Here I’ll keep lists and stuff that don’t really fit (or belong) on my Bookcrossing shelf anymore.
The lists with the bookrings and -rays are clickable and linked to the book’s journal page on Bookrossing.
Books I’ve read in 2009: (“nf” means “not finished”)
115 Christopher Brookmyre – One fine day in the middle of the night
114 Steve Cockayne – Wanderers and Islanders
113 Michael Marshall – Bad Things
112 Jodi Picoult – Second Glance
111 Kevin Atchity – A Writer’s Time
110 Paul Auster (Edt.) – I Thought My Father Was God
109 Richard Russo – Straight Man
108 Michael Crichton – The Andromeda Strain
107 Tim Cahill – A Wolverine is Eating my Leg
106 JG Ballard – The Drowned World (bookring)
105 Stephen King – The Dark Tower
104 CSS The Missing Manual
103 Stephen King – Song of Susannah
102 Stephen King – Wolves of the Calla
101 Stephen King – Wizard and Glass
100 Stephen King – The Waste Lands
99 Mary Roach – Bonk (bookring)
98 Stephen King – The Drawing of the Three
97 Stephen King – The Gunslinger
96 Holder/Kilpatrick – Outsiders (short stories)
95 Jean Ure – After the Plague
94 Eric Schlosser – Fast Food Nation
93 JG Ballard – The Drought
92 Greg Bear – Darwin’s Radio (bookring)
91 Alan Moore – Watchmen (bookring)
90 Dave Shea & Molly Holzschlag – The Zen of CSS Design
89 Anne Tyler – Digging to America
88 Robin Williams – Design & Typographie für dich
87 Steve Krug – Don’t Make Me Think
86 Greg Egan – Quarantine
85 Michel Faber – Under The Skin
84 J.D. Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye
83 Jack Foster – How to get ideas
82 Leo Babauta – The Power of Less
81 John Irving – The Fourth Hand
80 Julian Barnes – England, England (nf)
79 Jeff Carlson – Plague Year
78 Thomas Friedman – The World is Flat (audio) nf
77 Octavia E. Butler – Kindred (bookray)
76 Gerta Ital – Der Meister, die Mönche und ich (nf)
75 Andy Hunt – Pragmatisches Denken und Lernen
74 Victoria Hislop – The Island
73 Bernhard Hoecker – Aufzeichnungen eines Schnitzeljägers
72 Anne Fadiman – Ex Libris (bookring)
71 Nils Pooker – Der erfolgreiche Webdesigner
70 Jeff Long – Year Zero
69 Stephen King – Duma Key (audio), nf
68 Dörte Kuhn – Big Gym
67 V. und W. Klitschko – Unser Fitnessbuch
66 Larry Niven – Lucifer’s Hammer
65 Jeffrey Zeldman – Webdesign mit Webstandards
64 Levinson/Rubin – Guerilla Marketing im Internet
63 Eminem – The Way I Am
62 Sebastian Erlhofer – Suchmaschinenoptimierung (nf)
61 Kate Fox – Watching the English
60 Charles Stross – The Atrocity Archives
59 Constance Briscoe – Ugly (nf)
58 Anita Diamant – The Last Days of Dogtown
57 Rob Ryan – Underdogs
56 Christopher Moore – Practical Demonkeeping (bookray)
55 Jeff Mariotte – Witch Season
54 Joseph Geary – Spiral
53 Richard Wiseman – Quirkologie
52 Malcolm Gladwell – Blink
51 Kevin Brockmeier – A brief history of the dead
50 Nick Hornby – A long way down
49 Allen Steele – Coyote
48 Larry Niven et. al. – Falling Angels
47 Deborah Cadbury – The Dinosaur Hunters
46 Stieg Larsson – The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (bookring)
45 Micheal Crichton – Next
44 Tim Harford – Ökonomics
43 Tracy Chevalier – The Lady and the Unicorn
42 Jeremy Clarkson – And Another Thing
41 Michael Crichton – Prey
40 Jeremy Clarkson – I know you got soul
39 Markus Zusak – I Am the Messenger (bookring)
38 Preston/Child – The Wheel of Darkness
