2007 Book List

[sarah]

I was looking over my bookself this morning looking for a new read when I thought of this thread.

Can you remember all the books you read this year? I started making a list and I'm sure I'm missing a few. Here's what I came up with:

Twilight *
New Moon *
Eclipse *
Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and The Prisioner of Azakaban
Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince *
Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows **
The Gunslinger
The Drawing of the Three
The Wastelands
Parts of Wizard and Glass
Parts of Wolves of the Calla
The Golden Compass
The Subtle Knife
THe Amber Spyglass
Sackatt
Sense and Sensibility



* Read Twice
** Read Three Times

[Darkthoughts]

Blimey - I read quite alot this year.

Um...off the top of my head:

reread:

DT series.
HP series.
LOTR.
Interview with a Vampire/The Vampire Lestat/Queen of the Damned.
Hotel New Hampshire/A Prayer for Owen Meany/World According to Garp.
Salem's Lot.
Stardust.
Good Omens.
The Color Purple.
Black House
Eyes of the Dragon
Anansi Boys
Kpax Trilogy
Various Spenser novels (Robert B Parker)

read for first time:

Until I find You
Insomnia
Bag of Bones
Dolores Claiborne
Everything's Eventual
Velocity
Life Expectancy
The Darren Shan Vampire Saga
Going Postal
The Tiffany Aching Trilogy
The God Delusion
This Book Will Save Your Life
We Need To Talk About Kevin
The Ladies of Grace Adieu
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
The Regulators
Desperation
Cell
Dreamcatcher
Lisey's Story
Great Expectations
Scar Tissue
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
A Spot of Bother
Running With Scissors
HP and the Deathly Hallows

...theres more, but they were library books and I can't remember which ones...

[Erin]

Good Thread Maerlyn.

I have been keeping track of all the books I've read since January on another site, so I have an accurate list.

The Sword of Truth series, Naked Empire - Terry Goodkind
Debt of Bones - Terry Goodkind
Ferrets for Dummies
The Sword of Truth series, Chainfire - Terry Goodkind
The Sword of Truth series, Phantom - Terry Goodkind
The System of Objects - Jean Baudrillard (for school)
The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures - Jean Baudrillard (for school)
Simulacra and Simulation- Jean Baudrillard (for school)
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Heart-Shaped Box- Joe Hill
Lisey's Story - Stephen King
Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey - Chuck Palahniuk
Harry Potter and the Socerer's Stone
Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
World War Z- Max Brooks
Sandman graphic novels
Lone Wolf and Cub graphic novels
Stardust - Neil Gaiman
The Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Two Towers - J.R.R Tolkien
Return of the King - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer - Patrick Suskind
Skeleton Crew - Stephen King

and about 6 puppy/puppy training books.

[Daghain]

Holy cow!

I don't even know where to start. This is looking like a New Year's resolution for 2008 - I'd be interested to see what I read in a year.

[Storyslinger]

The DT series (reread)
IT
The Stand
Bag of Bones
Real Ponies Don't Go Oink
They Shoot Canoes, Don't they
The Grasshopper Trap
Never sniff a Gift Fish
The regulators
The dead Zone
Cristine

[Ruthful]

Oh man, this is taxing.

I'll just list the ones I can recall right now.

The Siege of Mecca
Why I am not a Muslim
Hearts in Atlantis
Unto the Daughters: The Legacy of an honor-killing in a Sicilian-American Family
Mugged by Reality: The Liberation of Iraq and the failure of good intentions
Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna
Needful Things
Eyes of the Dragon
The Bluest State: How Democrats Created the Massachusetts Blueprint for American Political Disaster
Exposing the Real Che Guevara
We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Dreamcatcher
Sovereign Ladies: The Six Reigning Queens of England
King's Gambit: A son, A Father, And The World's Most Dangerous Game
Auggie Wren's Christmas Story
Sophie Scholl & The White Rose
America Alone, by Mark Steyn
The Rake, by William F. Buckley Jr.
Michael Tolliver Returns

