Books of 2007
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brigdhHappy New Year! It has been a very good year.
But now it's January , which clearly means I need to get started on all those year-round-up posts. First off, books!
Unfortunately, I accidentally overwrote my file early in the year, so I'm missing January and most of February. Like last year, this only counts books I read from cover to cover, which means a lot of things I read for school aren't on here, being just articles or chapters or whatever. Also, Swordspoint isn't on the list, because I got tired of counting it in 2006, but feel free to add three or four reads of that into here as well.
Tears of the Giraffe - Alexander McCall Smith 02/25/07
Local Exchange and Early State Development in Southwestern Iran - Gregory Johnson 02/26/07
The Indus Civilization: A Contemporary Perspective - Gregory Possehl 02/27/07
Maurice - E. M. Forster 02/27/07
Indus Civilization in Saurashtra - Gregory Possehl 02/28/07
Wild Magic - Tamora Pierce 03/01/07
Gorgeous Carat: Volume One - Higuri You 03/03/07
Wolf-Speaker - Tamora Pierce 03/04/07
Gorgeous Carat: Volume Two - Higuri You 03/04/07
Gorgeous Carat: Volume Three - Higuri You 03/05/07
Gorgeous Carat: Volume Four - Higuri You 03/07/07
Gorgeous Carat Galaxy - Higuri You 03/10/07
Eridu - Fuad Safar, Mohammad Ali Mustafa, Seton Lloyd 03/13/07
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson 03/24/07
I've a Feeling We're Not in Kansas Anymore - Ethan Mordden 03/25/07
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton 03/29/07
Buddies - Ethan Mordden 03/30/07
The Grand Sophy - Georgette Heyer 04/01/07
The Vintner's Luck - Elizabeth Knox 04/04/07
Swords and Deviltry - Fritz Leiber 04/07/07
Sacred Language, Ordinary People: Dilemmas of Culture and Politics in Egypt - Niloofar Haeri 04/14/07
Blue Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson 04/30/07
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 05/05/07
The Phoenix Guards - Steven Brust 05/10/07
Dune - Frank Herbert 05/21/07
Cyprus Before History: From the Earliest Settlers to the End of the Bronze Age - Louise Steel 05/26/07
Litany of the Long Sun - Gene Wolfe 06/10/07
The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Emmuska Orczy 07/01/07
Bitter Lemons of Cyprus - Lawrence Durrell 07/06/07
Paleoethnobotany: A Handbook of Procedures - Deborah M. Pearsall 07/13/07
The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky 07/14/07
The Late Romances (Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest) - William Shakespeare 07/21/07
These Old Shades - Georgette Heyer 07/26/07
Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters 07/30/07 (reread)
The Nanny Diaries - Emma Mclaughlin, Nicola Kraus 08/03/07
Epiphany of the Long Sun - Gene Wolfe 08/08/07
The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden - Catherynne M. Valente 08/12/07
The Ruins - Scott Smith 08/13/07
The Porcelain Dove - Delia Sherman 08/17/07
The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales - Eds: Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling 08/18/07
Changeling - Delia Sherman 08/23/07
Cities - John Reader 08/24/07
The Black Moth - Georgette Heyer 08/25/07
The Bermudez Triangle - Maureen Johnson 08/27/07
The Lies of Locke Lamora - Scott Lynch 09/02/07
The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman 09/04/07 (reread)
The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman 09/07/07 (reread)
The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman 09/08/07 (reread)
Finding Forgotten Cities: How the Indus Civilization Was Discovered - Nayanjot Lahiri 09/12/07
Rubyfruit Jungle - Rita Mae Brown 09/14/07
Making Money - Terry Pratchett 09/22/07
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 09/29/07
The Ancient Indus: Urbanism, Economy, and Society - Rita Wright 09/29/07 (not yet published)
The Nonesuch - Georgette Heyer 10/05/07
Excavations at Harappa: Being an Account of Archaeological Excavations at Harappa Carried Out Between the Years 1920-21 and 1933-34 - Mado Sarup Vats 10/08/07
Thomas the Rhymer - Ellen Kushner 10/09/07
