Books Read in 2006

This is a list of all of the books that I've read in 2006, broken up into Adult Fiction, Adult Non-Fiction, and Children's Books. For more about books, visit my blog: Jen Robinson's book page.

Children's and Young Adult Books

1. Carl Hiaasen: Hoot. Completed 1/13/06.
2. P. B. Kerr: The Akhenaten Adventure (Children of the Lamp series). See my recommendation/review of this book on my blog. Completed 1/21/06. My review.
3. Meg Cabot: All-American Girl. A quick, fun read, similar in tone to Princess Diaries. Very entertaining! I love Meg Cabot. Completed 1/28/06.
4. Rick Riordan: The Lightning Thief (first of a new series by an adult author that I like). (on MP3). Completed 1/29/06. I loved this book, and thought that it should have won the Newberry. My review.
5. Meg Cabot: Darkest Hour (The Mediator, Book 4). Completed 1/29/06.
6. Suzanne Collins: Gregor The Overlander (Underland Chronicles, Book 1). From the Santa Clara City Library. Completed 2/1/06.
7. Peter Abrahms: Down the Rabbit Hole : An Echo Falls Mystery (Echo Falls). Curious 13-year-old girl investigates death of old rich woman in her small town. Author mostly writes adult mysteries, but has 4 children. On MP3 from Audible. Completed 2/3/06. My review.
8. Suzanne Collins: Gregor The Overlander And The Prophecy Of Bane (Underland Chronicles). From the Santa Clara City Library. Finished 2/4/06. My review.
9. Meg Cabot: The Princess Diaries (The Princess Diaries, Vol. 1). Completed 2/4/06.
10. Rick Yancey: The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp (on MP3). Completed 2/8/06. My review.
11. Suzanne Collins: Gregor And The Curse Of The Warmbloods (Underland Chronicles). Completed 2/10/06. My review.
12. J. M. Barrie: Peter Pan (100th Anniversary Edition) (on MP3). Completed 2/11/06.
13. Elise Broach: Shakespeare's Secret. Completed 2/11/06. My review.
14. Andrew Clements: Things Not Seen. Completed 2/13/06.
15. Annette Simon: This Book Is For All Kids, But Especially My Sister, Libby. Libby Died. (picture book). Completed 2/18/06. My review.
16. Annette Simon: Mocking Birdies (picture book). Completed 2/18/06. My review.
17. P. B. Kerr: Children Of The Lamp : The Blue Djinn Of Babylon (Children of the Lamp). Completed 3/5/06 in Lake Tahoe.
18. Gabrielle Zevin: Elsewhere (on MP3). Completed 3/7/06. My review.
19. Alan Silberberg: Pond Scum (a prize that I won from Susan at Chicken Spaghetti). Completed 3/11/06. My review.
20. Sally Gardner: I, Coriander (historical with magic). This book won the Nestlé Children's Book Prize in December 2005. Writing books is a big achievement for her because she is dyslexic, and was sent to a school for troubled kids when she was a child.  Completed 3/12/06. My review.
21. Eoin Colfer: The Wish List (standalone), recommended by Kim. Listening on MP3. Completed 3/17/06.
22. Scott Westerfeld: Uglies. See my review here. Completed 3/23/06, on the way to Colorado Springs. Young adult. My review.
23. Scott Westerfeld: Pretties (second book in series from above). Completed 3/27/06. My review.
24. Frank Asch: Star Jumper: Journal of a Cardboard Genius. Completed 4/1/06. Reviewed on my blog 4/2/06. My review.
25. Dana Reinhardt: A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life. Listening on MP3. Completed 4/2/03. My review.
26. Alex Sanchez: Rainbow High. (Young adult). Completed 4/3/06. My review.
27. Ellen Raskin: The Westing Game. A classic children's mystery that I don't remember ever reading. Completed 4/12/06. My review.
28. Justine Larbalestier: Magic or Madness. Completed 4/13/06. My review.
29. Jeanne Birdsall: The Penderwicks : A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy (National Book Award for Young People's Literature (Awards)). Completed 4/15/06. My review.
30. Nadja Halilbegovich: My Childhood Under Fire: A Sarajevo Diary. Completed 4/16/06 (review copy from Raab Associates/Kids Can Press). My review.
