Books read, 2007
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cyphomandra162 in total, 21 re-reads. Probably down on my usual total, for multiple reasons, not least of which are a) massive exams b) getting into manga and c) no holidays or prolonged periods of time spent on public transport (I’ve been walking to and from work), which is how a lot of my reading gets done, or at least how I end up starting a lot of books. Re-reading’s also harder with the majority of my books in storage. Also, when I’m madly stressed and looking for escapism I tend to read fanfic, which I don’t log here.
The best book I read all year was Robert Graves’ Goodbye to All That; passionate and controlled, bitter and exact; stunning. I would read it again right now apart from the fact that I pressed it on the next friend of mine that I saw (and managed to get at least two of my family to borrow it from my library). Close second was Jan Morris’ Last Letters from Hav, with its creation of a country that never was, quite; I have put off reading the sequel because it has the House of the Chinese Master in flames on the cover, and I don’t want that to have happened yet. Mary Gentle’s Ilario was great, and although there are weak books in both Reginald Hill’s Dalziel and Pascoe series, and Dorothy Dunnett’s Dolly/Bird/yet-another-variant-title series were both excellent. Rupert Thomson’s The Death of a Murderer has an ending that’s haunted me ever since I read it, not for what happens but for where it ends and why that might be the case, and Tanya Huff’s Smoke and Mirrors did an amazing job of re-creating my misspent university years playing creepy computer games late at night with all my nerves keyed up to ridiculous extremes.
If I were more organised I’d link all these to their review, but the thought makes my heart sink. Roughly chronological, anyway, or determinedly curious types can always search through the tag function.
