The Book Tower

As 2007 fizzles out, here’s my complete reading list for the year. I don’t think it’s a bad list, although it could have been a touch longer (especially non fiction!) Links to reviews are in brackets. Here’s to happy reading for all in 2008.

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
42. Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
43. The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
44. The October Country by Ray Bradbury
45. Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman
46. The Rain Before It Falls by Jonathan Coe
47. The Outsider by Albert Camus
48. Mr B. Gone by Clive Barker
49. The Late Hector Kipling by David Thewlis

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
9. The Treasure of Abbot Thomas by M.R.James

Non Fiction

1. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins