I started keeping track of all the books I read because Chrisber has been keeping track of his since 9th grade, and it seemed like a good idea. Individual comics don't get listed, and neither do short stories, but I do list such things as graphic novels, anthologies, and comic runs that I read all at once. Sometimes I'll read something in passing and never remember the author's name, so occasionally that slot is left blank. A lot of these are rereadings; I've tried to mark them with a (*).
This page is the in-progress 2001 list. I also have archived lists for 1996, 1997, 1998 , 1999, and 2000. Looking over my lists I feel it necessary to point out that I don't necessarily reccomend the majority of these books. I read a wide variety of things for various reasons, and thus these lists includes things I read for nostalgia value (Eddings, whose work is medicore at best), and things I really enjoy that I don't imagine anyone else will feel the same way about (Katherine Applegate, author of many teen romances, for instance).
Inspired by a mailing list I was once on I've started doing a sort of summary of my monthly reading, complete with opinions.
Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit Storm Constantine 01-01-01 The Veiled Web Catherine Asaro 01-01-02 The Secrets of Mariko Elisabeth Bumiller 01-01-05 Card Captor Sakura 2 CLAMP 01-01-06 When the King Comes Home Caroline Stevermer 01-01-07 The Hours of Catherine of Cleves G. Braziller 01-01-11 King of the Kooties Debbie Dadey 01-01-12 King David: A Biography Steve McKenzie 01-01-13 An American Ghost Chester Aaron 01-01-14 The Christmas Book James Reeves 01-01-14 Casanova Was a Book Lover John Maxwell Hamilton 01-01-16 Paperbacks U.S.A Piet Schreuder 01-01-16 Half Magic Edgar Eager 01-01-16 The Tale of Murasaki Liza Dalby 01-01-19 Fool Moon Jim Butcher 01-01-20 Knight's Castle Edgar Eager 01-01-22 Magic By the Lake Edgar Eager 01-01-23 Magic or Not? Edgar Eager 01-01-24 The Well-Wishers Edgar Eager 01-01-24 Hello? Is Anybody There? Jostein Gaarder 01-01-24 The Time Garden Edgar Eager 01-01-24 To You With Love ed. Seon Manley & Gogo Lewis 01-01-26 Seven-Day Magic Edgar Eager 01-01-26 The Mother Trip Ariel Gore 01-01-27 So Proudly She Sailed Olga Cabral 01-01-27 The BFG Roald Dahl 01-01-28 Midnight is a Place Joan Aiken 01-01-30 Happy Christmas ed. William Seymour Kean & John Smith 01-01-31 The Trouble with Mothers Marge Facklam 01-01-31 The Wimp and the Jock John Ibbitson 01-01-31 Sweet and Sour Carol Kendall & Yao-wen Li 01-01-31 Mindplayers Pat Cadigan 01-02-02 Change! Isaac Asimov 01-02-03 The Betrayer's Fortune Dave Jackson 01-02-04 Cabbage and Bones ed. Caledonia Kearns 01-02-04 The Shadow of Albion Rosemary Edghill & Andre Norton 01-02-04 The Cook's Family Laurence Yep 01-02-04 Primary Inversion Catherine Asaro 01-02-06 Border Crossings Icarus World Issues 01-02-07 The Roads From Bethlehem ed. Pegram Johnson & Edna M. Troiano 01-02-09 Responses to 101 Questions on the Bible Raymond E. Brown 01-02-12 Calamus ed. David Galloway & Christian Sabisch 01-02-15 The Language of Threads Gail Tsukiyama 01-02-15 X/1999: Prelude (*) CLAMP 01-02-18 Native Tongues Charles Berlitz 01-02-18 Sailor Moon 1 (*) Takeuchi Naoko 01-02-18 Sailor Moon 2 (*) Takeuchi Naoko 01-02-18 Sailor Moon 3 (*) Takeuchi Naoko 01-02-19 Sailor Moon 4 (*) Takeuchi Naoko 01-02-19 Sailor Moon 5 (*) Takeuchi Naoko 01-02-19 Sailor Moon 6 (*) Takeuchi Naoko 01-02-19 Sailor Moon 7 (*) Takeuchi Naoko 01-02-19 Sailor Moon 8 (*) Takeuchi Naoko 01-02-19 Speak Daggers To Her (*) Rosemary Edghill 01-02-19 The Book of Moons (*) Rosemary Edghill 01-02-20 The Bowl of Night (*) Rosemary Edghill 