1. Reginald Hill, Pictures of Perfection
2. Dick Francis, 10lb Penalty
3. Reginald Hill, Ruling Passion
4. Reginald Hill, Exit Lines
5. Reginald Hill, Under World
6. Reginald Hill, Child’s Play
7. Reginald Hill, Deadheads (re-read)
8. Reginald Hill, Bones and Silence
9. Reginald Hill, Recalled to Life
10. Reginald Hill, The Wood Beyond
11. Reginald Hill, Arms and the Women
12. Reginald Hill, Dialogues of the Dead
13. Reginald Hill, Death’s Jest Book
14. Reginald Hill, Good Morning, Midnight
15. Reginald Hill, Killing the Lawyers
16. Peter Lindsay, Darkly Dreaming Dexter
17. Eleanor Spence, A candle for St Anthony
18. Kathy Helidoniotis, Horse-Mad Academy
19. JC Burke, Faking Sweet
20. Margaret Mahy, Maddigan’s Fantasia
21. Charlie Higson, Double or Die
22. Dick Francis, Odds Against
23. Dick Francis, Whip Hand
24. John M Ford, Growing up weightless
25. Elsie J Oxenham, Two Joans at the Abbey
26. Doreen Swinburn, Jean at Jo’s Hospital
27. John Bellairs, The treasure of Alpheus Winterborn (re-read)
28. Gordon Korman, Son of Interflux (re-read)
29. Phyllis Matthewman, The Turbulence of Tony (re-read)
30. Joanna Lloyd, Catherine, Head of House (re-read)
31. Elizabeth Bear, Carnival
32. Mary Gentle, Ilario
33. Dorothy Dunnett, Tropical Issue
34. Jim Grimsley, Kirith Kirin
35. Trudi Canavan, Priestess of the White
36. Rosemary Hayes, Mixing it
37. Dorothy Dunnett, Rum Affair
38. Dorothy Dunnett, Ibiza Surprise
39. Dorothy Dunnett, Roman Nights
40. Tanya Huff, Blood Price
41. Reginald Hill, The Death of Dalziel
42. David Wotton, Bad Medicine
43. Liz Williams, Snake Agent (re-read)
44. Lee Child, Die Trying
45. Lee Child, Killing Floor
46. Lee Child, Tripwire
47. Garth Nix, Lady Friday
48. Alistair MacLean, When eight bells toll
49. Alex Sanchez, Getting it
50. Alex Sanchez, So hard to say
51. Julian Barnes, Arthur and George
52. Lance Armstrong, It’s not about the bike
53. Nancy Farmer, The sea of trolls
54. Neil Gaiman, Anansi boys
55. Vincent Lam, Bloodletting and miraculous cures
56. Sarah Turnbull, Almost French
57. Tanya Huff, Smoke and shadows
58. Tanya Huff, Smoke and mirrors
59. Tanya Huff, Smoke and ashes
60. Lee Child, The visitor
61. Lee Child, Echo burning
62. Lee Child, Without fail
63. Lee Child, Persuader
64. Lee Child, The enemy
65. Lee Child, One shot
66. Nora Roberts, Key of knowledge
67. Monica McInerney, Odd one out
68. Scott Westerfield, Midnighters
69. James Herriot, Let sleeping vets lie (re-read)
70. James Herriot, The Lord God made them all (re-read)
71. Ellen Kushner, The Privilege of the Sword
72. Arturo Perez-Reverte, Captain Alatriste
73. Charmian Hussey, Valley of secrets
74. Paula Christian, Amanda
75. Paula Christian, The other side of desire
76. Christopher Fowler, Full dark house
77. Jeffrey Deaver, Garden of beasts
78. Jeffrey Deaver, The twelfth card
79. Tamora Pierce, Beka Cooper: Terrier: A Tortall legend
80. Diana Wynne Jones, The game
81. Jan Morris, Last letters from Hav
82. Tom Ingram, The hungry cloud
83. CJ Cherryh, Foreigner
84. Graham Joyce, The stormwatcher
85. Justine Larbalestier, Magic’s Child
86. Carol Chataway, Edwina Sparrow: Girl of destiny
87. Ruth Reichl, Garlic and Sapphires
88. Joan Aiken, The haunting of Lamb House
89. Lee Child, The hard way
90. Sybille Bedford, The best we can do
91. Julian Novitz, Holocaust tours
92. Liz Williams, The demon and the city
93. Rupert Thomson, Death of a murderer
94. Colleen McCullough, On, Off
95. Mercedes Lackey, Phoenix and ashes
96. Irene Elliot Benson, How Ethel Hollister became a campfire girl
97. Dorothy Dunnett, Moroccan Traffic
98. Walter Moers, The city of dreaming books
99. Susan Palwick, The necessary beggar
100. Robert Graves, Goodbye to all that
101. David Pirie, The night calls (re-read)
102. Nina Kiriki Hoffman, A fistful of sky
103. Caroline Overington, Only in New York
104. Stephen Foster, Walking Ollie
105. Lois McMaster Bujold, Paladin of Souls
107. Liz Williams, Precious Dragon
106. Dennis Burges, Graves Gate
108. Peter Watts, Blindsight
109. JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (re-read)
110. JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (re-read)
111. Gordon Korman, Everest 1: The Contest (half-re-read)
112. Atul Gawande, Better: a surgeon’s notes on performance
113. JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (re-read)
114. Susan Palwick, Shelter
115. Gordon Korman, Everest 2: The Climb
116. JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (re-read)
117. JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (re-read)
118. Robin Hobb, Renegade’s Magic
119. Vivian vande Velde, Heir Apparent
120. JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