[sarajean]

half blood prince---rowling
even cowgirls get the blues---tom robbins
pippi on the run---astrid lundgren
the end---lemony snicket
lisey's story---stephen king
perfume---patrick süskind
mrs. pigglewiggle---betsy macdonald
hello, mrs. pigglewiggle---betsy macdonald
mrs. pigglewiggle's farm---betsy macdonald
flow my tears, the policeman said---philip k dick
the lion, the witch and the wardrobe---c.s. lewis
the horse and his boy---c.s. lewis
the greedy bastard tour---eric idle
dave barry's bad habits---dave barry
son of a witch
heart-shaped box---joe hill
running with scissors---augusten burroughs
everything's eventual---stephen king
two dead girls---stephen king
the mouse on the mile---stephen king
coffey's hands---stephen king
the bad death of eduard delacroix---stephen king
night journey---stephen king
coffey on the mile---stephen king
the invaders plan---l. ron hubbard
black genesis---l. ron hubbard
a long way down
the book of lost things---john connolly
re-read of hbp (in preparation)
salmon of doubt---douglas adams
harry potter and the deathly hallows---rowling
fablehaven---brandon mull
harry potter and the deathly hallows---rowling
eragon---christopher paolini
harry potter and the chamber of secrets---rowling
harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban---rowling
gil's all fright diner by a. lee martinez
a nameless witch by a. lee martinez
harry potter and the goblet of fire---rowling
wicked: the life and times of the wicked witch of the west
harry potter and the order of the phoenix---rowling
harry potter and the half-blood prince---rowling
harry potter and the deathly hallows---rowling
four past midnight---stephen king
the tommyknockers---stephen king
a game of thrones---george r. r. martin
IT---stephen king
perfume---patrick süskind
the golden compass---phillip pullman
the subtle knife ---phillip pullman
the amber spyglass---phillip pullman
the unfortunate miss fortunes---i've already forgotten
battlefield earth---l. ron hubbard
black friday---james patterson
jack and jill---james patterson
re-read of eric idle's greedy bastard tour diary (i needed a laugh)
thr3e---ted dekker
twilight---stephenie meyer
the gunslinger---stephen king

thank bob for my reading regatta.

total so far for this year: 59

[Patrick]

It has never occurred to me to track the books I read over the course of a year. Cool idea, Sarah!

Here's what I can recall for 2007 in approximate reverse-chronological order. I've probably left something out.

I Am Legend
The Sandman, Volume IV: Season of Mists
Born Standing Up - Steve Martin
Diary - Palahniuk
A Clockwork Orange
Fragile Things
The Road
Lolita
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Blaze
The Sandman, Volume III: Dream Country
The Kite Runner
The Sandman, Volume II: The Doll's House
Three Cups of Tea
The Sandman, Volume I: Preludes and Nocturnes
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Paradise - Dante (still reading)
Purgatory - Dante
The Inferno - Dante
The Memory of Running
Invisible Monsters
Choke
McSweeny's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales
Dreamcatcher
Anansi Boys
American Gods
On the Road (the only re-read on the list)
20th Century Ghosts
Heart-Shaped Box
Carrie
Survivor
Cell
Assassination Vacation
The Book With No Name
Brother Odd
Lonesome Dove
Master and Commander



... Where The Wild Things Are and a ton of other children's books that I read to my kids.

[Ruthful]

The Year of Magical Thinking
It's Not About the Truth: The Untold Story of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case and the Lives It Shattered
Who Will Feed The Chickens, by Deanna Hart
Hannibal Rising
The Godfather
Infidel, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty
Everybody Hurts: An Essential Guide to Emo Culture-I never did finish that one

There are probably others I'm missing, although I like the idea of keeping track of them, which Sara brought up.

[Darkthoughts]

I keep updating mine - I'd forgotten about Running With Scissors 'til I saw it on your list SJ!

[Rjeso]

Oh, wow, I highly doubt I can remember all the books I've read in '07. I'll take a stab at it, though.

