Books read 2006
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chelseagirlBooks I read in 2006:
January:
Outsiders, ed. Nancy Holder and Nancy Fitzpatrick
Lady Chatterley's Lover, D. H. Lawrence (work-based reread)
Utopia, Thomas More (work-based reread)
Night and Day, Virginia Woolf (work-based reread)
Freedom and Necessity, Stephen Brust and Emma Bull (book club reread)
Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert (work-based reread)
The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli (work-based reread)
Veronica, Mary Gaitskill
Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman
February:
A Secret History: The Book of Ash#1, Mary Gentle
The Tooth Fairy, Graham Joyce
Sharpe's Havoc, Bernard Cornwell
The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin
The Rise of Silas Lapham, William Dean Howells
So Far From God, Ana Castillo
All Souls, Javier Marias
Arthur & George, Julian Barnes
The Tempest, William Shakespeare (work-based reread)
A Long Time Burning: The History of Literary Censorship in England, Donald Thomas
Offensive Literature: Decensorship in Britain, 1960-1982, John Sutherland
Girls Lean Back Everywhere: The Law of Obscenity and the Assault on Genius, Edward de Grazia
Sabriel, Garth Nix
Tooth and Claw, Jo Walton
March:
Black Boy, Richard Wright
Lirael, Garth Nix
Reconstructing Aphra: A Social Biography of Aphra Behn, Angeline Goureau
Abhorsen, Garth Nix
Oroonoko, Aphra Behn (work-based reread)
Last Exit to Brooklyn, Hubert Selby, Jr.
Howl of the Censor, J.W. Ehrlich
American Scream: Allen Ginsberg's Howl and the Making of the Beat Generation, Jonah Raskin
Ash: A Secret History, Mary Gentle
The Stormwatcher, Graham Joyce
The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie (work-based reread)
In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
Nickled and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, Barbara Ehrenreich
Second Essay on Government, John Locke
Are You There God, It's Me Margaret, Judy Blume (one of my students is doing a semester project on censorship of Blume . . .)
April:
Imaginary Homelands, Salman Rushdie
The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. LeGuin (book group reread)
Salman Rushdie: A Reader's Guide to Essential Criticism
Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe (work-based reread)
On Social Contract, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Queens' Play, Dorothy Dunnett
The Rushdie File, ed. Lisa Appignanesi and Sara Maitland
We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lionel Schriver
The Faery Reel, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling
The Rushdie Affair, Daniel Pipes (work-based reread)
On Blue's Waters, Gene Wolfe
In Green's Jungles, Gene Wolfe
May:
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley (work-based reread)
Censoring Culture, ed. Atkins & Mintcheva
Return to the Whorl, Gene Wolfe
I am Legend, Richard Matheson (book group)
Lajja (Shame), Taslima Nasrin
The Girl with the Golden Eyes, Honore de Balzac (ok, it's a novella)
The Man of Feeling, Javier Marias
To Charles Fort, with Love, Caitlin Kiernan
The Court of the Midnight King, Freda Warrington
Sharpe's Trafalgar, Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe's Prey, Bernard Cornwell
The Dream of Scipio, Iain Pears
Advocacy and the Making of the Adversarial Criminal Trial 1800-1865, David J. A. Cairns
Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett
The Mount, Carol Emshwiller
His Majesty's Dragon, Naomi Novik
Anita and Me, Meera Syal
The Blue Sword, Robin McKinley
Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative, Judith Butler
The Elementary Particles, Michel Houllebecq
Sorcery and Cecilia, Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer
June:
Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
Requiem, Graham Joyce
The Buddha of Suburbia, Hanif Kureishi
The Pursuit of Love, Nancy Mitford
Love in a Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford
The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family, Mary S. Lovell
Strange Devices of the Sun and Moon, Lisa Goldstein
Hons and Rebels, Jessica Mitford
July:
The Shadow Lines, Amitav Ghosh
Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee, Meera Syal
Throne of Jade, Naomi Novik
Paladin of Souls, Lois McMaster Bujold (book group)
Here They Come, Yannick Murphy
Shalimar the Clown, Salman Rushdie
Londonstani, Gautam Malkani
August:
Black Powder War, Naomi Novik
Blood and Iron, Elizabeth Bear
The Diamond Throne, David Eddings
September:
Alabaster, Caitlin Kiernan
John Wilkes, Scandalous Father of Civil Liberties, Arthur Cash
A Sundial in the Grave: 1610, Mary Gentle (book group)
Melusine, Sarah Monette
October:
Paradise Lost, John Milton (work-based reread)
Darwin's Radio, Greg Bear (book group)
Fantazius Mallare, Ben Hecht
The American Way of Death, Jessica Mitford
The Virtu, Sarah Monette
Transgressions: The Offenses of Art, Anthony Julius
The Trial, Franz Kafka (work-based reread)
The World of Christopher Marlowe, David Riggs
Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe (work-based reread)
November:
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee (work-based reread)
The Disorderly Knights, Dorothy Dunnett
Pawn in Frankincense, Dorothy Dunnett
Alice Redux: New Stories of Alice, Lewis, and Wonderland, ed. Richard Peabody
The Looking Glass Wars, Frank Beddor
The Black Album, Hanif Kureishi
Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Salman Rushdie (reread)
The Doomsday Book, Connie Willis
December:
The Inferno, Dante Alighieri (work-based reread)
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, Michel Foucault (work-based reread)
Class Matters, New York Times
The Anarchist in the Library, Siva Vaidhyanathan
The End of Mr. Y, Scarlett Thomas
Ursula, Under, Ingrid Hill
Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paolo Freire
Copyrights and Copywrongs, Siva Vaidhyanathan
The Ringed Castle, Dorothy Dunnett
Checkmate, Dorothy Dunnett
January:
Outsiders, ed. Nancy Holder and Nancy Fitzpatrick
Lady Chatterley's Lover, D. H. Lawrence (work-based reread)
Utopia, Thomas More (work-based reread)
Night and Day, Virginia Woolf (work-based reread)
Freedom and Necessity, Stephen Brust and Emma Bull (book club reread)
Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert (work-based reread)
The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli (work-based reread)
Veronica, Mary Gaitskill
Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman
February:
A Secret History: The Book of Ash#1, Mary Gentle
The Tooth Fairy, Graham Joyce
Sharpe's Havoc, Bernard Cornwell
The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin
The Rise of Silas Lapham, William Dean Howells
So Far From God, Ana Castillo
All Souls, Javier Marias
Arthur & George, Julian Barnes
The Tempest, William Shakespeare (work-based reread)
A Long Time Burning: The History of Literary Censorship in England, Donald Thomas
Offensive Literature: Decensorship in Britain, 1960-1982, John Sutherland
Girls Lean Back Everywhere: The Law of Obscenity and the Assault on Genius, Edward de Grazia
Sabriel, Garth Nix
Tooth and Claw, Jo Walton
March:
Black Boy, Richard Wright
Lirael, Garth Nix
Reconstructing Aphra: A Social Biography of Aphra Behn, Angeline Goureau
Abhorsen, Garth Nix
Oroonoko, Aphra Behn (work-based reread)
Last Exit to Brooklyn, Hubert Selby, Jr.
