In 2007, I read a few books.
January
Kalen Delaney, Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: The Storage Engine.
Itzik Ben-Gan, Lubor Kollar and Dejan Sarka, Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: T-SQL Querying.
Itzik Ben-Gan, Dejan Sarka and Roger Wolter, Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: T-SQL Programming.
Jill Grady, Cannon Beach Cottages.
Helen Divjak, Images of America: Seattle's Fremont.
Adam Nicolson, God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible.
Scott Huler, Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale, and How a Nineteenth-Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry.
Max Brooks, The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection From the Living Dead.
February
Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War.
Michael Kluckner, Vanishing British Columbia.
Mark Kurlansky, Salt: A World History.
Scott Ambler and Pramod Sadalage, Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design.
Stephen Pincock, Codebreaker: The History of Codes and Ciphers, From the Ancient Pharoahs to Quantum Cryptography.
Martin Limón, Jade Lady Burning.
Kai Meyer, The Water Mirror.
Jonathan Carroll, Bones of the Moon.
David Platt, Why Software Sucks... And What You Can Do About It.
David Stravitz, New York, Empire City: 1920-1945.
Dolores Hayden, A Field Guide to Sprawl.
Kai Meyer, The Stone Light.
March
Richard Gerber, Aart Bik, Kevin Smith and Xinmin Tian, The Software Optimization Cookbook: High-Performance Recipes for IA-32 Platforms.
China Miéville, Un Lun Dun.
Justine Larbalestier, Magic or Madness.
Neil Parkyn, Superstructures.
Fabian Pascal, Practical Issues in Database Management: A Reference For the Thinking Practitioner.
Justine Larbalestier, Magic Lessons.
Edward Melomed, Irina Gorbach, Alexander Berger and Py Bateman, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services.
Scott Adams, Try Rebooting Yourself.
April
Justine Larbalestier, Magic's Child.
Stephen Prothero, Religious Literacy.
Raymond Chen, The Old New Thing.
Max Cannon, Red Meat Gold.
Bill Wagner, Effective C#.
Matt Groening, Will and Abe's Guide to the Universe.
Jim Couper: The Long and Winding Road: Discovering the Pleasures and Treasures of Highway 97.
May
Victor Klemperer, I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years 1933-1941.
Darby Conley, Loserpalooza.
Victor Klemperer, I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years 1942-1945.
Winifred Gallagher, House Thinking: A Room-by-Room Look at How We Live.
Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Spirits That Walk in Shadow.
Harvey Manning, Walking the Beach to Bellingham.
June
Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking.
Julie Kenner, California Demon.
Nina Kiriki Hoffman, The Silent Strength of Stones.
Ayun Halliday, Job Hopper: The Checkered Career of a Down-Market Dilettante.
Ruth Reichl, Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise.
Kenneth Alford, Great Treasure Stories of World War II.
Kathe Koja, Going Under.
Liza Picard, Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London.
Livio Sacchi, Tokyo: City and Architecture.
July
Ken Pugh, Interface-Oriented Design.
Sheri S. Tepper, The Margarets.
Douglas Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop.
C. J. Date, Database In Depth: Relational Theory For Practitioners.
Alexander Galloway, Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization.
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Dan Simmons, The Terror.
Louise Nicholson, London Rediscovered.
August
Andy Oram and Greg Wilson (ed), Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think.
Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason.
Greg Bear, Quantico.
Michael Lesy, Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties.
Patricia Wrede and Caroline Stevermer, The Mislaid Magician, or Ten Years After: Being the Private Correspondence Between Two Prominent Families Regarding a Scandal Touching the Highest Levels of Government and the Security of the Realm.
Geoff Ryman, Was.
Arnold Schwartzman, Deco Landmarks: Art Deco Gems of Los Angeles.
Paul Fotsch, Watching the Traffic Go By: Transportation and Isolation in Urban America.
September
Patrick McDonnell, Animal Friendly.
Donald Albrecht, The Mythic City: Photographs of New York by Samuel H. Gottscho, 1925-1940.
