Musings from Brian J. Noggle: 2007: The Year's Reading in Review

2007: The Year's Reading in Review

To brag, here's the complete list of books I read in the 2007 goal year:

Home Improvement:52 Weekend Projects by Dan Ramsay
Nature Girl by Carl Hiaasen
Dr. Kookie, You're Right by Mike Royko
Grifters & Swindlers Cynthia Manson (ed)
Stanyan Street and Other Sorrows by Rod McKuen
Kiss by Ed McBain
Robert Frost by Lawrance Thompson
Tarnsman of Gor by John Norman
Dirty Work by Stuart Woods
Mortal Prey by John Sandford
High Profile by Robert B. Parker
Fields of Wonder by Rod McKuen
The Mensa Genius Quiz Book by Marvin Grosswirth, Dr. Abbie Salny, and the members of Mensa
Too Far by Mike Lupica
Great Tales of Mystery & Suspense Compiled by Bill Pronzini, Barry N. Malzberg, & Martin H. Greenberg
Lucky You by Carl Hiaasen
Great True Stories of Crime, Mystery, and Detection by Reader's Digest
Come to Me in Silence by Rod McKuen
Stormy Weather by Carl Hiaasen
Ringworld's Children by Larry Niven
Ernest Hemingway by Philip Young
Winter Prey by John Sandford
Broken Prey by John Sandford
Forever Odd by Dean Koontz
The Prize Winner's Handbook by Jeffrey Feinmann
The Case of the Cautious Coquette by Erle Stanley Gardner
The King's Henchman by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Hidden Prey by John Sandford
Fat Ollie's Book by Ed McBain
Santorini by Alistair MacLean
Terminator Dreams by Aason Allston
Night Prey by John Sandford
The Instant Enemy by Ross MacDonald
Nocturne by Ed McBain
The Murder Book by Jonathan Kellerman
Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet
Oath of Fealty by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
Another Part of the City by Ed McBain
The Retaliators by Donald Hamilton
SeinLanguage by Jerry Seinfeld
Biloxi Blues by Neil Simon
Nick at Nite's Classic TV Companion edited by Tom Hill
Tuesday Night Football by Alex Karras and Douglas Graham
Chapter Two by Neil Simon
Certain Prey by John Sandford
Outlaw of Gor by John Norman
Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad
The Watchman by Robert Crais
The Use and Abuse of Books by Leon Battista Alberti
From The Corner Of His Eye by Dean Koontz
Dirty Linen by Tom Stoppard
Harvest Poems 1910-1960 by Carl Sandburg
Suspension Bridge by Rod McKuen
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Spare Change by Robert B. Parker
Lake Superior Journal Jim Marshall's View from the Bridge by Jim Marshall
Candyland by Evan Hunter/Ed McBain
Armageddon 2419 AD by Philip Francis Nowlan
Sonnets of Eve by Flora May Johnson Pearce
Kill City: The Enforcer #3 by Andrew Sugar
Listen to the Warm by Rod McKuen
All I Need to Know I Learned From My Cat by Suzy Becker
101 Uses for a Dead Cat by Simon Bond
Sleeping Beauty by Ross MacDonald
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Tangled Vines Lyn Lifshin (ed)
Sweet and Sour by Andrew A. Rooney
He Was a Midwestern Boy on His Own by Bob Greene
Poems of Flowers Gail Harvey (Ed)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
The Parisian Affair by Nick Carter
Ghosts by Ed McBain
Puppet on a Chain by Alistair MacLean
Deadly Welcome by John D. MacDonald
Ariel by Sylvia Plath
All Summer Long by Bob Greene
Poems of Friendship Gail Harvey (Ed)
Be Happy! April Danner (selected by)
The Adventures of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Dear Americans: Letters from the Desk of Ronald Reagan Ralph E. Weber & Ralph A. Weber (ed)
Detroit by Dale Fisher
Versus by Ogden Nash
Sight Unseen by Donald Margulies
My Poems from the Heart by Pam Puleo
Broadway Bound by Neil Simon
Panic in Philly by Don Pendleton
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
Seawitch by Alistair MacLean
The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy
How to Research The History of Your Webster Groves Home by Ann Morris
Webster Park 1892-1992 by Wilda H. Swift and Cynthia S. Easterling
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Eight Black Horses by Ed McBain
State's Evidence by Stephen Greenleaf
North Webster: A Photograpic History of a Black Community by Ann Morris and Henrietta Ambrose
Case of the Fiery Fingers by Erle Stanley Gardner
Raiders of Gor by John Norman
Treasures of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism by
Lori by Robert Bloch
Unfair and Unbalanced: The Lunatic Magniloquence of Henry E. Panky by Patrick M. Carlisle
Vienna Days by Kim du Toit
Hoaxes! by Gordon Stein and Marie J. MacNee
Like I Was Sayin' by Mike Royko
Farnham's Freehold by Robert Heinlein
Webster Groves by Clarissa Start
Now and Then by Robert B. Parker
The Black Hole by Alan Dean Foster
One of Us is Wrong by Samuel Holt
My Enemy, My Ally by Diane Duane
In Retrospect I by Kathy Condon (ed.)
Tales from the Coral Court by Shellee Graham
New York at Night by Bill Harris
The Handyman by Penelope Mortimer
Downtown by Ed McBain
Momisms by Cathy Hamilton
The Enforcer by Andrew Sugar
The Book of Lists The 90s Edition by David Wallechinsky and Amy Wallace
Spill the Jackpot by A.A. Fair
It's Pat: My Life Exposed by Julia Sweeney and Christine Zander
Dave Barry's Gift Guide to End All Gift Guides by Dave Barry
Then We Came To The End by Joshua Ferris
Mind Prey by John Sandford
Star Trek: The Motion Picture by Gene Roddenberry
The Best Cartoons from the Saturday Evening Post

You can find the reviews using that little search box at the top. I am far too lazy to do 125 Google searches to make it easy on you.

Overall, quite the eclectic mix. A lot of John Sandford and Ed McBain, some John Norman, and a mix of genre fiction, literary classics, poetry, and some non-fiction thrown in.

Bow before my reading prowess and my ability to sit in a recliner for whole evenings instead of doing something productive with my life.

- posted by Brian J. @ 2:22 PM