Books of the Year: Part Two
Sunday December 16, 2007
So onto my pick of the older books I’ve enjoyed in the last year, where I’ve made a point of reading several authors I’ve always had in the back of my mind. The most prominent of these was probably Mervyn Peake, and I managed to complete the whole of the Gormenghast trilogy early in the year. I also made a point of catching up with Graham Greene. The other two authors I read several books by were both new to me – Cormac McCarthy and Neil Gaiman. Two writers who couldn’t be more different, but there’s diversity for you.
My non-new favourites of 2007, in no particular order:
- Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake (although to be brutally honest, I can give or take part three)
- No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
- Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman
- Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
- The Outsider by Albert Camus
- In a Glass Darkly by Sheridan Le Fanu
Gaiman’s short story & poetry collections are some of my favorite works!
heather (errantdreams) 17 December, 04:46 PM
Yup, he’s one of my best discoveries of the last year!
Stephen 17 December, 07:15 PM
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