Books Read in 2007

F = Fiction
NF = Non-Fiction
B = Biography
P = Poetry
PL = Play
GN = Graphic Novel


1) Patrick O'Brian - Treason's Harbour (F)

2) Alaa Al Aswany - The Yacoubian Building (F)

3) Patrick O'Brian - The Far Side of the World (F)

4) Steven Brust - Brokedown Palace (F)

5) Jim Butcher - Storm Front (F)

6) Jim Butcher - Fool Moon (F)

7) Patrick O'Brian - The Reverse of the Medal (F)

8) Mark Kurlansky - The Big Oyster: History on the Halfshell (NF)

9) Terry Pratchett - Strata (F)

10) Patrick O'Brian - The Letter of Marque (F)

11) Patrick O'Brian - The Thirteen-Gun Salute (F)

12) Patrick O'Brian - The Nutmeg of Consolation (F)

13) Patrick O'Brian - The Truelove (F)

14) Patrick O'Brian - The Wine-Dark Sea (F)

15) Patrick O'Brian - The Commodore (F)

16) Patrick O'Brian - The Yellow Admiral (F)

17) James Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (F)

18) Rex Stout - Curtains for Three (F) (reread)

19) Dick Francis - Slay Ride (F)

20) Dick Francis - High Stakes (F)

21) Dick Francis - The Edge (F)

22) Dick Francis - Bonecrack (F)

23) Orhan Pamuk - Snow (F)

24) Jim Butcher - Grave Peril (F)

25) Jim Butcher - Summer Knight (F)

26) Alexandre Dumas trans. Andrew Brown - Captain Pamphile (F)

27) Jim Butcher - Death Masks (F)

28) Jim Butcher - Blood Rites (F)

29) Dick Francis - To the Hilt (F)

30) E.M. Forster - Where Angels Fear to Tread (F)

31) E. OE. Somerville & Martin Ross - The Irish R.M. (F)

32) Dick Francis - Dead Cert (F)

33) Conor McPherson - Four Plays (PL)

34) Jamie Delano et al. - Hellblazer: The Devil You Know (GN)

35) Bill Bryson - The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America (NF)

36) William Shakespeare - The Life & Death of King Richard the Second (PL)

37) Harry Harrison - The Stainless Steel Rat (F)

38) Harry Harrison - The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge (F)

39) Emile Zola - Therese Raquin (F)

40) Dick Francis - Trial Run (F)

41) Glen Cook - The Silver Spike (F)

42) Warren Ellis et al. - Hellblazer: Haunted (GN)

43) Warren Ellis et al. - Hellblazer: Setting Sun (GN)

44) Jim Butcher - The Furies of Calderon (F)

45) Jim Butcher - Academ's Fury (F)

46) Upton Sinclair - World's Fury (F)

47) Graham Greene - The Third Man (F)

48) Ian Sansom - The Case of the Missing Books: A Mobile Library Mystery (F)

49) George Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London (F)

50) Clifford D. Simak - The Goblin Reservation (F)

51) Sarah Vowell - Take the Cannoli (NF)

52) I.J. Parker - Black Arrow (F)

53) Boris Akunin - Sister Pelagia and the White Bulldog (F)

54) Lawrence Sterne - The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (F)

55) Edgar Rice Burroughs - A Princess of Mars (F)

56) J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (F)

57) Sholom Aleichem, trans. Curt Leviant - Happy New Year! and Other Stories (F)

58) Saul Bellow - Dangling Man (F)

59) Michael Chabon - The Final Solution (F)

60) Stuart Kelly - The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read (NF)

61) Harvey Pekar - American Splendor: The Life and times of Harvey Pekar (GN/B)

62) Maurice LeBlanc - Arsene Lupin, Gentleman Thief (F)

63) Liz Williams - Snake Agent: A Detective Inspector Chen Novel (F)

64) Mike Carey et al. - Hellblazer: Reasons To Be Cheerful (GN)

65) Alan Moore & Melinda Gebbie - Lost Girls (GN)

