As an excuse for actual content, I’m presenting a list of books that I read during 2005.

Yes there’s quite a few Stephen King in there and no I’m not apologizing for it. So there.

• Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Attwood
• Salmon of Doubt, by Douglas Adams
• Last of the Amazons, by Steven Pressfield
• Mindscan, by Robert J. Sawyer
• On Writing, by Stephen King
• The Stand, by Stephen King
• Gates of Fire, by Steven Pressfield
• Valor’s Choice, by Tanya Huff
• Prey, by Michael Chricton
• Summoned to Destiny, ed. Julie Czerneda
• Fantastic Companions, ed. Julie Czerneda
• Species Imperative: Migration, by Julie Czerneda
• To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
• Hearts in Atlantis, by Stephen King
• From a Buick 8, by Stephen King
• Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens
• The Quiet American, by Graham Greene
• K-PAX, by Gene Brewer
• Dune Messiah, by Frank Herbert
• Dreamcatcher, by Stephen King
• Haunted, Chuck Palahnuik (started, but too bad to finish)
• There and Back Again, An Actor’s Tale, by Sean Astin
• When Will Jesus Bring the Porkchops?, by George Carlin
• Summerland, by Michael Chabon
• The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane
• Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
• Wild Blue, by Stephen Ambrose
• Be Cool, by Elmore Leonard
• The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard, by Elmore Leonard
• The Gunslinger: Dark Tower 1, by Stephen King
• Ascending, by James Alan Gardner
• The Confidential Agent, by Graham Greene
• 1602, by Neil Gaiman