Last year I kept track of how many books I read, and it was kind of pitiful. For someone who has hundreds of unread books in her house, I'm not making much progress. My total for 2005 was 29. Next year, I'll try for 52. We'll see how that goes...
But here's the run-down of what I read in 2005. My big favorites for the year are in bold, and I would highly recommend them.
The Hip Mama Survival Guide: Advice from the Trenches on Pregnancy, Childbirth, Cool Names, Clueless Doctors, Potty Training and Toddler Avengers by Ariel Gore
Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year by Anne Lamott
How to Write a Children's Book and Get It Published by Barbara Seuling
Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen
A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories by Richard Peck
Mothering Magazine's Having a Baby, Naturally: The Mothering Magazine Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth by Peggy O'Mara
Frindle by Andrew Clements
A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) by J. K. Rowling
Necessary Dreams: Ambition in Women's Changing Lives by Anna Fels
Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym
Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner
Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie by Peter and Connie Roop
The Blue Jay's Dance by Louise Erdrich
Edwina Victorious by Susan Bonners
Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate by George Lakoff
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater
Until I Find You by John Irving
A Beginner's Guide to Changing the World: A True Life Adventure Story by Isabel Losada
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America Barbara Ehrenreich
