Recently, I’ve been thinking about the number of books that I’ve read, and decided to compile the list. Whew!
It’s no wonder I never watched enough television to miss it when I got it out of my house three-and-a-half years ago.
Of course, being in The Nematomes Book Club for nine years (from 1991 to 2001) kept me reading regularly. At one point, I was in three book clubs at once, the other two being The Mostly Social Book Club and a Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, & Transgender Book Club.
I did, of course, read before 1991, so this doesn’t include books before then, which would include my high school, and undergraduate college years.
Books I’ve Read
| Year |
Month
|
Book | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 |
August
|
We Are All the Same | Jim Wooten |
| 2005 |
June
|
The Power of Full Engagement | Jim Loehr & Tony Schwartz |
| 2005 |
Jan – Apr
|
Information Architecture | Rosenfeld & Morville |
| 2005 |
Jan – Apr
|
Genre Analysis | John M. Swales |
| 2005 |
Jan – Apr
|
Handbook of Usability Testing | Jeffrey Rubin |
| 2005 |
Jan – Apr
|
The Design of Everyday Things | Donald A. Norman |
| 2004 | The Nuclear Age | Tim O’Brien | |
| 2004 | Eats, Shoots & Leaves | Lynne Truss | |
| 2004 |
Aug – Dec
|
Managing Your Documentation Projects | JoAnn Hackos |
| 2004 |
Aug – Dec
|
Management Principles for Technical Communicators | R. Stanley Dicks |
| 2004 |
Aug – Dec
|
Research in Technical Communication | Multi-authored |
| 2004 |
Aug – Dec
|
Professional Writing and Rhetoric | Tim Peeples |
| 2004 | The Five People You Meet in Heaven | Mitch Albom | |
| 2004 | Life of Pi: A Novel | Yann Martel | |
| 2004 |
Jan – April
|
Multimedia-Based Instructional Design | Lee & Owens |
| 2004 |
Jan – April
|
Technology-Based Learning | Marquardt & Kearsley |
| 2004 |
Jan – April
|
Designing Visual Language | Kostelnick & Roberts |
| 2004 |
Jan – April
|
Dynamics in Document Design | Karen Schriver |
| 2003 | Seabiscuit: An American Legend | Laura Hillenbrand | |
| 2002 | Read My Lips Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender | Riki Wilchins | |
| Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith | Anne Lamott | ||
| The Nanny Diaries | McLaughlin & Kraus | ||
| Rubyfruit Jungle | Rita Mae Brown | ||
| Cain River | Lalita Tademy | ||
|
The Poisonwood Bible
|
Barbara Kingsolver
|
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|
Moo
|
Jane Smiley
|
||
|
Forged by Fire
|
Sharon M. Draper
|
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|
Sweet Savage Love
|
Rosemary Rogers
|
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|
Groomed for Death
|
Carolyn Banks
|
||
| Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
|
The Wealthy Barber
|
David Chilton
|
||
|
The Left Hand of Darkness
|
Ursula Le Guin
|
||
|
The Turn of the Screw
|
Henry James
|
||
|
Wuthering Heights
|
Emily Bronte
|
||
|
Midwives
|
Chris Bohjalian
|
||
|
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
|
J. K. Rowling
|
||
|
Friedman’s Fables
|
Edwin Friedman
|
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|
The Phantom Toolbooth
|
Nick Beggs
|
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|
Bridges of Madison County
|
Robert James Waller
|
||
|
7 Habits of Highly Effective People
|
Stephen R. Covey
|
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| 2003 |
March
|
Adien Shaw | |
| 2003 |
January
|
Eric Myers | |
| 2002 |
October
|
Kirk Read | |
| 2002 |
August
|
