What I read in 2007
Total = 123 books
January (14)
- The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
- Sleep Demons: An Insomniac’s Memoir by Bill Hayes
- The Diary of a Nobody by George & Weedon Grossmith
- Eldest by Christopher Paolini (borrowed from meerkitten)
- The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (library audio book)
- A Special Relationship by Douglas Kennedy
- The Silver Crown by Robert O’Brien
- Frangipani by Célestine Hitiura Vaite
- Thirteen Steps Down by Ruth Rendell (library audio book)
- A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett
- A Million Open Doors by John Barnes (library book)
- Puff the Blue Kitten by Pierre Probst (children’s picture book)
- Pyramids by Terry Pratchett (library audio book)
- Dressing Up for the Carnival by Carol Shields
February (5)
- Four Ways to be a Woman by Sue Reidy
- The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan
- Don’t Lets Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller (library audio book)
- Wordplay: A Curious Dictionary of Language Oddities by Chris Cole
- Your Cat’s Just Not That Into You by Richard Smith
March (9)
- Dead Lines by Greg Bear (library audio book)
- River Thieves by Michael Crummey
- The Last Girls by Lee Smith
- Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (library audio book)
- Stir-Fry by Emma Donoghue
- All My Patients Are Under the Bed: Memoirs of a Cat Doctor by Louis J Camuti
- Darkness, Be My Friend by John Marsden
- Tennyson’s Gift by Lynne Truss (library audio book)
- The Wise Woman by Philippa Gregory
April (7)
- The Cat Who Smelled a Rat by Lilian Jackson Braun
- Lily and Me by Moses Aaron
- Thieves’ Dozen by Donald E Westlake
- The Book of Colour by Julia Blackburn
- Empress Orchid by Anchee Min (library audio book (abridged))
- The Problem with Murmur Lee by Connie May Fowler
- Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett (library audio book)
May (8)
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
- Samurai Williams by Giles Milton
- All the Nice Girls by Barbara Anderson
- Hissy Fit by Mary Kay Andrews (library audio book)
- When the Devil Holds the Candle by Karin Fossum (trans. Felicity David)
- Songs of the Humpback Whale by Jodi Picoult
- Hidden Talents by Erica James (library audio book)
- One Hundred and One Ways by Mako Yoshikawa
June (11)
- I, Robot by Isaac Asimov (library audio book)
- Catching the Current by Jenny Pattrick
- Sky Burial by Xinran
- Harvesting the Heart by Jodi Picoult
- Animalogies by Michael Macrone
- Dead Men Do Tell Tales by William R Maples and Michael Browning
- The Good Women of China by Xinran
- The Cat Who Turned On and Off by Lilian Jackson Braun
- The Invisible Man by HG Wells (library audio book)
- One Hit Wonder by Lisa Jewell (library audio book)
- Vast by Linda Nagata
July (13)
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by JK Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling
FaustEric by Terry Pratchett (library audio book)- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling
- 101 Un-Useless Japanese Inventions by Kenji Kawakami
- A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson (library audio book)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
- Lessons to Learn by Natasha Judd
- The Cat Who Sang for the Birds by Lilian Jackson Braun
- Company by Max Barry
August (12)
- Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult
- The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
- Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy (library audio book)
- Somehow Form a Family by Tony Earley
- The Little Book of Calm for Cats by Stuart and Linda MacFarlane
- Ladies’ Man by John Ramster
- Picture Perfect by Jodi Picoult
- Stray by AN Wilson
- Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett (library audio book)
- You’ve Got Guts, Kenny Melrose by Shirley Corlett
- Close Relations by Deborah Moggach
- Tender is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald (library audio book)
September (7)
- The Denniston Rose by Jenny Pattrick
- Lucia Triumphant by Tom Holt (library audio book)
- Spin by Tim Geary
- Lucky Man by Michael J Fox
- Watership Down by Richard Adams
- The Red Room by Nicci French (library audio book)
- Cocktail Time by PG Wodehouse (library audio book)
October (9)
- The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
- Stardust by Neil Gaiman
- How Children Learn Language by William O’Grady
- Forensic Fingerprints by Hugh Miller
- Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
- Half Moon Street by Anne Perry (library audio book)
- In the Long Dark by Brian Carter
- Night Watch by Terry Pratchett (library audio book)
- An Introduction to Child Language Development by Susan Foster-Cohen (e-book, borrowed from author)
November (11)
- A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
- Chronicle of the Unsung by Martin Edmond
- Foetal Attraction by Kathy Lette
- Shelly Has a Baby by Shelly West
- Cool for Cats by Jessica Adams
- Coupling by Wendy Perriam
- Partial Eclipse by Lesley Glaister
- Journey to Eureka by Kerry Greenwood
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (library audio book)
- The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
- The Cat Who Saw Red by Lilian Jackson Braun
December (16)
- Too Many Magicians by Randall Garrett
- Familiar Rooms in Darkness by Caro Fraser (library audio book)
- Ghost Heart by Ceclilia Samartin
- Welcome to the Great Mysterious by Lorna Landvik
- The Gypsy Madonna by Santa Montefiore (library audio book)
- Around the World in 80 Days by Michael Palin
- Boy in the World by Niall Williams
- Catitudes: From A-Z by Elizabeth King Brownd
- Visits from the Drowned Girl by Steven Sherrill
- The Shelters of Stone by Jean M Auel (library audio book)
- Asterix and the Actress by Albert Uderzo (graphic novel, borrowed from stepfather)
- The Broons and Oor Wullie: The Roaring Forties by Dudley D Watkins (comic annual, borrowed from stepfather)
- The Year 1000: What Life was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium by Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Making Money by Terry Pratchett
- Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
I just stumbled across your diary today, and then I up and joined Bookcrossers! This looks like a lot of fun! (Although, I don’t get nearly as many books read per year as you do.) I think I’ll release some books this week!
Wowsers… Thatsalottabooks!
BTW I mailed off the Traveling Journal to Steve last week. 😉
Happy New Year!