Reading List 2007
List of books I've read this year; I will add to this as I read more. I can't remember the ones I read toward the beginning of the year, so this is pretty much since July.
Never Too Thin: Why Women Are at War With Their Bodies
- Roberta Pollack Seid
The Diet Myth
--Paul Campos
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
--Mary Roach
Arc of the Dream
--A.A. Attanasio
A Rumor of Angels
- Marjorie Kellogg
Snow Crash
-- Neal Stephenson
Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide
--Kay Redfield Jamison
Anansi Boys
--Neil Gaiman
Mona Lisa Overdrive
--William Gibson
Century Rain
--Alistair Reynolds
Ender's Game (Ender, Book 1)
--Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead (Ender, Book 2)
--Orson Scott Card
Xenocide (Ender, Book 3)
--Orson Scott Card
Fast Food Nation
-Eric Schlosser
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
--Neil Gaiman
Cell: A Novel
--Stephen King
Lisey's Story
--Stephen King
A Wrinkle in Time
-Madeleine L'Engle
A Wind in the Door
--Madeleine L'Engle
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
--Madeleine L'Engle
Many Waters (A Companion to "A Wrinkle in Time")
--Madeleine L'Engle
Liberty Falling (Anna Pigeon Mysteries)
--Nevada Barr (This was AWFUL)
Buy Jupiter and Other Stories
--Isaac Asimov
Red as Blood
--Tanith Lee
An Underground Education : The Unauthorized and Outrageous Supplement to Everything You Thought You Knew About Art, Sex, Business, Crime, Science, Medicine, and Other Fields of Human
--Richard Zacks
The Ship Who Sang
--Anne McCaffrey
Mistress Masham's Repose
--T. H. White
All the Myriad Ways
--Larry Niven
The Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition
--Upton Sinclair
Things Fall Apart: A Novel
--Chinua Achebe
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7)
--J. K. Rowling
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
--Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel
--Margaret Atwood
The Phantom Tollbooth
--Norton Juster
Survivor: A Novel
--Chuck Palahniuk
Lullaby: A Novel
--Chuck Palahniuk
Salmon Doubts
--Adam Sacks
The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness
--Jack El-Hai.
Schrodinger's Ball: A Novel
--Adam Felber
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan
Choke
by Chuck Palahniuk
The Feline Mystique: On the Mysterious Connection Between Women and Cats
by Clea Simon
Should the Baby Live?: The Problem of Handicapped Infants (Studies in Bioethics)
by Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer
Letter to a Child Never Born
by Oriana Fallaci
Blaze, a Novel
by Richard Bachman
Blankets
by Craig Thompson
Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions
-- New Scientist Magazine
Sandman, The: Book of Dreams
-- edited by Neil Gaiman
Out of Her Mind: Women Writing on Madness
by Rebecca Shannonhouse
Heart-Shaped Box: A Novel
by Joe Hill
The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats: A Journey Into the Feline Heart
by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (I was deeply unsatisfied with this book. Not only did I disagree with some of the opinions he had, it was very poorly edited. He contradicts himself constantly, making a statement, then stating the exact opposite a page--or, sometimes, less!--later. If you want a cat book, go for "The Tribe of Tiger". I've since found his other books to be worthwhile, so I think he just didn't put much effort into this one, and didn't have a stern enough editor to make him rewrite it so that it made sense).
The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice
by Christopher Hitchens
Altruistic Armadillos, Zenlike Zebras: A Menagerie of 100 Favorite Animals
by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (I really liked this--it was well-researched and well-written; he put a lot more work into this than the cat book)
The Fresco
by Sheri Tepper
Lipitor Thief of Memory
by Duane Graveline (An extremely technical book; I wouldn't bother with it unless you're really interested in the brain's physiology)
Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
by Chuck Palahniuk
Haunted: A Novel
by Chuck Palahniuk
Mr. Wrong: Real-Life Stories About the Men We Used to Love
by Harriet Brown
The Gospel of Food: Everything You Think You Know About Food Is Wrong
by Barry Glassner
The Smaller Majority
by Piotr Naskrecki
The Cat Who Cried for Help: Attitudes, Emotions, and the Psychology of Cats
by Nicholas Dodman
Castle Waiting
, a graphic novel by Linda Medley
This was an absolutely beautiful, riveting story. Keep your eyes peeled for subtle puns and in-jokes!
Diary: A Novel
by Chuck Palahniuk
One of his least weird books--but it was pretty good nonetheless. It's an interesting take on the weirdness of inbred old money families.
Hiss and Tell: True Stories from the Files of a Cat Shrink
by Pam Johnson-Bennett
Interesting tales about a cat behaviorist's work. It's mostly anecdotal, not really an instruction manual, so it's a light, fun read. If you want help with cat behavior after reading this (she's pretty good at her work), "Twisted Whiskers" is the book for that.
Haunted: A Novel
by Chuck Palahniuk
Invisible Monsters
by Chuck Palahniuk
A Plague of Angels
by Sheri S. Tepper (I found a couple copies on Amazon with Plague misspelled as "Plaque")
Shadow's End
by Sheri S. Tepper
My reading list for 2007 is now completed with:
The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass
by Philip Pullman
I loved this trilogy. Link goes to box set trilogy that you can buy from Amazon for pretty cheap ($13.50), which I got for Brian as an Xmas gift, thanks to a gift certificate.
Sideshow
by Sheri S. Tepper
This was very odd. It was an interesting story, but it isn't my favorite Tepper novel.
The Margarets: A Novel
by Sheri S. Tepper
I loved this, especially the cat part. Also, this is written fifth-dimensionally, yet remains quite coherent throughout.
