Writers are readers too!  Just for fun I’ve put together a list of books I read in 2006.  This isn’t the complete listI can’t remember all the sci-fi and mystery novels I read on vacation!  I filled a large grocery bag with paperbacks from the library and at the end of our three-week vacation I’d finished them all, but because I was on vacation, I don’t remember any of them. Now that’s what I call relaxing!

Here are the truly great books I read last year. (Note: If I put the letter C after a book title, it means please check with your mom or dad before you read it, if you’re a kid, that is!)

Journals of Lewis and Clark, ed. Bernard deVoto

We Were Soldiers Once, and Young: Ia DrangThe Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam, by Harold Moore and Joseph GallowayC

Daniel Half-Human, by David Chotjewwitc, trans. by Doris Orgel

I, Claudius, Robert Graves

Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina, Robert Graves

The Kite Runner, by Khaled HosseiniC

Christ the Lord Out of Egypt, Anne Rice

The Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz del Castillo

The Confessions of St. Augustine

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812, by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Pompeii by Robert Harris

To America, by Stephen Ambrose

Crazy Horse and Custer, by Stephen Ambrose

Thinking in Pictures: My Life With Autism by Temple Grandin

A History of Rome by Moses Hadas

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carré

The Honourable Schoolboy, by John Le Carré

Smiley’s People by John Le Carré

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

The Star Fleet Survival Guide by David Mack