37 Alice Walker – Now is the time to open your heart (nf)
36 Neil Gaiman – The Graveyard Book (bookring)
35 Preston/Child – The Book of the Dead
34 Preston/Child – Dance of Death
33 Nolte – Test & Training Existenzgründung
32 Frances Fyfield – Perfectly Pure and Good (nf)
31 Douglas Preston – Tyrannosaur Canyon
30 Terry Pratchett – Strata
29 Preston/Child – Brimstone
28 Dieter Baumann – Laufen Sie mit!
27 Mo Hayder – Pig Island
26 Kate Atkinson – Lebenslügen
25 Alycea Ungaro – Pilates für jeden Tag
24 Schlenker/Wessinghage – Von Null auf 42
23 Tony Parsons – Man and Boy
22 Joanne Harris – Runemarks (bookring)
21 Julian Barnes – Love, etc.
20 24 – Die zweite Chance
19 24 – Ermittlungssache CTU
18 Helen Forrester – A Cuppa Tea and an Aspirin
17 Jeremy Clarkson – The World According to Clarkson
16 Kathy Reichs – Bare Bones
15 Preston/Child – The Cabinet of Curiosities
14 James Michener – Alaska (nf)
13 Neil Gaiman – Odd and the Frost Giants
12 Willy Russell – The Wrong Boy
11 David Brin – Earth
10 Joss Whedon – Those Left Behind (bookray)
09 Fannie Flagg – A Redbird Christmas (bookring)
08 Neal Stephenson – Snow Crash (bookring)
07 Marina Lewycka – Two Caravans (bookring), nf
06 Margaret Forster – Keeping the World Away (bookring)
05 Iris Murdoch – The Message to the Planet (nf)
04 Stephen King – Blaze
03 Ann Packer – The Dive from Clausen’s Pier
02 Andreas Eschbach – Ausgebrannt
01 Karen Joy Fowler – The Jane Austen Book Club
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Bookrings and -rays I have read and sent off in 2009:
15 J.G. Ballard “Drowned World”
14 Mary Roach “Bonk”
13 Greg Bear “Darwin’s Radio”
12 Alan Moore “Watchmen”
11 Octavia E. Butler “Kindred”
10 Anne Fadiman “Ex Libris”
09 Christopher Moore “Practical Demonkeeping”
08 Stieg Larsson “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”
07 Markus Zusak “I Am The Messenger”
06 Neil Gaiman “The Graveyard Book”
05 Joanne Harris “Runemarks”
04 Fannie Flagg “A Redbird Christmas”
03 Neal Stephenson “Snow Crash”
02 Margaret Forster “Keeping the World Away”
01 Marina Lewycka “Two Caravans”
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Books I’ve read in 2008:
122 Carl Hiaasen – Stormy Weather 121 Khaled Hosseini – A Thousand Splendid Suns (bookring) 120 Douglas Adams – Mostly Harmless (bookring) 119 Steph Swainston – No Present Like Time 118 Terry Pratchett – Mort 117 Tracy Chevalier – Falling Angels 116 Terry Pratchett – Thief of time 115 Tim Winton – Cloudstreet (bookring) 114 K.Newman/M.M.Smith – Binary 113 Stephen Clarke – A Year in the Merde 112 Jasper Fforde – The Fourth Bear (bookring) 111 Octavia E. Butler – Wild Seed 110 John Wyndham – Jizzle (bookray) 109 Joanne Harris – Jigs & Reels (bookray) 108 T.C. Boyle – A friend of the earth (bookring) 107 Peter Richter – Deutsches Haus, eine Einrichtungsfibel 106 Kerstin E. Finkelstein – Ausgewandert 105 David Vise – Die Google Story 104 Susanne Roth – Einfach aufgeräumt! 