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

  1. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (Twice Told Tales)
  2. Winterwood by Patrick McCabe
  3. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell (Under the Ice)
  4. At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft (Weird Tales and Madness)
  5. Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake (Beginning Titus Groan, Dizzy Heights and Finishing Titus Groan)
  6. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (The Book Thief)
  7. A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon (A Spot of Bother)
  8. Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake (The Great Escape)
  9. Titus Alone by Mervyn Peake (After the Storm)
  10. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (Crime and Punishment)
  11. The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney (The Tenderness of Wolves)
  12. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (On Chesil Beach)
  13. The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson (Revish review)
  14. Restless by William Boyd (Revish review)
  15. The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld (Murder In Mind)
  16. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (Kurt Vonnegut: 1922-2007)
  17. Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer (The Bleak Book Group)
  18. The Road by Cormac McCarthy (The Road)
  19. Everyman by Philip Roth (American Greats)
  20. Unless by Carol Shields
  21. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (Back to the Old House)
  22. We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver (Hard Talk)
  23. Tunnel Visions by Christopher Ross
  24. Falling Man by Don DeLillo (The Invisible Novel)
  25. No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy (No Country For Old Men)
  26. A Curious Earth by Gerard Woodward (A Curious Earth)
  27. In a Glass Darkly by Sheridan Le Fanu (The Haunted)
  28. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
  29. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (All the Pretty Horses)
  30. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)
  31. Life Class by Pat Barker (Life Class)
  32. Gathering the Water by Robert Edric
  33. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene (Going Greene: The Power and the Glory)
  34. The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene
  35. Engleby by Sebastian Faulks (Engleby)
  36. The End of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas
  37. If You Liked School, You’ll Love Work by Irvine Welsh (If You Like Irvine Welsh, You’ll Love This)
  38. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks (23 Years and Iain Banks)
  39. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl (Death by Chocolate)
  40. Darkmans by Nicola Barker (Dark Matter)
  41. Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman (Fragile Things)
  42. Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman (Anansi Boys)
  43. The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter (Blood and Chambers)
  44. The October Country by Ray Bradbury (Bradbury Country)
  45. Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman (Smoke and Mirrors)
  46. The Rain Before It Falls by Jonathan Coe (The Rain Before It Falls)
  47. The Outsider by Albert Camus (My Weekend With Albert Camus)
  48. Mr B. Gone by Clive Barker (Mister B.Gone)
  49. The Late Hector Kipling by David Thewlis (coming next)

Short Stories

  1. Random Quest by John Wyndham (Quest for Wyndham)
  2. Running Wolf by Algernon Blackwood (Simply Chilling)
  3. The Haunted and the Haunters by Lord Lytton (Simply Chilling)
  4. His Brother’s Keeper by W.W.Jacobs (October Ghosts)
  5. The Seventh Man by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (October Ghosts)
  6. The Inexperienced Ghost by H.G.Wells (More Ghostly Goings On)
  7. The Toll House by W.W.Jacobs (More Ghostly Goings On)
  8. The Squaw by Bram Stoker (More Ghostly Goings On)
  9. The Treasure of Abbot Thomas by M.R.James (Christmas Ghosts: The Treasure of Abbot Thomas)

Non Fiction

  1. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (Merry Christmas, Mr Dawkins)

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