Books of 2006

It’s that time of year again, the listing of the books. Here’s what I read in 2006;

• Le gentilhomme au pourpoint jaune, Arturo Perez-Reverte
• Fuir, Jean-Philippe Toussaint
• Topaze, Murakami Ryû
• Nirvana Bites, Devi Alper
• Bangkok 8, John Burdett
• Noir destin que le mien, Massoud Al-Rachid
• State of Fear, Michael Crichton
• La Ville aux escargots, Laurence Prud’homme
• Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer
• Dance of Death, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
• Le voyage, Sergio Pitol
• L’origine du monde, Jorge Edwards
• The Society of Others, William Nicholson
• Jericho, George Fetherling
• Scrapbook, Nadine Bismuth
• The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon
• The Business, Iain Banks
• The Beach, Alex Garland
• L’ombre légère, Gilles Archambault
• Folle, Nelly Arcan
• La logeuse, Eric Dupont
• The Egyptologist, Arthur Phillips
• Getting Things Done, David Allen
• Haunted, Chuck Palahniuk
• A Long Way Down, Nick Hornby
• Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Cory Doctorow,
• Invisible Armies, Jon Evans
• Free Culture, Lawrence Lessig
• The Third Brother, Nick McDonell
• Fat Jack, Peter A. MacArthur
• The Time In Between, David Bergen
• Serpents et piercings, Hitomi Kanehara
• Into The Wild, Jon Krakauer
• Mindscan, Robert J. Sawyer
• The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, Gary Shteyngart
• Voyage en Irlande avec un parapluie, Louis Gauthier
• L’encyclopédie du petit cercle, Nicolas Dickner
• The End of Poverty, Jeffrey Sachs
• Gary Benchley Rock Star, Paul Ford
• Coraline, Neil Gaiman
• The Long Tail, Chris Anderson
• Getting Real, 37 Signals
• Llouis qui tombe tout seul, Matthieu Simard
• Soudain le Minotaure, Marie-Hélène Poitras
• Lunar Park, Brett Easton Ellis
• Junk Mail, Will Self
• Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman
• Hot Springs, Steve Zio
• Marvel Civil War (66 “episodes”, counting as one)

• Les petits hommes (french “BD”, counting 1 through 17 as one)

  Total 49 or 51, depending on if you consider the last two “acceptable” in books or separate. Good thing I had a week in Mexico where I read 4-5, brought the average up ;).

  Only 5 by women, down from 6. Only 5 non-fiction (plus 2 bios), also down from 6. I was hoping to read more so that didn’t work. 12 by writers from Québec (3 anglos including Evans who now lives here). 16 in french, 3 of them translations.

  Hoping to do better this year on two fronts; pay more attention, I didn’t remember some of those when reading the titles in my list so I was breezing through them and of course the second front is to get to 52 again.