Howl of the Censor, J.W. Ehrlich
American Scream: Allen Ginsberg's Howl and the Making of the Beat Generation, Jonah Raskin
Ash: A Secret History, Mary Gentle
The Stormwatcher, Graham Joyce
The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie (work-based reread)
In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
Nickled and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, Barbara Ehrenreich
Second Essay on Government, John Locke
Are You There God, It's Me Margaret, Judy Blume (one of my students is doing a semester project on censorship of Blume . . .)
April:
Imaginary Homelands, Salman Rushdie
The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. LeGuin (book group reread)
Salman Rushdie: A Reader's Guide to Essential Criticism
Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe (work-based reread)
On Social Contract, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Queens' Play, Dorothy Dunnett
The Rushdie File, ed. Lisa Appignanesi and Sara Maitland
We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lionel Schriver
The Faery Reel, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling
The Rushdie Affair, Daniel Pipes (work-based reread)
On Blue's Waters, Gene Wolfe
In Green's Jungles, Gene Wolfe
May:
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley (work-based reread)
Censoring Culture, ed. Atkins & Mintcheva
Return to the Whorl, Gene Wolfe
I am Legend, Richard Matheson (book group)
Lajja (Shame), Taslima Nasrin
The Girl with the Golden Eyes, Honore de Balzac (ok, it's a novella)
The Man of Feeling, Javier Marias
To Charles Fort, with Love, Caitlin Kiernan
The Court of the Midnight King, Freda Warrington
Sharpe's Trafalgar, Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe's Prey, Bernard Cornwell
The Dream of Scipio, Iain Pears
Advocacy and the Making of the Adversarial Criminal Trial 1800-1865, David J. A. Cairns
Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett
The Mount, Carol Emshwiller
His Majesty's Dragon, Naomi Novik
Anita and Me, Meera Syal
The Blue Sword, Robin McKinley
Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative, Judith Butler
The Elementary Particles, Michel Houllebecq
Sorcery and Cecilia, Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer
June:
Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
Requiem, Graham Joyce
The Buddha of Suburbia, Hanif Kureishi
The Pursuit of Love, Nancy Mitford
Love in a Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford
The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family, Mary S. Lovell
Strange Devices of the Sun and Moon, Lisa Goldstein
Hons and Rebels, Jessica Mitford
July:
The Shadow Lines, Amitav Ghosh
Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee, Meera Syal
Throne of Jade, Naomi Novik
Paladin of Souls, Lois McMaster Bujold (book group)
Here They Come, Yannick Murphy
Shalimar the Clown, Salman Rushdie
Londonstani, Gautam Malkani
August:
Black Powder War, Naomi Novik
Blood and Iron, Elizabeth Bear
The Diamond Throne, David Eddings
September:
Alabaster, Caitlin Kiernan
John Wilkes, Scandalous Father of Civil Liberties, Arthur Cash
A Sundial in the Grave: 1610, Mary Gentle (book group)
Melusine, Sarah Monette
October:
Paradise Lost, John Milton (work-based reread)
Darwin's Radio, Greg Bear (book group)
Fantazius Mallare, Ben Hecht
The American Way of Death, Jessica Mitford
The Virtu, Sarah Monette
Transgressions: The Offenses of Art, Anthony Julius
The Trial, Franz Kafka (work-based reread)
The World of Christopher Marlowe, David Riggs
Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe (work-based reread)
November:
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee (work-based reread)
The Disorderly Knights, Dorothy Dunnett
Pawn in Frankincense, Dorothy Dunnett
Alice Redux: New Stories of Alice, Lewis, and Wonderland, ed. Richard Peabody
The Looking Glass Wars, Frank Beddor
The Black Album, Hanif Kureishi
Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Salman Rushdie (reread)
The Doomsday Book, Connie Willis
December:
The Inferno, Dante Alighieri (work-based reread)
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, Michel Foucault (work-based reread)
Class Matters, New York Times
The Anarchist in the Library, Siva Vaidhyanathan
The End of Mr. Y, Scarlett Thomas
Ursula, Under, Ingrid Hill
Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paolo Freire
Copyrights and Copywrongs, Siva Vaidhyanathan
The Ringed Castle, Dorothy Dunnett
Checkmate, Dorothy Dunnett
