The Reading Nook

Following is the list of books I read in 2007. I count a book in the month I started it in, so in this case my reading year started January 3, 2007, and ended January 4, 2008. Audiobooks are in parentheses. Links are to LibraryThing.

January Reads

1. The Sportswriter, Richard Ford
2. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
3. Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Marisha Pessl
4. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006, Dave Eggers (ed.)
5. The History of Love, Nicole Krauss (audiobook)
6. The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai
7. An Instance of the Fingerpost, Iain Pears
8. Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston

February Reads

1. The Collected Stories, Amy Hempel
2. The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy, Stewart O’Nan
3. A World Away, Stewart O’Nan
4. Troubles, J.G. Farrell
5. The Siege of Krishnapur, J.G. Farrell
6. The Singapore Grip, J.G. Farrell
7. The Three-Martini Playdate: A Practical Guide to Happy Parenting, Christie Mellor

March Reads

1. Lisey’s Story, Stephen King (audiobook)
2. Fire in the Grove: The Cocoanut Grove Tragedy and Its Aftermath, John C. Esposito
3. Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Truman Capote
4. A Month in the Country, J.L. Carr
5. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
6. Seize the Day, Saul Bellow
7. The Tale of a Dog: From the Diaries and Letters of a Texan Bankruptcy Judge, Lars Gustafsson
8. Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
9. The Portrait, Iain Pears
10. Queen Margot, Alexandre Dumas
11. Young Men and Fire, Norman Maclean
12. Drop City, T.C. Boyle

April Reads

1. Housekeeping vs. the Dirt, Nick Hornby
2. Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, Anne Fadiman
3. Spies, Michael Frayn
4. All the King’s Men, Robert Penn Warren
5. What Is the What, Dave Eggers
6. Stardust, Neil Gaiman
7. The Romantics, Pankaj Mishra
8. North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell
9. A Woman’s Place: 1910-1975, Ruth Adam
10. The Darling, Russell Banks

May Reads

1. Hard Times, Charles Dickens
2. The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
3. The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty, Caroline Alexander
4. How to Be Good, Nick Hornby (audiobook)
5. Chinaman’s Chance, Ross Thomas
6. Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone, J.K. Rowling (audiobook)
7. The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, Michael Chabon
8. Case Histories, Kate Atkinson
9. Winter’s Tale, Mark Helprin

June Reads

1. When the Emperor Was Divine, Julie Otsuka
2. The Secret River, Kate Grenville (audiobook)
3. Silas Marner, George Eliot
4. The Way We Live Now, Anthony Trollope
5. Away, Amy Bloom
6. On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan
7. The Road, Cormac McCarthy
8. Then We Came to the End, Joshua Ferris
9. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Anne Fadiman

July Reads

1. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling
2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
3. Middlemarch, George Eliot
4. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J.K. Rowling (audiobook)
5. Fear of Flying, Erica Jong (audiobook)
6. Around the World in 80 Days, Jules Verne
7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling
8. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
9. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Winifred Watson

August Reads

1. Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited, Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein
2. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
3. The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World 2007, Bob Sehlinger
4. We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lionel Shriver
5. We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with our Families: Stories from Rwanda, Philip Gourevitch
6. A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, Xiaolu Guo
7. The Great Stink, Clare Clark
8. Roots: The Saga of An American Family, Alex Haley
9. The Lizard Cage, Karen Connelly
10. The Four Feathers, A.E.W. Mason (audiobook)

September Reads

1. One Good Turn, Kate Atkinson
2. The Dark Is Rising, Susan Cooper
3. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, Marjane Satrapi
4. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J.K. Rowling (audiobook)
5. Up in the Old Hotel, Joseph Mitchell
6. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
7. Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, Mark Kurlansky
8. The Translator, Leila Aboulela
9. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
10. Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time, Rob Sheffield (audiobook)
11. Restoration, Rose Tremain
12. The Uncommon Reader, Alan Bennett
13. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl, Timothy Egan

October Reads

1. An Infamous Army, Georgette Heyer
2. Mason & Dixon, Thomas Pynchon
3. The Keep, Jennifer Egan (audiobook)
4. A Study in Scarlet, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
5. The Sign of Four, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
6. Ship Fever, Andrea Barrett
7. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
8. Voyage of the Narwhal, Andrea Barrett
9. The Air We Breathe, Andrea Barrett

November Reads

1. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (audiobook)
2. The Vicomte de Bragelonne, Alexandre Dumas
3. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
4. Louise de la Valliere, Alexandre Dumas
5. The Man in the Iron Mask, Alexandre Dumas
6. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling (audiobook)
7. PopCo, Scarlett Thomas

December Reads

1. 84, Charing Cross Road, Helen Hanff
2. A Thread of Grace, Mary Doria Russell
3. The Twyborn Affair, Patrick White
4. Dreamers of the Day, Mary Doria Russell
5. How Reading Changed My Life, Anna Quindlen
6. Mansfield Park, Jane Austen