103 J.J. Adams – Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse 102 Schmidt/Fohrer – Besser organisieren im Büro 101 Jeremy Rifkin – Das Ende der Arbeit 100 Carl Hiaasen – Hoot 99 Hammer, Kiefl – Selbständigkeit und freie Mitarbeit 98 Neil Gaiman – Fragile Things 97 Hingston, Balfour – Home Office 96 Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett – Good Omens (bookring) 95 Michael Marshall – Intruders 94 Miller – A Canticle for Leibowitz 93 John Wyndham – Web (bookring) 92 Robert Sheckley – Immortality Inc. 91 Elizabeth Gilbert – Eat, Pray, Love (bookring) 90 Neil Gaiman – Neverwhere (bookring) 89 Terry Pratchett – Maskerade 88 Terry Pratchett – Witches Abroad 87 Douglas Coupland – Microserfs (bookring), nf 86 Randy Pausch – The Last Lecture (bookring) 85 Michael Marshall Smith – One of Us 84 John Updike – The Afterlife and Other Stories (nf) 83 Terry Pratchett – Soul Music 82 Sam Harris – Letter to a christian nation (audio) 81 Peter Straub – Lost boy lost girl 80 Connie Willis – Inside Job 79 Scott Westerfeld – Specials 78 Scott Westerfeld – Pretties 77 Sophie Kinsella – Confessions of a Shopaholic 76 Richard Russo – The Whore’s Child 75 Carl Hiaasen – Strip Tease 74 Michael Marshall – Blood of Angels 73 Joe Hill – Heart-shaped Box (audio) 72 Julia Sweeney – Letting go of God (audio) 71 Christpher Hitchens – God is Not Great (audio) 70 Sam Harris – The End of Faith (audio) 69 Joanne Harris – The Lollipop Shoes (bookring) 68 Joyce Carol Oates – The Faith of a Writer 67 S.M. Stirling – A Meeting at Corvallis 66 S.M. Stirling – The Protector’s War 65 S.M.Stirling – Dies the Fire 64 Michael Marshall – The Lonely Dead 63 Octavia E. Butler – Dawn 62 Christopher Moore – Fluke (bookring) 61 Michel Faber – The Crimson Petal and the White 60 Alexander McCall Smith – At the villa of reduced circumstances (bookring) 59 Angeli/Kundler – Der Online Shop: Handbuch für Existenzgründer 58 Dieter Kreutzkamp – Am schönsten Ende der Welt: Neuseeland 57 Andreas Lutz – Businessplan 56 Andreas Lutz – Jetzt sind Sie Unternehmer 55 David Allen – Getting Things Done (audio) 54 Tony Horwitz – Into the blue 53 Günter Schuler – Digital gestalten 52 Holger van den Boom – Design, zur Praxis des Entwerfens 51 Nevil Shute – On The Beach 50 Yoko Kawaguchi – Japanische Gärten 49 Trevor Davies – Stadtgärten planen, gestalten, genießen 48 Stephen King – The Waste Lands 47 Stephen King – The Drawing of the Three 46 Carl Hiaasen – Nature Girl 45 Sena Jeter Naslund – Ahab’s Wife (nf) 44 Stephen King – The Gunslinger 43 Terry Pratchett – Sourcery 42 Tim Ferriss – The 4 Hour Work Week (audiobook) 41 Bell/Magrs – The Creative Writing Coursebook 40 Robert A. Heinlein – I will fear no evil 39 Margaret Atwood – Surfacing (nf) 38 Elizabeth Berg – Never Change 37 John Connolly – The Book of Lost Things (bookring) 36 Julian Barnes – A History of the World in 10.5 chapters 35 Orson Scott Card – How to write Science Fiction & Fantasy 34 P.G. Wodehouse – Right Ho, Jeeves 33 P.G. Wodehouse – Jeeves & Wooster The Code of the Woosters 32 P.G. Wodehouse – Jeeves & Wooster The Mating Season 31 Myla Goldberg – Wickett’s Remedy 30 Harry Thompson – This Thing of Darkness 29 Holm Friebe – Wir nennen es Arbeit 28 Carl Hiaasen – Lucky You 27 Sebastian Faulks – Human Traces (nf) 26 Laurie Garrett – The Coming Plague (nf) 25 Renate Dorrestein – A Heart of Stone (bookring) 24 Paul Davies – The Goldilocks Enigma (nf) 23 Fannie Flagg – Can’t wait to get to heaven 22 Alan Weisman – The World Without Us 21 Garth Nix – Shade’s Children 20 Kate Atkinson – One Good Turn 19 Markus Zusak – The Book Thief 18 Kate Atkinson – Emotionally Weird 17 Margaret Atwood – Murder in the Dark 16 Robert O’Brian – Z for Zachariah 15 Carl Hiaasen – Basket Case 14 Will Self – The Book of Dave (nf) 13 Richard Matheson – I Am Legend 12 John Sutherland – How to read a novel 11 John Wyndham – The Chrysalids 10 Margaret Atwood – Oryx and Crake 09 Richard Preston – The Demon in the Freezer 08 Margaret Atwood – The Tent 07 Andreas Schieberle – Arbeitslos? So kriegen Sie den Job! 06 Jose Saramago – Blindness 05 Susanna Clarke – Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (nf) 04 John Banville – The Sea 03 Connie Willis – Doomsday Book (bookring) 02 Joanne K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 01 Eoin Colfer – Artemis Fowl and the lost colony
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Bookrings and -rays read and sent off in 2008:
19 Khaled Hosseini “A Thousand Splendid Suns” 18 Douglas Adams “Mostly Harmless” 17 Tim Winton “Cloudstreet” 16 Joanne Harris “Jigs & Reels” 15 T.C. Boyle “A friend of the earth” 14 Pratchett, Gaiman “Good Omens” 13 John Wyndham “Web” 12 Elizabeth Gilbert “Eat, Pray, Love” 11 Neil Gaiman “Neverwhere” 10 Douglas Coupland “Microserfs” 09 Randy Pausch “The Last Lecture” 08 Joanne Harris “The Lollipop Shoes” 07 Alexander McCall Smith “At the villa of reduced circumstances” 06 Christopher Moore “Fluke” 05 John Connolly “The Book of Lost Things” 04 Renate Dorrestein “A Heart of Stone”" 03 Fannie Flagg “Can’t wait to get to heaven” 02 Connie Willis “Doomsday Book” 01 Margaret Atwood “Oryx and Crake”
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Books I’ve read in 2007: (“nf” means “not finished”)
147 The complete handbook of novel writing 146 Scott Westerfeld – Uglies 145 Neil Gaiman – Stardust 144 John Grogan – Marley & Me 143 Renate Göckel – Warte nicht auf schlanke Zeiten 142 Stephen King – From a Buick 8 141 Dai Sijie – Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (bookring, nf) 140 Stephenie Meyer – Twilight 139 Michel Onfray – Wir brauchen keinen Gott 138 Ulrich Günther – PHP Ein praktischer Einstieg (nf) 137 Joanne Harris – Jigs & Reels 136 Richard Dawkins – The God Delusion 135 Connie Willis – Impossible Things 134 Christine Coleman – The Dangerous Sports Euthanasia Society (bookring) 133 J.R.R.Tolkien – The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien 132 Alan Weisman – The World Without Us 131 Michael Marshall Smith – Spares 130 Iris Murdoch – The Flight from the Enchanter 129 Cormac McCarthy – No country for old men 128 S.M. Stirling – Dies The Fire 127 Stephen Fry – Paperweight 126 Thomas P. Weber – Schnellkurs Genforschung 125 Nancy Pearl – Book Lust (bookring) 124 Huggins/Probert – Digital fotografieren – Surreal 123 J.Defede – The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland (ring) 122 Philippa Gregory – The Other Boleyn Girl 121 Neil Gaiman – Death: The High Cost of Living (bookring) 120 Richard Russo – Empire Falls 119 Elizabeth Berg – The Pull Of The Moon 118 Ian Caldwell – The Rule of Four 117 Connie Willis – Lincoln’s Dreams 116 John Marsden – Darkness, Be My Friend 115 John Marsden – The Third Day, The Frost 114 John Marsden – The Dead of the Night 113 Laura Esquivel – Like water for chocolate 112 Bill Bryson – The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid (bookray) 111 Tara R. Robinson – Genetik für Dummies 110 John Marsden – Tomorrow when the war begun 109 Jodi Picoult – Keeping Faith 108 Margaret Forster – The Memory Box 107 John Christopher – The White Mountains (Tripods) 106 Bryce Courtenay – The Power of One 105 Robert Harris – Fatherland 104 Evelyn Waugh – A handful of dust 103 Mary Lawson – Crow Lake 102 Pat Frank – Alas, Babylon 101 Erik Durschmied – The Hinge Factor (nf) 100 Neil Gaiman – Coraline (bookray) 99 Neil Gaiman – Anansi Boys (bookring) 98 Matthew Kneale – English Passengers (bookring) (nf) 97 Jean Ure – Plague 96 Joanne Harris – Sleep, pale sister 95 George R. Stewart – Earth Abides 94 Will Davenport – The Painter 93 Sterling Johnson – English as a second fucking language (bookring) 92 Stephen King – Cell (again) 91 W. Hodding Carter – A Viking Voyage 90 Marilynne Robinson – Housekeeping (bookray) 89 Stephen Fry – The Hippopotamus 88 Dan Cederholm – Bulletproof Webdesign 87 Sheri S. Tepper – The Gate to Women’s Country 86 Jodi Picoult – The Pact 85 Thomas Mullen – Die Stadt am Ende der Welt (nf) 84 Paul Auster – The Book of Illusions 83 Jim Lynch – The Highest Tide (bookring) 82 Diane Setterfield – The Thirteenth Tale (bookring) 81 Mary Roach – Six Feet Over 80 John Wyndham – The Kraken Wakes 79 Vesna Goldsworthy – Chernobyl Strawberries 78 Joan Didion – Das Jahr magischen Denkens 77 Jane Hamilton – A map of the world (bookray) 76 Cormac McCarthy – Die Strasse 75 Connie Willis – Fire Watch 74 Jhumpa Lahiri – The Namesake (bookray) 73 Robin M. Henig – A Dancing Matrix 72 Nathaniel Philbrick – In the heart of the sea 71 Jasper Fforde – Something Rotten 70 Jasper Fforde – The well of lost plots (bookray) 69 Jared Diamond – Guns, Germs, and Steel (bookring) 68 Colum McCann – Der Himmel unter der Stadt (bookring) 67 Michael Marshall Smith – What you make it (bookring) 66 John Wyndham – The Day of the Triffids (bookring) 65 Stephen Fry – Der Luegner (nf) 64 Kaye Kelly – Cross the river to home 63 John Steinbeck – Tortilla Flat 62 David Mitchell – Cloud Atlas 61 Connie Willis – Bellwether 60 David R. Palmer – Emergence 59 Stephen King – Cell 58 Lionel Shriver – We need to talk about Kevin 57 Donna Tartt – The Secret History 56 Betty Smith – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (bookring, nf) 55 Dorothea Brande – Becoming a Writer 54 Jodi Picoult – Vanishing Acts 53 Zen und die Kunst ein Motorrad zu warten (nf) 51 Anthony Bourdain – Mord nach Rezept 50 Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse 5 49 Eoin Colfer – Artemis Fowl Die Rache (bookring) 48 Jon McGregor – If nobody speaks of remarkable things (bookring) 47 Andre Bernard – Now all we need is a title (bookring) 46 Jon Fasman – The Geographer’s Library 45 Bernhard Schlink – Flights of love (nf) 44 Yasmina Khadra – The Swallows of Kabul (bookray) 43 Terry Pratchett – Thud (bookring) 42 Chris Baker – Kokopu Dreams (bookring) 41 Lemony Snicket – A series of unfortunate events (bookring) 40 Margaret Atwood – Unter Glas (nf) 39 Virginia Ironside – No! I Don’t Want to Join a Bookclub (bookring) 38 Philip Pullman – The Tiger in the Well (nf) 37 Neil Gaiman – American Gods (bookring) 36 Sarah Darmody – Ticket to ride (bookring) 35 Mark Mills – The Whaleboat House 34 Terry Pratchett – Interesting Times 33 Martin Davies – The Conjuror’s Bird 32 C.S. Lewis – Till We Have Faces (bookring) 31 Jasper Fforde – Lost in a good book 30 Julia Cameron – The Right to Write 29 Rohinton Mistry – A Fine Balance (bookring, nf) 28 John Irving – Die vierte Hand 27 