It's no wonder I never watched enough television to miss it when I got it out of my house three-and-a-half years ago.
Of course, being in The Nematomes Book Club for nine years (from 1991 to 2001) kept me reading regularly. At one point, I was in three book clubs at once, the other two being The Mostly Social Book Club and a Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, & Transgender Book Club.
I did, of course, read before 1991, so this doesn't include books before then, which would include my high school, and undergraduate college years.
Books I've Read
| Year | Month |
Book | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | August |
We Are All the Same | Jim Wooten |
| 2005 | June |
The Power of Full Engagement | Jim Loehr & Tony Schwartz |
| 2005 | Jan - Apr |
Information Architecture | Rosenfeld & Morville |
| 2005 | Jan - Apr |
Genre Analysis | John M. Swales |
| 2005 | Jan - Apr |
Handbook of Usability Testing | Jeffrey Rubin |
| 2005 | Jan - Apr |
The Design of Everyday Things | Donald A. Norman |
| 2004 | The Nuclear Age | Tim O'Brien | |
| 2004 | Eats, Shoots & Leaves | Lynne Truss | |
| 2004 | Aug - Dec |
Managing Your Documentation Projects | JoAnn Hackos |
| 2004 | Aug - Dec |
Management Principles for Technical Communicators | R. Stanley Dicks |
| 2004 | Aug - Dec |
Research in Technical Communication | Multi-authored |
| 2004 | Aug - Dec |
Professional Writing and Rhetoric | Tim Peeples |
| 2004 | The Five People You Meet in Heaven | Mitch Albom | |
| 2004 | Life of Pi: A Novel | Yann Martel | |
| 2004 | Jan - April |
Multimedia-Based Instructional Design | Lee & Owens |
| 2004 | Jan - April |
Technology-Based Learning | Marquardt & Kearsley |
| 2004 | Jan - April |
Designing Visual Language | Kostelnick & Roberts |
| 2004 | Jan - April |
Dynamics in Document Design | Karen Schriver |
| 2003 | Seabiscuit: An American Legend | Laura Hillenbrand | |
| 2002 | Read My Lips Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender | Riki Wilchins | |
| Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith | Anne Lamott | ||
| The Nanny Diaries | McLaughlin & Kraus | ||
| Rubyfruit Jungle | Rita Mae Brown | ||
| Cain River | Lalita Tademy | ||
The Poisonwood Bible |
Barbara Kingsolver |
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Moo |
Jane Smiley |
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Forged by Fire |
Sharon M. Draper |
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Sweet Savage Love |
Rosemary Rogers |
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Groomed for Death |
Carolyn Banks |
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| Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
The Wealthy Barber |
David Chilton |
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The Left Hand of Darkness |
Ursula Le Guin |
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The Turn of the Screw |
Henry James |
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Wuthering Heights |
Emily Bronte |
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Midwives |
Chris Bohjalian |
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone |
J. K. Rowling |
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Friedman's Fables |
Edwin Friedman |
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The Phantom Toolbooth |
Nick Beggs |
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Bridges of Madison County |
Robert James Waller |
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7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
Stephen R. Covey |
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| 2003 | March |
Adien Shaw | |
| 2003 | January |
Eric Myers | |
| 2002 | October |
Kirk Read | |
| 2002 | August |
Andrew Holleran | |
| 2002 | June |
Howard Cruse | |
| 2002 | April |
Michael Downing | |
| 2002 | January | Jim Grimsley | |
| 2001 | November | Elizabeth Berg | |
| 2001 | October | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 2001 | September | Sena Jeter Naslund | |
| 2001 | August | Frank McCourt | |
| 2001 | July |
Doris Betts | |
| 2001 | June | William Styron | |
| 2001 | May | Bertrice Small | |
| 2001 | April | Lee Smith | |
| 2001 | March | Greg Bear | |
| 2001 | February | Patrick Robinson | |
| 2001 | January | Bailey White | |
| 2000 | November | John Steinbeck | |
| 2000 | October | Arthur S. Golden | |
| 2000 | September | Joyce Carol Oates | |
| 2000 | July | Bohumil Hrabal | |
| 2000 | June | Tim O'Brien | |
| 2000 | May |
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| 2000 | April |
J.K. Rowling | |
| 2000 | March | Bernhard Schlink | |
| 2000 | February | David Guterson | |
| 2000 | January |
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| 1999 | November |
Where The Heart Is | Billie Letts |
| 1999 | October |
Dune | Frank Herbert |
| 1999 | September |
The Devine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood | Rebecca Wells |
| 1999 | August |
Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres |
| 1999 | July |
Bridget Jones' Diary | Helen Fielding |
| 1999 | June |
Beloved | Toni Morrison |
| 1999 | May |
News of the Spirit | Lee Smith |
| 1999 | April |
Ghost Country | Sara Paretsky |
| 1999 | March |
Master and Commander | Patrick O'Brian |
| 1999 | February |
Stones from the River | Ursula Hegi |
| 1999 | January |
