Books Read in 2007
Monday, December 31, 2007
This series of post is just for my record keeping.
Darwin's Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated - Steve Jones (2001)
The World Without Us (Audiobook) - Alan Weisman (2007)
False Gods - Graham McNeill (2006)
Horus Rising - Dan Abnett (2006)
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff - Christopher Moore (2004)
Heart Shaped Box - Joe Hill (2007)
Dexter in the Dark - Jeff Lindsay (2007)
Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts - Andrew Robinson (2002)
Why Darwin Matters - Michael Shermer (2006)
Julian - Gore Vidal (1964)
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design - Richard Dawkins (1996)
War of Flowers - Tad Williams (2003)
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason - Sam Harris (2005)
American Gods (2001)
The Planets edited by Byron Priess (1985)
Letter to a Christian Nation - Sam Harris (2006)
The Last Colony - John Scalzi (2007)
How Do You Know It's True?: Discovering the Difference Between Science and Superstition - Hy Ruchlis (1991)
Excession - Iain M Banks (1996)
Give Me a Break - John Stossel (2004)
The Sagan Diary - John Scalzi (2007)
Soul in a Bottle - Tim Powers (2006)
Dearly Devoted Dexter - Jeff Lindsay (2005)
Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Jeff Lindsay (2004)
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson (1992)
Wednesday, January 2, 2008 at 10:59:00 AM CST
Now, see, I would have guessed your list would have been even longer than this! And I did notice that you left out The Sparrow for some reason. Did you also read it before '07? Anyway, I've read about a third of your list, though not all of them were last year.
Wednesday, January 2, 2008 at 1:19:00 PM CST
I read The Sparrow a couple of times before, the first time being sometime around 2000.
I really didn't read as much as I wanted to, but I did manage to average more than 2 a month, which for some weighty volumes isn't bad.
I need to find a way to read more though because I have so many books piling up. It's kind of bad to complain about so many good titles, but how can I possibly read them all? :)
Wednesday, January 2, 2008 at 1:28:00 PM CST
You are far better than me. If I can get 18 read in a year, I'm ecstatic! I think I did about 14 in '07, but like you say, some were pretty heavy reading. More important for me than sheer numbers is that I learn something and I feel like I learned a lot in '07, including how to enjoy reading for reading's sake again! Viva the Non-Believing Literati!