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. Picture Book. Completed October 25, 2006. (My review).
128. Terry Deary: Flight of the Fire Thief (The Fire Thief). Completed October 28, 2006. (My review).
129. Paul Fleischman: Seedfolks (Joanna Colter Books). Completed October 28, 2006. (My review).
130. William McBride: Entertaining an Elephant: A Novel about Learning & Letting Go. Completed October 29, 2006.
131. Sarah Weeks: Jumping the Scratch. Completed October 30, 2006. (My review)
132. Jenny Han: Shug. Completed November 2. (My review)
133. Mo Willems: Edwina, the Dinosaur Who Didn't Know She Was Extinct. Completed November 4, 2006.
134. Kirby Larson: Hattie Big Sky. Completed November 6, 2006. (My review.)
135. Cynthia Voigt: Homecoming (Tillerman Series). Completed November 12, 2006.
136. John Green: An Abundance of Katherines. Completed November 19, 2006. My review.
137. Patricia McCormick: Sold. Completed November 22, 2006. My review.
138. Francisco X. Stork: Behind the Eyes. Completed November 23, 2006. My review.
139. Stacia Deutsch & Rhody Cohon: Blast to the Past #6: Ben Franklin's Fame. Completed November 25, 2006. My review.
140. Darrel & Sally Odgers: Jack Russell: Dog Detective: Dog Den Mystery. Completed November 25, 2006. My review.
141. Robin Pulver, illustrated by Chuck Richards: Author Day for Room 3T. Completed November 26, 2006. My review.
142. Robin Pulver, illustrated by Tedd Arnold: Axle Annie. Completed November 26, 2006. My review.
143. Robin Pulver, illustrated by Layne Johnson: Christmas for a Kitten. Completed November 26, 2006. My review.
144. Robin Pulver, illustrated by Tedd Arnold: Axle Annie and the Speed Grump. Completed November 26, 2006. My review.
145. T. K. Welsh: The Unresolved. Completed December 7, 2006. My review.
146. T. K. Welsh: Resurrection Men. Completed December 7, 2006. My review.
147. Annie Bryant: Worst Enemies, Best Friends (Beacon Street Girls). Completed December 10, 2006. My review.
148. Annie Bryant: Lake Rescue (Beacon Street Girls). Completed December 14, 2006. My review.
149. Catherine Webb: The Extraordinary and Unusual Adventures of Horatio Lyle. Completed December 20, 2006. My review.
150. Jordan Sonnenblick: Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie. Completed December 24, 2006. My review.
151. Laura Whitcomb: A Certain Slant of Light. Completed December 29, 2006.

Adult Fiction

1. Marcia Preston: #1 Perhaps She'll Die. Completed 1/2/06.
2. Nelson DeMille: Night Fall. Completed 1/7/06.
3. Linwood Barclay: Bad Move. Completed 1/12/06.
4. Jacqueline Winspear: Birds of a Feather (second in series). Completed 1/13/06.
5. Henning Mankell: Sidetracked (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard). The fourth Kurt Wallander book. Completed 1/28/06.
6. Henning Mankell: The Fifth Woman (A Kurt Wallander Mystery). Completed 2/9/06.
7. Jacqueline Winspear: #3 Pardonable Lies : A Maisie Dobbs Novel. Completed 2/18/06. My review.
8. Henning Mankell: #6 One Step Behind. Completed 2/23/06, on the flight to Philadelphia.
9. Gene Riehl: Quantico Rules. Completed 2/27/06, on visit to Philadelphia.
10. Henning Mankell: #7 Firewall (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard). Completed 3/5/06 in Lake Tahoe.
11. Henning Mankell: Before the Frost. Completed 3/23 on the way home from Colorado Springs.
12. Maureen Jennings: Night's Child : A Detective Murdoch Mystery (Detective Murdoch Mysteries). Fifth in series about Canadian detective Murdoch, set in Victorian era. Completed 3/24/06, from the library.
13. Kazou Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go. Well-reviewed, sort of a dytopian, SF novel, about young adults at a school where science has led to a weird mystery. Completed 3/30/06.
14. Elizabeth George: With No One as Witness (Thomas Lynley and Barbara Havers Novels). Completed 4/6/06.
15. Nancy Atherton: Aunt Dimity and the Deep Blue Sea (Aunt Dimity). Completed 4/8/06. My review.
16. Elizabeth Ironside: Death in the Garden. Cozy set between the wars in England, written by the wife of the British ambassador to the US. Great review by Maureen Corrigan in the Washington Post. Completed 4/13/06. My review.
17. Rhys Bowen: Oh Danny Boy (Molly Murphy Mysteries). Completed 4/16/06.
18. Elizabeth Brundage: The Doctor's Wife. Completed 4/20/06, after trip to Orange County.
19. Anne Perry: Angels in the Gloom : A Novel (World War One Novels). Completed 4/26/06.
20. Jonnie Jacobs: The Only Suspect. Completed 4/30/06, in one day.
21. Denise Hamilton: Savage Garden (Eve Diamond Novels). Completed 5/4/06.
22. Gary Braver: Flashback. Completed 5/14/06.
23. Gary Troup: Bad Twin. Completed 5/19/06, on MP3.
24. James Rollins: Map of Bones. Completed 5/27/06, after reading most of it on the trip home from Minneapolis.
25. Jo Dereske: Bookmarked to Die (Miss Zukas Mysteries). Completed 6/5/2006.
26. Jodi Picoult: The Tenth Circle : A Novel. Completed 6/07/06.
27. Morag Joss: Funeral Music (Sara Selkirk Mysteries). Completed 6/22/06.
28. Richard Barre: Blackheart Highway (Wil Hardesty Novels). Completed 7/1/06.
29. Victoria Thompson: Murder on Lenox Hill. Completed 8/7/06.
30. Richard Barre: The Ghosts of Morning. Completed 8/9/06.
31. Janet Evanovich: Twelve Sharp (Stephanie Plum Novels). Completed 8/18/06.
32. Chris Grabenstein: Tilt-a-Whirl. Completed 8/21/06. My review.
33. Laurie R. King: The Art of Detection. Completed 8/23/06 (on MP3).
34. Susan Wittig Albert: The Tale of Hill Top Farm (The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter). Completed 8/30/06.
35. Robert Crais: The Two Minute Rule. Completed 9/5/06.
36. Chris Bohjalian: Before You Know Kindness. Completed 9/8/06.
37. Jeffrey Deaver: The Cold Moon: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel. Completed 9/14/06.
38. Andrea Camilleri: Excursion to Tindari: An Inspector Montalbano Mystery. Completed October 12, 2006.
39. Barbara Cleverly: The Last Kashmiri Rose. Completed October 13, 2006.
40. Diane Setterfield: The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel. Completed November 4, 2006. My review.
41. F. Paul Wilson: Infernal. Completed December 7, 2006.
42. Michael Connelly: Echo Park. Completed December 10, 2006.

Adult Non-Fiction

1. Maureen Corrigan: Leave Me Alone: I'm Reading. Completed 1/2/06. My review.
2. Steve Leveen: The Little Guide to your Well-Read Life. Completed 1/14/06. My review.
3. Jason Kotecki: Escape Adulthood. Completed 1/31/06. My review.
4. Anne Fadiman: Ex Libris : Confessions of a Common Reader. Completed 2/21/06. Listened on MP3.
5. David Brouchard and Wendy Sutton: The Gift of Reading: A Guide for Educators and Parents. Completed 2/27/06, on the flight back from Philadelphia.