What I read: 2007
What do you care what I read in 2007? Nothing, of course, but I do. As I get older (I was 20 in 1983 when I started keeping track of the books I read) I find myself more and more in the position of looking at a stack of books on my shelves by, say, Cornell Woolrich and they all have the word "Black" in the title. I know I've read a couple but I can't remember which ones. Fortunately, I've been maintaining a little list in a little brown book since April 1983 of all the books I've read (or at least attempted). By putting this list here it will be searchable. I may ultimately put at least some of it in something like LibraryThing, but for now I'll be putting it here. The advantage is that the blog is quick and dirty, without a lot of effort per entry. The books are in the order I read them.
By way of adding some value to the list, I'll italicize any work that I remember as being particularly wonderful.
- Hybrids by Robert J. Sawyer
- The Republican War on Science by Chris Mooney
- Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik
- Over My Dead Body by Lee Server
- The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2006 edited by Brian Greene
- The Best American Science Writing 2006 edited by Atul Gawande
- Demons by John Shirley
- The Open Laboratory: The Best Writing on Science Blogs 2006 edited by Bora Zivkovic
- Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels by David Pringle
- Struck by Lightning: The Curious World of Probabilities by Jeffrey S. Rosenthal
- It by Stephen King
- The Google Story by: Inside the Hottest Business, Media, and Technology Success of Our Time by David Vise & Mark Malseed
- Witness to Myself by Seymour Shubin
- Lady Yesterday by Loren D. Estleman
- Follies of Science: 20th Century Visions of Our Fantastic Future by Eric Dregni & Jonathan Dregni
- Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Fabulous Riverboat by Philip Jose Farmer
- The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next by Lee Smolin
- Still Life with Crows by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
- Balanced Libraries: Thoughts on Continuity and Change by Walt Crawford
- The Science of Evolution and the Myth of Creationism: Knowing What's Real and Why It Matters by Ardea Skybreak
- The Choir of Ill Children by Tom Piccirilli
- You'll Die Next by Harry Whittington
- Trials of the Monkey: An Accidental Memoir by Matthew Chapman
- Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder by David Weinberger
- Clear and Present Danger by Tom Clancy
- Stolen by Kelley Armstrong
- Days of Infamy by Harry Turtledove
- The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril
- The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi
- The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon
- The Map that Changed the World by Simon Winchester
- Ghost Road Blues by Jonathan Maberry
- The Boy who Would Live Forever by Frederik Pohl
- Glut: Mastering Information Through The Ages by Alex Wright
- Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature by David Quammen
- The Wrecking Crew by Donald Hamilton
- 13 Bullets by David Wellington
- The Year's Best Science Fiction: 22 edited by Gardner Dozois
- Dinner with Dad: How I Found My Way Back to the Family Table by Cameron Stracher
- Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: 16 edited by Stephen Jones
- The Last Colony by John Scalzi
- Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can't Stand Up to the Facts by John McCain, David Dunbar, and Brad Reagan
- The Best American Science Writing 2007 by Gina Kolata
- Dead Man's Song by Jonathan Maberry
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