What Are You Reading?

Lots, this year. Here's the comprehensive list of books I read in 2005 (** = Highly Recommended, * = Recommended):

**102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer & Kevin Flynn
127 Authentic Art Deco Patterns by August H. Thomas & G. Darcy
422 Art Nouveau Designs and Motifs by J. Klinger & H. Anker
50 Fast Dreamweaver MX Techniques by Janine Warner, Ivonne Berkowitz & Yanier Gonzalez
50 Fast Flash MX Techniques by Ellen Finkelstein and Gurdy Leete
A Question of Loyalty by Douglas Waller
*A Second Chance At Eden by Peter F. Hamilton
*A War Like No Other by Victor Davis Hanson
Ancestral Shadows by Russell Kirk
*Art Deco Interiors by Patricia Bayer
Art Deco Painting by Edward Lucie-Smith
Art Deco Spot Illustrations and Motifs by William Rowe
Art of the Japanese Masters by Sandra Forty
*Beyond Lies the Wub by Philip K. Dick
*Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
Blogging by Biz Stone
Chance by Amir D. Aczel
Church: Why Bother? by Philip Yancey
Churchill: Visionary. Statesman. Historian by John Lucaks
Condi Vs. Hillary by Dick Morris
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
**Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire v. 1 by Edward Gibbon
*Disinformation by Richard Minter
Do As I Say (Not As I Do) by Peter Schweitzer
Do-Gooders by Mona Charen
Dreamweaver MX Killer Tips by Joseph Lowery & Angela C. Buraglia
Famous Last Words by Ray Robinson
FDR's Folly by Jim Powell
Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant by Humberto E. Fontova
*Free Live Free by Gene Wolfe
Goth-Icky by Michael T. Nelson and Charles T. Anderson
**Happy Kitty Bunny Pony by Michael T. Nelson and Charles T. Anderson
How Capitalism Saved America by Thomas J. DiLorenzo
*I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe
*In Command of History by David Reynolds
**Killing Pablo by Mark Bowden
Leonardo da Vinci by Carlo Pedretti
*Meet Mr. Product by Warren Dotz & Musan Husain
Men in Black by Mark Levin
**Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
*Minority Report and Other Stories by Philip K. Dick
**Mommy Knows Worst by James Lileks
Napoleon As Military Commander by James Marshall-Cornwall
Never Threaton to Eat Your Coworkers by Alan Graham & Bonnie Burton
No Way To Treat A First Lady by Christopher Buckley
On Campaign with the Army of the Potomac by Theodore Ayrault Dodge
On the Good Life by Cicero
Past Imperfect by Mark C. Carnes
Peace Kills by P.J. O'Rourke
*Red Star Over Hollywood by Ronald & Allis Radosh
Right Turns by Michael Medved
Rum by Charles Coulombe
*Solider of the Mist by Gene Wolfe
Song of Susannah by Stephen King
South Park Conservatives by Brian C. Anderson
Starmont Readers Guide 29: Gene Wolfe by Joan Gordon
**Starwater Strains by Gene Wolfe
Stealing Elections by John Fund
Surprised by Joy by C.S. Lewis
*The 7 Habits of Highly-Effective People by Steven R. Covey
**The Creators by Daniel J. Boorstin
*The Design Revolution by William Dembski
*The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
**The Discoverers by Daniel J. Boorstin
The Gospel According to Tolkien by Ralph C. Wood
*The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
The History of Britain vol. 2 by Simon Schama
The Life and Religion of Mohammed by Reverend J.L. Menezes
*The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
*The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon
**The March of the Ten Thousand by Xenophon
**The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science by Tom Bethell
*The Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Southern Garden by Lydia Longshore
*The Ten Thousand by Michael Curtis Ford
The Uncyclopedia by Gideon Haigh
*The War Speeches: vol 3 by Winston Churchill
*The War Speeches: vol. 2 by Winston Churchill
The Weblog Handbook by Rebecca Blood
The West's Last Chance by Tony Blankley
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Transformation Under Fire by Douglas A. MacGregor
Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
Visual Function by Paul Mijksenaar
*We Can Remember It For You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick
When Character Was King by Peggy Noonan
Who Cut the Cheese? by Jim Dawson
*Will Eisner: A Spirited Life by Bob Andelman
*Will in the World by Stephen Greenblatt

90 books in all, a significant increase over the 63 I managed in 2004 (when I was still dating WordGirl and had to spend my time wooing her).

You can find most of these, of course, at Amazon.