Favorite Books - 2001 - 2006

Favorite Books of 2006

In 2006 I read 187 books.My Top 10 fiction & non fiction are listed below:FICTION

1. Water For Elephants; Sarah Gruen
2. The Crimes of Jordan Wise; Pronzini
3. The Things They Carried; O'Brien
4. The Road; Comac McCarthy
5. Cage of Stars; Mitchard
6. The Thirteenth Tale; Setterfield
7. The Analyst; Jon Katzenbach
8. Wild Fire; Nelson DeMille
9. Slay Ride; Grabenstein
10. Book of Lost Things; Connolly

Non Fiction

1. Wisdom of Our Fathers; Tim Russert
2. The Great Hurricane; Burns
3. How Reading Changed My Life; Quindlen
4. The Blessing of the Animals; Gonzalez
5. In Cold Blood; Capote
6. Freakonomics; Leavitt
7. From Baghdad With Love; Kopelmann
8. I Feel Bad About My Neck; Ephron
9. Found Dogs; Lufkin
10. Three Weeks With My Brother; Nicholas Sparks

Favorite Books of 2005

In 2005 I read 190 books. This year I decided to list my Top 10 fiction and Top 10 non fiction favorites:

Top 10 FICTION

1. Snow Flower & the Secret Fan; Lisa See
2. Kite Runner; Husinni
3. Bright Forever; Lee Martin
4. Myth of You & Me; Stewart
5. Half Broken Things; Morag Joss
6. Red Leaves; Thomas Cook
7. My Sister's Keeper; Jodi Picoult
8. Writing on the Wall; Schwartz
9. Rapture of Canaan; Reynolds
10. Follow Your Heart; Tamaro

Top 10 Non Fiction

1. The Glass Castle; Wall
2. Autobiography of a Face; Grealey
3. A Paper Life; Tatum O'Neil
4. Marley & Me; Grogan
5. The Feline Mystique; Simons
6. Making a Good Brain Great; Amen
7. The Rescue Artist; Dolnick
8. A Year of Magical Thinking; Didon
9. Never Have Your Dog Stuff; Alan Alda
10. Down Came the Rain; Brooke Shields

Favorite Books of 2004

IN 2004 i READ 134 BOOKS. My Top 10 favorites were:

1. Middlesex; Jeffrey Eugendies
2. Between Two Rivers; Daniel Rinaldi
3. An Inconvenient Wife; Megan Chance
4. Sudden Sea; Scotti
5. An Almost Perfect Murder; Kirshbaum
6. The Christmas Shoes; Donna Van Liere
7. Joy Comes in the Morning; Rosen
8. Island Walkers; Bemrose
9. The Usual Rules; Joyce Maynard
10. A Redbird Christmas; Fannie Flagg

Favorite Books of 2003

In 2003 I read 118 books. My top 10 favorites were:

1. Life of Pi; Martel
2. Crow Lake; Maryann Lawson
3. Second Glance; Jodi Picoult
4. All He Ever Wanted; Anita Shreve
5. Learning Joy From Dogs Without Collars; Lauralee Summer
6. Old School; Tobias Wolff
7. Lake of Dead Language; Carol Goodman
8. Curious Incident of a Dog in the Night; Mark Haddon
9. Beachcomber; Karen Robards
10. The Center of Everything; Laura Moriarty

Favorite Books of 2002

IN 2002 I read 87 books. My top 10 were:

1. The Lovely Bones; Alice Sebold
2. Eden Close; Anita Shreve
3. Blindness; Jose Saramago
4. Tuesdays With Morrie; Mitch Albom
5. Whispers & Lies; Joy Fielding
6. Snow Island; Susan Towler
7. Gold Coast; Nelson DeMille
8. Salem Fall; Jodi Picoult
9. All the Names; Jose Saramago
10. Chasing the Dime; Michael Connelly

Favorite Books of 2001

In 2001 I read 66 books, and my top 10 favorites were:

1. The Bonesetter's Daughter: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle); Amy Tan
2. Strange Fits of Passion: A Novel; Anita Shreve
3. Resistance: A Novel; Anita Shreve
4. The Inn at Lake Devine; Eleanor Lipman
5. The Bluest Eye (Vintage International); Toni Morrison
6. The Law of Similars; Chris Bohjalian
7. I Know This Much Is True: A Novel (P.S.); Wally Lamb
8. Good Harbor: A Novel;Anita Diamant
9. L.A. Dead (Stone Barrington Novels); Stuart Woods
10. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir; Frank McCourt