Huston Smith, The Illustrated World's Religions: A Guide to Our Wisdom Traditions.
Len Fisher, How to Dunk a Doughnut: The Science of Everyday Life.
Jane Jacobs, Dark Age Ahead.
Alan Weisman, The World Without Us.
Charles de Lint, Widdershins.
Spalding Gray, Morning, Noon and Night.
John Poppeliers and S. Allen Chambers, What Style Is It? A Guide to American Architecture.
Lorraine Diehl, Subways: The Tracks That Built New York City.
Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Catalyst.
October
Robert Bruegmann, Sprawl: A Compact History.
Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg, Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex?: More Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Whiskey Sour.
Harold McGee, On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen.
November
William McDonough and Michael Braungart, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things.
Linda Leigh Paul, Coastal Retreats: The Pacific Northwest and the Architecture of Adventure.
Jerilou Hammett and Kingsley Hammett (ed), The Suburbanization of New York: Is the World's Greatest City Becoming Just Another Town?.
Andy Riley, Loads More Lies to Tell Small Kids.
Eva Figes, Tales of Innocence and Experience: An Exploration.
Christopher Moore, Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story.
Christopher Moore, You Suck: A Love Story.
December
Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Henry Petroski, Design Paradigms: Case Histories of Error and Judgment in Engineering.
Lloyd Kaufman and James Gunn, All I Need to Know About Filmmaking I Learned From The Toxic Avenger: The Shocking True Story of Troma Studios.
Marjane Satrapi, Chicken With Plums.
Giles Morton, Samurai William: The Adventurer Who Unlocked Japan.
Jack Larkin, Where We Lived: Discovering the Places We Once Called Home: The American Home From 1775 to 1840.
Dan Ramsey, The Home Owner's Manual: Operating Instructions, Troubleshooting Tips, and Advice on System Maintenance.
Lisa Tuttle, The Pillow Friend.
Peter Ackroyd, The Lambs of London.
Patricia Carlon, Crime of Silence.
Robert and Ellen Kaplan, The Art of the Infinite: The Pleasures of Mathematics.
Kalen Delaney, Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: The Storage Engine.
Itzik Ben-Gan, Lubor Kollar and Dejan Sarka, Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: T-SQL Querying.
Itzik Ben-Gan, Dejan Sarka and Roger Wolter, Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: T-SQL Programming.
Jill Grady, Cannon Beach Cottages.
Helen Divjak, Images of America: Seattle's Fremont.
Adam Nicolson, God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible.
Scott Huler, Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale, and How a Nineteenth-Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry.
Max Brooks, The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection From the Living Dead.
February
Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War.
Michael Kluckner, Vanishing British Columbia.
Mark Kurlansky, Salt: A World History.
Scott Ambler and Pramod Sadalage, Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design.
Stephen Pincock, Codebreaker: The History of Codes and Ciphers, From the Ancient Pharoahs to Quantum Cryptography.
Martin Limón, Jade Lady Burning.
Kai Meyer, The Water Mirror.
Jonathan Carroll, Bones of the Moon.
David Platt, Why Software Sucks... And What You Can Do About It.
David Stravitz, New York, Empire City: 1920-1945.
Dolores Hayden, A Field Guide to Sprawl.
Kai Meyer, The Stone Light.
March
Richard Gerber, Aart Bik, Kevin Smith and Xinmin Tian, The Software Optimization Cookbook: High-Performance Recipes for IA-32 Platforms.
China Miéville, Un Lun Dun.
Justine Larbalestier, Magic or Madness.
Neil Parkyn, Superstructures.
Fabian Pascal, Practical Issues in Database Management: A Reference For the Thinking Practitioner.
Justine Larbalestier, Magic Lessons.
Edward Melomed, Irina Gorbach, Alexander Berger and Py Bateman, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services.
Scott Adams, Try Rebooting Yourself.
April
Justine Larbalestier, Magic's Child.
Stephen Prothero, Religious Literacy.
Raymond Chen, The Old New Thing.
Max Cannon, Red Meat Gold.
Bill Wagner, Effective C#.
