What I Read This Year, 2006 Edition

First few books of the year: 

  • The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, The Accident by Elie Wiesel
  • A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O’Connor

Horatio Hornblower books by C.S. Forester:

  • Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
  • Lieutenant Hornblower
  • Hornblower and the Hotspur
  • Hornblower and the Atropos
  • Beat to Quarters
  • Ship of the Line
  • Flying Colours
  • Commodore Hornblower
  • Lord Hornblower
  • Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies
  • Hornblower During the Crisis

Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O’Brian:

  • Master and Commander
  • Post Captain
  • H.M.S. Surprise
  • The Mauritius Command
  • Desolation Island
  • The Fortune of War
  • The Surgeon’s Mate
  • The Ionian Mission
  • Treason’s Harbour
  • The Far Side of the World
  • The Reverse of the Medal
  • The Letter of Marque
  • The Thirteen-Gun Salute
  • The Nutmeg of Consolation
  • The Truelove
  • The Wine-Dark Sea
  • The Commodore
  • The Yellow Admiral
  • The Hundred Days
  • Blue at the Mizzen

Couple of other Royal Navy books:

  • Men-Of-War: Life in Nelson’s Navy by Patrick O’Brian
  • Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and Nelson’s Battle of Trafalgar by Adam Nicolson

Wow. Thirty-five books this year. That’s a lot more than in recent years, probably the most since like the late eighties.