| Chris Branch ( @ 2008-01-02 22:49:00 |
books read 2007
My list of books read for 2007 (45), ranked by how much I liked them on a scale of 1 to 10 (with 10 being the best!). Re-reads are in parentheses, so you can see that my favorites this year were ones that I already knew I liked.
But the 7's and 8's were well worth my reading time too!
10 (Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, Adams)
9 (Watership Down, Adams)
9 (Anansi Boys, Gaiman)
9 (Three Days To Never, Powers)
8 (Bride of the Rat God, Hambly)
8 The Algebraist, Banks
8 The Book of Air and Shadows, Gruber
8 The Lies of Locke Lamora, Lynch
8 The Android’s Dream, Scalzi
8 Gatherer of Clouds, Russell
8 Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, Dennett
8 (The Golden Compass, Pullman)
8 Red Seas Under Red Skies, Lynch
8 World Without End, Russell
7 The Iron Bridge, Morse
7 The Initiate Brother, Russell
7 The Alienist, Carr
7 The Machine’s Child, Baker
7 (Infernal Devices, Jeter)
7 Hoot, Hiaasen
7 Altered Carbon, Morgan
6 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Rowling
6 The Life of the World To Come, Baker
6 His Majesty’s Dragon, Novik
6 Snake Agent, Williams
6 Tuning the Rig, Oxenhorn
6 The Boss, Pottinger
6 The Raw Shark Texts, Hall
6 (Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less, Archer)
6 Nine Layers of Sky, Williams
6 Four and Twenty Blackbirds, Priest
6 Map of Bones, Rollins
5 King David’s Spaceship, Pournelle
5 The Wizard Hunters, Wells
5 Darwin’s Blade, Simmons
5 The Prize, Yergin
5 Neuromancer, Gibson
5 Fiction Writer’s Brainstormer, Smith
5 The Somnambulist, Barnes
5 The Girl with the Long Green Heart, Block
5 Inkheart, Funke
4 Air, Ryman
4 The Children of Hurin, Tolkien
4 Orient Express, Greene
3 Project Pope, Simak
My list of books read for 2007 (45), ranked by how much I liked them on a scale of 1 to 10 (with 10 being the best!). Re-reads are in parentheses, so you can see that my favorites this year were ones that I already knew I liked.
But the 7's and 8's were well worth my reading time too!
10 (Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, Adams)
9 (Watership Down, Adams)
9 (Anansi Boys, Gaiman)
9 (Three Days To Never, Powers)
8 (Bride of the Rat God, Hambly)
8 The Algebraist, Banks
8 The Book of Air and Shadows, Gruber
8 The Lies of Locke Lamora, Lynch
8 The Android’s Dream, Scalzi
8 Gatherer of Clouds, Russell
8 Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, Dennett
8 (The Golden Compass, Pullman)
8 Red Seas Under Red Skies, Lynch
8 World Without End, Russell
7 The Iron Bridge, Morse
7 The Initiate Brother, Russell
7 The Alienist, Carr
7 The Machine’s Child, Baker
7 (Infernal Devices, Jeter)
7 Hoot, Hiaasen
7 Altered Carbon, Morgan
6 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Rowling
6 The Life of the World To Come, Baker
6 His Majesty’s Dragon, Novik
6 Snake Agent, Williams
6 Tuning the Rig, Oxenhorn
6 The Boss, Pottinger
6 The Raw Shark Texts, Hall
6 (Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less, Archer)
6 Nine Layers of Sky, Williams
6 Four and Twenty Blackbirds, Priest
6 Map of Bones, Rollins
5 King David’s Spaceship, Pournelle
5 The Wizard Hunters, Wells
5 Darwin’s Blade, Simmons
5 The Prize, Yergin
5 Neuromancer, Gibson
5 Fiction Writer’s Brainstormer, Smith
5 The Somnambulist, Barnes
5 The Girl with the Long Green Heart, Block
5 Inkheart, Funke
4 Air, Ryman
4 The Children of Hurin, Tolkien
4 Orient Express, Greene
3 Project Pope, Simak