Book Log 2005 List
January
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (re-read)
Writing Successful Scientific Proposals by Andrew J. Friedland and Carol
L. Folt
Februrary
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
March
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
María by Jorge Isaacs
All I Wanted Was Company by John Hopkins
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid
Tomorrow Will Be Better by Betty Smith
April
Crossing the Threshold of Hope by His Holiness John Paul II
The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White
May
Twilight Sleep by Edith Wharton
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
A Lost Lady by Willa Cather
The Natural by Bernard Malamud
June
The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
July
Cecily's book
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
The Girl Most Likely by Rebecca Sparrow
Vladimir Nabokov by Jane Grayson (Penguin's Illustrated Lives series)
August
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
September
The Reef by Edith Wharton
Maggie-Now by Betty Smith
The Dangerous Summer by Ernest Hemingway
At the Foot of the Rainbow by Gene Stratton Porter
October
Boy: Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl
Going Solo by Roald Dahl
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Don't Tell Me the Truth About Love by Dan Rhodes
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
November
The Substitute Guest by Grace Livingston Hill
Bend Sinister by Vladimir Nabokov
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
December
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (re-read)
All the Pretty
Horses by
Cormac McCarthy
Tao Teh Ching by Lao Tzu (translated by John C. H. Wu)
Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories
