Read in 2006 (and 2005)

Maybe in 2007, I'll shoot for a book a week. I've been toying with the idea of reading stuff off the jail wish list. That would do nothing to balance my (unhealthy?) tendency to overdo the, shall we say, earthy autobiographical comic books.

Books read in 2006
as entered in my "sustained reading of complex texts" list

Title	Author	Date entered
The Complete Peanuts 1959-1960	Charles M. Schulz	12/27/2006
The Neddiad	Daniel Manus Pinkwater	12/27/2006
A Year at the Movies: One Man's Filmgoing Odyssey	Kevin Murphy	12/27/2006
Wild life, the Cardinal collection	John Kovalic	12/27/2006
A Child's Life and Other Stories	Phoebe Louise Adams Gloeckner	12/27/2006
Codex	Lev Grossman	11/29/2006
The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade	Thomas Lynch	11/28/2006
Essays in Idleness	Yoshida Kenko	11/28/2006
The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More	Chris Anderson	10/22/2006
Hustling Is Not Stealing: Stories of an African Bar Girl	John M. Chernoff	10/22/2006
Exchange Is Not Robbery: More Stories of an African Bar Girl	John M. Chernoff	10/6/2006
Behind Bars: Surviving Prison	Jeffrey Ian Ross	9/18/2006
Ridiculous Packaging (or, My Long, Strange Journey from Atheist to Episcopalian, in Two Acts)	Karen Favreau	9/15/2006
The Complete Peanuts 1957-1958	Charles M. Schulz	9/14/2006
Digital Dish	Owen Linderholm	8/30/2006
Hungry Planet	Peter Menzel	8/30/2006
The Confusion	Neal Stephenson	8/14/2006
King of the Vagabonds	Neal Stephenson	8/7/2006
Theory of Fun for Game Design	Raph Koster	7/31/2006
Quicksilver	Neal Stephenson	7/31/2006
Raising Less Corn, More Hell: The Case For The Independent Farm And Against Industrial Food	George Pyle	7/22/2006
How to Be Idle	Tom Hodgkinson	7/22/2006
Bonjour Laziness: Jumping Off the Corporate Ladder	Corinne Maier	7/22/2006
Keep the Aspidistra Flying	George Orwell	7/18/2006
Thirty-three Swoons	Martha Cooley	6/26/2006
Other Electricities	Ander Monson	6/23/2006
The Nextgen Librarian's Survival Guide	Rachel Singer Gordon	6/23/2006
Life's a Bitch	Roberta Gregory	6/21/2006
True Believer	Virginia Euwer Wolff	6/15/2006
I, Coriander	Sally Gardner	6/12/2006
The First Part Last	Angela Johnson	6/6/2006
Promises I Can Keep : Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage	Kathryn Edin	6/1/2006
Translation Nation	Hector Tobar	5/18/2006
Ego & Hubris : The Michael Malice Story	Harvey Pekar	5/9/2006
Wicked	Gregory Maguire	4/18/2006
The Cluetrain Manifesto	Christopher Locke	4/14/2006
Bed and board	Robert Farrar Capon	4/13/2006
Five Percenter Rap	Felicia M. Miyakawa	4/7/2006
The Promise : How One Woman Made Good on Her Extraordinary Pact to Send a Classroom of 1st Graders to College	Oral Lee Brown	4/4/2006
Cosmopolitan: A Bartender's Life	Toby Cecchini	4/4/2006
Monster	Frank Peretti	3/31/2006
Here be Snapdragons	John Kovalic and Liz Rathke	3/19/2006
Ordinary Genius (Flyover Fiction Series)	Thomas Fox Averill	3/9/2006
Not Much Just Chillin': The Hidden Lives of Middle Schoolers	Linda Perlstein	3/9/2006
Past Mortem	Ben Elton	2/24/2006
Keywords: A vocabulary of culture and society	Raymond Williams	2/6/2006
American Mania: When More Is Not Enough	Peter C. Whybrow	2/6/2006

Better late than never.

Books read in 2005
as entered in my "sustained reading of complex texts" list

Title	Author	Date entered
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell	Susanna Clarke	12/16/2005
Ambient Findability	Peter Morville	12/14/2005
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation	Lynne Truss	12/14/2005
Memory Bank	Wallace West	11/28/2005
The Quitter	Harvey Pekar	11/28/2005
The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture	John Battelle	11/22/2005
Entities	Eric Frank Russell	11/10/2005
The House of the Dead	Fyodor Dostoyevsky	11/10/2005
RFID	Steven Shepard	11/10/2005
Maakies	Tony Millionaire	9/22/2005
The Complete Peanuts 1955-1956	Charles M. Schulz	9/22/2005
Toothpaste For Dinner	Drew	9/17/2005
Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology	Eric Brende	9/15/2005
The Pirates Laffite : The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf	William C. Davis	9/2/2005
Stranger in a Strange Land	Robert A. Heinlein	8/23/2005
Bad Language, Naked Ladies, and Other Threats to the Nation: A Political History of Comic Books in Mexico	Anne Rubenstein	8/22/2005
All God's Children	Fox Butterfield	8/4/2005
The Complete Upmanship: Including, Gamesmanship, Lifemanship, One-Upmanship, Supermanship.	Stephen Potter	7/29/2005
Cube Farm	Bill Blunden	7/29/2005
Never Marry a Woman with Big Feet	Mineke Schipper	7/25/2005
Wild With a Glue Gun: Getting Together With Crafty Friends	Kitty Harmon	7/25/2005
The Wu-Tang Manual: Enter the 36 Chambers, Volume One	The RZA	7/25/2005
Healing by Heart: Clinical and Ethical Case Stories of Hmong Familes and Western Providers		7/18/2005
Happy Kitty Bunny Pony : A Saccharine Mouthful of Super Cute	Popink	7/18/2005
Why People Buy Things They Don't Need	Pamela Danziger	7/13/2005
The Deeper Meaning of Liff : A Dictionary of Things There Aren't Any Words for Yet--But There Ought to Be	Douglas Adams	7/6/2005
Status Anxiety	Alain de Botton	6/26/2005
The Life and Times of Henry Pratt	David Nobbs	6/26/2005
The Quit	Evan Harris	6/16/2005
The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System	Siva Vaidhyanathan	6/10/2005
Narcocorrido: A Journey into the Music of Drugs, Guns, and Guerrillas	Elijah Wald	5/19/2005
The Grasshopper King	Jordan Ellenberg	5/9/2005
Doing Time on the Outside : Incarceration and Family Life in Urban America	Donald Braman	5/2/2005
Those Episkopols	Dennis R Maynard	4/11/2005
I didn't get where I am today	David Nobbs	4/11/2005
Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences (Inside Technology)	Geoffrey C. Bowker	4/5/2005
The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization (Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing)	Elaine Svenonius	3/21/2005
Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences	John Allen Paulos	3/16/2005
Sherwood Anderson	Kim Townsend	3/15/2005
The! Greatest! of! Marlys!	Lynda Barry	3/12/2005
The Smallest People Alive	Keith Banner	3/7/2005
Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop and Some People	Danny Hoch	3/7/2005
My New York Diary	Julie Doucet	3/7/2005
The Platypus and the Mermaid: And Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination	Harriet Ritvo	2/3/2005
Uncovering Labour in Information Revolutions, 1750-2000		1/19/2005
Why We Buy: The Science Of Shopping	Paco Underhill	1/3/2005