121. Elizabeth Knox, Dreamquake
122. Zilpha Keatley Snyder, The Unseen
123. Gordon Korman, Everest 3: The Summit
124. Mary Stewart, My brother Michael
125. Eva Ibbotson, The Secret Countess (re-read, although I read it as A Countess Below Stairs)
126. CP Snow, The Affair
127. Mary Cadogan, Patricia Craig, You’re a brick, Angela (re-read)
128. Michael Pryor, Blaze of Glory
129. Kelly McCullough, WebMage
130. Lois McMaster Bujold, The Sharing Knife: 1: Beguilement
131. Joan Druett, A Watery Grave
132. Margaret Edson, W;t
133. Jacqueline Wilson, The Diamond Girls
134. Alice Borchardt, The Silver Wolf
135. Nancy Farmer, A Girl Named Disaster
136. Dodie Smith, The Town in Bloom
137. Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
138. Matt Ruff, Bad Monkeys
139. Michelle Tea, Rose of No Man’s Land
140. Kristen Britain, Green Rider
141. Anne Fadiman, At Large and At Small
142. A.S. Byatt, Unruly Lives.
143. Kate Mosse, Labyrinth.
144. Emma Bull, Territory.
145. Charlie Higson, Hurricane Gold.
146. Deb Caltti, Wild Roses.
147. Elizabeth George, What Came Before He Shot Her.
148. Veronica Bennett, Fish Feet.
149. Jo Walton, Farthing.
150. Robin McKinley, The Blue Sword (re-read)
151. Robin McKinley, The Hero and the Crown (re-read)
152. Jason Thompson, Manga: the complete guide
153. Alison Bechdel, Fun Home
154. Marcus Zusak, The messenger
155. Antonia Forest, Cricket term (re-read)
156. Cynthia Voigt, Homecoming (re-read)
157. Cynthia Voigt, Dicey’s song
158. Cynthia Voigt, A solitary blue
159. Cynthia Voigt, The runner (re-read)
160. Cynthia Voigt, Come a stranger
161. Cynthia Voigt, Sons from afar
162. Cynthia Voigt, Seventeen against the dealer
The best book I read all year was Robert Graves’ Goodbye to All That; passionate and controlled, bitter and exact; stunning. I would read it again right now apart from the fact that I pressed it on the next friend of mine that I saw (and managed to get at least two of my family to borrow it from my library). Close second was Jan Morris’ Last Letters from Hav, with its creation of a country that never was, quite; I have put off reading the sequel because it has the House of the Chinese Master in flames on the cover, and I don’t want that to have happened yet. Mary Gentle’s Ilario was great, and although there are weak books in both Reginald Hill’s Dalziel and Pascoe series, and Dorothy Dunnett’s Dolly/Bird/yet-another-variant-title series were both excellent. Rupert Thomson’s The Death of a Murderer has an ending that’s haunted me ever since I read it, not for what happens but for where it ends and why that might be the case, and Tanya Huff’s Smoke and Mirrors did an amazing job of re-creating my misspent university years playing creepy computer games late at night with all my nerves keyed up to ridiculous extremes.
If I were more organised I’d link all these to their review, but the thought makes my heart sink. Roughly chronological, anyway, or determinedly curious types can always search through the tag function.
1. Reginald Hill, Pictures of Perfection
2. Dick Francis, 10lb Penalty
3. Reginald Hill, Ruling Passion
4. Reginald Hill, Exit Lines
5. Reginald Hill, Under World
6. Reginald Hill, Child’s Play
7. Reginald Hill, Deadheads (re-read)
8. Reginald Hill, Bones and Silence
9. Reginald Hill, Recalled to Life
10. Reginald Hill, The Wood Beyond
11. Reginald Hill, Arms and the Women
12. Reginald Hill, Dialogues of the Dead
13. Reginald Hill, Death’s Jest Book
14. Reginald Hill, Good Morning, Midnight
15. Reginald Hill, Killing the Lawyers
16. Peter Lindsay, Darkly Dreaming Dexter
17. Eleanor Spence, A candle for St Anthony
18. Kathy Helidoniotis, Horse-Mad Academy
19. JC Burke, Faking Sweet
20. Margaret Mahy, Maddigan’s Fantasia
21. Charlie Higson, Double or Die
22. Dick Francis, Odds Against
23. Dick Francis, Whip Hand
24. John M Ford, Growing up weightless
25. Elsie J Oxenham, Two Joans at the Abbey
26. Doreen Swinburn, Jean at Jo’s Hospital
27. John Bellairs, The treasure of Alpheus Winterborn (re-read)
28. Gordon Korman, Son of Interflux (re-read)
29. Phyllis Matthewman, The Turbulence of Tony (re-read)
30. Joanna Lloyd, Catherine, Head of House (re-read)
31. Elizabeth Bear, Carnival
32. Mary Gentle, Ilario
33. Dorothy Dunnett, Tropical Issue
34. Jim Grimsley, Kirith Kirin
35. Trudi Canavan, Priestess of the White
36. Rosemary Hayes, Mixing it
37. Dorothy Dunnett, Rum Affair
38. Dorothy Dunnett, Ibiza Surprise
39. Dorothy Dunnett, Roman Nights
40. Tanya Huff, Blood Price
41. Reginald Hill, The Death of Dalziel
42. David Wotton, Bad Medicine
43. Liz Williams, Snake Agent (re-read)
44. Lee Child, Die Trying
45. Lee Child, Killing Floor
46. Lee Child, Tripwire
