Book List 2006

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January:

1. That Yellow Bastard by Frank Miller
   
2. Carnet de Voyage by Craig Thompson
   
3. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller, Klaus Janson, and Lynn Varley
   
4. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
   
5. The Penultimate Peril by Lemony Snicket
   
6. Star Wars Tales, Vol. 1 by Dark Horse Comics (Editor)
   
7. Blankets by Craig Thompson
   
8. A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
   
9. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
   
10. Rx for Survival: Why We Must Rise to the Global Health Challenge by Philip Hilts
    
11. Star Wars Tales, Vol. 2 by Dark Horse Comics (Editor)
    
12. The Sandman: Brief Lives by Neil Gaiman
    
13. Star Wars Tales, Vol. 3 by Dark Horse Comics (Editor)
    
14. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire: A Visionary Naturalist by Herve Le Guyader (Marjorie Grene, Translator)
    
15. The Sandman: Fables and Reflections by Neil Gaiman
    
16. Star Wars Tales, Vol. 4 by Dark Horse Comics (Editor)
    
17. Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles by Anthony Swofford
    
18. Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi: Fall of the Sith Empire by Kevin J. Anderson
    
19. Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi: Knights of the Old Republic by Tom Veitch, Chris Gossett, Janine Johnston, and David Roach
    
20. Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi: The Sith War by Kevin J. Anderson, Dario Carrasco Jr., Variou, and Mark G. Heike
    
    February:
    
21. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemmingway
    
22. Coraline by Neil Gaiman
    
23. Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader by James Luceno
    
24. The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
    
25. Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi: Dark Lords of the Sith by Kevin J. Anderson
    
26. Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil by Nancy Scheper-Hughes
    
27. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
    
28. Asa Gray by A. Hunter Dupree
    
29. The Sandman: Worlds End by Neil Gaiman
    
30. Star Wars: Infinities - Return of the Jedi by Adam Gallardo, Ryan Benjamin, and Saleem Crawford
    
31. Sin City: Hell and Back by Frank Miller
    
    March:
    
32. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
    
33. The Sandman: The Kindly Ones by Neil Gaiman
    
34. Conan Volume One: The Frost Giant's Daughter and other Stories by Kurt Busiek, Cary Nord, Thomas Yeates, and Dave Stewart
    
35. Star Wars: Empire, Vol. 3: The Imperial Perspective by Dark Horse Comics (editor)
    
36. Star Wars: Clone Wars, Vol 5: The Best Blades by Dark Horse Comics (editor)
    
37. Star Wars: Empire, Vol. 4: The Heart of the Rebellion by Dark Horse Comics (editor)
    
38. Star Wars Tales, Vol. 5 by Dark Horse Comics (Editor)
    
39. Conan Volume Two: The God in the Bowl and other stories by Kurt Busiek, Cary Nord, Thomas Yeates, and Dave Stewart
    
40. Star Wars: Clone Wars, Vol 6: On the Fields of Battle by Dark Horse Comics (editor)
    
41. The Sandman: The Wake by Neil Gaiman
    
42. Star Wars: Jango Fett: Open Seasons by Haden Blackman, Ramon Bachs, and Raul Fernandez
    
43. A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
    
44. In the Footstep of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo by Michela Wrong
    
    April:
    
45. Forgotten Realms: The Dark Elf Trilogy Volume 1: Homeland by R. A. Salvatore, Andrew Daab, and Tim Seeley
    
46. Star Wars: General Grievous by Dark Horse Comics (Editor)
    
47. What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery by Francis Crick
    
48. Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream by Barbara Ehrenreich
    
49. The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America by Daniel Kevles
    
50. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
    
51. Star Wars: Clone Wars, Vol 6: When They Were Brothers by Dark Horse Comics (editor)
    
    May:
    
52. Serenity: Those Left Behind by Joss Whedon, Brett Matthews, and Will Conrad
    
53. The Walking Dead Vol. 1: Days Gone Bye by Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore
    
54. Ex Machina Vol. 2: Tag by Brian K. Vaughan, Tony Harris
    
55. Y the Last Man: Girl on Girl by Brian K. Vaughn, Pia Guerra, Goran Sudzuka and Jose Marzan, Jr.
    
56. This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland by Gretel Ehrlich
    
57. The Walking Dead Vol. 2: Miles Behind Us by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard
    
58. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
    
59. Sufferings in Africa: The Astonishing Account of a New England Sea Captain Enslaved by North African Arabs by James Riley
    
