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:
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.
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.)
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