2007 Book List
This is the yearly roundup to the best of my recollection. I clearly started more books than I finished. I went through a non-commital phase, but I will find my way back to many of the lovely novels I started but failed to finish. Others (like Don Delillo's The Names) I gave up on two-thirds of the way through and have washed my hands of entirely. Despite the paltry list, this was fun. Shout out to Ciaran who lit a fire under my ass. Happy reading!
Books I read in 2007:
1. Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk
2. The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier
3. The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany
4. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
5. Tex & Sugar: A Big City Kitty Ditty by Barbara Johansen Newman
6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling
7. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Books I started but didn't finish:
1. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
2. God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens
3. A Wedding in December by Anita Shreve
4. The Best American Travel Writing 2006 edited by Tim Cahill
5. The Names by Don Delillo
6. Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik
7. In the Eye of the Sun by Ahdaf Soueif
8. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
9. Snow by Orhan Pamuk
10. The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Books I listened to on CD:
1. The City of Fallen Angels by John Berendt
2. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
posted by Stephanie @ 7:26 PM
3 Comments:
How do you find books on CD? I actually read the last Harry Potter and then months later listened to it on CD again, when I found myself driving a lot for my job. It was interesting to do it that way (I've never listened to audio books before) but in some spots felt the narrator was talking too slow!
My commute is kind of long, so I enjoy using that time to listen to a book. Many times I don't want to get out of the car when I arrive at work. I also almost had a wreck once because I was so zoned out, listening to a book on CD. It's def. a different thing than reading, but I usually listen to things I wouldn't read.
Ok, so you didn't finish Orhan Pamuk either. I recently purchaed "The Black Book", and felt like such a fool when I decided to give it up at page 120 or thereabouts.
Isn't he supposed to be one of the great authors of our time? Darn. Next time, I guess.
I loved "The Yacoubian Building."
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