2007 Book List
I just realized, looking back over recent LJ entries, that I haven't noted down what books I've been reading *at all* this year. I like to remember. So, here's what I can recall of the last two months, to be expanded as I go. Cut for (eventual) length. Favorites are starred.
In Progress:
Stay With Me - Garrett Freymann-Weyr
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation - M. T. Anderson
2007 New Reads:
The Green Futures of Tycho - William Sleator
Book of a Thousand Days - Shannon Hale
Beguilement (The Sharing Knife #1) - Lois McMaster Bujold
The Hallowed Hunt - Lois McMaster Bujold
Ysabel - Guy Gavriel Kay
Extras - Scott Westerfeld
*Boy Toy - Barry Lyga
Evil Genius - Catherine Jinks
This is What I Did - Ann Dee Ellis
Dearly Devoted Dexter - Jeff Lindsay
Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Jeff Lindsay
One for Sorrow - Christopher Barzak
Holes - Louis Sachar
*The Annotated Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen / David M. Shepard
Girl at Sea - Maureen Johnson
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac - Gabrielle Zevin
Eclipse - Stephanie Meyer
Twins - Marcy Dermansky
Tripping to Somewhere - Kristopher Reisz
*Skin Hunger - Kathleen Duey
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J. K. Rowling
Twisted - Laurie Halse Anderson
The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl - Barry Lyga
Ptolemy's Gate - Jonathan Stroud
*Elsewhere - Gabrielle Zevin (*sob*)
*Flora Segunda - Ysabeau S. Wilce
*Kushiel's Justice - Jacqueline Carey
The Golem's Eye - Jonathan Stroud
*Devilish - Maureen Johnson
The Bermudez Triangle - Maureen Johnson
Castle in the Air - Diana Wynne Jones
The People of Sparks - Jeanne DuPrau
*The Game of Sunken Places - M.T. Anderson (his dialogue cracks me up)
The Witch's Boy - Michael Gruber
The Last Universe - William Sleator
*The Making of Pride and Prejudice - Susie Conklin and Sue Birtwistle
Get Well Soon - Julie Halpern
Ironside - Holly Black
City of Bones - Cassandra Clare
Me, Penelope - Lisa Jahn-Clough
Better Than Running at Night - Hillary Frank
Koyal Dark, Mango Sweet - Kashmira Sheth
The Harlequin - Laurell K. Hamilton
The Amulet of Samarkand - Jonathan Stroud
Meet the Austins - Madeleine L'Engle
The Moon by Night - Madeleine L'Engle
The Young Unicorns - Madeleine L'Engle
A Ring of Endless Light - Madeleine L'Engle
Troubling a Star -Madeleine L'Engle
The Homeward Bounders - Diana Wynne Jones
The Westing Game - Ellen Raskin
Re-read (infer stars):
Singularity - William Sleator
Black Jewels trilogy - Anne Bishop
Twilight - Stephanie Meyer
Kushiel's Scion - Jacqueline Carey
Kushiel's Avatar - Jacqueline Carey
Thirsty - M.T. Anderson
The Mummy - Anne Rice
Strange Attractors - William Sleator
In Progress:
Stay With Me - Garrett Freymann-Weyr
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation - M. T. Anderson
2007 New Reads:
The Green Futures of Tycho - William Sleator
Book of a Thousand Days - Shannon Hale
Beguilement (The Sharing Knife #1) - Lois McMaster Bujold
The Hallowed Hunt - Lois McMaster Bujold
Ysabel - Guy Gavriel Kay
Extras - Scott Westerfeld
*Boy Toy - Barry Lyga
Evil Genius - Catherine Jinks
This is What I Did - Ann Dee Ellis
Dearly Devoted Dexter - Jeff Lindsay
Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Jeff Lindsay
One for Sorrow - Christopher Barzak
Holes - Louis Sachar
*The Annotated Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen / David M. Shepard
Girl at Sea - Maureen Johnson
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac - Gabrielle Zevin
Eclipse - Stephanie Meyer
Twins - Marcy Dermansky
Tripping to Somewhere - Kristopher Reisz
*Skin Hunger - Kathleen Duey
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J. K. Rowling
Twisted - Laurie Halse Anderson
The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl - Barry Lyga
Ptolemy's Gate - Jonathan Stroud
*Elsewhere - Gabrielle Zevin (*sob*)
*Flora Segunda - Ysabeau S. Wilce
*Kushiel's Justice - Jacqueline Carey
The Golem's Eye - Jonathan Stroud
*Devilish - Maureen Johnson
The Bermudez Triangle - Maureen Johnson
Castle in the Air - Diana Wynne Jones
The People of Sparks - Jeanne DuPrau
*The Game of Sunken Places - M.T. Anderson (his dialogue cracks me up)
The Witch's Boy - Michael Gruber
The Last Universe - William Sleator
*The Making of Pride and Prejudice - Susie Conklin and Sue Birtwistle
Get Well Soon - Julie Halpern
Ironside - Holly Black
City of Bones - Cassandra Clare
Me, Penelope - Lisa Jahn-Clough
Better Than Running at Night - Hillary Frank
Koyal Dark, Mango Sweet - Kashmira Sheth
The Harlequin - Laurell K. Hamilton
The Amulet of Samarkand - Jonathan Stroud
Meet the Austins - Madeleine L'Engle
The Moon by Night - Madeleine L'Engle
The Young Unicorns - Madeleine L'Engle
A Ring of Endless Light - Madeleine L'Engle
Troubling a Star -Madeleine L'Engle
The Homeward Bounders - Diana Wynne Jones
The Westing Game - Ellen Raskin
Re-read (infer stars):
Singularity - William Sleator
Black Jewels trilogy - Anne Bishop
Twilight - Stephanie Meyer
Kushiel's Scion - Jacqueline Carey
Kushiel's Avatar - Jacqueline Carey
Thirsty - M.T. Anderson
The Mummy - Anne Rice
Strange Attractors - William Sleator