Year end: Book round-up

This year I was fortunate to do alot of reading. The reading bug goes in phases for me but it primarily depends on the amount of free time I have. This year with no house moving, no new baby and no job I had quite a bit of time to read. You'll notice a New England theme later in the list with 1776, Alcott, Thoreau and Stowe. There are a number of books on the list that I would NOT recommend so if you are interested check with me and I'll fill you in.

Here they are in time order of reading (my top three are highlighted):

1. Catch 22 - Jospeh Heller
2. Living a beautiful life - Alexandra Stoddard
3. The problem of pain - C S Lewis
4. Twice Adopted - Michael Reagan (personally signed book!)
5. White teeth - Zadie Smith
6. The unchurched next door - Thom Rainer
7. Girl meets God - Lauren Winner
8. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Ian Fleming
9. The inheritance of loss - Kiran Desai
10. The letters of E B White (all 685 pages!)
11. 90 minutes in heaven - Don Piper
12. Gluten free girl - Shauna James Ahern
13. The gift of the sea - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
14. The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
15. If I was God I'd end all the pain - John Dickson
16. Granta 100
17. Granta 101
18. Granta 102
19. Granta 103
20. A shepherd's guide to psalm 23 - Phillip Keller
21. Drinking coffee elsewhere - Z Z Packer
22. Book by book - Michael Dirda
23. Mudhouse Sabbath - Lauren Winner
24. The know it all - A J Jacobs
25. The red tent - Anita Diamant
26. The mermaid chair - Sue Monk Kidd
27. Midnight's children - Salman Rushdie
28. Classics for pleasure - Michael Dirda
29. 1776 - David McCullough
30. Kafka's soup - Mark Crick
31. Arthur & George - Julian Barnes
32. Eden's Outcasts (The story of Louisa May Alcott and her father) - John Matteson
33. Uncle Tom's cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe (second reading)
34. The strong willed child - Dr James Dobson
35. The god of small things - Arundhati Roy
36. Walden; or Life in the woods - Henry David Thoreau
37. Multiple blessings - Jon & Kate Gosselin
38. Nothing in my hand I bring - Ray Galea
39. The Shack - William Young
40. The catcher in the rye - J D Salinger
41. Seven types of ambiguity - Elliot Perlman (another 600+ pages, been carrying this around since '04, finally read this excellent book in just 1 week)