Musings from Brian J. Noggle: 2005: The Year's Reading In Review

2005: The Year's Reading In Review

As some concede defeat in the Fifty Book Challenge, you, gentle reader, have suffered through no fewer than 96 book reviews this year (and one forthcoming). Here's my list from 2005*:

Blood on the Arch by Robert J. Randisi
Three Survived by Robert Silverberg
Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe edited by Byron Preiss
From a Buick 8 by Stephen King
A Monkey's Raincoat by Robert Crais
Stalking the Angel by Robert Crais
Lullaby Town by Robert Crais
Free Fall by Robert Crais
Voodoo River by Robert Crais
Savage Love by Dan Savage
In the Shadow of the Bear by Michael Sheehan
Sunset Express by Robert Crais
Quotations from Speaker Newt edited by Amy D. and Peter W. Bernstein
Indigo Slam by Robert Crais
L.A. Requiem by Robert Crais
Demolition Angel by Robert Crais
Kittens and Cats in colour
Hostage by Robert Crais
The Last Detective by Robert Crais
The Forgotten Man by Robert Crais
Treachery by Bill Gertz
Entertainment Weekly The 100 Greatest Movies of All Time
A Century of Enterprise in St. Louis 1894-1994 by Rockwell Gray
Star Trek 5 by James Blish
The American Zone by L. Neil Smith
Cold Service by Robert B. Parker
Star Trek 6 by James Blish
Duty by Bob Greene
Three from the 87th by Ed McBain
Go Directly to Jail edited by Gene Healy
Needlepoint on Plastic Canvas by Elisabeth Brenner De Nitto
It by Stephen King
The Official Rules at Work by Paul Dickson
The Weather of the Heart by Madeleine L'Engle
Paul Harvey's The Rest of the Story by Paul Aurandt
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
The Dick Tracy Casebook Selected by Max Allan Collins and Dick Locher
A Man of Affairs by John D. MacDonald
Supercomputer by Edward Packard
Area of Suspicion by John D. MacDonald
Star Trek 7 by James Blish
I Can't Fight This Feeling.... Edited by David Cassidy
Jump the Shark by Jon Hein
The Action Hero's Handbook by David Borgenicht and Joe Borgenicht
N-Space by Larry Niven
Fenton & Fowler's Best, Worst, and Most Unusual by Bruce Fenton and Mark Fowler
Mr. Murder by Dean Koontz
Easy Prey by John Sandford
The Enforcer by Wesley Morgan
Appaloosa by Robert B. Parker
The Last Dance by Ed McBain
Mobtown by Jack Kelley
Modern Manners by P.J. O'Rourke
The Long Valley by John Steinbeck
Chosen Prey by John Sandford
Naked Prey by John Sandford
The Last Jihad by Joel C. Rosenberg
Ring of Truth by Nancy Pickard
Desperately Seeking Susan by Susan Dworkin
Borderline by Gerry Boyle
The Precipice by Ben Bova
Murder in the Wind by John D. MacDonald
Star Trek 9 by James Blish
Cyber Way by Alan Dean Foster
The Best of National Lampoon #3
Partisans by Alistair MacLean
Star Trek 10 by James Blish
Caravan to Vaccares by Alistair MacLean
Deliver Us From Evil by Sean Hannity
Strip Tease by Carl Hiaasen
Movies and TV: The New York Public Library Book of Answers by Melinda Corey and George Ochoa
The Empty Copper Sea by John D. MacDonald
Hark by Ed McBain
The Devil's Code by John Sandford
The Power of Judyism by Judy Tenuta
The World's Best Dirty Jokes by "Mr. J"
American Diplomacy 1900-1950 by George F. Kennan
TV Superstars '83 by Ronald W. Lockmann
The World of Raymond Chandler edited by Miriam Gross
Superstitious by R.L. Stine
Killing Raven by Margaret Coel
The Season to be Wary by Rod Serling
The Columnist by Jeffrey Frank
The Night Spider by John Lutz
School Days by Robert B. Parker
What's It All About, Charlie Brown? By Jeffrey H. Loria
All These Condemned by John D. MacDonald
Ruled Britannia by Harry Turtledove
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King
The Book of Lists 3 by Amy Wallace, David Wallechinsky, and Irving Wallace
Bag Limit by Steven F. Havill
Christine by Stephen King
Firestarter by Stephen King
Man Plus by Frederick Pohl
Mommy Knows Worst by James Lileks
A Specter Is Haunting Texas by Fritz Leiber
Floodgate by Alistair MacLean

* My personal annual goals list runs from December 25, 2004 through December 25, 2005; hence, the first items on the list have post dates in 2004. Also note that these reflect books I have finished in the time period and that I might have begun the books in college, I count them if I finish them.

- posted by Brian J. @ 3:57 PM