The Book Tower

So onto my pick of the older books I’ve enjoyed in the last year, where I’ve made a point of reading several authors I’ve always had in the back of my mind. The most prominent of these was probably Mervyn Peake, and I managed to complete the whole of the Gormenghast trilogy early in the year. I also made a point of catching up with Graham Greene. The other two authors I read several books by were both new to me – Cormac McCarthy and Neil Gaiman. Two writers who couldn’t be more different, but there’s diversity for you.

My non-new favourites of 2007, in no particular order:

• Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake (although to be brutally honest, I can give or take part three)
• No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
• Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman
• Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
• The Outsider by Albert Camus
• In a Glass Darkly by Sheridan Le Fanu