Books Read in 2007: The Final List
Sunday December 30, 2007 in books read 2007 |
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
- The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
- Winterwood by Patrick McCabe
- Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
- At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
- Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
- Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
- Titus Alone by Mervyn Peake
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
- On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
- The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson (Revish review)
- Restless by William Boyd (Revish review)
- The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld
- Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- Everyman by Philip Roth
- Unless by Carol Shields
- Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
- We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
- Tunnel Visions by Christopher Ross
- Falling Man by Don DeLillo
- No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
- A Curious Earth by Gerard Woodward
- In a Glass Darkly by Sheridan Le Fanu
- The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
- All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
- Life Class by Pat Barker
- Gathering the Water by Robert Edric
- The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
- The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene
- Engleby by Sebastian Faulks
- The End of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas
- If You Liked School, You’ll Love Work by Irvine Welsh
- The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
- Darkmans by Nicola Barker
- Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman
- Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
- The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
- The October Country by Ray Bradbury
- Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman
- The Rain Before It Falls by Jonathan Coe
- The Outsider by Albert Camus
- Mr B. Gone by Clive Barker
- The Late Hector Kipling by David Thewlis
Short Stories
- Random Quest by John Wyndham
- Running Wolf by Algernon Blackwood
- The Haunted and the Haunters by Lord Lytton
- His Brother’s Keeper by W.W.Jacobs
- The Seventh Man by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
- The Inexperienced Ghost by H.G.Wells
- The Toll House by W.W.Jacobs
- The Squaw by Bram Stoker
- The Treasure of Abbot Thomas by M.R.James
Non Fiction
- The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins