A Huge List That No One Will Care About

I thought I'd clean up the sidebar a bit and move some of the older things to this post. To wit, my lists of books that I've read.

Christmas 2006-End of 2007 (in alphabetical order):

• Abundance of Katherines, An
• Accidental Time-Machine, The
• Always
• Ammonite
• Anastasia Krupnik
• Apartment Therapy
• At Large and At Small
• Back On Blossom Street
• Beauty
• Birthday of the World: And Other Stories, The
• Blue Place, The
• Blue Sword, The
• Book of Fred, The
• Bride's Kimono, The
• Can't Catch Me and Other Twice Told Tales
• Candyfreak
• Changing Planes
• Chicks with Sticks: Knit Two Together
• Children of God
• Codex Alera: Furies of Calderon, Academ's Fury, Cursor's Fury
• Communipaths, The
• Company
• Concrete, vol. 1, 2, 5, 6 & 7
• Cryptonomican
• Curse of the Singles Table: A True Story of 1001 Nights Without Sex, The
• Curses, Inc.
• D.A.
• Doing It
• Don't Tell the Grown-ups: Subversive Children's Literature
• Don't Try This At Home: Culinary Catastrophes from the World's Greatest Chefs
• Door in the Hedge, The
• Dragonhaven
• Dresden Files: Storm Front, Fool Moon, Summer Knight & Grave Peril
• East
• Eat Pray Love
• Fables, vol. 2 & 3
• Fairy Godmother: A Tale of the Five Hundred Kingdoms
• Fine Prey
• Fistful of Sky, A
• Floating Girl
• Flower Confidential
• Flower Master
• Found Style: Vintage Ideas for Modern Living
• Fray
• Free Gift with Purchase
• Friday Night Knitting Club
• Frog Princess, The
• Garden Design for Small Spaces
• Gibbon's Decline and Fall
• Gifts
• Girl in a Box
• Gods and Pawns
• Goose Girl
• Grass
• Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (of course)
• Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
• Here Lies My Heart: Essays on Why We Marry, Why We Don't, and What We Find There
• House Thinking: A Room-by-Room Look at How We Live
• Housekeeping vs. The Dirt
• How Sassy Changed My Life: A Love Letter to the Greatest Teen Magazine of All Time
• I Am A Bunny
• I Feel Bad About My Neck
• I Who Have Never Known Men
• Jennifer Government
• Joy of Doing Things Badly: A Girl's Guide to Love, Life and Foolish Bravery
• Julie & Julia
• Killer Stitch, A
• King Dork
• Knit 2 Together
• Knitting Circle
• Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics: Teachers' Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics in China and the United States
• Kushiel's Legacy: Kushiel's Dart; Kushiel's Justice; Kushiel's Chosen
• Last Colony, The
• Maia
• Making Comics
• Mathematicians in Love
• Mathematics Made Difficult
• Messenger of Truth
• Mind of My Mind
• Modern Japanese Tanka
• Motherlines
• Mountain Man Dance Moves
• Mrs. Tiggy Winkle
• Native Tongue Trilogy: Native Tongue, The Judas Rose, Earthsong
• Once On A Time
• One Good Knight: A Tale of the Five Hundred Kingdoms
• Ordinary Princess
• Organic Housekeeping
• Overcoming Math Anxiety
• Ozark Trilogy, The
• Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers' Schemes
• Passing: When People Can't Be Who They Are
• Patternmaster
• Pearl Diver
• Peculiar Beauty
• Pocket Stylist: Behind-the-Scenes Expertise from a Fashion Pro on Creating Your Own Look.
• Polymorph
• Princess Academy
• Regiment of Women
• Rumpelstiltskin Problem
• Salaryman's Wife
• Samurai's Daughter
• Shadow Children: Among the Barons, Among the Betrayed, Among the Brave, Among the Enemy, Among the Free, Among the Hidden & Among the Imposters
• Shadow Man
• Shall I Knit You a Hat?
• Singer from the Sea
• Slow River
• Song of Fire and Ice: A Games of Thrones; A Clash of Kings; A Storm of Swords; A Feast for Crows
• Sparrow, The
• Spellbound
• Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, The
• Starship Troopers
• Stay
• Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Casts Off
• Stepmother
• Storm Front
• Strange Candy
• Superstud: Or How I Became a 24-Year-Old Virgin
• Sweetblood
• Syrup
• Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread
• Tales from the Brother Grimm and the Sisters Weird
• Tales of the Slayers
• Teaching Math, K-8
• Teaching Problems and Problems Teaching
• That Darn Yarn
• The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones
• The Pirates! In an Adventure with Ahab
• The Pirates! In an Adventure with Communists
• Tricia Guild Pattern: Using Pattern to Create Sophisticated, Show-stopping Interiors
• True Story of Hansel and Gretel, The
• Typhoon Lover
• Venus Plus X
• Voices
• Water for Elephants
• Water Song
• What Every Woman Ought to Know About Love and Marriage
• Wolf at the Door: and Other Retold Fairy Tales
• Woman of the Iron People
• Woman on the Edge of Time
• Yarnplay
• Year of Yes, The
• Zen Attitude
• Zen Flowers: Designs to Soothe the Senses and Nourish the Soul

The Year of 2008 (in reverse chronological order -- Thanks, Daniel)

• Incredible Change-Bot by Jeffrey Brown
  
• Mouse Guard Volume 1: Fall 1152 by David Petersen
• The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
• Otherness by David Brin
• Memories and Visions (Women's fantasy & science fiction) by Susanna Sturgis
• Half a Crown by Jo Walton
• Daughters of Earth by Judith Merrill
• Getting the Girl: A Guide to Private Investigation, Surveillance, and Cookery by Susan Juby
• Lopsided: How Having Breast Cancer Can Be Really Distracting by Meredith Norton
• The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil by George Saunders
• Glory Season by David Brin
• Shimura Trouble by Sujata Massey
• Watching the English by Kate Fox (1st half)
• Damned Lies and Statistics by Joel Best
• Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences by John Allen Paulos
• Chalice by Robine McKinley
• Golden by Cameron Dokey
• Fairy Tales: Traditional Stories Retold for Gay Men by Peter Cashorali
• How to Be a Villain: Evil Laughs, Secret Lairs, Master Plans, and More!!! by Neil Zawacki and James Dignan
• Cycler by Lauren Mclaughlin
• More Damned Lies and Statistics: How Numbers Confuse Public Issues by Joel Best
• All You Need to Be Impossibly French: A Witty Investigation into the Lives, Lusts, and Little Secrets of French Women by Helena Frith-Powel
• The Little Black Book of Style by Nina Garcia
• Kushiel's Mercy (Kushiel's Legacy) by Jacqueline Carey
• How to Lie With Statistics by Darrell Huff
• Sex Wars: A Novel of Gilded Age New York by Marge Piercy
• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
• Some random X-men & Fables comics
• the dead and the gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer
• Saturn's Children by Charles Stross
• Rapunzel's Revenge by Shannon Hale
• Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back by Norah Vincent
• I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
• Marsbound by Joe Haldeman
• Virtual Girl by Amy Thomson
• Austenland by Shannon Hale
• The King's Peace by Jo Walton
• East Wind Melts the Ice: A Memoir Through the Seasons by Liza Dalby
• Ha'Penny by Jo Walton
• Gang leader for a day : a rogue sociologist takes to the streets by Sudhir Venkatesh
• Dogs by Nancy Kress
• Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
• Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang (which I really cannot recommend highly enough)
• Confessions of a Prep School Mommy Handler: A Memoir by Wade Rouse
• Extras by Scott Westerfeld
• The Host by Stephenie Meyer
• Logan's Run by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson
• Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach
• The Furies by Suzy McKee Charnas
• Elephant Elephant : A Book of Opposites by Francisco Pittau and Bernadette Gervais
• Personal Demon by Kelley Armstrong
• A Year in Japan by Kate T. Williamson
• Adventures in the Dream Trade by Neil Gaiman
• You're The One That I Want by Cecily von Ziegesar
• A War of Gifts: An Ender Story by Orson Scott Card
• Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
• The Book of Vice : Very Naughty Things (and How to Do Them) by Peter Sagal
• Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton
• Farthing by Jo Walton
• Nothing Human by Nancy Kress
• Nano Comes to Clifford Falls: And Other Stories by Nancy Kress
• Blade of Tyshalle by Matthew Woodring Stover
• The Goodness Gene by Sonia Levitin
• The Color of Distance by Amy Thomson
• The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
• Through Alien Eyes by Amy Thomson
• Life among the Savages by Shirley Jackson
• Into the Wild by Sarah Beth Durst
• Snow White and Rose Red by Patricia Wrede
• Simple sewing with a French twist by Céline Dupuy
• Heroes Die by Matthew Woodring Stover
• Tested: One American School Struggles to Make the Grade by Linda Perlstein
• Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan by Bruce Feiler
• A Lick of Frost by Laurell K. Hamilton (NOT an endorsement of said book)
• The Outlaw Demon Wails by Kim Harrison
• Homo Domesticus: Notes from a Same-sex Marriage by David Valdes Greenwood
• Freeware by Rudy Rucker
• Teach Like Your Hair's On Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56 by Rafe Esquith
• Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
• Decorating is Fun! by Dorothy Draper
• Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume ed. Jennifer O'Connell
• Other People's Dirt: A Housecleaner's Curious Adventures by Louise Rafkin
• Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale
• Decorating Easy: Create a Simple, Comfortable Home with Pure Style by Jane Cumberbatch
• Smart Storage
• No Humans Involved by Kelley Armstrong
• Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly by Gail Carson Levine
• Letters to a Young Mathematician by Ian Stewart
• Evil Genius by Catherine Jinks
• One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding by Rebecca Mead
• Captain's Fury by Jim Butcher
• To Hell with All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife by Caitlin Flanagan
• Eastern Standard Tribe by Cory Doctorow
• The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries by Marilyn Johnson
• Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present by Cory Doctorow
• The Kindly Ones by Melissa Scott
• Elements of Etiquette : a Guide to Table Manners in an Imperfect World by Craig Claiborne
• Kiss Off: Poems to Set You Free ed. Mary D. Esselman & Elizabeth Ash Velez
• Jumper: Griffin's Story by Steven Gould
• For A Few Demons More by Kim Harrison
• Fashion Babylon by Imogen Edwards-Jones
• Eifelheim by Michael Flynn
• Was She Pretty? by Leanne Shapton
• Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
• Perfect Scoop: Ice Creams, Sorbets, Granitas, and Sweet Accompaniments by David Lebovitz
• Never After by Rebecca Lickiss
• Spin Control by Chris Moriarty
• The Sons of Heaven by Kage Baker
• Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
• A place so foreign and eight more stories by Cory Doctorow
• Once Upon a Quinceañera: Coming of Age in the USA by Julia Alvarez
• I Am A Bunny by Ole Risom
• Spin State by Chris Moriarty
• Kushiel's Avatar by Jacqueline Carey
• Edward Gorey: The Epileptic Bicycle, The Beastly Baby, The Pious Infant, etc.
• Ember by Bettie Sharpe