This concludes the Reading List for 2007! Reading List 2008 will be started now!
Never Too Thin: Why Women Are at War With Their Bodies
- Roberta Pollack Seid
The Diet Myth
--Paul Campos
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
--Mary Roach
Arc of the Dream
--A.A. Attanasio
A Rumor of Angels
- Marjorie Kellogg
Snow Crash
-- Neal Stephenson
Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide
--Kay Redfield Jamison
Anansi Boys
--Neil Gaiman
Mona Lisa Overdrive
--William Gibson
Century Rain
--Alistair Reynolds
Ender's Game (Ender, Book 1)
--Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead (Ender, Book 2)
--Orson Scott Card
Xenocide (Ender, Book 3)
--Orson Scott Card
Fast Food Nation
-Eric Schlosser
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
--Neil Gaiman
Cell: A Novel
--Stephen King
Lisey's Story
--Stephen King
A Wrinkle in Time
-Madeleine L'Engle
A Wind in the Door
--Madeleine L'Engle
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
--Madeleine L'Engle
Many Waters (A Companion to "A Wrinkle in Time")
--Madeleine L'Engle
Liberty Falling (Anna Pigeon Mysteries)
--Nevada Barr (This was AWFUL)
Buy Jupiter and Other Stories
--Isaac Asimov
Red as Blood
--Tanith Lee
An Underground Education : The Unauthorized and Outrageous Supplement to Everything You Thought You Knew About Art, Sex, Business, Crime, Science, Medicine, and Other Fields of Human
--Richard Zacks
The Ship Who Sang
--Anne McCaffrey
Mistress Masham's Repose
--T. H. White
All the Myriad Ways
--Larry Niven
The Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition
--Upton Sinclair
Things Fall Apart: A Novel
--Chinua Achebe
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7)
--J. K. Rowling
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
--Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel
--Margaret Atwood
The Phantom Tollbooth
--Norton Juster
Survivor: A Novel
--Chuck Palahniuk
Lullaby: A Novel
--Chuck Palahniuk
Salmon Doubts
--Adam Sacks
The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness
--Jack El-Hai.
Schrodinger's Ball: A Novel
--Adam Felber
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan
Choke
by Chuck Palahniuk
The Feline Mystique: On the Mysterious Connection Between Women and Cats
by Clea Simon
Should the Baby Live?: The Problem of Handicapped Infants (Studies in Bioethics)
by Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer
Letter to a Child Never Born
by Oriana Fallaci
Blaze, a Novel
by Richard Bachman
Blankets
by Craig Thompson
Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions
-- New Scientist Magazine
Sandman, The: Book of Dreams
-- edited by Neil Gaiman
Out of Her Mind: Women Writing on Madness
by Rebecca Shannonhouse
Heart-Shaped Box: A Novel
by Joe Hill
The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats: A Journey Into the Feline Heart
by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (I was deeply unsatisfied with this book. Not only did I disagree with some of the opinions he had, it was very poorly edited. He contradicts himself constantly, making a statement, then stating the exact opposite a page--or, sometimes, less!--later. If you want a cat book, go for "The Tribe of Tiger". I've since found his other books to be worthwhile, so I think he just didn't put much effort into this one, and didn't have a stern enough editor to make him rewrite it so that it made sense).
The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice
by Christopher Hitchens
Altruistic Armadillos, Zenlike Zebras: A Menagerie of 100 Favorite Animals
by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (I really liked this--it was well-researched and well-written; he put a lot more work into this than the cat book)
The Fresco
by Sheri Tepper
Lipitor Thief of Memory
by Duane Graveline (An extremely technical book; I wouldn't bother with it unless you're really interested in the brain's physiology)
Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
by Chuck Palahniuk
Haunted: A Novel
by Chuck Palahniuk
Mr. Wrong: Real-Life Stories About the Men We Used to Love
by Harriet Brown
The Gospel of Food: Everything You Think You Know About Food Is Wrong
by Barry Glassner
The Smaller Majority
by Piotr Naskrecki
The Cat Who Cried for Help: Attitudes, Emotions, and the Psychology of Cats
by Nicholas Dodman
Castle Waiting
, a graphic novel by Linda Medley
This was an absolutely beautiful, riveting story. Keep your eyes peeled for subtle puns and in-jokes!
Diary: A Novel
by Chuck Palahniuk
One of his least weird books--but it was pretty good nonetheless. It's an interesting take on the weirdness of inbred old money families.
Hiss and Tell: True Stories from the Files of a Cat Shrink
by Pam Johnson-Bennett
Interesting tales about a cat behaviorist's work. It's mostly anecdotal, not really an instruction manual, so it's a light, fun read. If you want help with cat behavior after reading this (she's pretty good at her work), "Twisted Whiskers" is the book for that.
Haunted: A Novel
by Chuck Palahniuk
Invisible Monsters
by Chuck Palahniuk
A Plague of Angels
by Sheri S. Tepper (I found a couple copies on Amazon with Plague misspelled as "Plaque")
Shadow's End
by Sheri S. Tepper
My reading list for 2007 is now completed with:
The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass
by Philip Pullman
I loved this trilogy. Link goes to box set trilogy that you can buy from Amazon for pretty cheap ($13.50), which I got for Brian as an Xmas gift, thanks to a gift certificate.
Sideshow
by Sheri S. Tepper
This was very odd. It was an interesting story, but it isn't my favorite Tepper novel.
The Margarets: A Novel
by Sheri S. Tepper
I loved this, especially the cat part. Also, this is written fifth-dimensionally, yet remains quite coherent throughout.
This concludes the Reading List for 2007! Reading List 2008 will be started now!