Andrew Holleran | |
| 2002 |
June
|
Howard Cruse | |
| 2002 |
April
|
Michael Downing | |
| 2002 |
January
|
Jim Grimsley | |
| 2001 |
November
|
Elizabeth Berg | |
| 2001 |
October
|
Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 2001 |
September
|
Sena Jeter Naslund | |
| 2001 |
August
|
Frank McCourt | |
| 2001 |
July
|
Doris Betts | |
| 2001 |
June
|
William Styron | |
| 2001 |
May
|
Bertrice Small | |
| 2001 |
April
|
Lee Smith | |
| 2001 |
March
|
Greg Bear | |
| 2001 |
February
|
Patrick Robinson | |
| 2001 |
January
|
Bailey White | |
| 2000 |
November
|
John Steinbeck | |
| 2000 |
October
|
Arthur S. Golden | |
| 2000 |
September
|
Joyce Carol Oates | |
| 2000 |
July
|
Bohumil Hrabal | |
| 2000 |
June
|
Tim O’Brien | |
| 2000 |
May
|
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| 2000 |
April
|
J.K. Rowling | |
| 2000 |
March
|
Bernhard Schlink | |
| 2000 |
February
|
David Guterson | |
| 2000 |
January
|
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| 1999 |
November
|
Where The Heart Is | Billie Letts |
| 1999 |
October
|
Dune | Frank Herbert |
| 1999 |
September
|
The Devine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood | Rebecca Wells |
| 1999 |
August
|
Corelli’s Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres |
| 1999 |
July
|
Bridget Jones’ Diary | Helen Fielding |
| 1999 |
June
|
Beloved | Toni Morrison |
| 1999 |
May
|
News of the Spirit | Lee Smith |
| 1999 |
April
|
Ghost Country | Sara Paretsky |
| 1999 |
March
|
Master and Commander | Patrick O’Brian |
| 1999 |
February
|
Stones from the River | Ursula Hegi |
| 1999 |
January
|
Raney & Where Trouble Sleeps | Clyde Edgerton |
| 1998 |
December
|
The Perfect Storm | Sebastian Junger |
| 1998 |
November
|
The Joy Luck Club | Amy Tan |
| 1998 |
October
|
Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand |
| 1998 |
August
|
The Horse Whisperer | Nicholas Evans |
| 1998 |
July
|
Wild Horses | Dick Francis |
| 1998 |
June
|
The Bluest Eye | Toni Morrison |
| 1998 |
May
|
Stranger in a Strange Land | Robert Heinlein |
| 1998 |
April
|
Cold Mountain | Charles Frazier |
| 1998 |
March
|
A Big Storm Knocked It Over | Laurie Colwin |
| 1998 |
February
|
The Sea-Wolf | Jack London |
| 1998 |
January
|
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | John Berendt |
| 1997 |
December
|
Up Jumps the Devil | Margaret Maron |
| 1997 |
November
|
Call It Sleep | Henry Roth |
| 1997 |
October
|
A Prayer for Owen Meany | John Irving |
| 1997 |
September
|
A Mid-Summer’s Night Dream | William Shakespeare |
| 1997 |
August
|
Different Seasons: Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption | Stephen King |
| 1997 |
July
|
Childhood’s End | Arthur C. Clarke |
| 1997 |
May
|
The Ghostway | Tony Hillerman |
| 1997 |
April
|
The Chosen | Chaim Potok |
| 1997 |
March
|
Postmortem | Patricia Cornwell |
| 1997 |
February
|
Coffee Will Make You Black | April Sinclair |
| 1997 |
January
|
Death Comes for the Archbishop | Willa Cather |
| 1996 |
December
|
Watchers | Dean Koonz |
| 1996 |
November
|
84 Charing Cross Rd. & The Duchess of Bloomsbury St. | Helene Hanff |
| 1996 |
October
|
Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad |
| 1996 |
September
|
Sharpe’s Rifles | Bernard Cornwell |
| 1996 |
August
|
The Three Musketeers | Alexandre Dumas |
| 1996 |
July
|
Snapshot | Linda Barnes |
| 1996 |
June
|
The Secret History | Donna Tartt |
| 1996 |
May
|
The Razor’s Edge | W. Somerset Maugham |
| 1996 |
March