The Archaeology of Identity: Approaches to gender, age, status, ethnicity and religion - Margarita Diaz-Andreu, Sam Lucy, Stasa Babic, and David N. Edwards 10/17/07
Black Sheep - Georgette Heyer 10/28/07
Archaeologies of Social Life - Lynn Meskell 10/30/07
Craft and Social Identity - Eds: Cathy Lynne Costin and Rita P. Wright 11/02/07
We, Robots - Sue Lange 11/04/07
Self-Decoration in Mount Hagen - Andrew and Marilyn Strathern 11/04/07
I Am America (And So Can You)! - Stephen Colbery 11/10/07 Audiobook
Archeaological Approaches to Technology - Heather M-L Miller 11/11/07
Household and State in Upper Mesopotamia: Specialized Economy and the Social Uses of Goods in an Early Complex Society - Patricia Wattenmaker 11/15/07
Order, Legitimacy, and Wealth in Ancient States - Eds: Janet Richards and Mary van Buren 11/18/07
Swords Against Death - Fritz Leiber 11/22/07
Empire of Ivory - Naomi Novak 11/24/07
Swords in the Mist - Fritz Leiber 11/24/07
Ancient Jewellry - Jack Ogden 11/29/07
Swords Against Wizadry - Fritz Leiber 12/06/07
The Waterworks - E. L. Doctorow 12/09/07
Emperor Mage - Tamora Pierce 12/09/07
The Archaeology of Rank - Paul Wason 12/11/07
Cotillion - Georgette Heyer 12/15/07
The Swords of Lankhmar - Fritz Leiber 12/23/07
The Blade Itself - Joe Abercrombie 12/28/07
Maledicte - Lane Robbins 12/30/07
The Onion: Our Dumb World, Atlas of the Planet Earth - (lots of editors) 12/31/07
Total: 79. It's hard to tell, given that I'm missing Jan and Feb, and that last year I didn't start counting until July, but I think I read much less this year. I blame this on a combination of Cyprus and TA'ing. I read a lot of a few authors, particularly Georgette Heyer and Fritz Leiber, which is cool. I haven't really gone through a whole author's collection since I was in high school and had more free time. There were a lot of books I really loved this year, including Cryptonomicon, The Orphan's Tales, The Idiot, but far and away the book I liked the least, one may even say hated, was Kite Runner. (The movie is much better, by the way.)
As I'm too lazy to blog about books, feel free to ask me anything about these.
But now it's January , which clearly means I need to get started on all those year-round-up posts. First off, books!
Unfortunately, I accidentally overwrote my file early in the year, so I'm missing January and most of February. Like last year, this only counts books I read from cover to cover, which means a lot of things I read for school aren't on here, being just articles or chapters or whatever. Also, Swordspoint isn't on the list, because I got tired of counting it in 2006, but feel free to add three or four reads of that into here as well.
Tears of the Giraffe - Alexander McCall Smith 02/25/07
Local Exchange and Early State Development in Southwestern Iran - Gregory Johnson 02/26/07
The Indus Civilization: A Contemporary Perspective - Gregory Possehl 02/27/07
Maurice - E. M. Forster 02/27/07
Indus Civilization in Saurashtra - Gregory Possehl 02/28/07
Wild Magic - Tamora Pierce 03/01/07
Gorgeous Carat: Volume One - Higuri You 03/03/07
Wolf-Speaker - Tamora Pierce 03/04/07
Gorgeous Carat: Volume Two - Higuri You 03/04/07
Gorgeous Carat: Volume Three - Higuri You 03/05/07
Gorgeous Carat: Volume Four - Higuri You 03/07/07
Gorgeous Carat Galaxy - Higuri You 03/10/07
Eridu - Fuad Safar, Mohammad Ali Mustafa, Seton Lloyd 03/13/07
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson 03/24/07
I've a Feeling We're Not in Kansas Anymore - Ethan Mordden 03/25/07
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton 03/29/07
Buddies - Ethan Mordden 03/30/07
The Grand Sophy - Georgette Heyer 04/01/07
The Vintner's Luck - Elizabeth Knox 04/04/07
Swords and Deviltry - Fritz Leiber 04/07/07
Sacred Language, Ordinary People: Dilemmas of Culture and Politics in Egypt - Niloofar Haeri 04/14/07
Blue Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson 04/30/07
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 05/05/07
The Phoenix Guards - Steven Brust 05/10/07
Dune - Frank Herbert 05/21/07
Cyprus Before History: From the Earliest Settlers to the End of the Bronze Age - Louise Steel 05/26/07
