Books Read in 2005

January
1. Ireland - Frank Delaney
2. I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere - Anna Gavalda
3. Flight to Arras - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
4. Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse
5. Fully Empowered - Pablo Neruda
6. Do Me, Do My Roots - Elaine Rendahl
7. Fluke - Christopher Moore
8. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
9. Much Obliged, Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse
10. War by Candlelight - Daniel Alarcon
11. Caribbean Cruising - Rachel Hawthorne

February
12. Harvesting the Heart - Jodi Picoult
13. Billy Ray's Farm - Larry Brown
14. Good Hope Road - Lisa Wingate
15. The Pull of the Moon - Elizabeth Berg
16. Church: Why Bother - Philip Yancey
17. Every Boy's Got One - Meg Cabot
18. The Forgotten Door - Alexander Key
19. The Case for Faith - Lee Strobel
20. Second Harvest - Jean Giono
21. The Living End - Lisa Samson
22. Practical Demonkeeping - Christopher Moore
23. Appleby House - Sylvia Smith

March
24. Highway 61 Resurfaced - Bill Fitzhugh
25. The Scarlet Thread - Francine Rivers
26. Praying with Women of the Bible - Nancy Kennedy
27. My Cat Spit McGee - Willie Morris
28. Girl with a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
29. Brit-Think, Ameri-Think - Jane Walmsley
30. My Dog Skip - Willie Morris
31. Metro Girl - Janet Evanovich
32. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants - Ann Brashares
34. As Always, Jack - Emma Sweeney
35. When Joy Comes to Stay - Karen Kingsbury
36. Believing God - Beth Moore

I know I skipped one, there. I'm just going to stay with the numbering in my calendar.

April
37. Conquering Chronic Disorganization - Judith Kolberg
38. The Virgin Blue - Tracy Chevalier
39. Shopaholic and Sister - Sophie Kinsella
40. The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester
41. Magic Kingdom for Sale - Sold! - Terry Brooks
42. Where the Lilies Bloom - Vera & Bill Cleaver
43. The Night People - Jack Finney
44. Relief from Chronic Sinusitis - Marilynn Larkin
45. P. S., I Love You - Cecelia Ahern
46. A Pale View of Hills - Kazuo Ishiguro

May
47. You: The Owner's Manual - M. Oz
48. Hissy Fit - Mary Kay Andrews
49. Gidget - Frederick Kohner
50. Angels & Demons - Dan Brown
51. Bodies in Motion - Mary Anne Mohanraj
52. Jennifer Government - Maxx Barry
53. The Prophet of Zongo Street - Mohammed Naseeha Ali
54. Just One Look - Harlan Coben
55. Blood of Angels - Reed Arvin

June
56. Something Borrowed - Emily Giffin
56 1/2. Princess Project - Meg Cabot (it was awfully short)
57. Castle in the Air - Donald E. Westlake
58. Ella Minnow Pea - Mark Dunn
59. Lullaby - Chuck Palahniuk
60. Bet Your Bottom Dollar - Karin Gillespie
61. A Thoroughly Modern Princess - W. C. Straub
62. 10-lb. Penalty - Dick Francis
63. Perfect Skin - Nick Earls
64. Talkative Man - R. K. Narayan
65. 30 Days in Sydney - Peter Carey

July
66. The Sweet Potato Queens' Guide to Love - Jill Conner Browne
67. Angus, Thongs and Fulll-Frontal Snogging - Louise Rennison
68. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill - Mark Bittner
69. Range of Motion - Elizabeth Berg
70. The Time-Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
71. The Diary of Mattie Spenser - Sandra Dallas
72. The Undomestic Goddess - Sophie Kinsella
73. Dearest Dorothy, Are We There Yet? - Charlene Ann Baumbich
74. High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
75. Must Love Dogs - Claire Cook

