Books Read in 2007: The Final List
Saturday December 29, 2007
As 2007 fizzles out, here’s my complete reading list for the year. I don’t think it’s a bad list, although it could have been a touch longer (especially non fiction!) Links to reviews are in brackets. Here’s to happy reading for all in 2008.
Novels
- The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (Twice Told Tales)
- Winterwood by Patrick McCabe
- Black Swan Green by David Mitchell (Under the Ice)
- At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft (Weird Tales and Madness)
- Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake (Beginning Titus Groan, Dizzy Heights and Finishing Titus Groan)
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (The Book Thief)
- A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon (A Spot of Bother)
- Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake (The Great Escape)
- Titus Alone by Mervyn Peake (After the Storm)
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (Crime and Punishment)
- The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney (The Tenderness of Wolves)
- On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (On Chesil Beach)
- The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson (Revish review)
- Restless by William Boyd (Revish review)
- The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld (Murder In Mind)
- Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (Kurt Vonnegut: 1922-2007)
- Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer (The Bleak Book Group)
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy (The Road)
- Everyman by Philip Roth (American Greats)
- Unless by Carol Shields
- Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (Back to the Old House)
- We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver (Hard Talk)
- Tunnel Visions by Christopher Ross
- Falling Man by Don DeLillo (The Invisible Novel)
- No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy (No Country For Old Men)
- A Curious Earth by Gerard Woodward (A Curious Earth)
- In a Glass Darkly by Sheridan Le Fanu (The Haunted)
- The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
- All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (All the Pretty Horses)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)
- Life Class by Pat Barker (Life Class)
- Gathering the Water by Robert Edric
- The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene (Going Greene: The Power and the Glory)
- The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene
- Engleby by Sebastian Faulks (Engleby)
- The End of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas
- If You Liked School, You’ll Love Work by Irvine Welsh (If You Like Irvine Welsh, You’ll Love This)
- The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks (23 Years and Iain Banks)
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl (Death by Chocolate)
- Darkmans by Nicola Barker (Dark Matter)
- Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman (Fragile Things)
- Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman (Anansi Boys)
- The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter (Blood and Chambers)
- The October Country by Ray Bradbury (Bradbury Country)
- Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman (Smoke and Mirrors)
- The Rain Before It Falls by Jonathan Coe (The Rain Before It Falls)
- The Outsider by Albert Camus (My Weekend With Albert Camus)
- Mr B. Gone by Clive Barker (Mister B.Gone)
- The Late Hector Kipling by David Thewlis (coming next)
Short Stories
- Random Quest by John Wyndham (Quest for Wyndham)
- Running Wolf by Algernon Blackwood (Simply Chilling)
- The Haunted and the Haunters by Lord Lytton (Simply Chilling)
- His Brother’s Keeper by W.W.Jacobs (October Ghosts)
- The Seventh Man by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (October Ghosts)
- The Inexperienced Ghost by H.G.Wells (More Ghostly Goings On)
- The Toll House by W.W.Jacobs (More Ghostly Goings On)
- The Squaw by Bram Stoker (More Ghostly Goings On)
- The Treasure of Abbot Thomas by M.R.James (Christmas Ghosts: The Treasure of Abbot Thomas)
Non Fiction
- The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (Merry Christmas, Mr Dawkins)
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