52 Books in 52 Weeks, 2006 Edition

For the sake of completeness, here is the list of books I read in 2006. I didn’t realize until now that I only managed 48 books that year, which I think says a lot about rules and how they can do more harm than good.

• Colicchio, Tom. Think Like a Chef.
• Bear, Greg. Dead Lines.
• Alder, Ken. The Measure of All Things.
• Wozniak, Steve. iWoz: How I invented the personal computer, co-founded Apple, and had fun doing it.
• Spencer-Fleming, Julia. All Mortal Flesh.
• Coupland, Douglas. JPod.
• O’Brien, Cormac. Secret Lives of the First Ladies: What Your Teachers Never Told You About the Women of the White House.
• Haddon, Mark. A Spot of Bother.
• DeMille, Nelson. The Charm School.
• Connelly, Michael. Void Moon.
• MacDonald, Laura. Curse of the Narrows.
• Barry, Dave. Tricky Business.
• Pelecanos, George P. Down By the River Where the Dead Men Go.
• Pelecanos, George P. Nick’s Trip.
• Pelecanos, George P. A Firing Offense.
• Vowell, Sarah. Assassination Vacation.
• Taber, George M. Judgment of Paris: California vs. France and the Historic 1976 Paris Tasting that Revolutionized Wine.
• Oliver, Garrett. The Brewmaster’s Table.
• Noonen, Greg. New Brewing Lager Beer.
• MacFarlane, Alan. The Empire of Tea: The Remarkable History of the Plant that Took Over the World.
• Meloy, Maile. Liars and Saints.
• Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird.
• Child, Lee. The Hard Way.
• Marson, Bonnie. Sleeping with Schubert.
• Pratchett, Terry. Thud!
• Ackerman, Kenneth D. Dark Horse: The Surprise Election and Political Murder of President James A. Garfield.
• Roach, Mary. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers.
• Standage, Tom. A History of the World in 6 Glasses.
• Cody, Diablo. Candy Girl.
• Rucka, Greg. Private Wars.
• Smith, Kyle. Love Monkey.
• Johnson, Steven. Everything Bad is Good For You: How Today’s Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter.
• Toole, John Kennedy. A Confederacy of Dunces.
• Defrain, Darren. The Salt Palace.
• Tayman, John. The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai.
• King, Stephen. Cell.
• Winchester, Simon. A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906.
• Robbins, Tom. Wild Ducks Flying Backward.
• Pratchett, Terry. Going Postal.
• Levitt, Steven D. and Dubner, Stephen J. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything.
• Gaiman, Neil. Anansi Boys.
• Hornby, Nick. A Long Way Down.
• Gladwell, Malcolm. Blink.
• Berendt, John. The City of Falling Angels.
• Pelecanos, George. Hard Revolution.
• Story, Rosalyn. More than You Know.
• Krakauer, Jon. Into the Wild.
• Grafton, Sue. S is for Silence.