August
76. How to Talk so Teens Will Listen & Listen So Teens Will Talk - Faber & Mazlish
77. The Nerd Who Loved Me - Vickie L. Thompson
78. The Bride Wore Chocolate - Shirley Jump
79. Up the Down Staircase - Bel Kaufman
80. Your Erroneous Zones - Wayne W. Dyer
81. Shem Creek - Dorothea Benton Frank
82. The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan
83. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith
84. A Long Way Down - Nick Hornby
85. Before I Wake - Anne Frasier
86. Upgrading - Simon Brooke
87. She's On the Money - Stephanie Feagan

September
88. Syrup - Maxx Barry
89. Love Overboard - Janet Evanovich
90. A Little Stranger - Kate Pullinger
91. Five in a Row - Jan Coffey
92. My Backwards Life - Cindi Myers
93. Derailed - James Siegel
94. The Sweet Potato Queens' Big-Ass Cookbook & Financial Planner - Jill Conner Browne
95. Since You're Leaving Anyway, Take Out the Trash - Dixie Cash
96. If Looks Could Kill - Kate White

October
97. Naked Brunch - Sparkle Hayter
98. Sunset & Sawdust - Joe R. Lansdale
99. A Bend in the Road - Nicholas Sparks
100. 50 Ways to Lower Your Cholesterol - M. P. McGowan
101. The Sex Live of My Aunt - Mavis Cheek
102. Someone I Loved - Anna Gavalda
103. Road to Paradise - Max Collins
104. The Transall Saga - Gary Paulsen
105. The Tea Rose - Jennifer Donnelly
106. My Greatest Day in Show Business - Ray Richmond
107. The Body Artist - Don Delillo

November
108. Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind - Ann B. Ross
109. Strange Bed Persons - Jennifer Crusie
110. What the Lady Wants - Jennifer Crusie
111. Icebound - Dean Koontz
112. A Redbird Christmas - Fannie Flagg
113. Flipped - Wendelin Van Draanen
113 1/2. The Christmas Box - Richard P. Evans
114. The Space Between Us - Thrity Umrigar
115. The Reading Group - Elizabeth Noble
116. Skipping Christmas - John Grisham

December
117. Life Expectancy - Dean Koontz
118. A Christmas Visitor - Anne Perry
119. Back to the Bedroom - Janet Evanovich
120. A Christmas Visitor - D. Saperstien & G. Samerjan
121. The Secret Sisters - Joni Rodgers
122. A Different Kind of Man - Suzanne Cox
123. The Best People in the World - Justin Tussing

Books Read in 2000

Sometimes people tell me I read a lot of books and I remind them that I didn't read so much when I had small children running around. 2000 is a good example.

January
1. Timeline - Michael Crichton
2. If You Want to Write - Brenda Ueland
3. The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
4. Bird by Bird - Anne Lamott

February
5. The Quiet Game - Greg Iles
6. Lombard Street - John Floyd
7. The Monkey's Raincoat - Robert Crais
8. The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep - Lawrence Block

March
9. The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler

April
10. Crazy for You - Jennifer Crusie
11. The Perfect Husband - Lisa Gardner

May
12. Harvest - Tess Gerritsen

June
13. Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction - Patricia Highsmith
14. The Fever Tree - Ruth Rendell
15. What's Cooking - John Salem

July
16. Joy Forever - Liz Jennings
17. Emergency Doctor - Edward Ziegler

August
18. A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson
19. Bait and Switch - JoAnn Ross
20. Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen
21. The Unvanquished - William Faulkner
22. Murder on a Bad Hair Day - Anne George
23. L. A. Requiem - Robert Crais
24. The Pilot's Wife - Anita Shreve
25. Mr. Vertigo - Paul Auster
26. Hot Six - Janet Evanovich

September
27. A Guilty Thing Surprised - Ruth Rendell
28. Odds Against - Dick Francis
29. Agatha Christie and the 11 Missing Days - Jared Cade (? Hard to read this entry)
30. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
31. Up From Slavery - Booker T. Washington

October
32. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
33. Moon Palace - Paul Auster

November
34. Mr. Perfect - Linda Howard
35. Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians - Fanny Kelly
36. Smoke - Donald Westlake

December
37. Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha Ha - Roddy Doyle
38. On Fire - Larry Brown
39. Blind-Sided - Greg Gibson-McKee
40. Tell Me Lies - Jennifer Crusie