Margaret Atwood – Gute Knochen 26 Helene Hanff – 84, Charing Cross Road (bookring) 25 John Gray – Straw dogs (bookring) 24 Theo Colborn – Die bedrohte Zukunft (nf) 23 Terry Pratchett – Hogfather 22 Doris Lessing – Love, again (nf) 21 Bastian Sick – Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod (bookring) 20 Evelyn Waugh – The Loved One 19 Eoin Colfer – The Supernaturalist 18 Michael Marshall Smith – Only forward (bookring) 17 Geraldine Brooks – A Year of Wonders 16 Iain Aitch – A Fete Worse Than Death 15 Jodi Picoult – Perfect Match (bookring) 14 Kenneth Grahame – Wind in the willows (bookring) (nf) 13 Terry Pratchett – The Last Continent 12 Kazuo Ishiguro – Never let me go (bookring) 11 Andre Gide – Strait is the gate 10 Jodi Picoult – Plain Truth (bookring) 09 Stephen King – Lisey’s Story 08 Alexander McCallSmith – Tears of the Giraffe 07 Rita Mae Brown – Catch as cat can 06 Tery Pratchett – Going Postal 05 Dodie Smith – I Capture the Castle 04 Lilian J. Braun – The Cat Who Blew The Whistle 03 Brown/Munro (Edt.) – Writers Writing (bookring) 02 Saki – Tobermory and other stories (bookring) 01 Doris Lessing – The Fifth Child (bookring)
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Bookrings read and sent off in 2007:
46 Dai Sijie “Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress” 45 Christine Coleman “The Dangerous Sports Euthanasia Society” 44 Nancy Pearl “Book Lust” 43 Jim Defede “The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland” 42 Neil Gaiman “Death – the high cost of living” 41 Bill Bryson “The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid” 40 Neil Gaiman “Coraline” ~ ink-heart 39 Neil Gaiman “Anansi Boys” ~ Shimmy-crazy 38 Matthew Kneale “English Passengers” ~ cinnamon-girl 37 Sterling Johnson “English as a second f*cking language” 36 Marilynne Robinson “Housekeeping” 35 Jane Hamilton “A map of the world” 34 Jim Lynch “The highest tide” 33 Diane Setterfield “The Thirteenth Tale” 32 Tim Mackintosh-Smith “Travels with a Tangerine” 31 Jhumpa Lahiri “The Namesake” 30 Jasper Fforde “The Well of Lost Plots” 29 Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 28 Michael Marshall Smith “What you make it” 27 Colum McCann “Der Himmel unter der Stadt” 26 John Wyndham “The Day of the Triffids” 25 Betty Smith “A Tree grows in Brooklyn” 24 Yasmina Khadra “The Swallows of Kabul” 23 If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things 22 Now All We Need Is a Title 21 Eoin Colfer “Artemis Fowl – Die Rache” 20 Terry Pratchett “Thud” 19 Lemony Snicket “A series of unfortunate events” 18 Chris Baker “Kokopu Dreams” 17 Virginia Ironside “No! I Don’t Want to Join a Bookclub” 16 Neil Gaiman “American Gods” 15 Ticket to Ride: Lost and Found in America 14 C.S.Lewis “Till We Have Faces” 13 R. Mistry “A Fine Balance” 12 John Gray “Straw dogs” 11 Helene Hanff “84, Charing Cross Road” 10 Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod 09 Michael Marshall Smith “Only Forward” 08 Jodi Picoult “Perfect Match” 07 Kenneth Grahame “Wind in the willows” 06 Kazuo Ishiguro “Never let me go” 05 Jodi Picoult “Plain Truth” 04 Tintenherz (MP3 AudioBook) 03 Writers writing 02 Saki “Tobermory and other stories” 01 Doris Lessing “The Fifth Child”
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Books I’ve read in 2006:
