Reading list for 2007

[kangeiko]

As one of my NYR is to read fifty books (but I'd be happy with 30, given the way things are now), I'm compiling a list for the coming year.

1) Diary (Chuck Palahniuk) : ( review )
2) A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (Xiaolu Guo) : no review.
3) The Blind Assassin (Margaret Atwood) : ( review )
4) The Demolished Man (Alfred Bester) : ( review )
5) Memories of My Melancholy Whores (G. Garcia Marquez) : ( review )
6) The Origins of Virtue (Matt Ridley) : no review.
7) The Swallows of Kabul (Yasmina Khadra) : no review.
8) Tsotsi (Athol Fugard) : no review.
9) Fifty Degrees Below (Kim Stanley Robinson) : (review)
10) Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh (Mo Yan) : (review)
11) Giovanni's Room (James Baldwin) : no review.
12) Colony (Rob Grant) : no review.
13) Lady Susan (Jane Austen : no review.
14) Airframe (Michael Crichton) : no review.
15) This Thing of Darkness (Harry Thomson) : ( review )
16) The Crying of Lot 49 (Thomas Pynchon) : ( review )
17) Luck in the Shadows (Lynn Flewelling) : no review.
18) As Meat Loves Salt (Maria McGann) : ( review )
19) Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows (JK Rowling) : ( Review + pt. 2 )
20) ST: Constellations (Marco Palmieri) : no review.
21) Love (Toni Morrison) : ( review )
22) ST: Strange New Worlds 9(ed. Dean Wesley Smith) : no review.
23) A Cure for Gloom (ed. Meredith Weatherby) : no review.
24) Fragile Things (Neil Gaiman) : ( review )
25) Looking for Jake and Other Stories (China Mieville) : no review.
26) One Last Look (Susanna Moore) : ( review )
27) Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger) : ( review )
28) The God of Small Things(Arundhati Roy) : ( review )
29) The City and the Stars (Arthur C. Clarke) : ( review )
30) Good Omens (Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman) : no review.
31) My Life As Emperor (Su Tong) : ( review )
32) The Empty Chair (Diane Duane) : (review)
33) Islands of Tomorrow (F. M. Busby) : (review)
34) Scurvy (Stephen R. Bown) : ( review )
35) I, Claudius (Robert Graves) : ( review )
36) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick) : (review)
37) The Singularity Project (F.M. Busby) : (review)
38) The People's Act of Love (James Meek) : ( review )
39) The Kitchen God's Wife (Amy Tan) : (review)
40) ST: Strange New Worlds 10 (ed. Dean Wesley Smith) : no review.
41) Saving Fish From Drowning (Amy Tan) : (review)
42) Getting Home (F.M. Busby) : (review)
43) Good Bones (Margaret Atwood) : (review)
44) The Birthday of the World (Ursula Le Guin) : (review)
45) Quarantine (Jim Crace) : no review.
46) Black Juice (Margo Lanagan): no review.
47) Bleeding Hearts: Love Poems for the Nervous and Highly Strung (compiled by Michelle Lovrie) : no review.
48) The Stone Gods (Jeanette Winterson) : no review.
49) The Rules of Modern Policing: 1973 edition (DCI Gene Hunt): no review. Ordinarily I wouldn't include any tie-in books here, but this one was an actual book, with lots and lots of pages. So it counts. Yes. *g*
50) Angels and Insects (A.S. Byatt) : no review.


Any more f' any more? If I can reach that 50-book total, I'm totally buying myself something frivolous to celebrate...

Comments

[bluerosefairy.livejournal.com]

If you haven't read them, I have a few:

L.A. Confidential - James Ellroy
Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure - Jeff Shaara
The Secret Supper - Javier Sierra
Fragile Things (along with everything else) - Neil Gaiman

[kangeiko]

Thanks, I haven't read those - I've added them in...

[lilka.livejournal.com]

I'd recommend Carter Beats the Devil, by Glen David Gold. Magicians! Conspiricies! Period detail! Houdini! You can't go too far wrong with that.

[kangeiko]

You've sold me on it! *g* I've added it to the list, thank you!

[chrisleeoctaves.livejournal.com]

I am reading and reviewing books at books_and_food if you're interested. *g*

[kangeiko]

Cool, thanks! I'll look you up there. :)