Tuesday, January 01, 2008

Reading in 2007 - The Complete List

Here it is, everything I read in 2007:

1. Chasing the Dime (2002) - Michael Connelly

2. Stardust (1999) - Neil Gaiman

3. The Chocolate War (YA 1974) - Robert Cormier

4. The Cement Garden (1978) – Ian McEwan

5. The Gambler (1866) – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

6. The Ocean and All Its Devices (2006) – William Browning Spencer

7. Housekeeping vs. The Dirt: Fourteen Months of Massively Witty Adventures in Reading (NF 2006) – Nick Hornby

8. The Complete Stories (1971) – Flannery O'Connor

9. Understanding Flannery O'Connor (NF 1995) – Margaret Earley Whitt

10. Everyman (2006) – Philip Roth

11. The Terror (2007) – Dan Simmons

12. A Sight for Sore Eyes (1998) – Ruth Rendell

13. Dearly Devoted Dexter (2005) – Jeff Lindsay

14. Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books (NF 2005) – Maureen Corrigan

15. Bald As I Wanna Be (NF 1997) – Tony Kornheiser

16. The Keyhole Opera (2005) – Bruce Holland Rogers

17. A Short History of Nearly Everything (NF 2003) – Bill Bryson

18. Otis! The Otis Redding Story (NF 2001) – Scott Freeman

19. Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy (NF 2002) – Jane Leavy

20. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. I: The Pox Party (YA 2006) – M.T. Anderson

21. Plug Your Book (NF) – Steve Weber

22. Seven Money Mantras for a Richer Life (NF 2004) – Michelle Singletary

23. The Door Within (J 2005) – Wayne Thomas Batson

24. Engaging the Soul of Youth Culture (NF 2006) – Walt Mueller

25. Fledgling (2005) – Octavia E. Butler

26. Art & Fear (NF 1993) – David Bayles and Ted Orland

27. Heart-Shaped Box (2007) – Joe Hill

28. Marley & Me (NF 2005) – John Grogan

29. Saffron and Brimstone: Strange Stories (2007) – Elizabeth Hand

30. School Days (2005) – Robert B. Parker

31. The Ragamuffin Gospel (NF 1990) – Brennan Manning

32. The Silent Speaker (1946) – Rex Stout

33. Baltimore Blues (1997) – Laura Lippman

34. Lisey's Story (2006) – Stephen King

35. The Speed of Dark (2002) – Elizabeth Moon

36. What the Dead Know (2007) – Laura Lippman

37. Lolita (1954) – Vladimir Nabokov

38. How to Think Like a Millionaire (NF 1997) – Mark Fisher with Marc Allen

39. Mississippi Sissy (NF 2007) – Kevin Sessums

40. Velvet Elvis (NF 2005) – Rob Bell

41. You Don't Love Me Yet (2007) – Jonathan Lethem

42. The Green Glass Sea (YA 2006) – Ellen Klages

43. Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road (NF 2000/2005) – Donald Miller

44. The Book of Three (YA 1964) – Lloyd Alexander

45. The Black Echo (1992) – Michael Connelly

46. Countdown: The Race for Beautiful Solutions at the International Mathematical Olympiad (NF 2004) – Steve Olson

47. For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) – Ernest Hemingway

48. Over Sea, Under Stone (YA 1966?) – Susan Cooper

49. Softspoken (2007) – Lucius Shepard

50. The No-Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't (NF 2007) – Robert I. Sutton

51. Fingerprints: The Origins of Crime Detection and the Murder Case That Launched Forensic Science (NF 2001) – Colin Beavan