47. Garth Nix, Lady Friday
48. Alistair MacLean, When eight bells toll
49. Alex Sanchez, Getting it
50. Alex Sanchez, So hard to say
51. Julian Barnes, Arthur and George
52. Lance Armstrong, It’s not about the bike
53. Nancy Farmer, The sea of trolls
54. Neil Gaiman, Anansi boys
55. Vincent Lam, Bloodletting and miraculous cures
56. Sarah Turnbull, Almost French
57. Tanya Huff, Smoke and shadows
58. Tanya Huff, Smoke and mirrors
59. Tanya Huff, Smoke and ashes
60. Lee Child, The visitor
61. Lee Child, Echo burning
62. Lee Child, Without fail
63. Lee Child, Persuader
64. Lee Child, The enemy
65. Lee Child, One shot
66. Nora Roberts, Key of knowledge
67. Monica McInerney, Odd one out
68. Scott Westerfield, Midnighters
69. James Herriot, Let sleeping vets lie (re-read)
70. James Herriot, The Lord God made them all (re-read)
71. Ellen Kushner, The Privilege of the Sword
72. Arturo Perez-Reverte, Captain Alatriste
73. Charmian Hussey, Valley of secrets
74. Paula Christian, Amanda
75. Paula Christian, The other side of desire
76. Christopher Fowler, Full dark house
77. Jeffrey Deaver, Garden of beasts
78. Jeffrey Deaver, The twelfth card
79. Tamora Pierce, Beka Cooper: Terrier: A Tortall legend
80. Diana Wynne Jones, The game
81. Jan Morris, Last letters from Hav
82. Tom Ingram, The hungry cloud
83. CJ Cherryh, Foreigner
84. Graham Joyce, The stormwatcher
85. Justine Larbalestier, Magic’s Child
86. Carol Chataway, Edwina Sparrow: Girl of destiny
87. Ruth Reichl, Garlic and Sapphires
88. Joan Aiken, The haunting of Lamb House
89. Lee Child, The hard way
90. Sybille Bedford, The best we can do
91. Julian Novitz, Holocaust tours
92. Liz Williams, The demon and the city
93. Rupert Thomson, Death of a murderer
94. Colleen McCullough, On, Off
95. Mercedes Lackey, Phoenix and ashes
96. Irene Elliot Benson, How Ethel Hollister became a campfire girl
97. Dorothy Dunnett, Moroccan Traffic
98. Walter Moers, The city of dreaming books
99. Susan Palwick, The necessary beggar
100. Robert Graves, Goodbye to all that
101. David Pirie, The night calls (re-read)
102. Nina Kiriki Hoffman, A fistful of sky
103. Caroline Overington, Only in New York
104. Stephen Foster, Walking Ollie
105. Lois McMaster Bujold, Paladin of Souls
107. Liz Williams, Precious Dragon
106. Dennis Burges, Graves Gate
108. Peter Watts, Blindsight
109. JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (re-read)
110. JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (re-read)
111. Gordon Korman, Everest 1: The Contest (half-re-read)
112. Atul Gawande, Better: a surgeon’s notes on performance
113. JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (re-read)
114. Susan Palwick, Shelter
115. Gordon Korman, Everest 2: The Climb
116. JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (re-read)
117. JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (re-read)
118. Robin Hobb, Renegade’s Magic
119. Vivian vande Velde, Heir Apparent
120. JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
121. Elizabeth Knox, Dreamquake
122. Zilpha Keatley Snyder, The Unseen
123. Gordon Korman, Everest 3: The Summit
124. Mary Stewart, My brother Michael
125. Eva Ibbotson, The Secret Countess (re-read, although I read it as A Countess Below Stairs)
126. CP Snow, The Affair
127. Mary Cadogan, Patricia Craig, You’re a brick, Angela (re-read)
128. Michael Pryor, Blaze of Glory
129. Kelly McCullough, WebMage
130. Lois McMaster Bujold, The Sharing Knife: 1: Beguilement
131. Joan Druett, A Watery Grave
132. Margaret Edson, W;t
133. Jacqueline Wilson, The Diamond Girls
134. Alice Borchardt, The Silver Wolf
135. Nancy Farmer, A Girl Named Disaster
136. Dodie Smith, The Town in Bloom
137. Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
138. Matt Ruff, Bad Monkeys
139. Michelle Tea, Rose of No Man’s Land
140. Kristen Britain, Green Rider
141. Anne Fadiman, At Large and At Small
142. A.S. Byatt, Unruly Lives.
143. Kate Mosse, Labyrinth.
144. Emma Bull, Territory.
145. Charlie Higson, Hurricane Gold.
146. Deb Caltti, Wild Roses.
147. Elizabeth George, What Came Before He Shot Her.
148. Veronica Bennett, Fish Feet.
149. Jo Walton, Farthing.
150. Robin McKinley, The Blue Sword (re-read)
151. Robin McKinley, The Hero and the Crown (re-read)
152. Jason Thompson, Manga: the complete guide
153. Alison Bechdel, Fun Home
154. Marcus Zusak, The messenger
155. Antonia Forest, Cricket term (re-read)
156. Cynthia Voigt, Homecoming (re-read)
157. Cynthia Voigt, Dicey’s song
158. Cynthia Voigt, A solitary blue
159. Cynthia Voigt, The runner (re-read)
160. Cynthia Voigt, Come a stranger
161. Cynthia Voigt, Sons from afar
162. Cynthia Voigt, Seventeen against the dealer
