2006

The bolded entries are the ones I liked best. The choices are slightly different from the ones featured in My Notable Twenty-Five because I read more after the post date or felt warmer (or colder) towards some.

Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway

Making It Up – Penelope Lively

Firmin: The Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife – Sam Savage

Brother Man – Roger Mais

Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami

The Sea – John Banville

Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice – A.S. Byatt

The Architect of the Roman Empire – Thomas Rice Holmes

The Hills were Joyful Together – Roger Mais

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami

South of the Border, West of the Sun – Haruki Murakami

Memory in Death – J.D. Robb

Dance of the Gods – Nora Roberts

Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen

Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World – Haruki Murakami

Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte

Shroud – John Banville

Ticknor – Sheila Heti

Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov

Bet Me – Jennifer Crusie

Eugenie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac

Hot Night – Shannon Mckenna

Charlie All Night – Jennifer Crusie

Strange Bedpersons – Jennifer Crusie

Getting Rid of Bradley – Jennifer Crusie

What The Lady Wants – Jennifer Crusie

Fairy Tales – Hans Christian Andersen

The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett

The Immoralist – Andre Gide

Seduction and Betrayal* – Elizabeth Hardwick

King Dork – Frank Portman

The Fox in the Attic – Richard Hughes

The Unknown Masterpiece – Honoré de Balzac

The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger

Endymion Spring – Matthew Skelton (yuck)

We Always Treat Women Too Well – Raymond Queneau

Frankenstein – Mary Shelley

Scandal in Spring – Lisa Kleypas

All U Can Eat – Emma Holly (Yes, I am chagrined at having read a book with such letter abuse.)

Chess Story – Stefan Zwieg

Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett

A High Wind in Jamaica – Richard Hughes

Great Granny Webster – Caroline Blackwood

Come Closer – Sara Gran

The History of Reading – Alberto Manguel

Manservant and Maidservant – Ivy Compton-Burnett

Kingdoms of Elfin – Sylvia Townsend Warner

Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett

Mapping the Mind – Rita Carter

The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett

Woman in the Dark – Dashiell Hammett

Phantoms in the Brain – V.S. Ramachandran

Old Goriot – Honoré de Balzac

Other Electricities – Ander Monson

For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway

Defence Speeches – Marcus Tullius Cicero

Conrad’s Fate – Diana Wynne Jones

Cicero on the Emotions: Tusculan Disputations 3 and 4 – Marcus Tullius Cicero

Atlas – Jorge Luis Borges

Reading Cicero – Catherine Steel

Dreamtigers – Jorge Luis Borges

Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen

Power of Three – Diana Wynne Jones

Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami

An Attack on an Enemy of Freedom – Marcus Tullius Cicero

On Art and Life – John Ruskin

A Wild Sheep Chase – Haruki Murakami

The Engine of Reason, The Seat of the Soul – Paul M. Churchland

Possession – A.S. Byatt

Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami