Books Read in 2007

Monday July 16, 2007 in |

I’ll be updating this regularly as the year marches on. When I see similar lists on other sites I’m humbled by the amount of books that other people have read this year, although I’m secure in the knowledge that I’ve read 41 more books in 2007 than Victoria Beckham.

Novels

  1. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
  2. Winterwood by Patrick McCabe
  3. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
  4. At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
  5. Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
  6. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
  7. A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
  8. Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
  9. Titus Alone by Mervyn Peake
  10. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
  11. The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
  12. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
  13. The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson (Revish review)
  14. Restless by William Boyd (Revish review)
  15. The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld
  16. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  17. Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
  18. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  19. Everyman by Philip Roth
  20. Unless by Carol Shields
  21. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
  22. We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
  23. Tunnel Visions by Christopher Ross
  24. Falling Man by Don DeLillo
  25. No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
  26. A Curious Earth by Gerard Woodward
  27. In a Glass Darkly by Sheridan Le Fanu
  28. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
  29. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
  30. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
  31. Life Class by Pat Barker
  32. Gathering the Water by Robert Edric
  33. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
  34. The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene
  35. Engleby by Sebastian Faulks
  36. The End of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas
  37. If You Liked School, You’ll Love Work by Irvine Welsh
  38. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
  39. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
  40. Darkmans by Nicola Barker
  41. Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman

Short Stories

  1. Random Quest by John Wyndham
  2. Running Wolf by Algernon Blackwood
  3. The Haunted and the Haunters by Lord Lytton
  4. His Brother’s Keeper by W.W.Jacobs
  5. The Seventh Man by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
  6. The Inexperienced Ghost by H.G.Wells
  7. The Toll House by W.W.Jacobs
  8. The Squaw by Bram Stoker

And David Beckham as well altough you can probably include his LA Galaxy contract as a book with his favourite chapter being the one about how much he gets paid per week.

simon    Tuesday July 17, 2007   

There are so many books on your list that I can’t wait to read – On Chesil Beach for starters and Unless….so little time!

verbivore    Tuesday July 17, 2007   

I’m a slow reader and don’t get through all that many books each year—but it’s the quality of your reading that counts, right?

Dorothy W.    Tuesday July 17, 2007   

I think you can also rest safe in the knowledge that you’ve read a far better selection that Mrs. Beckham. I’m a fan of so many of these. A Clockwork Orange, Mervyn Peake’s brilliant trilogy (I love the way he utilizes the architecture of the building itself as the structure for his story), McCarthy, Waugh, and Roth. But my personal favorite, I suppose for sentimental reasons, is the Vonnegut. I think a lot of us have gone back to him this year to remind ourselves of what we lost. I do have a theory about Vonnegut, though, that your review went some way to verifying. In my experience, it’s always the first Vonnegut work one picks up that becomes one’s favorite. For most people it’s Slaughterhouse Five, since that’s the one most often taught in classrooms. For me, though – and it happened when I was 15 too – it was Deadeye Dick. I have never recovered, and that single work probably has more to do with the fact that I am now an English professor than any other influence.

cheap mobiles    Wednesday July 18, 2007   

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