Litany of the Long Sun - Gene Wolfe 06/10/07
The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Emmuska Orczy 07/01/07
Bitter Lemons of Cyprus - Lawrence Durrell 07/06/07
Paleoethnobotany: A Handbook of Procedures - Deborah M. Pearsall 07/13/07
The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky 07/14/07
The Late Romances (Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest) - William Shakespeare 07/21/07
These Old Shades - Georgette Heyer 07/26/07
Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters 07/30/07 (reread)
The Nanny Diaries - Emma Mclaughlin, Nicola Kraus 08/03/07
Epiphany of the Long Sun - Gene Wolfe 08/08/07
The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden - Catherynne M. Valente 08/12/07
The Ruins - Scott Smith 08/13/07
The Porcelain Dove - Delia Sherman 08/17/07
The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales - Eds: Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling 08/18/07
Changeling - Delia Sherman 08/23/07
Cities - John Reader 08/24/07
The Black Moth - Georgette Heyer 08/25/07
The Bermudez Triangle - Maureen Johnson 08/27/07
The Lies of Locke Lamora - Scott Lynch 09/02/07
The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman 09/04/07 (reread)
The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman 09/07/07 (reread)
The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman 09/08/07 (reread)
Finding Forgotten Cities: How the Indus Civilization Was Discovered - Nayanjot Lahiri 09/12/07
Rubyfruit Jungle - Rita Mae Brown 09/14/07
Making Money - Terry Pratchett 09/22/07
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 09/29/07
The Ancient Indus: Urbanism, Economy, and Society - Rita Wright 09/29/07 (not yet published)
The Nonesuch - Georgette Heyer 10/05/07
Excavations at Harappa: Being an Account of Archaeological Excavations at Harappa Carried Out Between the Years 1920-21 and 1933-34 - Mado Sarup Vats 10/08/07
Thomas the Rhymer - Ellen Kushner 10/09/07
The Archaeology of Identity: Approaches to gender, age, status, ethnicity and religion - Margarita Diaz-Andreu, Sam Lucy, Stasa Babic, and David N. Edwards 10/17/07
Black Sheep - Georgette Heyer 10/28/07
Archaeologies of Social Life - Lynn Meskell 10/30/07
Craft and Social Identity - Eds: Cathy Lynne Costin and Rita P. Wright 11/02/07
We, Robots - Sue Lange 11/04/07
Self-Decoration in Mount Hagen - Andrew and Marilyn Strathern 11/04/07
I Am America (And So Can You)! - Stephen Colbery 11/10/07 Audiobook
Archeaological Approaches to Technology - Heather M-L Miller 11/11/07
Household and State in Upper Mesopotamia: Specialized Economy and the Social Uses of Goods in an Early Complex Society - Patricia Wattenmaker 11/15/07
Order, Legitimacy, and Wealth in Ancient States - Eds: Janet Richards and Mary van Buren 11/18/07
Swords Against Death - Fritz Leiber 11/22/07
Empire of Ivory - Naomi Novak 11/24/07
Swords in the Mist - Fritz Leiber 11/24/07
Ancient Jewellry - Jack Ogden 11/29/07
Swords Against Wizadry - Fritz Leiber 12/06/07
The Waterworks - E. L. Doctorow 12/09/07
Emperor Mage - Tamora Pierce 12/09/07
The Archaeology of Rank - Paul Wason 12/11/07
Cotillion - Georgette Heyer 12/15/07
The Swords of Lankhmar - Fritz Leiber 12/23/07
The Blade Itself - Joe Abercrombie 12/28/07
Maledicte - Lane Robbins 12/30/07
The Onion: Our Dumb World, Atlas of the Planet Earth - (lots of editors) 12/31/07
Total: 79. It's hard to tell, given that I'm missing Jan and Feb, and that last year I didn't start counting until July, but I think I read much less this year. I blame this on a combination of Cyprus and TA'ing. I read a lot of a few authors, particularly Georgette Heyer and Fritz Leiber, which is cool. I haven't really gone through a whole author's collection since I was in high school and had more free time. There were a lot of books I really loved this year, including Cryptonomicon, The Orphan's Tales, The Idiot, but far and away the book I liked the least, one may even say hated, was Kite Runner. (The movie is much better, by the way.)
As I'm too lazy to blog about books, feel free to ask me anything about these.
