What I've Read This Year (...so far)
Author - Title
Weisel - Night
Kevin Kerr - Unity [play]
Terry Pratchett - The Light Fantastic
Tennesse Williams - A Streetcar Named Desire [play]
Robert Cromier - The Chocolate War
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
Hallowell? - Listening to the Earth
Anton Checkov - The Cherry Orchard [play]
Terry Pratchett - Mort
Kathy Reichs - Monday Mourning
KH - The Kite Runner
Philip Pullman - The Golden Compass
Annie Proulx - The Shipping News
Philip Roth - The Human Stain
Philip Roth - The Anatomy Lesson
Ami McKay - The Birth House
Augusten Burroughs - Running With Scissors
Jack Kerouac - Vanity of Duluoz
Jack Kerouac - The Dharma Bums
Irene Nemirovsky - Suite Francaise
Plato - Meno
Eugine O'Neill - The Hairy Ape [play]
Plato - The Republic
Eugine O'Neill - Emporer Jones [play]
Harold Pinter - The Homecoming [play]
Wendy McLeod - The Water Children [play]
Erich Fromm - The Art of Loving
Kay Redfield Jamison - An Unquiet Mind
J.M. Barrie - Peter Pan
Sarte - The Humanism of Existentialism
Marx and Engles - The Communist Manifesto
James Simon Kunen - The Strawberry Statement
Alan Moore - Swamp Thing 4
Alan Moore - Swamp Thing 5
Alan Moore - Swamp Thing 6
Alan Moore - The League of Extraodinary Gentlemen 1
Alan Moore - The League of Extraodinary Gentlemen 2
Theodore Rosak - The Making of a Counter Culture
Jack Kerouac - On the Road
John Leland - Why Kerouac Matters: The Lessons of On The Road
I can't possibly comment on books written in 2007 since I don't often read new books. For me this will be about the various books I read this year. Also I will be giving top 3. possibly more. possibly less
1. Best book of 2007
#1 The Human Stain by Philip Roth
dug dug and DUG. Not only did I love it, but I continue to think about it and relate to it months and months after reading it and that is what pushes it above all the other fantastic books I read this year.
#2 The Vanity of Dulouz/Dharma Bums/On the Road by Jack Kerouac.
I can lump these because theyre all part of the same story... the Kerouac Story. On the Road I've read once before, but the other two were new.
#3The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
(Hosseini had a book come out this year, A Thousand Splendid Suns which I have and am sure is FANTASTIC. so that could maybe be the best book to come out this year, though I haven't read it yet)
2. Worst book of 2007
#1 The Water Children by Wendy McLeod
Or production of it was good... but did the text ever suck.
#2 Monday Mourning by Kathy Reichs
I read this because I like Bones. It was alright... not my kind of book.. too airport novelly
#3 Meno by Plato
Plato pissed me off with this one.
3. Book you anticipated the most that lived up to your expectations
#1. Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
4. Book you anticipated the most that completely failed
#1 Meno by Plato
5. Guilty Pleasure book you read in 2007
#1 Monday Mourning by Kathy Reichs
yup.
6. Most scholarly book you read in 2007
#1 The Making of a Counter Culture by Theodore Rosak
speeeectacular. dug.
#2 The Republic by Plato
better than Meno
#3 The Art of Loving Erich Fromm
love the Fromm
7. Book you STILL haven't read as of 2007
Shake Hands With the Devil by Roméo Dallaire
i really need to get on this.
8. Book you look forward to reading most in 2008
#1 Shake Hands With the Devil by Roméo Dallaire
#2 The Web and the Rock by Thomas Wolfe
well... the other half...
#3 all of my philosophy reading