01-02-21 Levitating Trains & Kamikaze Genes Richard P. Brennan 01-02-22 Patterns Pat Cadigan 01-02-22 In Praise of Libraries ed. Carlton C. Rochell 01-02-23 An Orphan in History Paul Cowan 01-02-23 Africa is Thunder and Wonder ed. Barbara Nolen 01-02-24 Little House on Rocky Ridge Roger Allen MacBride 01-02-25 Ironbound Island Elizabeth Ladd 01-02-25 Coming of Age: The Art of Growing Up Icarus World Issues 01-02-28 The Uses of Literature Italo Calvino 01-03-04 The Enchanted Horse Magdalen Nabb 01-03-05 The 9 Questions People Ask About Judaism Prager & Telushkin 01-03-06 What We Believe... What We Do... ed. Rabbi Simeon J. Maslin 01-03-06 To The Ends of the Universe Isaac Asimov 01-03-07 X/1999: Overture (*) CLAMP 01-03-10 Finite and Infinite Games James P. Carse 01-03-11 Murasaki Shikibu: Her Diary and Poetic Memoirs Richard Bowring 01-03-13 Synners Pat Cadigan 01-03-16 Geeks Jon Katz 01-03-17 Economic Literacy Jacob de Rooy 01-03-19 Theology for Non-Theologians James Cantelon 01-03-21 Dave Barry's Greatest Hits Dave Barry 01-03-25 Dave Barry in Cyberspace Dave Barry 01-03-25 On Art and Artists Thomas Albright 01-03-28 The Worlds of Poul Anderson Poul Anderson 01-03-31 18 Stories (ed) 01-04-01 Magic Knight Rayearth 5 CLAMP 01-04-02 Food For Thought Joan & John Digby (ed) 01-04-04 Tales Of the City Armisted Maupin 01-04-05 More Tales of the City Armisted Maupin 01-04-05 Further Tales of the City Armisted Maupin 01-04-07 Babycakes Armisted Maupin 01-04-07 A People Divided 01-04-09 Here Let Us Feast M.F.K. Fisher 01-04-09 China Mountain Zhang (*) Maureen McHugh 01-04-09 Significant Others Armisted Maupin 01-04-12 Sure of You Armisted Maupin 01-04-12 Heartthrob Suzanne Brockmann 01-04-13 New Testament Light George Lamas 01-04-15 Fushigi Yuugi I (*) Watase Yuu 01-04-16 Fushigi Yuugi II (*) Watase Yuu 01-04-16 Fushigi Yuugi III (*) Watase Yuu 01-04-16 Sailing to Sarantium Guy Gavriel Kay 01-04-19 The Unauthorized Version Robin Lane Fox 01-04-24 Lord of Emperors Guy Gabriel Kay 01-04-25 In the Midst of Winter Mary Jane Moffat (ed) 01-04-27 Dave Barry Does Japan (Dabu Bari Nihon o suru) Dave Barry 01-04-27 The God in Flight Laura Argiri 01-04-30 King's Dragon Kate Elliott 01-05-01 The Eagle's Daughter Judith Tarr 01-05-06 Waking the Moon Elizabeth Hand 01-05-09 Out of the Garden Christina Bucchmann & Celina Spiegel (ed) 01-05-10 Essays on American Literature Clarence Gohdes (ed) 01-05-11 Cerebus (*) Dave Sim 01-05-13 Into the Garden Robert Hass & Stephen Mitchell (ed) 01-05-13 Card Captor Sakura 3 CLAMP 01-05-14 Peach Girl 1 Ueda Miwa 01-05-14 Last Summer at Mars Hill Elizabeth Hand 01-05-14 Saint Tail 1 Megumi 01-05-14 Sailor Moon 9 Naoko Takeuchi 01-05-14 Gundam Wing 1 (*) Tokita Koichi &c. 01-05-15 Gundam Wing 2 Tokita Koichi &c. 01-05-15 Gundam Wing 3 Tokita Koichi &c. 01-05-15 Zine Scene Francesca Lia Block & Hillary Carlip 01-05-16 Design of Cities Edward N. Bacon 01-05-17 Just a Sister Away Renita J. Weems 01-05-17 Urusei Yatsura Rumiko Takahashi 01-05-20 High Society (*) Dave Sim 01-05-20 Church and State I (*) Dave Sim 01-05-22 Theodora Antony Bridges 01-05-27 A Grief Observed N.W. Clerk (CS Lewis) 01-05-30 On Stories C.S. Lewis 01-06-05 Of Other Worlds C.S. Lewis 01-06-05 Letters to Children C.S. Lewis 01-06-06 C.S. Lewis: A Dramatic Life William Griffith 01-06-09 Studies in Words C.S. Lewis 01-06-14 Letters to Malcolm, Chiefly on Prayer C.S. Lewis 01-06-15 Letters to an American Lady C.S. Lewis 01-06-16 Inspired By Drink Joan & John Digby (ed) 01-06-17 Athena 1 Dean Hsieh 01-06-19 Athena 2 Dean Hsieh 01-06-19 Violet & Claire Francesca Lia Block 01-06-19 An Intricate Weave Marlene Miller (ed) 01-06-20 The