A Prayer for the Dying
Hitchhiker's Guide series
HP & The Deathly Hollows
HP & The Sorcerer's Stone
HP & The Chamber of Secrets
Open Season
Night Shift
Black House
The Talisman
Bag of Bones
The Regulators
Desperation
Return of the Native
The Mayor of Casterbridge
I Do (But I Don't)
DT 1-7
It
The Stand
The Hound and the Falcon trilogy
Little Women (I don't think I'll ever outgrow that book )
Anansi Boys
American Gods

That's all I can recall for now.

[Cutter]

Sadly, I record everything I read, because I review them.

Also this is very misleading. I can remember everything I’ve read, while everyone else can’t. Also this list is full of magazines, comics, chapbooks, audio books, and children’s books. So don’t even think these are all novels, there is a ton of short work in this list that might be only 20 pages or so.


Anyway 2007 so far:

Bev Vincent - The Road To The Dark Tower: Exploring Stephen King's Magnum Opus
John Crowley - An Earthly Mother Sits and Sings
Jack Ketchum & Edward Lee - Masks
Subterranean Magazine, Issue 2
Patrick Lestewka - Imprint
Jeffrey Ford - The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories
Neil Gaiman - Death: The Time of Your Life
Gary A. Braunbeck - Smiling Faces Sometimes
J.R.R. Tolkien - The Hobbit (BBC Audio Dramatization)
Terry Brooks - Elves of the Cintra
Joe Hill - Pop Art
Neil Gaiman - Stardust (Audio Book)
Akela Cooper - Tinder Box Blues
Ray Bradbury - R is for Rocket
Brian Freeman - Pulled into Darkness
Joe R. Lansdale - The Night They Missed The Horror Show (chapbook & audio cd)
Joe R. Lansdale - Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man's Back
Elizabeth Massie - A Little Magenta Book of Mean Stories
Dead Letters Press - Black Sunday
Richard Bachman - Blaze (Audio Book)
Canigila - As Dead As Leaves
Gary Braunbeck - In the Midnight Museum
James P. Blaylock - 13 Phantasms
Stephen King - Lisey's Story (Audio Book)
Ted Chiang - The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
Joe R. Lansdale - Red Range
Excitable Boys - Kelly Laymon (Editor)
Joe R. Lansdale - The Steel Valentine
Richard Laymon - The Halloween Mouse
Brian Keene - Ghoul
Geoff Cooper - Retribution, Inc.
Clark Ashton Smith - Red World of Polaris, The Adventures of Captain Volmar
Grave Tales, Issue 4
Tim Lebbon - Dead Man's Hand
William F. Nolan - Wild Galaxy
Mark McLaughlin - Pickman's Motel
Neil Gaiman - M is for Magic
The Gunslinger Born, Issues 1 to 7
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange (Audio Book)
Dan Simmons - Worlds Enough & Time
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
John Everson - Failure
Stephen King - Carrie (Audio Book)
Charles de Lint - Old Man Crow
Neil Gaiman - Eternals
Cinema Macabre - Edited by Mark Morris
Stephen King - Quitters, Inc. (Audio Book)
Douglas E. Winter - A Little Brass Book of Full Metal Fiction
Glen Hirshberg - Flowers on their Bridles, Hooves in the Air (novella + Audio cd)
Steven Erikson - The Lees of Laughter's End
Darkness Rising - The Rolling Darkness Review 2005 (Chapbook/Audio CD)
Neil Gaiman - Warning Contains Language (audio cd)
Charles de Lint - A Circle of Cats
Neil Gaiman - two plays for voices (audio cd)
Stephen King - The Dark Tower
Ray Bradbury - Dark Carnival & Groon Audio CD's
Stephen King - Bag of Bones (audio cd)
Ray Bradbury - Dark Carnival
John DeChancie - A Little Gray Book of Alien Stories
Stephen King's Creepshow
Tom Piccirilli - Frayed
A Casebook on The Stand - edited by Anthony Magistrale
Joe Hill - 20th Century Ghosts
Peter Straub - Ashputtle 9chapbook + audio cd)
William F. Nolan - Demon!
Stephen King - Blood and Smoke (audio cd)
Geoff Cooper, Brian Knight, Tim Lebbon & Brian Keene ...And Hell Followed with Them
Craig Shaw Gardner - A Little Purple Book of Peculiar Stories
Stephen King - The Song of Susannah
The Neil Gaiman Audio Collection (audio cd)
Neil Gaiman and Michael Zulli - The Last Temptation
tephen King - LT's Theory of Pets (audio cd)
Jack Ketchum & Tim Lebbon - Absinthe
Ray Bradbury - Samurai / Kabuki
Neil Gaiman & Dave McKean - Mr. Punch
George R.R. Martin - The Pear-Shaped Man
Terry Pratchett - The Colour of Magic
Ray Bradbury - The Cat's Pajamas: Stories + 5
Brian Keene - Take The Long Way Home
Thomas F. Monteleone - Fearful Symmetries
Realms of Fantasy Magazine, June 2007
Stephen King - From A Buick 8
Charles de Lint - A Handful of Coppers
Thomas F. Monteleone - A Little Brown Book of Bizarre Stories
George Beahm - Stephen King Collectibles
Neil Gaiman - Black Orchid
Neil Gaiman - Smoke and Mirrors
John Pelan - An Antique Vintage
John Urbancik & Brian Keene - The Rise and Fall of Babylon
Charles de Lint - The Dreaming Place
Bruce Spizer - The Beatles Solo on Apple Record
Douglas Clegg - Neverland
Charles de Lint - From a Whisper to a Scream
Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere
Joe R. Lansdale - Something Lumber This Way Comes
Dean Koontz - Christmas is Good
Thomas F. Monteleone - Between Floors
George R.R. Martin - A Clash of Kings
Neil Gaiman - Snow Glass Apples: A Play for Voices
Subterranean Magazine, Issue 6
Neil Gaiman - Death: The High Cost of Living
Paul S. Kemp - Resurrection
Stephen Baxter - Reality Dust
Glen Cook - A Shadow of All Night Falling
Neil Gaiman - Only the Gods are Real/An Incomplete Biography & The Christmas Booklet
Richard Bachman - The Regulators
Poppy Z. Brite - R.I.P. / Con Party at Hotel California
Gary A. Braunbeck - Graveyard People: The Collected Cedar Hill Stories, Volume 1
Neil Gaiman - The Absolute Sandman, Volume One
Robin Hobb - Forest Mage
Joe Hill - Better Than Home
Steven Erikson - House of Chains
George R.R. Martin - A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin - The Ice Dragon
Dark Discoveries - Magazine, Spring 2004
Neil Gaiman - On Cats & Dogs: Two Stories
harles de Lint - Dreams Underfoot

