Books read in 2008

Submitted by Slinkyboy on Tue, 01/01/2008 - 06:36
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  1. Gate of Ivrel - C. J. Cherryh
  2. The Midwich Cuckoos - John Wyndham
  3. The Death of Ivan Ilych - Leo Tolstoy
  4. The Fallen Man - Tony Hillerman
  5. The Kreutzer Sonata - Leo Tolstoy
  6. The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
  7. Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
  8. The First Eagle - Tony Hillerman
  9. The Man-Eaters of Tsavo - J. H. Patterson
  10. Well of Shiuan - C. J. Cherryh
  11. The House on the Borderland - William Hope Hodgson
  12. Hunting Badger - Tony Hillerman
  13. The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig' - William Hope Hodgson
  14. The Sinister Pig - Tony Hillerman
  15. The Ghost Pirates - William Hope Hodgson
  16. Carnacki the Ghost-Finder - William Hope Hodgson
  17. Skeleton Man - Tony Hillerman
  18. The Shape Shifter - Tony Hillerman
  19. The Winds of Gath - E. C. Tubb
  20. The Night Land - William Hope Hodgson
  21. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
  22. My Own Kind of Freedom - Steven Brust
  23. Whose Body? - Dorothy L. Sayers
  24. The Lost World - Arthur Conan Doyle
  25. The Poison Belt - Arthur Conan Doyle
  26. Night Without End - Alistair MacLean
  27. Clouds of Witness - Dorothy L. Sayers
  28. Legend - David Gemmell
  29. A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder - James de Mille
  30. Strong Poison - Dorothy L. Sayers
  31. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
  32. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  33. I Am Legend - Richard Matheson
  34. American Gods - Neil Gaiman
  35. Hickory Dickory Death - Agatha Christie
  36. 2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
  37. Murder Must Advertise - Dorothy L. Sayers
  38. Contact - Carl Sagan
  39. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
  40. The Nine Tailors - Dorothy L. Sayers
  41. Dead Witch Walking - Kim Harrison
  42. The Good, the Bad, and the Undead - Kim Harrison
  43. Every Which Way But Dead - Kim Harrison
  44. A Fistful of Charmns - Kim Harrison
  45. For a Few Demons More - Kim Harrison
  46. The Outlaw Demon Wails - Kim Harrison
  47. Warp Speed - Travis Taylor
  48. Busman's Honeymoon - Dorothy L. Sayers
  49. The Ship of Ishtar - A. Merritt
  50. Gateway - Frederik Pohl
  51. Slan - A. E. van Vogt
  52. The High Window - Raymond Chandler
  53. Black Cherry Blues - James Lee Burke
  54. The Little Sister - Raymond Chandler
  55. Death on Demand - Carolyn G. Hart
  56. Hot Tea... Cold Case - D. G. Stern
  57. Bloodsucking Fiends - Christopher Moore
  58. The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu - Sax Rohmer
  59. Bare Bones - Kathy Reichs
  60. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
  61. The Lady in the Lake - Raymond Chandler
  62. The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley
  63. The Clue of the Twisted Candle - Edgar Wallace
  64. The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler
  65. Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
  66. Mind of the Magic - Holly Lisle
  67. I, the Jury - Mickey Spillane
  68. Forfeit - Dick Francis
  69. The Daffodil Mystery - Edgar Wallace
  70. Bones of the Past - Holly Lisle
  71. The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Orczy
  72. The Illustrated Man - Ray Bradbury
  73. The Agony Column - Earl Derr Biggers
  74. Too Many Cooks - Rex Stout
  75. Watchmen - Alan Moore
  76. Bluebeard - Kurt Vonnegut
  77. Cenotaph Road - Robert Vardeman
  78. The Mystery of a Hansom Cab - Fergus Hume
  79. The Kraken Wakes - John Wyndham
  80. The Stepford Wives - Ira Levin
  81. The Mystery of the Blue Train - Agatha Christie
  82. Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury
  83. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
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Listed in the order I finished them, as I'm usually reading 2 or 3 books at a time.

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Books read in 2007
JohnnyW01/25/2008

I love William Hope Hodgson--I liked The House on the Borderland, but I loved The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig'.

Johnny Waco

Slinkyboy01/28/2008

I thought The House on the Borderland was great, wonderfully weird and creepy. I just started The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig'.
If all his stuff is this good, I'll be reading as much Hodgson as I can get my hands on this year.

Slinkyboy01/30/2008

I just finished The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig', and it was fantastic. I liked it better than The House on the Borderland too.
The Ghost Pirates is next!

JohnnyW01/30/2008

Post what you think about it when you finish because I haven't read it. I'm sure it will be great...

Johnny Waco

Slinkyboy02/08/2008

It took a little longer to get into than either The House on the Borderland or The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig', but it's still a great story. I think I took a couple of days to read the first third or so, then finished the last two thirds in one sitting. I would definitely recommend it to anyone who likes his other stuff.Carnacki the Ghost-Finder is next.

JohnnyW02/08/2008

I'll definitely read it...I also have a copy of The Night Land on my shelp waiting to be read--have you considered that one yet?

Johnny Waco

Slinkyboy02/12/2008

Just finished Carnacki the Ghost-Finder. It's a collection of stories featuring Carnacki, a kind of specialist in supernatural phenomena. I never seem to find short story collections quite as compelling as novels, but I still really enjoyed this one.The Night Land is next. I kept putting it off because it’s so much longer than his other works, and I was being a little lazy. That’s the last one on Project Gutenberg, too. I guess it’s time to start scouring old book stores for more Hodgson stuff. I just can’t get enough!

Slinkyboy03/07/2008

Just finished The Night Land, and it was amazing. Hodgson has an imagination like no one else.The style is little harder to read than his other works, and there were some parts that were hard to swallow, but this one is well worth the time and effort.

Ubik07/11/2008

Just wanted to stop in and say thanks for the William Hope Hodgson recommendation. The House On The Borderland and Night Land sound great.