World's Last Night C.S. Lewis 01-06-21 The Velvet Paw Jean Conger 01-06-25 Aristocrats Stella Tillyard 01-06-29 Christian Reflections C.S. Lewis 01-06-30 Surprised By Joy C.S. Lewis 01-07-03 The Tolkien Relation William Ready 01-07-05 Blood Is Not Enough Ellen Datlow (ed) 01-07-06 Brothers & Friends Warren Hamilton Lewis 01-07-07 Kaleidoscope Eleanor Farjeon 01-07-07 Shadow Castle (*) Marian Cockrell 01-07-07 Inklings Humprey Carpenter 01-07-09 The Father Christmas Letters J.R.R. Tolkien 01-07-09 The Rose and the Beast Francesca Lia Block 01-07-09 Tolkien and the Silmarils Randel Helms 01-07-12 To Say Nothing of the Dog Connie Willis 01-07-12 Women of the Pleasure Quarters Lesley Downer 01-07-14 Planetary 1-13 Warren Ellis 01-07-14 The Magical Carpenter of Japan Ryojuien 01-07-16 Aspects of Love (*) David Garnett 01-07-17 Nobody's Son (*) Sean Stewart 01-07-17 Like Water For Chocolate Laura Esquival 01-07-17 Shadow's End Sheri S. Tepper 01-07-19 Dear Genius Ursula Nordstrom 01-07-21 Half The Day Is Night Maureen McHugh 01-07-22 The Screwtape Letters C.S. Lewis 01-07-22 Teranesia Greg Egan 01-07-22 Sailor Stars 2 Naoko Takeuchi 01-07-23 New Yorker 7/16/2001 (Rushdie) various 01-07-23 Love Hina Akamatsu Ken 01-07-24 Stormwatch 37-50, 1-10 Warren Ellis et al. 01-07-24 Authority 1-24 Warren Ellisa et al. 01-07-26 Richard III (*) Ian McKellan 01-07-27 Last Look (*) Clyde Robert Bulla 01-07-28 Willy Wong, American Vanya Oakes 01-07-28 The Secret Language (*) Ursula Nordstrom 01-07-29 A Whisper of Blood Ellen Datlow (ed) 01-07-30 Mothers Alexandra Towle (ed) 01-08-01 On Track with the Japanese Patricia Gercik 01-08-02 Over the Hills and Far Away Lavinia Russ 01-08-02 The Curse of Chalion Lois McMaster Bujold 01-08-04 Media Control Noam Chomsky 01-08-05 Westmark (*) Lloyd Alexander 01-08-06 The Kestrel (*) Lloyd Alexander 01-08-06 Consider Phlebas Iain M. Banks 01-08-22 The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes Clifton Fadiman (ed) 01-08-26 What's Michael? (*) Makoto Kobayashi 01-08-27 The Player of Games (*) Iain M. Banks 01-08-28 Use of Weapons Iain M. Banks 01-09-02 Excession Iain M. Banks 01-09-08 Twisted Tales from Shakespeare Richard Armour 01-09-13 Shakespeare's Histories George Joseph Becker 01-09-16 Frumpy the Clown: The Fat Lady Sings Judd Winick 01-09-16 Frumpy the Clown: Freaking Out the Neighbours Judd Winick 01-09-17 How to Read a French Fry Russ Parsons 01-09-18 French Lessons Peter Mayle 01-09-20 A Year in Provence Peter Mayle 01-09-24 Kirith Kirin Jim Grimsley 01-09-27 Card Captor Sakura 4 CLAMP (Kodansha) 01-09-30 Card Captor Sakura 5 CLAMP (Kodansha) 01-09-30 Card Captor Sakura 6 CLAMP (Kodansha) 01-09-30 Under the Light of Sigma Draconis Eleanor Arnason 01-10-01 Reaper Man Terry Pratchett 01-10-03 So Mote It Be Isobel Bird 01-10-04 Merry Meet Isobel Bird 01-10-05 Second Sight Isobel Bird 01-10-05 What the Cards Said Isobel Bird 01-10-05 In the Dreaming Isobel Bird 01-10-07 Ring of Light Isobel Bird 01-10-07 Blue Moon Isobel Bird 01-10-07 The Five Paths Isobel Bird 01-10-08 Through the Veil Isobel Bird 01-10-08 Brat Farrar (*) Josephine Tey 01-10-12 Dragons of Autumn Twilight (*) Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman 01-10-20 Dragons of Winter Night (*) Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman 01-10-21 Dragons of Spring Dawning (*) Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman 01-10-22 Dragons of Summer Flame Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman 01-10-25 A Phoenix Too Frequent Christopher Fry 01-10-26 Miracle Girls 2 01-10-27 Miracle Girls 3 01-10-27 Banana Fish 5 Akimi Yoshida 01-10-27 Grave Peril Jim Butcher 01-10-29