Raney & Where Trouble Sleeps | Clyde Edgerton |
| 1998 | December |
The Perfect Storm | Sebastian Junger |
| 1998 | November |
The Joy Luck Club | Amy Tan |
| 1998 | October |
Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand |
| 1998 | August |
The Horse Whisperer | Nicholas Evans |
| 1998 | July |
Wild Horses | Dick Francis |
| 1998 | June |
The Bluest Eye | Toni Morrison |
| 1998 | May |
Stranger in a Strange Land | Robert Heinlein |
| 1998 | April |
Cold Mountain | Charles Frazier |
| 1998 | March |
A Big Storm Knocked It Over | Laurie Colwin |
| 1998 | February |
The Sea-Wolf | Jack London |
| 1998 | January |
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | John Berendt |
| 1997 | December |
Up Jumps the Devil | Margaret Maron |
| 1997 | November |
Call It Sleep | Henry Roth |
| 1997 | October |
A Prayer for Owen Meany | John Irving |
| 1997 | September |
A Mid-Summer's Night Dream | William Shakespeare |
| 1997 | August |
Different Seasons: Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption | Stephen King |
| 1997 | July |
Childhood's End | Arthur C. Clarke |
| 1997 | May |
The Ghostway | Tony Hillerman |
| 1997 | April |
The Chosen | Chaim Potok |
| 1997 | March |
Postmortem | Patricia Cornwell |
| 1997 | February |
Coffee Will Make You Black | April Sinclair |
| 1997 | January |
Death Comes for the Archbishop | Willa Cather |
| 1996 | December |
Watchers | Dean Koonz |
| 1996 | November |
84 Charing Cross Rd. & The Duchess of Bloomsbury St. | Helene Hanff |
| 1996 | October |
Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad |
| 1996 | September |
Sharpe's Rifles | Bernard Cornwell |
| 1996 | August |
The Three Musketeers | Alexandre Dumas |
| 1996 | July |
Snapshot | Linda Barnes |
| 1996 | June |
The Secret History | Donna Tartt |
| 1996 | May |
The Razor's Edge | W. Somerset Maugham |
| 1996 | March |
Circle of Friends | Maeve Binchy |
| 1996 | February |
Dog Stories | James Herriot |
| 1995 | December |
Northern Borders | Howard Frank Mosher |
| 1995 | November |
D.W. (Book club member's non-published book.) | Samara A. Adrian |
| 1995 | October |
The Spy Wore Red | Aline, Countess of Romanones |
| 1995 | September |
The Plague | Albert Camus |
| 1995 | August |
Brideshead Revisted | Evelyn Waugh |
| 1995 | July |
West With The Night | Beryl Markham |
| 1995 | June |
The Shipping News | Annie Proulx |
| 1995 | May |
Rebecca | Daphne DuMaurier |
| 1995 | April |
Tales of the City & More Tales of the City | Armistead Maupin |
| 1995 | March |
Absalom, Absalom | William Faulkner |
| 1995 | February |
Love in the Time of Cholera | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| 1995 | January |
Turtle Moon | Alice Hoffman |
| 1994 | December |
A Toni Morrison Book | Toni Morrison |
| 1994 | November |
Holidays in Hell | P.J. O'Rourke |
| 1994 | October |
White Noise | Don DiLillo |
| 1994 | September |
Brave New World | Aldous Huxley |
| 1994 | August |
Roughin' It | Mark Twain |
| 1994 | July |
The Mystery of Beautiful Nell Cropsey | Bland Simpson |
| 1994 | June |
Bootlegger's Daughter | Margaret Maron |
| 1994 | May |
Charms for the Easy Life | Kaye Gibbons |
| 1994 | April |
Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy |
| 1994 | March |
The French Lieutenant's Woman | John Fowles |
| 1994 | February |
The Snow Queen | Joan Vinge |
| 1994 | January |
The Bean Tree | Barbara Kingsolver |
| 1993 | December |
Perfume | Patrick Suskind |
| 1993 | November |
The Mote in God's Eye | Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle |
| 1993 | October |
The Fountainhead | Ayn Rand |
| 1993 | September |
The Bridges of Madison County | Robert James Waller |
| 1993 | August |
A Thousand Acres | Jane Smiley |
| 1993 | July |
A Mother and Two Daughters | Gail Godwin |
| 1993 | June |
Tropic of Cancer | Henry Miller |
| 1993 | May |
Walking Across Egypt | Clyde Edgerton |
| 1993 | April |
Jurassic Park | Michael Crichton |
| 1993 | March |
Child of the Northern Spring | Persia Woolley |
| 1993 | February |
The Assistant | Bernard Malamud |
| 1993 | January |
Turn of the Screw | Henry James |
| 1992 | December |
Startide Rising | David Brin |
| 1992 | November |
Searoad | Ursula K. LeGuin |
| 1992 | October |
C is for Corpse | Sue Grafton |
| 1992 | September |
The Mayor of Caterbridge or Jude the Obscure | Thomas Hardy |
| 1992 | August |
Hocus Pocus | Kurt Vonnegut |
| 1992 | July |
Any Anne Tyler Book | Anne Tyler |
| 1992 | June |
Run With The Horseman | Ferrall Sams |
| 1992 | May |
July's People | Nadine Gordimer |
| 1992 | April |
The Bone People | Keri Hulme |
| 1992 | March |
The Universal Baseball Association | Robert Coover |
| 1992 | February |
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe | Fanny Flagg |
| 1992 | January |
Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck |
| 1991 | December |
Speaker for the Dead | Orson Scott Card |
| 1991 | November |
The Prince of Tides | Pat Conroy |
| 1991 | October |
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| 1991 | September |
A Confederacy of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole |
| 1991 | August |
Talking God | Tony Hillerman |
| 1991 | July |
Animal Farm | George Orwell |
| 1991 | June |
The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemmingway |
| 1991 | May |
Ellen Foster | Kaye Gibbons |