66) Mike Mignola & John Byrne - Hellboy: Seed of Destruction (GN)

67) Don Marquis - The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel (F/P)

68) Wole Soyinka - Samarkand and Other Markets I Have Known (P)

69) James Herriot - All Creatures Great and Small (B) (reread)

70) Leonard Cohen - Let Us Compare Mythologies (P)

71) Flann O'Brien - At Swim-Two-Birds (F)

72) James Herriot - All Things Bright and Beautiful (B) (reread)

73) James Herriot - All Things Wise and Wonderful (B)

74) Cauvery Madhavan - Paddy Indian (F)

75) James Herriot - The Lord God made Them All (B)

76) Dick Francis - The Danger (F)

77) Guy Delisle - Shenzen: A Travelogue from China (GN) (reread)

78) Guy Delisle - Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea (GN) (reread)

79) Dick Francis - Longshot (F)

80) Dick Francis - For Kicks (F)

81) Terry Pratchett - Making Money (F)

82) Joyce Cary - Herself Surprised (F)

83) Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories (NF)

84) Dick Francis - Driving Force (F)

85) Sam Shepard - Seven Plays (PL) (partial)

86) John Le Carre - Our Game (F)

87) Ha Jin - The Crazed (F)

88) I.J. Parker - Island of Exiles (F)

89) Patrick O'Brian - The Hundred Days (F)

90) Parick O'Brian - Blue at the Mizzen (F)

91) Brian Azzarello et al. - Hellblazer: Hard Time (GN)

92) Brian Azzarello et al. - Hellblazer: Good Intentions (GN)

93) Brian Azzarello et al. - Hellblazer: Freezes Over (GN)

94) Rex Stout - Some Buried Caesar (F) (reread)

95) Herman Hesse trans. Sherab Chodzin Kohn - Siddartha (F)

96) Rex Stout - The Father Hunt (F) (reread)

97) Joseph Heller - Portrait of an Artist as an Old Man (F)

98) Ryunosuke Akutagawa trans. Jay Rubin - Rashomon and 17 Other Stories (F)

99) Rex Stout - Gambit (F) (reread)

100) Rex Stout - Where There's A Will (F) (reread)

101) Rex Stout - Three Men Out (F) (reread)

102) Rex Stout - Might As Well Be Dead (F) (reread)

103) Rex Stout - Black Orchids (F) (reread)

104) Rex Stout - The League of Frightened Men (F) (reread)

105) Rex Stout - Murder by the Book (F) (reread)

106) Vladimir Nabokov - Pale Fire (F)

107) Rex Stout - Fer-de-Lance (F) (reread)

108) Anton Chekhov trans. Laurence Senelick - Three Sisters (PL)

109) Rex Stout - The Red Box (F) (reread)

110) Glen Cook - Cold Copper Tears (F) (reread)

111) Glen Cook - Red Iron Nights (F) (reread)

112) Rex Stout - If Death Ever Slept (F) (reread)

113) John Mandeville, trans. C.W.R.D. Moseley - The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (NF)

114) Flann O'Brien, trans. Patrick C. Power - The Poor Mouth: A Bad Story About the Hard Life (F)

115) Rex Stout - Tri for Blunt Instruments (F) (reread)

116) Rex Stout - Death Times Three (F) (reread)

117) Glen Cook - Sweet Silver Blues (F) (reread)

118) Apuleius, trans. P.G. Walsh - The Golden Ass (F)

119) Jim Butcher - Cursor's FUry (F)

120) Glen Cook - Bitter Gold Hearts (F) (reread)

121) Glen Cook - Old Tin Sorrows (F) (reread)

122) David Sedaris - Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (B)

123) Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange (F)

124) Glen Cook - Dread Brass Shadows (F) (reread)

125) Haruki Murakami, trans. Alfred Birnbaum - Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (F)

126) Cormac McCarthy - The Road (F)

127) Salman Rushdie - Haroun and the Sea of Stories (F)

128) Larry Gonick & Christine DeVault - The Cartoon Guide to Sex (GN)