Books of 2007
I'm well down on reading this year compared to last - I blame
spike1972!
Top 10
Last year I had trouble limiting myself to 10, this year I'm having trouble getting to 10 but, after thinking, and giving my last book of the year a chance, I think I'll go with:
Dangerous Sports Euthanasia Society - Christine Coleman
Travels with a Tangerine - Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
The Fourth Bear - Jasper fforde
Two Lives - Vikram Seth
Fingersmith - Sarah Walters
Blue Latitudes - Tony Horowitz
Providence II - Ian Stephen
Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K Jerome
The Key
These books are linked to their JEs - hope the link works from here.
These books were lent to me by non-bookcrossers (or by naughty bookcrossers who haven't registered them).
These books are ones I've not got round to registering (slaps own wrist)!
(R) indicates a re-read.
The List
1. Tulip Fever - Deborah Moggach
2. The Apothecary's Daughter - Patricia Schonstein
3. The Memory Palace - Christie Dickason
4. Beat Depression & Reclaim your Life - Alexandra Massey (R) - parts of it anyway
5. Romanitas - Sophia McDougall
6. The School for Husbands - Wendy Holden
7. Surely You're Joking Mr Feynmann! - Richard Feynmann
8. Euripedes' Hecuba - Frank McGuinness
9. Ex Libris - Ross King
10. Toppling Miss April - Adrienne Dines
11. The Crowded Bed - Mary Cavanagh
12. Stage by Stage - Jan Jones
13. The Dangerous Sports Euthanasia Society - Christine Coleman
14. Pond Lane & Paris - Susie Vereker
15. Coast to Coast - Jan Minshull
16. Travels with a Tangerine - Tim Mackintosh-Smith
17. Agatha Raisin & the Quiche of Death - M C Beaton
18. Blue Shoes & Happiness - Alexander McCall Smith
19. The Well of Loneliness - Radclyffe Hall
20. Hidden Words - Spike Milligan
21. Brown Owl's Guide to Life - Kate Harrison
22. Startled by His Furry Shorts - Louise Rennison
23. Let the Snog Fest Begin - Louise Rennison
24. Maverick - Ricardo Semler
25. Girl With a One Track Mind - Abby Lee
26. Scepticism Inc. - Bo Fowler
27. The Sixpenny Debt - Various
28. Animal Farm - George Orwell (R)
29. (un)Arranged Marriage - Bali Rai
30. Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage - MC Beaton
31. Agatha Raisin and the Terrible tourist - MC Beaton
32. Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
33. My Sister's Keeper - Jodie Picoult
34. Do it Tomorrow - Mark Forster
35. Last Chance to See - Douglas Adams
36. Blue Latitudes - Tony Horowitz
37. Urban Etiquette - Charles Purdy
38. Love - Pablo Neruda (R) - not that this is my copy, but I have a PC one
39. Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
40. The Alchemy of Desire - Tarun Tejpal
41. A Spot of Bother - Mark Haddon
42. East of Eden - John Steinbeck (R?)
43. The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
44. Cats Eye - Margaret Atwood (R)
45. Around the World in Eighty Martinis - Gustav Temple, Vic Darkwood
46. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
47. Midnight - Jaqueline Wilson
48. Valhalla - Tom Holt
49. A Lifetime Burning - Linda Gillard
50. Clones to the Left of Me - Leonie Smith
51. West End Girls - Jenny Colgan
52. The Scent of Water - Alison Hoblyn
53. When the Emperor was Divine - Julie Otsuka
54. Pompeii - Robert Harris (R)
55. Strong Poison - Dorothy L Sayers
56. Tuesday Nights at the Kasbah - Patricia Kitchin
57. Penguins Stopped Play - Harry Thompson
58. Dangerous Lady - Martina Cole
59. 84 Charing Cross Road - Helene Hanff
60. The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street - Helene Hanff
61. Thinking in Pictures - Temple Grandin
62. Paperweight - Stephen Fry
63. Double Act - Jacqueline Wilson
64. The Mirror of Ink - Jorge Louis Borges
