Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Books Read: 2007

I do this yearly: try to read at least 50 books a year. I don't always make it. It doesn't look like I am going to this year, actually, since the new year starts next week. Still, I may surprise myself. Or maybe I can read a few graphic novels to bridge the gap. Anyway, this is the list of books I have read so far in 2007:

1. Tomorrow Wendy - Shelley Stoehr
2. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
3. Female Masculinity - Judith Halberstam
4. The Robber Bride (re-read) - Margaret Atwood
5. What A Funny Time To Be Gay - Ed Karvoski Jr.
6. Clean Slate: New & Selected Poems - Daisy Zamora
7. Trans-Sister Radio - Chris Bohjalian
8. Is My Cat Ok? How To Know When Your Cat Won't Say - Jeff Nichol
9. The Chocolate War - Robert Cormier
10 The Hours - Michael Cunningham
11. My Heartbeat - Garret Freymann-Weyr
12. Ramsacking The Closet - Yvonne Zipter
13. The Patience of Metal: Poems (re-read) - Yvonne Zipter
14. A Widow For One Year - John Irving
15. Mountain Man Dance Moves: The McSweeney's Book of Lists
16. Kissing Kate - Lauren Myracle
17. Empire Falls - Richard Russo
18. Sugar Rush - Julie Burchill
19. Good-bye to shy : 85 shybusters that work - Leil Lowndes
20. Luna - Julie Anne Peters
21. Skies: Poems - Eileen Myles
22. Dykes To Watch Out For: The Sequel (graphic novel)- Alison Bechdel
23. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
24. Wicked - Gregory Maguire
25. Stone Butch Blues - Leslie Feinberg
26. Night - Elie Wiesel
27. Notes From The Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
28. Orlando - Virginia Voolf
29. I Capture The Castle - Dodie Smith
30. The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
31. Kissing The Witch - Emma Donoghue
32. Mirror Mirror - Gregory Maguire
33. Hello Groin - Beth Goobie
34. The Time Traveller: Poems - Joyce Carol Oates
35. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister - Gregory Maguire
36. The Rules for Hearts - Sara Ryan
37. Two Kinds of Arson - Brandi Homan
38. Fun Home - Alison Bechdel
39. After The Wreck...(it's a really long title, so I'm abbreviating it) - Joyce Carol Oates
40. Stolen Sharpie Revolution - Alex Wrekk
41. Stardust - Neil Gaiman (re-read)
42. Strangers In Paradise - Terry Moore
43. Dream Work (poems) - Mary Oliver
44. The Plain Janes - Cecil Castellucci
45. Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
46. Redwall - Brian Jacques (re-read)
47. The Squirrel Mother - Megan Kelso

::see those read in 2005 & 2006::

And I'm open to reading suggestions all year, every year.

5 comments:

  1. Yeah...I dunno. I love books and I guess, if you really want to do something, you find time to do it.

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  2. I hope you had a good Holiday, I hope you enjoyed the gifts I got you, and, I hope you have a Happy New year!

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  3. Thank you! I hope you enjoyed your holidays, too! Happy New Year! ;)

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  4. Have you seen LibraryThing? It lets you keep track of the books you read online, see what others are reading, tag your books, write reviews, etc. Kinda fun.

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  5. I just got a LibraryThing account! Thank you! ;)

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