60. The Walking Dead Vol. 3: Safety Behind Bars by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard
    
61. Star Wars: Visionaries by Aaron McBride, Erik Tiemens, Mike Murnane, Derek Thompson, Alex Jaeger, Stephen Martiniére, Robert E. Barnes, Sang Jun Lee, Ryan Church, Feng Zhu, and Warren J. Fu
    
62. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
    
63. Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
    
    June:
    
64. King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild
    
65. Batman: Year One by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli
    
66. Wellspring of Chaos by L.E. Modesitt, Jr.
    
67. Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert
    
68. Star Wars: Jedi Council: Acts of War by Randy Stradley, Davide Fabbri, and Christian Dalla Vecchia
    
69. Star Wars: Jango Fett by Ron Marz and Tom Fowler
    
70. Death: The Time of Your Life by Neil Gaiman
    
71. Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi
    
72. Fables Vol 1: Legends in Exile by Bill Willingham
    
73. Star Wars Empire Vol. 5: Allies and Adversaries by Jeremy Barlow, Ron Marz, Brandon Badeaux, and Jeff Johnson
    
74. The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead by Max Brooks
    
75. A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin
    
    July:
    
76. The Weathermakers: How Man is Changing the Climate and What it Means for Life on Earth by Tim Flannery
    
77. Ordermaster by L.E. Modesitt
    
78. The Hedge Knight by George R.R. Martin
    
79. See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism by Robert Baer
    
80. The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
    
    August:
    
81. Braving Home: Dispatches from the Underwater Town, the Lava-Side Inn, and Other Extreme Locales by Jake Halpern
    
82. Bad Twin by "Gary Troup"
    
83. Crossing the Tracks for Love: What to Do When You and Your Partner Grew Up in Different Worlds by Ruby K. Payne
    
84. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
    
85. The Last Siege, The Final Truth (Star Wars: Clone Wars, Vol. 8) by John Ostrander, Jan Duursema, Dan Parsons, and Brad Anderson
    
86. Ex Machina: Fact v. Fiction by Brian K. Vaughan, Tony Harris (Illustrator), and Tom Feister (Illustrator)
    
87. Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
    
    September:
    
88. Six Modern Plagues and how We Are Causing Them by Mark Jerome Walters
    
89. The Collected Stories of Greg Bear by Greg Bear
    
90. A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin
    
91. Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team by George Jonas
    
92. Star Wars: Chewbacca by Darko Macan, Brent Anderson, Igor Kordey, Jan Duursema, Dave Gibbons, Dusty Abell, John Nadeau, Martin Egeland, and Kilian Plunkett
    
93. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
    
    October:
    
94. Fables: Animal Farm by Bill Willingham
    
95. McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Issue 13 by Editors of McSweeney's (Compiler) and Chris Ware (Editor)
    
96. Beat to Quarters by C.S. Forester
    
    November:
    
97. Fables Volume 3: Storybook Love by Bill Willingham
    
98. Star Wars Tales: Volume 6 by Robert Williams, Thomas Andrews, Ian Edginton, Lucas Maragnon, Brandon Badeaux, Cully Hamner, Michael Lacombe, and Steve Pugh
    
99. The Better of McSweeney's, Volume 1 by Dave Eggers (Editor)
    
100. DMZ Vol. 1: On the Ground by Brian Wood (author) and Riccardo Burchielli (Illustrator)
     
101. Cultural Conceptions: On Reproductive Technologies and the Remaking of Life by Valerie Hartouni
     
102. Fables Vol. 4: March of the Wooden Soldiers by Bill Willingham
     
     December:
     
103. Good-bye, Chunky Rice by Craig Thompson
     
104. The Abandoned by Ross Campbell
     
105. Dead West by Rick Spears and Rob G.
     
106. 100 Bullets: First Shot, Last Call by by Brian Azzarello
     
107. 100% by Paul Pope
     
108. Escapo by Paul Pope
     
109. Pride of Baghdad by Brian K. Vaughn (author) and Niko Henrichon (illustrator)