[NeedfulKings]

I've been keeping a list since 2005. Here is my '07 list so far.

The Book of a Thousand Sins by Wrath James White
Alarms by Richard Laymon
Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King
Messenger by Edward Lee
Every Dead Thing by John Connolly
The Familiar Stranger by Brett McBean
Love Lies Dying by Steve Gerlach
Bite by Richard Laymon
Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill
The Association by Bentley Little
Succulent Prey by Wrath James White
Feast of Love by Charles Baxter
Blue November Storms by Brian Freeman
Hunting Zoe by Steve Gerlach
Song of Susannah by Stephen King
The Dark Tower by Stephen King
1408 by Stephen King (short story)
Beware by Richard Laymon
Monstrosity by Edward Lee
Billy by Whitley Strieber
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
Live Girls by Ray Garton
The Long Walk by Richard Bachman
The Midnight Tour by Richard Laymon
Sleeping Beauty by Phillip Margolin
The Great Santini by Pat Conroy
Bitten by Kelly Armstrong
From a Buick 8 by Stephen King
All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich ReMarque *current read*

This is fun seeing what everyone's reading!!!

[Ruthful]

All Quiet on the Western Front is an amazing novel.

If you want to read something truly stunning you should try Johnny Got his Gun.

It's one of those works of fiction that really make you understand what Kafka meant when he defined what a book is.

Dalton Trumbo was a spectacular writer for a Commie.

[NeedfulKings]

All Quiet on the Western Front is an amazing novel.

