For Posterity

As mentioned previously, here’s my earliest book lists. I started keeping track at the end of 2002 but was too anal to just call it 2003. I joined book club in February of 2005 but had coincidentally closed out 2004 year with their January selection, All Creatures.

BOOKS READ IN 2005

1. All Things Bright and Beautiful James Herriot
2. Dragon’s Kin Anne McCaffrey and Todd McCaffrey
3. Superfudge Judy Bloom
4. Blanche on the Lam Barbara Neely
5. All Things Wise and Wonderful James Herriot
6. Hellboy: Weird Tales Volume Two Ed. Mike Mignola
7. Babyhood Paul Reiser
8. Green Mansions W. H. Hudson
9. The Know-It-All: One Man’s Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World A.J. Jacobs
10. Return of the Dark Knight Frank Miller
11. Art of Mending Elizabeth Berg
12. The More Than Complete Hitchhikers Guide Douglas Adams
13. M*A*S*H Richard Hooker
14. Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Horror Deborah and James Howe
15. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents Terry Pratchett
16. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underground Anthony Bourdain
17. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
18. Green Grass, Running Water Thomas King
19. Being a Green Mother Piers Anthony
20. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince J.K. Rowling
21. Life of Pi Yann Martel
22. Walk Two Moons Sharon Creech
23. Sign With Your Baby Joseph Garcia
24. Rebecca Daphne du Marier
25. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire J.K. Rowling
26. A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail Bill Bryson


BOOKS COMPLETED BETWEEN CHRISTMAS 2003 AND CHRISTMAS 2004
Not including single comic books, magazines, other periodicals, websites, previously read books scanned for plot, etc.

1. American Gods Neil Gaiman
2. The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
3. Now Dig This Terry Southern
4. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket Edgar Allen Poe
5. Children of Dune Frank Herbert
6. White Teeth Zadie Smith
7. Master and Commander Patrick O’Brian
8. The Goblin Reservation Clifford D. Simak
9. With a Tangled Skein Piers Anthony
10. The Codex Douglas Preston
11. The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
12. Dry Augusten Burroughs
13. The Tale of the Body Thief Anne Rice
14. The Day of the Triffids John Wyndham
15. The Lives of Dax Ed. Marco Palmieri
16. Hellboy: Weird Tales Volume One Ed. Mike Mignola
17. The Swiss Family Robinson Johann Wyss
18. A Stitch in Time Andrew J. Robinson
19. Eragon Christopher Paolini
20. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban J. K. Rowling
21. Eureka Street Robert McLiam Wilson
22. Hellboy: The Right Hand of Doom Mike Mignola
23. I’m Just Here for the Food Alton Brown
24. Millennium: The Fall of Terok Nor Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens
25. Flag in Exile David Weber
26. Hellboy: Conqueror Worm Mike Mignola
27. Ship of the Line Diane Carey
28. Heart of Darkness and Other Tales Joseph Conrad
29. Wielding a Red Sword Piers Anthony
30. Hellboy: Wake the Devil Mike Mignola
31. Millennium: The War of the Prophets Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens
32. The Adventures of Tintin: Flight 714 Hergé
33. Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War Tony Horwitz
34. A Princess of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs
35. Hellboy: Seed of Destruction Mike Mignola
36. God Emperor of Dune Frank Herbert
37. One for the Road: An Outback Adventure Tony Horwitz
38. B.P.R.D.: Hollow Earth & Other Stories Mike Mignola
39. Hellboy Junior Bill Wray, Mike Mignola
40. Clear Light of Day Anita Desai
41. Organizing from the Inside Out Julie Morgenstern
42. Hellboy: The Chained Coffin and Others Mike Mignola
43. The Years of Rice and Salt Kim Stanley Robinson
44. Turkish Fairy Tales
45. Star Wars Tales #20
46. All Creatures Great and Small James Herriot
47. Doom Patrol: Crawling from the Wreckage Grant Morrison, Richard Case



BOOKS COMPLETED BETWEEN CHRISTMAS 2002 AND CHRISTMAS 2003
Not including single comic books, magazines, other periodicals, websites, previously read books scanned for plot, etc.

1. The Golden Compass Philip Pullman
2. The Subtle Knife Philip Pullman
3. The Amber Spyglass Philip Pullman
4. King Solomon’s Mines H. Rider Haggard
5. Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before Tony Horwitz
6. Interview with the Vampire Anne Rice
7. Dracula Bram Stoker
8. Best Science Fiction Stories H. G. Wells
9. Tom Sawyer Abroad, Tom Sawyer, Detective, and Other Stories Mark Twain
10. The Short Victorious War David Weber
11. Dune Messiah Frank Herbert
12. On a Pale Horse Piers Anthony
13. Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Jared Diamond
14. Logan’s Run William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson
15. Clipper of the Clouds Jules Verne
16. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix J.K. Rowling
17. One Thousand and One Arabian Nights Geraldine McCaughrean
18. All of an Instant Richard Garfinkle
19. The Agony and the Ecstasy Irving Stone
20. A Touch of Strange Theodore Sturgeon
21. From Hell Alan Moore & Eddie Campbell
22. Unfinished Tales: The Lost Lore of Middle-Earth J.R.R. Tolkien
23. Watchmen Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
24. Mötley Crüe: The Dirt Tommy Lee, Mick Mars, Vince Neil & Nikki Sixx with Neil Strauss
25. Bearing an Hourglass Piers Anthony
26. The Lord of the Rings¬ J.R.R. Tolkien
27. Strip City Lily Burana
28. Red Planet Robert A. Heinlein
29. Field of Dishonor David Weber
30. 13 French Science-Fiction Stories Ed. Damon Knight