31. Chris Abouzeid: Anatopsis. Completed 4/21/06. My review.
32. Michael Simmons: Finding Lubchenko. Completed 4/23/06. My review.
33. Sue Corbett: Free Baseball. Completed 4/24/06. My review.
34. Louise Erdrich: The Birchbark House. Listened on MP3. Completed 4/25/06. My review.
35. Edith Nesbit: The Railway Children. Completed 4/29/06 on MP3. My review.
36. Charlie Higson: Silverfin - Book #1 : A James Bond Adventure. Completed 4/29/06. My review.
37. Garret Freymann-Weyr: Stay With Me. Completed 5/2/06. My review.
38. Meg Cabot: Haunted (The Mediator, Book 5). Completed 5/2/06.
39. Jennifer Holm and Matthew Holm: Babymouse: Beach Babe. Completed 5/4/06 (advance galley).
40. Scott Westerfeld: So Yesterday. Completed 5/6/06. My review.
41. Eoin Colfer: Half-Moon Investigations. Completed 5/9/06.
42. Susan Taylor Brown: Oliver's Must-Do List. Completed 5/13/06. My review.
43. Susan Taylor Brown: Hugging the Rock. Completed 5/14/06. My review.
44. Elizabeth Enright: The Saturdays. Completed 5/14/06. My review.
45. Justin Richards: Invisible Detective: Double Life. Completed 5/16/06. My review.
46. Eleanor Cameron: The Court of Stone Children. Completed 5/18/06.
47. James Patterson: Maximum Ride : The Angel Experiment. Completed 5/22/06. My review.
48. Mike Lupica: Travel Team. Completed 5/25/06, on the way home from Minneapolis.
49. Jeanne Duprau: The Prophet of Yonwood (Book of Ember). Completed 5/28/06, on MP3, on Memorial Day Weekend. My review.
50. Ned Vizzini: It's Kind of a Funny Story. Completed 5/28/06. My review.
51. Leo Lionni: Swimmy. Completed May 29, 2006.
52. Cynthia Lord: Rules. Completed June 1, 2006. My review.
53. Stephanie Meyer: Twilight. Completed June 6, 2006. My review.
54. Scott Westerfeld: Specials (Uglies Trilogy). Completed June 7, 2006. My review.
55. Meg Rosoff: How I Live Now. Completed June 6, 2006.
56. Gary D. Schmidt: Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy. Completed June 7, 2006. My review.
57. Peter Abrahams: Behind the Curtain : An Echo Falls Mystery. Completed June 14, 2006, on MP3. My review.
58. Sue Corbett: 12 Again. Completed June 16, 2006. My review.
59. Elizabeth Enright: The Four-Story Mistake. Completed June 16, 2006. My review.
60. Nancy Springer: The Case of the Missing Marquess: An Enola Holmes Mystery. Completed June 16, 2006. My review. Completed June 16, 2006.
61. Anna Dale: Dawn Undercover. Completed June 16, 2006. My review.
62. Sharon Creech: Ruby Holler. Completed June 17, 2006. My review
63. Jane Yolen: The Devil's Arithmetic. Completed June 17, 2006. My review.
64. E. L. Konigsburg: The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place. Completed June 17, 2006. My review.
65. Jane Langton: The Diamond in the Window. Completed June 17, 2006. My review.
66. Jenny Nimmo: Charlie Bone And The Hidden King. Completed June 17, 2006. My review.
67. Michele Dominguez Green: Chasing the Jaguar. Completed June 18, 2006. My review.
68. Markus Zusak: The Book Thief. Completed June 18, 2006. My review.
69. Tamora Pierce: Wild Magic (Immortals). Completed June 20, 2006. My review.
70. Markus Zusak: I Am the Messenger. Completed June 23, 2006. My review.
71. Kenneth Oppel: Airborn. Completed June 26, 2006. My review.
72. Arthur Ransome: Swallows and Amazons. Completed June 30, 2006. My review.
73. Michael Ende: The Neverending Story. Completed July 2, 2006. My review.
74. L. M. Montgomery: Anne of Ingleside (Anne of Green Gables, No. 6). Completed July 3, 2006.
75. Stephen Cole: Thieves Like Us. Completed July 8, 2006. My review.
76. Tanya Lee Stone: A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl. Completed July 9, 2006. My review.
77. Eva Ibbotson: The Star of Kazan. Completed July 11, 2006. My review.
78. Maryrose Wood: Sex Kittens and Horn Dawgs Fall in Love. Completed July 12, 2006. My review.
79. Mary E. Pearson: A Room on Lorelei Street. Completed July 16, 2006. My review.
80. Justin Richards: Invisible Detective: Shadow Beast. Completed July 17, 2006. My review.
81. Rick Riordan: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters - Book Two . Completed July 18, 2006 (on MP3).