If you want to read something truly stunning you should try Johnny Got his Gun.

It's one of those works of fiction that really make you understand what Kafka meant when he defined what a book is.

Dalton Trumbo was a spectacular writer for a Commie.

I'm enjoying it quite a bit. I'll keep my eye out for Johnny Got His Gun as well.

[Erin]

"All Quite on the Western Front" has always been one of my favorite books. It's so moving.

[Patrick]

"All Quiet on the Western Front" has always been one of my favorite books. It's so moving.

Great book! And soooo much better than that old movie.

[Storyslinger]

I'll agree with you on that Patrick

[Jimmy]

Fistful of Rain by Greg Rucks
Fear Nothing by Dean Koontz
Brother Odd by Dean Koontz
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Nightmares & Dreamscapes by Stephen King
Everything's Eventual by Stephen King
Skeleton Crew by Stephen King
Ghoul by Brian Keene
Off Season by Jack Ketchum
Kingdom Come by Mark Waid & Alex Ross
The Gutbucket Quest by Piers Anthony
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Eye Scream by Henry Rollins
Assorted Marvel & DC trade paperbacks
Sci-Fi short stories (currently reading)


That's a really pathetic list. I barely read anymore.

[Jean]

do we list only what we read for the first time, or re-reads, too?

[Brice]

both

[sarah]

do we list only what we read for the first time, or re-reads, too?

Jean, please make your list with both new books and rereads.

I'm curious to see what peoples rereads are as well. My rereads are usually the same books. ie: Harry Potter and The Dark Tower.


I think for 2008 I will actually make the list as I go so that I don't leave anything out.

[Brice]

-The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger (three times: original twice/revised once)
-The Dark Tower II: The Drawing Of The Three (twice)
-The Dark Tower III: The Wastelands (twice)
-The Dark Tower IV: Wizard & Glass (twice)
-You Suck-Christopher Moore
-On Bullshit-Harry G. Frankfurt
-Lords Of Chaos:The Bloody Rise Of The Satanic Metal Underground; Revised And Expanded Edition-Michael Moynihan and Didrik SØderlind
-Dim Mak: Death Point Striking-Erle Montaigue
-20th Century Ghosts-Joe Hill
-Boneland-Jeffrey Thomas
-Zombie Jam-David J. Schow
-Mid-Life Confidential: The Rock Bottom Remainders Tour America With Three Chords And An Attitude-Dave Barry,Ted Bartimus, Roy Blount, Jr., Michael Dorris, Robert Fulghum, Kathi Goldmark, Matt Groening, Stephen King, Barbara Kingsolver, Al Kooper, Greil Marcus, Dave Marsh, Ridley Pearson, Joel Selvin, & Amy Tan
-Silver Bullet-Stephen King
-Rose Madder-Stephen King
-Lisey's Story-Stephen King
-Dolores Claiborne-Stephen King
-Danse Macabre-Stephen King
-Blaze-Stephen King
-We're All In This Together-Owen King
-Joe Hill-Heart Shaped Box
-My Pretty Pony-Stephen King (twice)
-Fatu Hiva-Thor Heyerdahl
-666-Jay Anson
-The Kennedy Curse-Howard Klein
-Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories That Go Bump In The Night
-The Glass Teat-Harlan Ellison
-Ellison Wonderland-Harlan Ellison
-Gentleman Junkie-Harlan Ellison
-Fear-L. Ron Hubbard
-The Fog-James Herbert
-Eyes Of The Dragon-Stephen King
-Deathbird Stories-Harlan Ellison
-Harry Potter & The Deathly Hollows
-Creepshow-Stephen King
-The Girl Next Door-Jack Ketchum
-Red-Jack Ketchum
-Monstrosity-Edward Lee

[Jean]

Jean, please make your list with both new books and rereads.

I will try when I have a little time, but I don't even know how to start... I read 3 to 5 books a week, and about two thirds of the number is rereads.

[Darkthoughts]

Good one Maer - I think I'll keep a list in my diary next year, this has really made me think...I know I haven't got them all down.