65. The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai
66. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
67. A Place called Here - Celia Ahern
68. The Burglar who liked to Quote Kipling - Lawrence Block
69. Chocolate: The Consuming Passion - Sandra Boynton
70. George & Sam - Charlotte Moore
71. Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury
72. Verse & Worse - Arnold Silcock
73. Digging up Donald - Steven Pirie
74. First Among Sequels - Jasper Fforde - signed copy - you'll have to be *very* nice to me to borrow it ;o)
75. Accomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary - Vivian Cook
76. Here Comes the Sun - Tom Holt
77. Odds and Gods - Tom Holt
78. The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullogugh (R)
79. Ginger, You're Barmy - David Lodge
80. The Fourth Bear - Jasper Fforde
81. Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows - J. K. Rowling
82. The Other Side of You - Sally Vickers
83. The Bugatti Queen - Miranda Seymour
84. A Life Stripped Bare - Leo Hickman
85. Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
86. The Blitzed Brits - Terry Deary
87. The Barmy British Empire - Terry Deary
88. Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
89. The Jigsaw Maker - Adrienne Dines
90. The Rough Guide to Devon & Cornwall - Rob Andrews (ed) (R)
91. Mapp & Lucia - E.F. Benson
92. Lucia Triumphant - Tom Holt
93. When we were Orphans - Kazuo Ishiguro
94. It's your Time You're Wasting - Frank Chalk
95. Unless - Carol Shields
96. Eden - Tim Smit
97. The No A**hole Rule - Robert Sutton
98. Lost in Translation - Charlie Croker
99. The Love Almanac
100. A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett (R)
101. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (R)
102. The City of Falling Angels - John Berendt
103. This Book Will Change Your Life - A. M. Homes
104. The Complete Erotica
105. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
106. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
107. Dirt in the Well - Linda Lyon
108. The Good Body - Eve Ensler
109. The Robber Bride - Margaret Atwood
110. Rebuilding Coventry - Sue Townsend
111. Paperback Raita - William Rhode
112. Between You & I - James Cochrane
113. Scorn - Matthew Parris
114. Paddy Indian - Cauvery Madhavan
115. Little Green Men - Christopher Buckley
116. The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins (R)
117. The Far Pavilions - M.M. Kaye
118. Faster - James Gleick
119. The Box of Delights - John Masefield
120. The Lifted Veil - George Eliot
121. Stormbreaker - Anthony Horowitz
122. Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
123. Fasting, Feasting - Anita Desai
124. Autobiography of a Geisha - Sayo Masuda
125. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh (R)
126. jPod - Douglas Coupland
127. Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K Jerome
128. I Hate Other Peoples' Kids - Adrianne Frost
129. Lord of the Flies - William Golding (R)
130. Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
131. The Stranger - Albert Camus
132. Providence II - Ian Stephen
133. The Trial - Franz Kafka
134. Goodnight Mr Tom - Michelle Magorian
135. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
136. Going Back - Penelope Lively
137. Quick Fixes - Anne Willan
138. Varying States of Grace - Ian Stephen
139. Married Love - Marie Stopes
140. Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
141. The Diary of a Nobody - George & Weedon Grossmith
142. Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
143. No Mean City - A McArthur & H Kingsley Long
144. How late it was, how late - James Kelman
145. Don'ts for Wives - Blanche Ebbutt
146. Wrong about Japan - Peter Carey
