Books I read in 2007
Submitted by cabby2003 on Wed, 11/07/2007 - 12:09
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- In Cold Blood~ Truman Capote
- Hannibal Rising~ Thomas Harris
- The Memory Keepers Daughter~ Kim Edwards
- To Kill a Mockingbird~ Harper Lee
- Cell~ Stephen King
- Other Voices, Other Rooms~ Truman Capote
- Next~ Michael Crichton
- Abortion~ Richard Brautigan
- The Dahlgren Affair~ Duane Shultz
- The Rasputin File~ Edvard Radzinsky
- The Jungle~ Upton Sinclair
- Memoirs of a Geisha~ Arthur Golden
- Flowers for Algernon~ Daniel Keyes
- Running with Scissors~ Augusten Burroughs
- Finding Freedom~ Jarvis Masters
- The Real Lincoln~ Thomas J. DiLorenzo
- Babbit~ Sinclair Lewis
- The Last Juror~ John Grisham
- A Case of Need~ Michael Crichton
- House of Dark Delights~ Louisa Burton
- Fatal Cure~ Robin Cook
- Vector~ Robin Cook
- The Romanov Prophecy~ Steve Berry
- The Picture of Dorian Gray~ Oscar Wilde
- Common Sense~ Thomas Paine
- Sister Carrie~ Theodore Dreiser
- End of Faith~ Sam Harris
- Lost Books of the Bible
- The Third Secret~ Steve Berry
- Witnesses of War: Children's Lives Under the Nazis~ Nicholas Stargardt
- Sombrero Fallout~ Richard Brautigan
- Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea~ Jules Verne
- Shock~ Robin Cook
- In Harm's Way~ Doug Stanton
- Uncle Tom's Cabin~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time~ Mark Haddon
- Essentials of Philosophy~ James Mannion
- Lisey's Story~ Stephen King
- The Great Mortality~ John Kelly
- 1984~ George Orwell
- The Island of Dr. Moreau~ H.G. Wells
- Job: A Comedy of Justice~ Robert Heinlein
- Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe~ Fannie Flagg
- I, Robot~ Isaac Asimov
- Airframe~ Michael Crichton
- Portals to Hell~ Lonnie Speer
- Catch-22~ Joseph Heller
- A Passage to India~ E.M. Forster
- The Devil in the White City~ Erik Larson
- Candide~ Voltaire
- The Grapes of Wrath~ John Steinbeck
- Damnation Alley~ Roger Zelazny
- The Templar Legacy~ Steve Berry
- Lady Chatterly's Lover~ D.H. Lawrence
- Siddhartha~ Herman Hesse
- Misfortunes of Virtue and other Tales~ Marquis de Sade
- Song of Solomon~ Toni Morrison
- The Man in the Iron Mask~ Alexandre Dumas
- Never Let Me Go~ Kazuo Ishiguro
- One Hundred Years of Solitude~ Gabriel G. Marquez
- Adios Hemingway~ Leonardo Padura Fuentes
- The Plot Against America~ Philip Roth
- Breakfast at Tiffany's~ Truman Capote
- The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test~ Tom Wolfe
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest~ Ken Kesey
- Saturday~ Ian McEwan
- Disgrace~ J.M. Coetzee
- Remains of the Day~ Kazuo Ishiguro
- Life of Pi~ Yann Martel
- Middlesex~ Jeffrey Eugenides
- Choke~ Chuck Palahniuk
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie~ Muriel Spark
- The Unconsoled~ Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Color Purple~ Alice Walker
- The Boys From Brazil~ Ira Levin
- The Fountainhead~ Ayn Rand
- -Isms and -Ologies~ Arthur Goldwag
- The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde~ Oscar Wilde
- Robinson Crusoe~ Daniel Defoe
- The Plague~ Albert Camus
Are you really a cabby?
Nope. It's just a nickname I was given years back.
Ahh I liked the thought of an over educated cabby.
How about an over educated cook/bartender?
What did you think of:
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
These are both on my list of all-time favourite books s
Loved The Picture of Dorian Gray. It contained a lot of thought provoking themes. Since reading it I have bought Oscar Wilde's Complete Fairytales although I have not read it yet.
Grapes of Wrath I read in my bookclub and it really made me a Steinbeck fan. I am still a little haunted by the final scene. I have since bought two more of his books.
By the way.. I love the authors on your list:)
Which are your favourites??
I have also read (from your list)
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (this year)
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
1984 - George Orwell
Job: A Comedy of Justice - Robert Heinlein
I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Candide - Voltaire
Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel G. Marquez
Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
My favorite of the ones I have read this year:
Flowers for Algernon (I have read this multiple times and would probably sound like a sniveling girl if I told you that I cried every time, but I did, therefore I probably am)
1984 (Also read multiple times)
Picture of Dorian Gray
Grapes of Wrath
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
To Kill a Mockingbird
Never Let Me Go
Siddhartha (My first venture in Herman Hesse and I will return to him)
For history I would have to pick
The Devil in the White City
In Harm's Way
Hands down, the worst book I have gotten through this year was One Hundred Years of Solitude. I noticed that you didn't care for it either. In fact I don't know anyone who cared for it and it makes me wonder why it always turns up on those "must read" lists.
I am currently reading The Boys From Brazil~ Ira Levin.
Re: One Hundred Years...
I would ask exactly the opposite question: Why is it that, recently, I've seen so much splenetic hatred for it? I personally think it might be the finest piece of literature I've yet read. So there you go. Now you know someone who thinks highly of it.
I actually have not heard much hatred for it. I could ask what you found so appealing about it? A lot of people say that it was great, but no one ever states why. Do you enjoy his other books?
The one problem I come across with authors is that if I read something of theirs that I don't like it becomes hard for me to pick up another one of their works.
Also, I don't think that hatred and dislike are the same thing. There are plenty of books out there that I really hate.