2007 Reading List

Every year my goal is to read at least fifty-two books, the majority of them novels and new to me (with a few favourites thrown in for good measure).

* – indicates books I highly recommend (whether for great stories, great writing, or both).

  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. Various, 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