2006 Reading

December 2006

"I've Seen the Best of It": Memoirs by Joseph W. Alsop with Adam Platt

The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton

Spy: The Funny Years by George Kalogerakis

The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal

November 2006

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [Western] by Edward Gibbon

United States: Essays 1952-1992 by Gore Vidal

The Toughest Show on Earth by Joseph Volpe

The Africans by David Lamb

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

October 2006

Confessions of a Conservative by Garry Wills

The Orphan Tsunami of 1700 by Brian F. Atwater, et al.

Generous Orthodoxy by Brian D. McLaren

September 2006

Searching for God Knows What by Donald Miller

August 2006

What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School by Mark H. McCormack

July 2006

Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller

Rip It Up and Start Again by Simon Reynolds

June 2006

Night Watch by Stephen Kendrick

Hitler's Italian Allies by MacGregor Knox

May 2006

Mussolini's Italy by R.J.B. Bosworth

Quit Digging Your Grave with a Knife and Fork by Mike Huckabee

No god but God by Reza Aslan

Decade of Nightmares by Philip Jenkins

April 2006

The World Was Going Our Way by Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin

Explorers of the New Century by Magnus Mills

March 2006

City of Nets by Otto Friedrich

Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

February 2006

Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta

Henry White: Thirty Years of American Diplomacy by Allan Nevins

State of War by James Risen

January 2006

George Herbert Walker Bush by Tom Wicker

Twilight in the Desert by Matthew R. Simmons

The Persian Puzzle by Kenneth M. Pollack

A Maigret Trio by Georges Simenon

Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World by Nicholas Ostler

Maigret and the Millionaires by Georges Simenon

Maigret Has Doubts by Georges Simenon