82. Pete Hautman: Rash. Completed July 19, 2006. My review.
83. Patrick Carman: The Dark Hills Divide: The Land of Elyon, Book 1. Completed July 23, 2006. My review.
84. Michael Buckley: The Sisters Grimm: The Fairy-Tale Detectives - Book #1. Completed July 24, 2006. My review.
85. Chris Lynch: Inexcusable. Completed July 24, 2006. My review.
86. Jennifer Roy: Yellow Star. Completed July 25, 2006. My review.
87. Tad Hills: Duck and Goose. Completed August 4, 2006.
88. Celia Rees: Pirates!. Completed August 9, 2006. My review.
89. Gail Gauthier: Happy Kid!. Completed August 12, 2006. My review.
90. Diane Duane: Wizards at War. Completed August 18, 2006. My review.
91. Shannon Hale: The Goose Girl. Completed August 20, 2006. My review.
92. Wayne Thomas Batson: The Door Within: The Door Within Trilogy - Book One. Completed August 23, 2006. My review.
93. Avi: Crispin: The Cross of Lead. Completed August 24, 2006. My review.
94. Avi: Crispin: At the Edge of the World. Completed August 27, 2006. My review.
95. Mitali Perkins: Monsoon Summer. Completed September 1, 2006. My review.
96. Michael Buckley: The Sisters Grimm: The Unusual Suspects - Book #2. Completed September 2, 2006. My review.
97. Marilyn Sachs: Lost in America. Completed September 3, 2006. My review.
98. Paul Acampora: Defining Dulcie. Completed September 4, 2006.
99. O. T. Nelson: The Girl Who Owned a City. Completed September 6, 2006.
100. Stephenie Meyer: New Moon. Completed September 9, 2006. My review.
101. Kirsten Miller: Kiki Strike. Completed September 12, 2006. My review.
102. Nancy Garden: Endgame. Completed September 13, 2006.
103. Polly Shulman: Enthusiasm. Completed September 16, 2006.
104. Meg Cabot: How to Be Popular. Completed September 16, 2006. My review.
105. Meg Cabot: Twilight (The Mediator, Book 6). Completed September 17, 2006.
106. R. K. Mortenson. Landon Snow And the Auctor's Riddle. Completed September 19, 2006.
107. Howard Whitehouse: Strictest School in the World, The: Being the Tale of a Clever Girl, a Rubber Boy and a Collection of Flying Machines, Mostly Broken (Mad Misadventures of Emmaline and Rubberbones, The). Completed September 25, 2006. My review.
108. Roald Dahl: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Completed September 28, 2006.
109. Megan Whalen Turner: The Thief. Completed September 29, 2006. (My review)
110. Barry Lyga: The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl. Completed September 30, 2006. (My review)
111. Patricia Hermes: Salem Witch (My Side of the Story). Completed October 2, 2006. (My review)
112. Ned Vizzini: Be More Chill. Completed October 4, 2006.
113. Jennifer Holm: Penny from Heaven. Completed October 5, 2006. (My review)
114. Margaret Peterson Haddix: Turnabout. Completed October 11, 2006. (My review)
115. Bonny Becker and Abby Carter (illustrator): Holbrook: A Lizard's Tale. Completed October 14, 2006. (My review)
116. Margaret Buffie: Out of Focus. Completed October 19, 2006.
117. Jennifer Allison: Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator. Completed October 22, 2006. (My review)
118. Terry Deary: The Fire Thief. Completed October 23, 2006. (My review)
119. Patricia Bennett Wilson (ill. Sharon Bean): I Can't See, But...I Can Imagine. Picture Book. Completed October 25, 2006. (My review)
120. The Luster Family (ill. Tina Sedonne): I Can Do Anything!. Picture Book. Completed October 25, 2006. (My review)
121. Fumiko Takeshita (ill. Jun Takabatake): Hello, Hello. Picture Book. Completed October 25, 2006.
122. Gusti: Half of an Elephant. Picture Book. Completed October 25, 2006.
123. Oneones: Happy Birthday Coco. Picture Book. Completed October 25, 2006. (My review.)
124. Naomi Kojima: Singing Shijimi Clams. Picture Book. Completed October 25, 2006. (My review)
125. Tony Ross: Say Please! (Little Princess Books). Picture Book. Completed October 25, 2006. My review.
126. Mark David: Crazy Cars. Picture Book. Completed October 25, 2006. (My review).
127. Zai Whitaker (ill. Natarajan): Kali And the Rat Snake