read some very light fiction, but that's about all. I also managed to do the inheritance tax form, which would be a triumph even if I could have seen it clearly. Oh, I did read "FUBAR," which someone gave me and I recycled.

It may be several more months before the transplant is stable enough that I can get glasses that work.

Thank goodness for ctrl+scroll. Without the puter, I'd class myself as functionally illiterate.

[Richardo]

5. 'Blind Into Baghdad' was the best non-fiction I read

But 'Misquoting Jesus' was great also.

For fiction, 'A Spot of Bother' by Mark Haddon and 'Echo Park' by Michael Connelly

I read a lot of other stuff, but I'm blocking now for some reason.

[wavesofeuphoria]

6. a number of history books about social movements and public policy issues

Holy Warriors, Stewart (abolitism)
Feminism and Suffrage, DuBois
Freedom Summer, McAdam (New Left)
A World without War, Early (Peace Movement)
Eugene V. Debs, Ginger
Governing the Hearth, Grossberg
City of Eros, Gilfoyle (NYC, prostitution)
Domestic Tyranny, Pleck (domestic abuse)
Moral Reconstruction, Foster (early right wingers)
Purity in Print, Boyer (censorship)
Prurient Interests, Friedman (censorship)
Settlement Folk, Carson (settlement movement)
Toward Nuclear Abolition, Wittner

[MasonJar]

7. I read Inconvenient Truth and then I went back and re-read Earth

in the Balance (written by Al Gore in 1992.) I also read Theodore Rex about Teddy Roosevelt and some amazing newish fiction such as The Memory Keeper"s Daughter (about discounting a deformed child), Tortilla Curtain (about a so-called liberal's treatment of immigrants),The Samarai's Garden ( a beautiful story about caring about people with a monstrous disease), many more. These may sound like dreary reading, but actually were written with a grace and a beauty that is hard to define. I also re-read some classics like the Picture of Dorian Gray, 1984, Pride and Prejudice and Brave New World. This is just a smattering of the books that I read this year, but is a good cross section. I personally have no love for Brave New World, but the others, especially Earth in the Balance, are quite eloquent.

[izzie]

8. A lot of WW1 as I always go over board on a subject.

So I end up reading bio also about people on both sides of these years.

[frylock]

9. ..

Welcome to Terrorland: Mohamed Atta & the 9-11 Cover-up in Florida - Daniel Hopsicker
The Big Wedding: 9/11, the Whistle Blowers, and the Cover-up - Sander Hicks
Them: Adventures with Extremists - Jon Ronson
The Men Who Stare at Goats - Jon Ronson
The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America's War on Drugs - Douglas Valentine
Warriors at Suez: Eisenhower Takes America into the Middle East in 1956 - Donald Neff

[LSK]

10. oh yeah, add 1984 to my list

[YankeyMCC]

11. 1776 - McCullough

Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan
"The History of Western Civilization" - Russell
"Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution" - Eric Foner
"Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England" - William Cronon
"Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth" - Williams E. Rees, Mathis Wackernagel, and Phil Testemale
"Katahdin: An Historic Journey - Legends, Exploration, and Preservation of Maine's Highest Peak" - John Neff
"Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution" - Simon Schama
"Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War" - Nathaniel Philbrick
"The Divided Ground : Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution" - Alan Taylor
"Lewis and Clark Through Indian Eyes" - Alvin M. Jr Josephy
"American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21stCentury" - Kevin Phillips

I think that about covers it, I might be leaving something out but I can't think of it now.

[pstans]

12. I recommend reading Hostile Takeover and Screwed: the Attack on the Middle Class

Hostile Takeover by David Sirota and Screwed: the Attack on the Middle Class and what we can do about it by Thom Hartmnann are both great books about the condition of our economy and how corporations are buying the government.

I also read Homegrown Democrat by Garrison Keillor again. It is a great book and reminder of why I am a Democrat.

[Sisaruus]

13. I managed to average a book a week

Desiring Revolution: Second Wave Feminism and the Rewriting of American Sexual Thought - Gerhard
Fast Girls: Teenage Tribes and The Myth of the Slut - White
My Time: Life After 50 - Tafford
Every Drop for Sale: Our Desperate Battle for Water - Rothfeder
Still Life with Oysters & Lemons - Doty
The Exception to the Rulers- Goodman
Students Against Sweatshops: The Making of a Movement - Featherstone
Take the Cannoli - Vowell
The Partly Cloudy Patriot - Vowell
Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World - Goldstone
Play it as it Lays - Didion
The Rural Life - Klinkenborg
Shiksa: The Gentile Woman in the Jewish World - Benvenuto
Best American Essays, 2005
The Nature of Economies - Jacobs
The Sex Life of Food - Crumpacker
The Gifts of the Jews - Cahill
The Solace of Open Spaces - Erlich
Women and Nature - Griffin
The Female Thing - Kipnis
Refuge - Williams
The Polysyllabic Spree - Hornby
Eats, Shoots & Leaves - Truss
Caught in the Fading Light: Mountain Lions, Zen Masters, and Wild Nature - Thorp
Assassination Vacation - Vowell
The Moon by Whale Light - and Other Adventures Among Bats, Penguins, Crocodilians and Whales - Ackerman
The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America – Kozol
……and 25 novels.

I took the first week of January off from work and got a headstart on 2007 reading. Finished 7 books from the ever-growing to-be-read pile. Now reading The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.

[B0S0X87]

14. Read more than usual this past year

I was thinking about this while trying to get to sleep last night, and here's what I remember:

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt- Morris
Theodore Rex- Morris
All the King's Men- Warren
Behind the Scenes*- Keckley
Empire*- Ferguson
Rayburn- Bacon (that's Sam Rayburn, former speaker of the house)
Freakonomics- Leavitt
Mudslingers: the top 25 negative campaigns of all time- Swint
Cosmopolis- DeLillo
This Side of Paradise- Fitzgerald
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Path to Power- Caro
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent
How the Irish Saved Civilization- Cahill
Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class-
Huey Long- Williams
Everyman- Roth
American Pastoral- Roth
Stranger than Fiction- Palahnuik
Our Crowd- Birmingham
His Excellency, George Washington- Ellis
The Agenda*- Woodward
Governing by Campaigning: the Politics of the Bush Presidency*- Edwards
Primary Colors- Klein
Bad Boy: The Life and Politics of Lee Atwater- Brady
Budapest, 1900*- Luckacs
John Adams- McCullough
The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton- Klein
The Devil in the White City- Larson
Lunar Park- Ellis
A River Runs Through it- Maclean

I'm in college, and the books I marked with an asterix I had to read for class. I also left off titles that are really textbooks of which I only read bits and pieces (Understanding Logical Fallacies, Readings on the Habsburg Empire, etc.) Many of the books I read last summer after I broke my leg and got tired of Real World re-runs and Entourage marathons. I guess I've sort of developed a know-it-all complex over the past year. It's not so much that I want to prove that I'm knowledgeable to other people, I just want to know as much as I can about a lot of different things. That, and I enjoy reading. I just started Guns, Germs and Steel and think it's great.

[niccolos_smile]

16. Oof... this is tough without looking at my bookshelf...

1215: the Year of the Magna Carta
Why Most Things Fail
Tehran Rising
Religion and State
Introduction to the Catechism
God and Philosophy
The Crisis of Islam
What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East
How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization
How the Irish Saved Civilization

There are more, but I can't remember them without looking at my bookshelf.

[LWolf]

17. These:

Sunset Western Gardening Book
Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening
Small Scale Livestock Farming
The Healing Herbs
The Complete Book of Ayurvedic Home Remedies
Horsmanship Through Life
Horse Smarts For The Busy Rider
A Framework For Understanding Poverty by Ruby Payne
No Contest: The Case Against Competition by Alfie Kohn
Beyone Measure: Neglected Elements of Accountability by Patricia E. Holland
A Biological Brain in a Cultural Classroom by Robert Sylwester
Global Education: From Thought to Action ASCD
The Soul of Education by Rachael Kessler
The Habit of Thought: From Socratic Seminars to Socratic Practice by Michael Strong
Thinking in Pictures And Other Reports From My Life With Autism by Temple Grandin
Leadership: Examining the Elusive ASCD

[BurtWorm]

18. The last one I read in 2006 was Fiasco

I probably won't remember them all, so here are a random collection of ones I do remember.

Contempt, by Alberto Moravia
The Conformist, by Alberto Moravia
Comet in Moominland, by Tove Jansson
Finn Family Moomintroll, by Tove Jansson
1491, by Charles Mann
Rousseau's Dog, by David Edmonds and John Eidinow
The Bog People, by P. V. Glob
The One Percent Solution, by Ron Suskind
State of War, by James Risen
Spanking the Donkey, by Matt Taibbi

Pretty sparse year for me...

[Enoch1981]

19. My favorites from 2006

I guess my favorites from 2006 were:

Wexler, Wounded Innocents
Dettlinger, The List
Fee & Stuart, How to read the bible for all its worth
Lee, Flesh Gothic
The messenger
Hirsch, Hurricane
Smith, General Urology

[Adsos Letter]

21. Sooo many books, soooo little time...

But I did manage to get through a few:
"Fiasco" by Ricks
"Millennial Fever and the End of the World" by Knight
"Fits, Trances & Visions" by Taves
"Pox Americana" by Fein
"The Civil War as a Theological Crisis" by Noll
"Selling Fear" by Camp
"Social Darwinism and American Thought" by Hofstadter
"The War For Righteousness: Progressive Christianity, the Great War, and the Rise of the Messianic Nation" by Gamble
"Murdering McKinley" by Rauchway
"Jonathan Edwards" by Marsden
"The Godless Constitution" by Moore and Kramnitz
"The Age of Anxiety by Johnson
"The Creationists" by Numbers

At 51 yrs old I have just retired from one career and am going back to University this fall to finally earn my Graduate degree in History, so I expect the reading load for 2007-2008 to increase substantially. :scared:

[Christopher0914]

22. I read...

I read The European Dream as well as:

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris
Static by Amy Goodman
Contempt by Catherine Crier

and many, many others. Those are just the ones that come to mind.