52. Zodiac (NF 1986) – Robert Graysmith

53. Reasons to Live (1985) – Amy Hempel

54. The Dark is Rising (YA 1973) – Susan Cooper

55. A Passage to India (1924) – E.M. Forster

56. In the Palace of Repose (2005) – Holly Phillips

57. The Overlook (2007) – Michael Connelly

58. The Keeper (2006) – Sarah Langan

59. Einstein: His Life and Universe (NF 2007) – Walter Isaacson

60. How to Want What You Have (NF 1995) – Timothy Miller, PhD.

61. Whales on Stilts! (YA 2005) – M.T. Anderson

62. A Good and Happy Child (2007) – Justin Evans

63. Fahrenheit 451 (1953) – Ray Bradbury

64. Three Days to Never (2006) – Tim Powers

65. The Ear, the Eye and the Arm (YA 1994) – Nancy Farmer

66. Don't Waste Your Life (NF 2003) – John Piper

67. The Looming Tower (NF 2006) – Lawrence Wright

68. The Truth is Out There: The Christian Faith in Classic Science Fiction TV (NF 2006) – Thomas Bertonneau and Kim Paffenroth

69. The Privilege of the Sword (2006) – Ellen Kushner

70. The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate (Novella 2007) – Ted Chiang

71. Leadership (NF 2003) – Rudolph Giuliani

72. The Imago Sequence and Other Stories (2007) – Laird Barron

73. The Sun Also Rises (1926) – Ernest Hemingway

74. Parable of the Sower (1993) – Octavia E. Butler

75. Aegypt (1987) – John Crowley

76. Speak (1999) – Laurie Halse Anderson

77. Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections Between Sexuality and Spirituality (NF 2007) – Rob Bell

78. Reassuring Tales (2006) – T.E.D. Klein

79. Butchers Hill (1998) – Laura Lippman

80. The Servants (2007) – Michael Marshall Smith

81. Hard Times (1854) – Charles Dickens

82. One for Sorrow (2007) – Christopher Barzak

83. Step Across This Line (NF 2002) – Salman Rushdie

84. The Museum of Dr. Moses and Other Stories (2007) – Joyce Carol Oates

85. The Resurrection Man's Legacy and Other Stories (2003) – Dale Bailey

86. Best American Fantasy (2007) – Jeff VanderMeer, Ann VanderMeer, eds.

87. The Other Side of Dark (YA 1986) – Joan Lowrey Nixon

88. Altmann's Tongue: Stories and a Novella (2002) – Brian Evenson

89. Sanctuary (1931) – William Faulkner

90. I Am Legend (1954) – Richard Matheson

91. Catalyst (2006) – Nina Kiriki Hoffman

92. Greenwitch (YA 1974) – Susan Cooper

93. All the President's Men (NF 1974) – Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward

94. Eyes Wide Open: Looking for God in Popular Culture (NF 2007) – William D. Romanowski

95. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) – Junot Diaz

96. Territory (2007) – Emma Bull

97. A Poetry Handbook (NF 1994) – Mary Oliver

98. Zeroville (2007) – Steve Erickson

99. The Grey King (YA 1973) – Susan Cooper

100. Treasure Island (YA 1883) – Robert Louis Stevenson

101. Till We Have Faces (1956) – C.S. Lewis

102. The Best American Short Stories (2007) – Stephen King, ed.

103. Treasure Island (YA 1883) - Robert Louis Stevenson

104. The Golden Compass (YA 1995) - Philip Pullman

GRAPHIC NOVELS

The Arrival (2007) – Shaun Tan

The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2007) – Brian Selznick

2 comments:

John said...

Your take on Understanding Flannery O'Connor?

I ask because I find that there are two kinds of criticism like this one. Both are often illustrative of something I'd completely missed in the writing, but one (the most common) is merely interesting, where the other (rare) makes me want to go back and read the subject matter all over again.

Lots of challenging reads in there. You must be tired.

Andy Wolverton said...

I'd call it pretty much an overview that didn't go into nearly as much detail as I would've liked, but still worth reading. Treatment of the major themes are there - O'Connor's Catholicism, the grotesque nature of fallen man, redemption, etc., which is all fine, yet still more general than what I wanted.

One thing that was somewhat frustrating - and this is my fault for not yet reading the novels, only the stories: many of the stories became parts of novels, particularly Wise Blood. The author covers the novelized versions of the stories. It would have been interesting (but probably beyond the author's scope) to see the structural differences between the stories and their form in the novel. (For what it's worth, Samuel Delany is quite opposed to adapting short stories into novels. It could be that O'Connor is a writer he had in mind.)