Matt Groening, Will and Abe's Guide to the Universe.
Jim Couper: The Long and Winding Road: Discovering the Pleasures and Treasures of Highway 97.
May
Victor Klemperer, I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years 1933-1941.
Darby Conley, Loserpalooza.
Victor Klemperer, I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years 1942-1945.
Winifred Gallagher, House Thinking: A Room-by-Room Look at How We Live.
Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Spirits That Walk in Shadow.
Harvey Manning, Walking the Beach to Bellingham.
June
Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking.
Julie Kenner, California Demon.
Nina Kiriki Hoffman, The Silent Strength of Stones.
Ayun Halliday, Job Hopper: The Checkered Career of a Down-Market Dilettante.
Ruth Reichl, Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise.
Kenneth Alford, Great Treasure Stories of World War II.
Kathe Koja, Going Under.
Liza Picard, Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London.
Livio Sacchi, Tokyo: City and Architecture.
July
Ken Pugh, Interface-Oriented Design.
Sheri S. Tepper, The Margarets.
Douglas Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop.
C. J. Date, Database In Depth: Relational Theory For Practitioners.
Alexander Galloway, Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization.
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Dan Simmons, The Terror.
Louise Nicholson, London Rediscovered.
August
Andy Oram and Greg Wilson (ed), Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think.
Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason.
Greg Bear, Quantico.
Michael Lesy, Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties.
Patricia Wrede and Caroline Stevermer, The Mislaid Magician, or Ten Years After: Being the Private Correspondence Between Two Prominent Families Regarding a Scandal Touching the Highest Levels of Government and the Security of the Realm.
Geoff Ryman, Was.
Arnold Schwartzman, Deco Landmarks: Art Deco Gems of Los Angeles.
Paul Fotsch, Watching the Traffic Go By: Transportation and Isolation in Urban America.
September
Patrick McDonnell, Animal Friendly.
Donald Albrecht, The Mythic City: Photographs of New York by Samuel H. Gottscho, 1925-1940.
Huston Smith, The Illustrated World's Religions: A Guide to Our Wisdom Traditions.
Len Fisher, How to Dunk a Doughnut: The Science of Everyday Life.
Jane Jacobs, Dark Age Ahead.
Alan Weisman, The World Without Us.
Charles de Lint, Widdershins.
Spalding Gray, Morning, Noon and Night.
John Poppeliers and S. Allen Chambers, What Style Is It? A Guide to American Architecture.
Lorraine Diehl, Subways: The Tracks That Built New York City.
Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Catalyst.
October
Robert Bruegmann, Sprawl: A Compact History.
Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg, Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex?: More Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Whiskey Sour.
Harold McGee, On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen.
November
William McDonough and Michael Braungart, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things.
Linda Leigh Paul, Coastal Retreats: The Pacific Northwest and the Architecture of Adventure.
Jerilou Hammett and Kingsley Hammett (ed), The Suburbanization of New York: Is the World's Greatest City Becoming Just Another Town?.
Andy Riley, Loads More Lies to Tell Small Kids.
Eva Figes, Tales of Innocence and Experience: An Exploration.
Christopher Moore, Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story.
Christopher Moore, You Suck: A Love Story.
December
Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Henry Petroski, Design Paradigms: Case Histories of Error and Judgment in Engineering.
Lloyd Kaufman and James Gunn, All I Need to Know About Filmmaking I Learned From The Toxic Avenger: The Shocking True Story of Troma Studios.
Marjane Satrapi, Chicken With Plums.
Giles Morton, Samurai William: The Adventurer Who Unlocked Japan.
Jack Larkin, Where We Lived: Discovering the Places We Once Called Home: The American Home From 1775 to 1840.
Dan Ramsey, The Home Owner's Manual: Operating Instructions, Troubleshooting Tips, and Advice on System Maintenance.
Lisa Tuttle, The Pillow Friend.
Peter Ackroyd, The Lambs of London.
Patricia Carlon, Crime of Silence.
Robert and Ellen Kaplan, The Art of the Infinite: The Pleasures of Mathematics.