133 Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita (bookring, not finished) 132 Stephen Fry – Moab is my Washpot 131 Jerome K. Jerome – Three Men on the Bummel 130 Philippa Gregory – Perfectly Correct 129 Gina Koleta – Influenza (bookring) 128 Bill Bryson – The lost continent 127 Lonely Planet Guide London 126 Lynne Truss – Talk to the hand (bookring) 125 John Marsden – So much to tell you 124 Gregory Maguire – Wicked (bookring) 123 William Golding – Lord of the flies 122 Philippa Gregory – Earthly Joys (bookring) 121 Matt Ruff – Gas, Sewer, Electric (not finished) 120 Abby Bardi – The Book of Fred (bookring) 119 Robert Anton Wilson – Schroedingers Katze. Das Universum nebenan 118 Richard Preston – Cobra 117 Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner (bookray) 116 Marina Lewycka – A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian (bookring) 115 Gregory Maguire – Confessions of an ugly stepsister 114 Ian McEwan – Saturday 113 Richard Preston – Hot Zone 112 Alice Walker – Die Farbe Lila (bookring) 111 Kate Atkinson – Ein Sommernachtsspiel 110 Mary Roach – Stiff: the curious lifes of human cadavers (bookring) 109 Jane Austen – Emma (not quite finished) 108 Todd McCaffrey – Drachenblut 107 Roddy Doyle – The woman who walked into doors (not finished) 106 Jane Austen – Sinn und Sinnlichkeit 105 Barry McCrea – The First Verse 104 Paul Auster – Das rote Notizbuch 103 Kate Atkinson – Case Histories (bookring) 102 Alex Garland – Der Strand 101 Gregory Maguire – Lost (bookring) 100 Barbara Ehrenreich – Nickel and Dimed (bookring) 99 John Irving – Until I find you 98 Yann Martel – Schiffbruch mit Tiger 97 Stephen Fry – The Stars’ Tennis Balls 96 Joerg Kachelmann (Hg.) – Die grosse Flut 95 John K. Toole – A Confederacy of Dunces (not finished) 94 Sara Nelson – So many books, so little time (bookring) 93 Dietmar Zimmer – Jenseits der Gene 92 Horst Kraemer – Trauma-Bewaeltigung 91 Daniel Kehlmann – Die Vermessung der Welt 90 Dean Sluyter – The Zen Commandments (bookring) 89 Daniel Goleman – Kreativitaet entdecken 88 Chuck Palahniuk – Fight Club (bookring) 87 Anne Lamott – Bird by bird (bookring) 86 Jodi Picoult – My sister’s keeper (bookring) 85 Dorothy L. Sayers – Lord Peter views the body 84 Einfach die Welt veraendern (bookring) 83 Elizabeth Kastova – The Historian (bookring) 82 Jared Diamond – Kollaps 81 Chris Stewart – A parrot on the pepper tree 80 Connie Willis – Passage 79 Will Self – How the dead live 78 Fannie Flagg – Daisy Fay and the miracle man (RABCK) 77 Stephen Fry – Making History (bookring) 76 Christopher Paolini – Eragon – Der Auftrag des Aeltesten 75 Christopher Paolini – Eragon – Das Vermaechtnis des Drachenreiters 74 Robert A. Heinlein – The Door Into Summer (bookring) 73 Hugh Laurie – The Gun Seller 72 Oliver Sacks – Der Mann, der seine Frau mit e. Hut… (nf) 71 Po Bronson – What should I do with my life? (bookring) 70 Haruki Murakami – Kafka on the shore (bookring) 69 Azar Nafisi – Lolita lesen in Teheran 68 Jilliane Hoffman – Cupido 67 Melissa Pierson – Über die Leidenschaft, ein Motorrad zu fahren 66 Ron McLarty – Die unglaubliche Reise des Smithy Ide 65 Tad Williams – Otherland IV 64 Britta Das – Königreich in den Wolken 63 Cornelia Funke – The Thief Lord 62 Temple Grandin – Durch die gläserne Tür 61 Frank Schätzing – Nachrichten aus einem unbekannten Universum 60 Tad Williams – Otherland III 59 