Have-read list: 2006

Last year I posted a list of the books I read in 2005. Here, for interested parties, is this year's list.

• Zadie Smith, On Beauty
  
• Ian McEwan, Atonement
  
• Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study In Scarlet
  
• Truman Capote, In Cold Blood
  
• Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim
  
• Tom Bissell, God Lives In St. Petersburg
  
• John Osborne, Dejavu
  
• Nell Freudenberger, Lucky Girls
  
• Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle
  
• Michael Duncan, Line Jester and Other Stories
  
• Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms
  
• William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
  
• Andrew Hungerford, Between the Water and the Air
  
• Thomas McGuane, The Sporting Club
  
• Meg Sparling, The Nijinsky Poems
  
• Carolyn Forche, Gathering the Tribes
  
• Jennifer Egan, The Keep
  
• James Goldman, The Lion In Winter
  

Eighteen is certainly better than last year's seven, but still not the twenty that I like to set as the goal for a year's reading. I do have some plans for 2007 reading, though. I've already finished The Guide by R. K. Narayan, and I've just started The Bushwacked Piano by Thomas McGuane. I need to do some Michigan reading (Richard Ford and more McGuane, particularly his new stories, and maybe this will be the year I finally read some of the Jim Harrison on my shelf), and I want to read some more classics and work in translation. (I've had Tristram Shandy on my shelf for a while, and I've gone a year without any Jane Austen, so I may be ready for Emma.)

So, Wordwrighters, what did you read this year?