December 2006

Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris (had to read it for a cultural radio program)
The Accidental by Ali Smith
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

November 2006

Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man (biography) by Claire Tomalin
When We Were Bad (not yet published) by Charlotte Mendelson

October 2006

A Vicious Circle by Amanda Craig
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
The Vanishing of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell

September 2006

The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (reread – comfort read!)
half of Untold Stories by Alan Bennett

August 2006

Gentlemen and Players by Joanne Harris
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
On Writing by Stephen King

July 2006

A Factory of Cunning by Philippa Stockley
Theft by Peter Carey

June 2006

Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel
Touching the Rock: An Experience of Blindness by John T. Hull

Not so much reading this month, but I finished writing my book!

May 2006

So Many Ways to Begin by Jon McGregor
Digging to America by Anne Tyler
Vernon God Little by D.B.C. Pierre

April 2006

Spies by Michael Frayn
Disobedience by Naomi Alderman
The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert
Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters

March 2006

The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien (reread, aloud with my son)
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
Paradise Lost by John Milton

February 2006

The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Close Range (short stories) by Annie Proulx
Rapture (poems) by Carol Ann Duffy

January 2006

On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Constitutional (short stories) by Helen Simpson
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
The Lambs of London by Peter Ackroyd