147. Two Lives - Vikram Seth
148. The Hours - Michael Cunningham
149. Winnie the Pooh - A A Milne (R)
150. The House at Pooh Corner - AA Milne (R)
151. When we were very Young - A A Milne (R)
152. Now we are Six - A A Milne (R)
153. Further Under the Duvet - Marian Keyes
154. The Last Temptation - Nikos Kazantzakis
155. Little Miss Bossy - Roger Hargreaves
156. Little Miss Giggles - Roger Hargreaves
157. Preventing Exclusions - Adam Abdelnoor
Audiobooks
1. Life Lines - Poets for Oxfam
2. Gaudy Night - Dorothy L. Sayers
3. Lovers & Liars - Josephine Cox
4. The Twits - Roald Dahl
5. George's Marvellous Medecine - Roald Dahl
6. Matilda - Roald Dahl
7. Danny Champion of the World - Roald Dahl
8. The BFG - Roald Dahl
9. Fantastic Mr Fox & Other Animal Stories - Roald Dahl
10. James & the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl
11. Charlie & the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dhal
12. Charlie & the Great Glass Elevator - Roald Dhal
14. The Tale of Peter Rabbit - Beatrix Potter
15. The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin- Beatrix Potter
16. The Tailor of Gloucester- Beatrix Potter
17. The Tale of Benjamin Bunny - Beatrix Potter
18. The Tale of Two Bad Mice - Beatrix Potter
19. The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle - Beatrix Potter
20. The Tale of Mr Jeremy Fisher - Beatrix Potter
21. The Tale of Tom Kitten - Beatrix Potter
22. The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck - Beatrix Potter
23. The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies - Beatrix Potter
24. The Tale of Mrs Tilttlemouse - Beatrix Potter
25. The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes - Beatrix Potter
26. The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse- Beatrix Potter
27. The Tale of Mr Tod - Beatrix Potter
28. The Tale of Pigling Bland - Beatrix Potter
29. The Tale of Samuel Whiskers - Beatrix Potter
30. The Tale of the Pie & the Patty Pan - Beatrix Potter
31. The Tale of Ginger & Pickles - Beatrix Potter
32. The Tale of Little Pig Robinson - Beatrix Potter
33. The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit - Beatrix Potter
34. The Story of Miss Moppet - Beatrix Potter
35. Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes - Beatrix Potter
36. Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes - Beatrix Potter
37. The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy (R)
38. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen (R)
39. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte(R)
40. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (R)
41. Middlemarch - George Eliot (R)
42. Crime & Punishment - Fydor Dostoevsky (R)
43. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (R)
If this works as planned, I'll move the 2006 list to here from my BC bookshelf, as it is getting a little unmanageable!
spike1972!
Top 10
Last year I had trouble limiting myself to 10, this year I'm having trouble getting to 10 but, after thinking, and giving my last book of the year a chance, I think I'll go with:
Dangerous Sports Euthanasia Society - Christine Coleman
Travels with a Tangerine - Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
The Fourth Bear - Jasper fforde
Two Lives - Vikram Seth
Fingersmith - Sarah Walters
Blue Latitudes - Tony Horowitz
Providence II - Ian Stephen
Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K Jerome
The Key
These books are linked to their JEs - hope the link works from here.
These books were lent to me by non-bookcrossers (or by naughty bookcrossers who haven't registered them).
These books are ones I've not got round to registering (slaps own wrist)!
(R) indicates a re-read.
