Here’s the final list of books read for the 2007 year. Final tally is 210 books in English, 131 in Spanish, 4 each in Serbian and Italian, 3 in Latin, 2 each in German and French, and 1 each in Hungarian and Portuguese (although many of these were reading parallel text versions of Le Petit Prince, one of my favorite books and one that I’ll probably re-read in each of the 8 language editions I own sometime this year).
November 10-30:
301. Thomas á Kempis, The Imitation of Christ
302. Italo Calvino, Difficult Loves
303. Jo Walton, Farthing
304. Umberto Eco, Serendipities: Language and Memory
305. Zoran Živković, The Book/The Writer (re-read)
306. Rafael Ábalos, Grimpow: The Invisible Road
307. Gene Wolfe, Pirate Freedom
308. Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus
309. Victor Barocas, Fairy Tales in Latin: Fabulae Mirabiles
310. Jeffrey Overstreet, Auralia’s Colors
311. Alejandro Dolina, Crónicas del Ángel Gris (re-read)
312. Ignacio Padilla, Amphitryon (re-read)
313. M. John Harrison, Viriconium
314. Friedrich Schiller, Don Carlos
315. John D. Rateliff, The History of the Hobbit Part One: Mr. Baggins
316. John D. Rateliff, The History of the Hobbit Part Two: Return to Bag-End
317. Nalo Hopkinson, Midnight Robber
318. Gene Wolfe, The Fifth Head of Cerberus (re-read)
319. Umberto Eco, Il Nome Della Rosa
320. Gene Wolfe, Shadow and Claw (re-read)
321. Gene Wolfe, Sword and Citadel (re-read)
322. Gene Wolfe, Urth of the New Sun (re-read)
December:
323. Gene Wolfe, Litany of the Long Sun (re-read)
324. Gene Wolfe, Epiphany of the Long Sun (re-read)
325. Gene Wolfe, On Blue’s Waters (re-read)
326. Leonard Cohen, The Energy of Slaves (re-read)
327. Gene Wolfe, In Green’s Jungles (re-read)
328. Gene Wolfe, Castle of Days (re-read)
329. Gene Wolfe, Return to the Whorl (re-read)
330. Gene Wolfe, Latro in the Mist (re-read)
331. Gene Wolfe, Soldier of Sidon (re-read)
332. Gene Wolfe, Peace (re-read)
333. Gene Wolfe, Innocents Aboard (re-read)
334. Gene Wolfe, Free Live Free (re-read)
335. Gene Wolfe, There are Doors
336. Gene Wolfe, Strange Travelers (re-read)
337. Gene Wolfe, The Knight (re-read)
338. Gene Wolfe, The Wizard (re-read)
339. Banana Yoshimoto, Asleep
340. Ursula Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
341. Wilson Rawls, Summer of the Monkeys (re-read)
342. René Guillot, The Wild White Stallion
343. Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
344. Ernesto Sabato, Sobre héroes y tumbas (re-read)
345. Ernesto Sabato, Abaddón el exterminador
346. Alejo Carpentier, El siglo de las luces (re-read)
347. Charlie Huston, Half the Blood of Brooklyn
348. Gregory Frost, Shadowbridge
349. Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: Season of Mists (vol. 4)
350. Cat Rambo and Jeff VanderMeer, The Surgeon’s Tale and Other Stories
351. Lope de Vega, Fuente Ovejuna
352. Kelly Link and Gavin Grant (eds.), The Best of Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet
353. George Mann (ed.), The Solaris Book of New Fantasy
354. John Klima (ed.), Logorrhea
355. Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois (eds.), Wizards
356. Keith Brooke and Nick Gevers (eds.), Infinity Plus: The Anthology
357. Delia Sherman and Theodora Goss (eds.), Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing
358. Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
This has been my most prolific reading year since my grad school days, when I had almost literally tons of reading to do for my MA exams and classes. Don’t know if I can surpass this total for 2008, although I already am on #2 in my reading…
