2007 Reading List

My yearly goal is to read at least fifty-two books . . . some old, some new . . . some for the first time, some for the nth time . . . some good, some not so much.

  1. Dana Spiotta, Eat the Document
  2. W Somerset Maugham, The Razor’s Edge
  3. Stephen E Ambrose, Pegasus Bridge
  4. KJ Bishop, The Etched City
  5. Samuel R Delany, Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
  6. Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
  7. Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature
  8. Larry Brown, Father and Son
  9. Robert Olen Butler, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
  10. Alan Furst, The World at Night
  11. Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
  12. Alan Furst, Red Gold
  13. Christopher Sorrentino, Trance
  14. Mal Peet, Tamar
  15. Charles Portis, The Dog of the South
  16. Catherynne M Valente, The Orphan’s Tales: In the Night Garden
  17. Charles McCarry, The Last Supper
  18. Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
  19. Lawrence Durrell, Provence
  20. Edward Whittemore, Quin’s Shanghai Circus
  21. Larry Brown, The Rabbit Factory
  22. Iain M Banks, Use of Weapons
  23. Steph Swainston, The Year of Our War
  24. Iain M Banks, Consider Phlebas
  25. Michael Ondaatje, Divisadero
  26. John Burdett, Bangkok 8
  27. Iain M Banks, The Player of Games
  28. Peter Verhelst, Tonguecat
  29. Kenneth Fearing, The Big Clock
  30. Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
  31. Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
  32. Richard K Morgan, Altered Carbon
  33. Robert Olen Butler, On Distant Ground
  34. Edward Whittemore, Sinai Tapestry
  35. Edward Whittemore, Jerusalem Poker
  36. Denis Johnson, Tree of Smoke
  37. Steph Swainston, No Time Like Present
  38. Willingham, Buckingham, Leialoha, Allred, Pepoy, Fables Volume 9: Sons of Empire
  39. Willingham, Sturges, Akins, Pepoy, Jack of Fables Volume 1: The (Nearly) Great Escape
  40. Mario Vargas Llosa, The Feast of the Goat
  41. New Testament
  42. Edward Whittemore, Nile Shadows
  43. Eric Ambler, Cause for Alarm
  44. Matthews, Cariello, White, Cassaday, The Lone Ranger
  45. Charles McCarry, Second Sight
  46. Edward Whittemore, Jericho Mosaic
  47. John Crowley, The Solitudes
  48. David Marusek, Counting Heads
  49. Norman Mailer, Harlot’s Ghost
  50. Ronan Bennett, The Catastrophist
  51. Matthew Eck, The Farther Shore
  52. Ward Just, Forgetfulness
  53. Simon Ings, The Weight of Numbers
  54. Duane R Clarridge, Digby Diegl, A Spy For All Seasons: My Life in the CIA