Books 2007
A list of the books I’ve read this year:
81. Runaway by Alice Munro
80. Eating for England: The Delights & Eccentricities of the British at Table by Nigel Slater
79. The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud
78. The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor and Privacy on the Internet by Daniel J. Solove
77. Mother’s Milk by Edward St Aubyn
76. Famous Last Words by Timothy Findlay
75. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
74. The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
73. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
72. In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar
71. Ja, Man, No by Richard Poplak
70. The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro
69. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
68. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
67. Strange Nervous Laughter by Bridget McNulty
66. 28 Stories of AIDS by Stephanie Nolen
65. Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
64. Babylon’s Ark by Lawrence Anthony
63. Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips
62. The Ghost by Robert Harris
61. Darkmans by Nicola Barker
60. Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
59. The Saffron Kitchen by Jasmine Crowther
58. The Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers
57. Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith
56. C: Because Cowards Get Cancer Too by John Diamond
55. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
54. The Witch of Portobello by Paul Coelho
53. The State of the Union by Douglas Kennedy
52. A Special Relationship by Douglas Kennedy
51. Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
50. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
49. The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld
48. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
47. Two Lives by Vikram Seth
46. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
45. One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson
44. What Came Before He Shot Her by Elizabeth George
43. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walsh
42. The Ice Storm by Rick Moody
41. Stolen Time by Sunny Jacobs
40. Interesting Women by Andrea Lee
39. A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut
38. Ten Big Ones by Janet Evanovich
37. When a Crocodile Eats the Sun by Peter Godwin
36. The Castle in the Forest by Norman Mailer
35. Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
34. The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver
33. The Season of the Witch by Natasha Mostert
32. The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman
31. Freakonomics by Levitt and Dubner
30. The Virgin’s Lover by Phillipa Gregory
29. To the Nines by Janet Evanovich
28. Hard Eight by Janet Evanovich
27. Empire Falls by Richard Russo
26. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
25. Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
24. Seven Up by Janet Evanovich
23. Words Without Borders: The World Through the Eyes of Writers
22. Three Junes by Julia Glass
21. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
20. The Piano Man’s Daughter by Timothy Findley
19. Hot Six by Janet Evanovich
18. High Five by Janet Evanovich
17. Slow Man by JM Coetzee
16. The Dark Room by Minette Walters
15. The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
14. Julie and Julia by Julie Powell
13. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
12. Four to Score by Janet Evanovich
11. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
10. Three to Get Deadly by Janet Evanovich
9. Two For the Dough by Janet Evanovich
8. One For the Money by Janet Evanovich
7. Who Moved My Blackberry? Martin Lukes with Lucy Kellaway
6. Istanbul: Memories of a City by Orhan Pamuk.
5. Eleven on Top by Janet Evanovich
4. The Boleyn Inheritance by Phillippa Gregory.
3. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert.
2. Cook with Jamie: My Guide to Making You a Better Cook by Jamie Oliver. I love to read cookbooks and this was my favourite Christmas present, which I’ve read cover to cover and am now cooking from.
1. Talk Talk by TC Boyle. OK, I read this between Christmas and New Year, but I’m still chewing it over, so it’s counting for 2007.
This is a great list so far! I look forward to reading about what you read the rest of the year.
Love to read other’s book lists. Clearly the year of Evanovich for you! What an interesting combo tho - from Evanovich to Coetzee throw in a bit of classic Tolstoy and Flaubert …
Hi Charlotte,
My apologies for getting in touch with you ages after we last saw each other.
Would love to catch up with you sometime. I’ll send your hubby my number.
I continue to love reading your blog.
All the best,
Teara (now Kuhn)
Wow, this is impressive. I need to read more of your reviews…
I’ve read RYE MURAKAMI
this year, I like this modern Japanese writer very much.
As far as modern Japanese writers you should really look into Haruki Murakami, I find him much more entertaining with his like-named Ryu or Ryo (I forget) Murakami. As two sidenotes, this is my first time reading this entertaining blog and secondly I get to hear Thomas Friedman lecture in October.
I’m very excited.
What did you think of the Julie Powell book? I ask not because of my name but because I read her blog for a bit and enjoyed it, and haven’t had a chance to browse through the book yet.
Hey Charlotte!! I’m noticing from the list of what you’ve read so far this year that you and I have very similar taste in our reading…am I surprised? No, not really!!
Wow, what a great list. I find it takes me nearly a month to read a full novel. Mind you I do have to read other books at the same time for research and sometimes for reviews but wow! Bravo to you. I’ve read a few of these on your list (The Piano Man’s Daughter, Glass Castle, The Kite Runner, Memory Keeper’s Daughter) and see a few that I plan to read (eg: A Thousand Splendid Sun’s). Have you read “Three Cups of Tea”? From reading your blog, I feel this would be a book you’d definitely enjoy.
Diane
Sand to Glass
please add me to your blogroll, we can exchange reading recommendations!