Books, Second Half
Dec. 31st, 2007 02:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stoutfellowI think I can safely say that I'm not going to finish reading any more books this year. The final tally is 112, which is surprisingly high - my totals the last two years were 76 and 84 respectively. Also surprising is the nonfiction total - 30, double last year's count. Admittedly, quite a bit of the nonfiction was fairly lightweight, but even so....
The full second-half reckoning is under the cut. (The first half is here.)
Fiction
SF/F (42): Terry Pratchett, Pyramids*, Making Money; Lois McMaster Bujold, Legacy, The Spirit Ring*; Jonathan Stroud, The Amulet of Samarkand; Sylvia Kelso, Everran's Bane; Greg Bear, Queen of Angels*; Edward Louis, Odysseus on the Rhine; Jane Lindskold, Through Wolf's Eyes*, Wolf's Head, Wolf's Heart, The Dragon of Despair; J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows; Jim Butcher, Storm Front; Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon; Keith Laumer, Retief in the Ruins; Eric Flint, 1812: The Rivers of War; Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, Crystal Soldier; James Schmitz, The Witches of Karres*; L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; Andre Norton, Gods and Androids, Janus; Jasper Fforde, Something Rotten; Michael Bishop, No Enemy But Time; Vernor Vinge, Rainbow's End, Tatja Grimm's World; H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man; Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle; Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora; C. S. Friedman, In Conquest Born, Black Sun Rising, When True Night Falls; Laura Underwood, The Hounds of Ardagh; Selina Rosen (ed.), Bubbas of the Apocalypse; Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys; Elizabeth Moon, The Deed of Paksenarrion; Gene Wolfe, The Knight*, The Wizard; Robert Heinlein, The Green Hills of Earth*; Eric Frank Russell, Major Ingredients; R. A. Lafferty, Not to Mention Camels; Peter Beagle, The Line Between; Paul Park, A Princess of Roumania.
Historical (4): Laura Joh Rowland, Assassin's Touch, Red Chrysanthemum; Barbara Hambly, Fever Season; George Macdonald Fraser, Flashman's Lady
Mystery (2): Janet Evanovich, Three to Get Deadly, Four to Score.
Other (3): Bill Watterson, There's Treasure Everywhere*; "Nanny Ogg", Nanny Ogg's Cookbook; Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird.
Nonfiction
Natural Sciences (3): Jared Diamond, The Third Chimpanzee; Rudolf Raff, The Shape of Life; Victor Szebehely, Adventures in Celestial Mechanics.
Social Sciences (7): Peter Spufford, Power and Profit; Howe & Strauss, Generations; Nicholas Ostler, Empires of the Word; Carl Bache, The Study of Aspect, Tense and Action; Dorothy Lewis, Guilty by Reason of Insanity; Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism; James Surowiecki, The Wisdom of Crowds.
History (3): Lucie Aubrac, Outwitting the Gestapo; Stanley Wolpert, A New History of India; Robert B. Edgerton, The Fall of the Asante Empire.
Other (3): Simon Winchester, The Crack in the Edge of the World, The Professor and the Madman; Robert Alter, The World of Biblical Literature.
As usual, asterisks indicate rereads.
I may make a "best of 2007" post later - "of 2007" meaning books that I read this year.
The full second-half reckoning is under the cut. (The first half is here.)
Fiction
SF/F (42): Terry Pratchett, Pyramids*, Making Money; Lois McMaster Bujold, Legacy, The Spirit Ring*; Jonathan Stroud, The Amulet of Samarkand; Sylvia Kelso, Everran's Bane; Greg Bear, Queen of Angels*; Edward Louis, Odysseus on the Rhine; Jane Lindskold, Through Wolf's Eyes*, Wolf's Head, Wolf's Heart, The Dragon of Despair; J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows; Jim Butcher, Storm Front; Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon; Keith Laumer, Retief in the Ruins; Eric Flint, 1812: The Rivers of War; Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, Crystal Soldier; James Schmitz, The Witches of Karres*; L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; Andre Norton, Gods and Androids, Janus; Jasper Fforde, Something Rotten; Michael Bishop, No Enemy But Time; Vernor Vinge, Rainbow's End, Tatja Grimm's World; H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man; Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle; Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora; C. S. Friedman, In Conquest Born, Black Sun Rising, When True Night Falls; Laura Underwood, The Hounds of Ardagh; Selina Rosen (ed.), Bubbas of the Apocalypse; Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys; Elizabeth Moon, The Deed of Paksenarrion; Gene Wolfe, The Knight*, The Wizard; Robert Heinlein, The Green Hills of Earth*; Eric Frank Russell, Major Ingredients; R. A. Lafferty, Not to Mention Camels; Peter Beagle, The Line Between; Paul Park, A Princess of Roumania.
Historical (4): Laura Joh Rowland, Assassin's Touch, Red Chrysanthemum; Barbara Hambly, Fever Season; George Macdonald Fraser, Flashman's Lady
Mystery (2): Janet Evanovich, Three to Get Deadly, Four to Score.
Other (3): Bill Watterson, There's Treasure Everywhere*; "Nanny Ogg", Nanny Ogg's Cookbook; Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird.
Nonfiction
Natural Sciences (3): Jared Diamond, The Third Chimpanzee; Rudolf Raff, The Shape of Life; Victor Szebehely, Adventures in Celestial Mechanics.
Social Sciences (7): Peter Spufford, Power and Profit; Howe & Strauss, Generations; Nicholas Ostler, Empires of the Word; Carl Bache, The Study of Aspect, Tense and Action; Dorothy Lewis, Guilty by Reason of Insanity; Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism; James Surowiecki, The Wisdom of Crowds.
History (3): Lucie Aubrac, Outwitting the Gestapo; Stanley Wolpert, A New History of India; Robert B. Edgerton, The Fall of the Asante Empire.
Other (3): Simon Winchester, The Crack in the Edge of the World, The Professor and the Madman; Robert Alter, The World of Biblical Literature.
As usual, asterisks indicate rereads.
I may make a "best of 2007" post later - "of 2007" meaning books that I read this year.