The List
1. Tulip Fever - Deborah Moggach
2. The Apothecary's Daughter - Patricia Schonstein
3. The Memory Palace - Christie Dickason
4. Beat Depression & Reclaim your Life - Alexandra Massey (R) - parts of it anyway
5. Romanitas - Sophia McDougall
6. The School for Husbands - Wendy Holden
7. Surely You're Joking Mr Feynmann! - Richard Feynmann
8. Euripedes' Hecuba - Frank McGuinness
9. Ex Libris - Ross King
10. Toppling Miss April - Adrienne Dines
11. The Crowded Bed - Mary Cavanagh
12. Stage by Stage - Jan Jones
13. The Dangerous Sports Euthanasia Society - Christine Coleman
14. Pond Lane & Paris - Susie Vereker
15. Coast to Coast - Jan Minshull
16. Travels with a Tangerine - Tim Mackintosh-Smith
17. Agatha Raisin & the Quiche of Death - M C Beaton
18. Blue Shoes & Happiness - Alexander McCall Smith
19. The Well of Loneliness - Radclyffe Hall
20. Hidden Words - Spike Milligan
21. Brown Owl's Guide to Life - Kate Harrison
22. Startled by His Furry Shorts - Louise Rennison
23. Let the Snog Fest Begin - Louise Rennison
24. Maverick - Ricardo Semler
25. Girl With a One Track Mind - Abby Lee
26. Scepticism Inc. - Bo Fowler
27. The Sixpenny Debt - Various
28. Animal Farm - George Orwell (R)
29. (un)Arranged Marriage - Bali Rai
30. Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage - MC Beaton
31. Agatha Raisin and the Terrible tourist - MC Beaton
32. Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
33. My Sister's Keeper - Jodie Picoult
34. Do it Tomorrow - Mark Forster
35. Last Chance to See - Douglas Adams
36. Blue Latitudes - Tony Horowitz
37. Urban Etiquette - Charles Purdy
38. Love - Pablo Neruda (R) - not that this is my copy, but I have a PC one
39. Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
40. The Alchemy of Desire - Tarun Tejpal
41. A Spot of Bother - Mark Haddon
42. East of Eden - John Steinbeck (R?)
43. The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
44. Cats Eye - Margaret Atwood (R)
45. Around the World in Eighty Martinis - Gustav Temple, Vic Darkwood
46. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
47. Midnight - Jaqueline Wilson
48. Valhalla - Tom Holt
49. A Lifetime Burning - Linda Gillard
50. Clones to the Left of Me - Leonie Smith
51. West End Girls - Jenny Colgan
52. The Scent of Water - Alison Hoblyn
53. When the Emperor was Divine - Julie Otsuka
54. Pompeii - Robert Harris (R)
55. Strong Poison - Dorothy L Sayers
56. Tuesday Nights at the Kasbah - Patricia Kitchin
57. Penguins Stopped Play - Harry Thompson
58. Dangerous Lady - Martina Cole
59. 84 Charing Cross Road - Helene Hanff
60. The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street - Helene Hanff
61. Thinking in Pictures - Temple Grandin
62. Paperweight - Stephen Fry
63. Double Act - Jacqueline Wilson
64. The Mirror of Ink - Jorge Louis Borges
65. The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai
66. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
67. A Place called Here - Celia Ahern
68. The Burglar who liked to Quote Kipling - Lawrence Block
69. Chocolate: The Consuming Passion - Sandra Boynton
70. George & Sam - Charlotte Moore
71. Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury
72. Verse & Worse - Arnold Silcock
73. Digging up Donald - Steven Pirie
74. First Among Sequels - Jasper Fforde - signed copy - you'll have to be *very* nice to me to borrow it ;o)
75. Accomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary - Vivian Cook
76. Here Comes the Sun - Tom Holt
77. Odds and Gods - Tom Holt
78. The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullogugh (R)
79. Ginger, You're Barmy - David Lodge
80. The Fourth Bear - Jasper Fforde
81. Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows - J. K. Rowling
82. The Other Side of You - Sally Vickers
83. The Bugatti Queen - Miranda Seymour
84. A Life Stripped Bare - Leo Hickman
85. Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
86. The Blitzed Brits - Terry Deary
87. The Barmy British Empire - Terry Deary
88. Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
89. The Jigsaw Maker - Adrienne Dines
90. The Rough Guide to Devon & Cornwall - Rob Andrews (ed) (R)
91. Mapp & Lucia - E.F. Benson
92. Lucia Triumphant - Tom Holt
93. When we were Orphans - Kazuo Ishiguro
94. It's your Time You're Wasting - Frank Chalk
95. Unless - Carol Shields
96. Eden - Tim Smit
97. The No A**hole Rule - Robert Sutton
98. Lost in Translation - Charlie Croker
99. The Love Almanac
100. A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett (R)
101. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (R)
102. The City of Falling Angels - John Berendt
103. This Book Will Change Your Life - A. M. Homes
104. The Complete Erotica
105. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
106. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
107. Dirt in the Well - Linda Lyon
108. The Good Body - Eve Ensler
109. The Robber Bride - Margaret Atwood
110. Rebuilding Coventry - Sue Townsend
111. Paperback Raita - William Rhode
112. Between You & I - James Cochrane
113. Scorn - Matthew Parris
114. Paddy Indian - Cauvery Madhavan
115. Little Green Men - Christopher Buckley
116. The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins (R)
117. The Far Pavilions - M.M. Kaye
118. Faster - James Gleick
119. The Box of Delights - John Masefield
120. The Lifted Veil - George Eliot
121. Stormbreaker - Anthony Horowitz
122. Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
123. Fasting, Feasting - Anita Desai
124. Autobiography of a Geisha - Sayo Masuda
125. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh (R)
126. jPod - Douglas Coupland
127. Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K Jerome
128. I Hate Other Peoples' Kids - Adrianne Frost
129. Lord of the Flies - William Golding (R)
130. Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
131. The Stranger - Albert Camus
132. Providence II - Ian Stephen
133. The Trial - Franz Kafka
134. Goodnight Mr Tom - Michelle Magorian
135. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
136. Going Back - Penelope Lively
137. Quick Fixes - Anne Willan
138. Varying States of Grace - Ian Stephen
139. Married Love - Marie Stopes
140. Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
141. The Diary of a Nobody - George & Weedon Grossmith
142. Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
143. No Mean City - A McArthur & H Kingsley Long
144. How late it was, how late - James Kelman
145. Don'ts for Wives - Blanche Ebbutt
146. Wrong about Japan - Peter Carey
147. Two Lives - Vikram Seth
148. The Hours - Michael Cunningham
149. Winnie the Pooh - A A Milne (R)
150. The House at Pooh Corner - AA Milne (R)
151. When we were very Young - A A Milne (R)
152. Now we are Six - A A Milne (R)
153. Further Under the Duvet - Marian Keyes
154. The Last Temptation - Nikos Kazantzakis
155. Little Miss Bossy - Roger Hargreaves
156. Little Miss Giggles - Roger Hargreaves
157. Preventing Exclusions - Adam Abdelnoor
Audiobooks
1. Life Lines - Poets for Oxfam
2. Gaudy Night - Dorothy L. Sayers
3. Lovers & Liars - Josephine Cox
4. The Twits - Roald Dahl
5. George's Marvellous Medecine - Roald Dahl
6. Matilda - Roald Dahl
7. Danny Champion of the World - Roald Dahl
8. The BFG - Roald Dahl
9. Fantastic Mr Fox & Other Animal Stories - Roald Dahl
10. James & the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl
11. Charlie & the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dhal
12. Charlie & the Great Glass Elevator - Roald Dhal
14. The Tale of Peter Rabbit - Beatrix Potter
15. The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin- Beatrix Potter
16. The Tailor of Gloucester- Beatrix Potter
17. The Tale of Benjamin Bunny - Beatrix Potter
18. The Tale of Two Bad Mice - Beatrix Potter
19. The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle - Beatrix Potter
20. The Tale of Mr Jeremy Fisher - Beatrix Potter
21. The Tale of Tom Kitten - Beatrix Potter
22. The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck - Beatrix Potter
23. The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies - Beatrix Potter
24. The Tale of Mrs Tilttlemouse - Beatrix Potter
25. The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes - Beatrix Potter
26. The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse- Beatrix Potter
27. The Tale of Mr Tod - Beatrix Potter
28. The Tale of Pigling Bland - Beatrix Potter
29. The Tale of Samuel Whiskers - Beatrix Potter
30. The Tale of the Pie & the Patty Pan - Beatrix Potter
31. The Tale of Ginger & Pickles - Beatrix Potter
32. The Tale of Little Pig Robinson - Beatrix Potter
33. The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit - Beatrix Potter
34. The Story of Miss Moppet - Beatrix Potter
35. Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes - Beatrix Potter
36. Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes - Beatrix Potter
37. The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy (R)
38. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen (R)
39. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte(R)
40. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (R)
41. Middlemarch - George Eliot (R)
42. Crime & Punishment - Fydor Dostoevsky (R)
43. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (R)
If this works as planned, I'll move the 2006 list to here from my BC bookshelf, as it is getting a little unmanageable!