|
Circle of Friends | Maeve Binchy |
| 1996 |
February
|
Dog Stories | James Herriot |
| 1995 |
December
|
Northern Borders | Howard Frank Mosher |
| 1995 |
November
|
D.W. (Book club member’s non-published book.) | Samara A. Adrian |
| 1995 |
October
|
The Spy Wore Red | Aline, Countess of Romanones |
| 1995 |
September
|
The Plague | Albert Camus |
| 1995 |
August
|
Brideshead Revisted | Evelyn Waugh |
| 1995 |
July
|
West With The Night | Beryl Markham |
| 1995 |
June
|
The Shipping News | Annie Proulx |
| 1995 |
May
|
Rebecca | Daphne DuMaurier |
| 1995 |
April
|
Tales of the City & More Tales of the City | Armistead Maupin |
| 1995 |
March
|
Absalom, Absalom | William Faulkner |
| 1995 |
February
|
Love in the Time of Cholera | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| 1995 |
January
|
Turtle Moon | Alice Hoffman |
| 1994 |
December
|
A Toni Morrison Book | Toni Morrison |
| 1994 |
November
|
Holidays in Hell | P.J. O’Rourke |
| 1994 |
October
|
White Noise | Don DiLillo |
| 1994 |
September
|
Brave New World | Aldous Huxley |
| 1994 |
August
|
Roughin’ It | Mark Twain |
| 1994 |
July
|
The Mystery of Beautiful Nell Cropsey | Bland Simpson |
| 1994 |
June
|
Bootlegger’s Daughter | Margaret Maron |
| 1994 |
May
|
Charms for the Easy Life | Kaye Gibbons |
| 1994 |
April
|
Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy |
| 1994 |
March
|
The French Lieutenant’s Woman | John Fowles |
| 1994 |
February
|
The Snow Queen | Joan Vinge |
| 1994 |
January
|
The Bean Tree | Barbara Kingsolver |
| 1993 |
December
|
Perfume | Patrick Suskind |
| 1993 |
November
|
The Mote in God’s Eye | Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle |
| 1993 |
October
|
The Fountainhead | Ayn Rand |
| 1993 |
September
|
The Bridges of Madison County | Robert James Waller |
| 1993 |
August
|
A Thousand Acres | Jane Smiley |
| 1993 |
July
|
A Mother and Two Daughters | Gail Godwin |
| 1993 |
June
|
Tropic of Cancer | Henry Miller |
| 1993 |
May
|
Walking Across Egypt | Clyde Edgerton |
| 1993 |
April
|
Jurassic Park | Michael Crichton |
| 1993 |
March
|
Child of the Northern Spring | Persia Woolley |
| 1993 |
February
|
The Assistant | Bernard Malamud |
| 1993 |
January
|
Turn of the Screw | Henry James |
| 1992 |
December
|
Startide Rising | David Brin |
| 1992 |
November
|
Searoad | Ursula K. LeGuin |
| 1992 |
October
|
C is for Corpse | Sue Grafton |
| 1992 |
September
|
The Mayor of Caterbridge or Jude the Obscure | Thomas Hardy |
| 1992 |
August
|
Hocus Pocus | Kurt Vonnegut |
| 1992 |
July
|
Any Anne Tyler Book | Anne Tyler |
| 1992 |
June
|
Run With The Horseman | Ferrall Sams |
| 1992 |
May
|
July’s People | Nadine Gordimer |
| 1992 |
April
|
The Bone People | Keri Hulme |
| 1992 |
March
|
The Universal Baseball Association | Robert Coover |
| 1992 |
February
|
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe | Fanny Flagg |
| 1992 |
January
|
Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck |
| 1991 |
December
|
Speaker for the Dead | Orson Scott Card |
| 1991 |
November
|
The Prince of Tides | Pat Conroy |
| 1991 |
October
|
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| 1991 |
September
|
A Confederacy of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole |
| 1991 |
August
|
Talking God | Tony Hillerman |
| 1991 |
July
|
Animal Farm | George Orwell |
| 1991 |
June
|
The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemmingway |
| 1991 |
May
|
Ellen Foster | Kaye Gibbons |