the 2006 booklist.

the scattershot booklist, from january 2006

Andrew Motion: Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life
David Cale: The Redthroats
Stanley Cloud and Lynne Olson: The Murrow Boys: Pioneers On the Front Lines of Broadcast Journalism
Elinor Lipman: The Way Men Act
Amy Bloom: Come to Me: Stories (still her best, I think)
Bruce Clements: What Erika Wants
Diana Wynne Jones: A Tale of Time City (a reread)
Rona Jaffe: Mr. Right Is Dead
Lisa Palac: The Edge of the Bed: How Dirty Pictures Changed My Life
Edward St. Aubyn: Some Hope: A Trilogy
Garret Freymann-Weyr: My Heartbeat (a reread, of course)
Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay (thank you, Simon)
Amy Bloom: A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You: Stories
Laurie Colwin: The Lone Pilgrim: Stories
Edward Eager: Half Magic (first reread in decades)
Various cartoonists: MOME -- Summer 2005 and Fall 2005
Shirley Rousseau Murphy: Cat On the Edge: A Joe Grey Mystery
Jane Walmsley: Brit-Think, Ameri-Think: A Transatlantic Survival Guide
Nancy Holder and Nancy Kilpatrick, eds: Outsiders: 22 All-New Stories from the Edge
Jeanne Birdsall: The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy
Mary Gordon: The Rest of Life: Three Novellas (belated thanks to JT)
Lisa Jo Sagolla: The Girl Who Fell Down: A Biography of Joan McCracken
Elizabeth Hand: Mortal Love
Leonard S. Marcus, ed.: The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy
Louisa May Alcott: Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag (a long-OP collection of short stories)
Alice A. Carter: The Red Rose Girls: An Uncommon Story of Art and Love
Laurence Schimel, ed.: Things Invisible to See: Gay and Lesbian Tales of Magic Realism
Nicola Griffith: With Her Body
Nina Kiriki Hoffman: The Thread That Binds the Bones (obviously a reread)
Alison Bechdel: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Jean Webster: When Patty Went to College (her first novel)
Scott Westerfeld: Peeps
Wen Spencer: Tinker
Pamela Sargent, ed.: Women of Wonder, the Contemporary Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1970s to the 1990s
David Grafton: The Sisters: Babe Mortimer Paley, Betsy Roosevelt Whitney, Minnie Astor Fosburgh: The Lives and Times of the Fabulous Cushing Sisters
Lucy Sussex: Absolute Uncertainty: Short Fiction
John Kander and Fred Ebb (with Greg Lawrence): Colored Lights: Forty Years of Words and Music, Show Biz, Collaboration, and All That Jazz
Susan Campbell Bartoletti: Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow
Jacqueline Davies: Where the Ground Meets the Sky
China Miéville: Looking for Jake: Stories
Francesca Lia Block: Girl Goddess #9: Nine Stories
Kimberly Witherspoon and Andrew Friedman, eds: Don't Try This At Home: Culinary Catastrophes from the World's Greatest Chefs
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes: In the Forests of the Night
Vivian Gussin Paley: Bad Guys Don't Have Birthdays: Fantasy Play at Four
Will Shortz: Wordplay: The Official Companion Book
Vivian Gussin Paley: Kwanzaa and Me: A Teacher's Story
Francesca Lia Block: Psyche in a Dress
Diana Wynne Jones: Hexwood
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes: Demon In My View
Marc Romano: Crossworld: One Man's Journey into America's Crossword Obsession (this is like Candyfreak. but about Marc Romano puzzles)
Ellin Greene: Clever Cooks: A Concoction of Stories, Charms, Recipes and Riddles (illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman)
Penelope Rowlands: A Dash of Daring: Carmel Snow and Her Life In Fashion, Art, and Letters
Farah Mendlesohn, ed.: Polder: A Festschrift for John Clute and Judith Clute
About 928394 books of crossword puzzles
Jaime Hernandez: Ghost of Hoppers
Elizabeth Hand: Black Light
Anita Shreve: The Last Time They Met
Coral Amende: Crossword Obsession: The History And Lore of the World’s Most Popular Pastime
Hunter S. Thompson: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
Janet Fitch: Paint It Black
Annette Carson: Jeff Beck: Crazy Fingers
David Levithan: Wide Awake
Caitlin R. Kiernan: Alabaster
The Full Spectrum: A New Generation of Writing About Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, and Other Identities
Eleanor Dwight: Diana Vreeland
Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, eds: Salon Fantastique: Fifteen Original Tales of Fantasy
John Hammond: John Hammond on Record: An Autobiography
Eva Ibbotson: A Song for Summer
Jami Attenberg: Instant Love
Emily Jenkins and Paul O. Zelinsky: Toys Go Out: Being the Adventures of a Knowledgeable Stingray, a Toughy Little Buffalo, and Someone Called Plastic
Alice Vachss: Sex Crimes
Peter Pettinger: Bill Evans: How My Heart Sings
Jon Armstrong: Grey
Elizabeth Hand: Waking the Moon
Kim Addonizio: Little Beauties: A Novel
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
Jane Juska: A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance
Bill Moody: Bird Lives!

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