Kevin Canty – Honeymoon (not quite finished) 58 Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul 57 George Orwell – 1984 56 Waris Dirie – Nomadentochter 55 Witi Ihimaera – Whalerider 54 Beat Glogger – Xenesis 53 Waris Dirie – Wüstenblume 52 Tad Williams – Otherland II 51 Bill Bryson – African Diary (bookring) 50 Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451 49 Mary Shelley – Frankenstein 48 Abenteuerliche Frauen reisen 47 Katharine Hepburn – Me 46 Stephen King – Colorado Kid 45 Toni Morrison – Menschenkind 44 Rita Mae Brown – Alma Mater 43 David Sedaris – Ich sprechen hübsch ein Tag 42 David Sedaris – Nackt 41 Paul Auster – The New York Trilogy 40 Isaac Asimov – Foundation 39 Rita Mae Brown – Böse Zungen (Loose Lips) 38 Haruki Murakami – Naokos Lächeln 37 Rita Mae Brown – Maus im Aus 36 Arthur Conan Doyle – Sherlock Holmes (nf) 35 Bryan Sykes – Die sieben Töchter Evas 34 Isaac Asimov – Robotergeschichten 33 Richard Dawkins – Und es entsprang ein Fluss in Eden 32 Arthur Golden – Memoirs of a geisha (bookring) 31 Joanne Harris – Gentlemen & Players (bookring) 30 Manuela Lenzen – Evolutionstheorien 29 Michael Moore – Stupid White Men 28 Aldous Huxley – Brave New World 27 Frank Schätzing – Der Schwarm 26 Terry Burnham – Unsere Gene 25 Richard Haimann – Langzeit-Urlaub 24 Desmond Morris – Das Tier Mensch 23 Margaret Atwood – The Blind Assasin (nf) 22 Nick Hornby – About a boy 21 Susi Coenen – Wie kommt die Frau aufs Pferd 20 Paulo Coelho – The Devil and Miss Prym 19 Stefan Biedermann – Im Land der aufgehenden Sonne 18 Mitch Albom – Tuesdays with Morrie 17 Manfred Köhler – Sich einfach auf den Weg machen 16 Benoite Groult – Salz auf unserer Haut 15 Joanne K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 14 Diana Voigt – Sabbatical – Ausstieg auf Zeit 13 E. Annie Proulx – The Shipping News 12 Jasper Fforde – The Eyre Affair 11 Joschka Fischer – Mein langer Lauf zu mir selbst 10 Carlos Ruiz Zafon – Shadow of the wind 09 John Irving – Eine Mittelgewichtsehe 08 Paulo Coelho – The Alchemist 07 Paulo Coelho – The fifth mountain 06 Matt Ruff – Set this house in order 05 Tracy Chevalier – Girl with a pearl earring (bookring) 04 Carmen Rohrbach – Muscheln am Weg 03 Chris Czajkowski – Blockhaus am singenden Fluss 02 Robbie Williams – Somebody someday 01 Jostein Garder – Sophies World (not quite finished)
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Bookrings read and sent off in 2006:
27 Nabokov “Lolita” 26 Influenza – Die Jagd nach dem Virus 25 Talk to the Hand 24 Gregory Maguire “Wicked” 23 P. Gregory “Earthly Joys” 22 The Book of Fred 21 The Kite Runner 20 A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian 19 Die Farbe Lila 18 Stiff: The curious lives of human cadavers 17 Atkinson “Case Histories” 16 Journal “All about me” 15 Gregory Maguire “Lost” 14 So many books, so little time 13 The Zen Commandments 12 Bird by Bird : Some Instructions on Writing and Life 11 The 7 Day Diary 10 Jodi Picoult “My Sister’s Keeper” 09 E. Kostova “The Historian” 08 Stephen Fry “Making History” 07 Heinlein “The Door Into Summer” 06 What Should I Do With My Life? 05 Murakami “Kafka on the shore” 04 Bill Bryson’s African Diary 03 Golden “Memoirs of a Geisha” 02 Joanne Harris “Gentlemen and Players” 01 Chevalier “Girl With a Pearl Earring”
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