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Jan 23, 2007 2:52:13 AM Archived Entry: "Books Read 2007"
Last year I read 34 books, an improvement over the 27 of 2005. However, I think I should be reading even more than that - but I'm being held up by reading Remembrance of Things Past and on the 23rd of January and I hadn't finished a single book yet despite the fact I'm in the middle of seven!
January
1. A Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down - Nicey and Wifey
February
2. Woken Furies - Richard Morgan
3. Skeen's Search - Jo Clayton
4. Lonely Planet - Canary Islands
5. Some other travel guide - Canary Islands
6. What do you call a sociopath in a cubicle? - Scott Adams
March
7. Blood Lines - Tonya Huff
8. The Lady of the Sorrows - Cecilia Dart-Thornton
9. Singularity Sky - Charlie Stoss
April
10. Wildfire - Jo Clayton
11. Lincoln's Dreams - Connie Willis
May
12. Remembrance of Things Past (volumes one and two) - Swann's Way and In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (the Kilmartin translation) - Marcel Proust
13. London in the Twenties and Thirties (from old photographs) - James Howgego
14. The Magic Wars - Jo Clayton
15. The Very Bloody History of England: The First Bit - John Farman
June
16. Incompetence - Rob Grant
17. The Battle of Evernight - Cecilia Dart-Thornton
18. Death Masks - Jim Butcher (tremendous improvement over books 2, 3 and 4. My hope for the series is renewed!)
July
19. The Art of Darkness: Staging the Phillip Pullman trilogy - Robert Butler (bought it in 2004 - boy, I'm slow!)
20. Blood Rites - Jim Butcher
21. Remake - Connie Willis
August
22. London: A Life in Maps - Peter Whitfield
23. Dead Beat - Jim Butcher (Dresden Files book 7)
September
24. A Bait of Dreams - Jo Clayton
25. The Guermantes Way - Marcel Proust
October
26. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
27. The Devil in Amber - Mark Gatiss
28. Light Raid - Connie Willis
29. The Eyre Affair - Jasper Pforde
30. Mozart's Journey to Prague - Eduard Morike (as part of "Blog a Penguin Classic." I'd much rather blog the Proust, thanks!)
31. The Stinky Cheese Man and other Fairly Stupid Tales - Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith
32. The Machine's Child - Kage Baker
November
33. Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris
34. The Sons of Heaven - Kage Baker
December
35. Shakespeare's Landlord - Charlaine Harris
36. Fairy Tales: Traditional Stories Retold for Gay Men - Peter Cashorali
37. How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel - Alain De Botton
38. Queueing for Beginners: The story of daily life from breakfast to bedtime (from an English perspective) - Joe Moran
"Only weak men fear able women" - Marion Boyars