Wrapped Up In Books - 2007 Review

(This is reposted from my thrilling and unmissable book blog, Wrapped Up In Books. At the bottom is a complete list of books I read in 2007, for those of you that haven't been paying attention).

I managed 101 books last year, an increase of a massive one from 2006. Still, I ploughed through War and Peace which is pretty good.

Best Books: Orlando, Goodbye to Berlin, Pobby and Dingan, The Master and Margharita, The Sea, On Beauty, War and Peace, Washington Square, The Human Stain, Hangover Square, The God Delusion, The Slaves of Solitude, The Honorary Consul, Barchester Towers, A Question of Upbringing, The Age of Innocence

Worst Book: Diamonds are Forever

Longest Book: War and Peace

Shortest Book:The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and other stories

Non-Fiction Books: 18

Australian Books: 8

Books by Women: 15

Resolution for 2008: More series - Barchester Chronicles, A Dance to the Music of Time and The Alexandria Quartet

Here's to next year. Thanks for reading - it's been literary.

Books read in 2007:

1 Orlando - Virginia Woolf
2 The Innocence of Father Brown - G.K. Chesterton
3 Theft: A Love Story - Peter Carey
4 The Naming of the Dead - Ian Rankin
5 Cat’s Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
6 The Lunar Men - Jenny Uglow
7 Goodbye to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood
8 Trilby - George du Maurier
9 Eucalyptus - Murray Bail
10 Pobby and Dingan - Ben Rice
11 Keep The Aspidistra Flying - George Orwell
12 Numbers
13 Blockbuster - Tom Shone
14 The Spell - Alan Hollinghurst
15 Therese Raquin - Emile Zola
16 Mr Norris Changes Trains - Christopher Isherwood
17 Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
18 The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories -- Tim Burton
19 The Yiddish Policemen’s Union - Michael Chabon
20 Jacques the Fatalist - Denis Diderot
21 Memories of my Melancholy Whores -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
22 The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick
23 Agnes Grey - Anne Bronte
24 The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
25 The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells
26 The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith
27 The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
28 Peter Jackson; A Film-Maker’s Journey - Brian Sibley
29 The Club of Queer Trades - G.K. Chesterton
30 Milk and Honey - Elizabeth Jolley
31 Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stephenson
32 Perdido Street Station - China Miéville
33 A Tale of a Tub - Jonathan Swift
34 The Unknown Terrorist - Richard Flanagan
35 Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
36 Rameau’s Nephew - Denis Diderot
37 The Sea - John Banville
38 On Beauty - Zadie Smith
39 The Elected Member - Bernice Rubens
40 The Winter Queen - Boris Akunin
41 The Birth of Sydney - Tim Flannery (ed.)
42 Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
43 Hotel du Lac - Anita Brookner
44 The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
45 Love Among the Chickens - P.G. Wodehouse
46 We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
47 Time’s Arrow - Martin Amis
48 Diamonds are Forever - Ian Fleming
49 The Old Devils - Kingsley Amis
50 Deuteronomy
51 Timbuktu - Paul Auster
52 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
53 The Necropolis Railway - Andrew Martin
54 The Life and Times of Michael K - J.M. Coetzee
55 Washington Square - Henry James
56 The Human Stain - Philip Roth
57 Deadeye Dick - Kurt Vonnegut
58 A Haunted House and other stories - Virginia Woolf
59 Scorsese on Scorsese - David Thomson and Ian Christie (eds.)
60 Hollywood Animal - Joe Eszterhas
61 Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow
62 The Warden - Anthony Trollope
63 Seeing is Believing - Peter Biskind
64 Is It Cowardly To Pray For Rain?
65 Lady Chatterley’s Lover - D.H. Lawrence
66 The Prince - Nicolo Machiavelli
67 Hangover Square - Patrick Hamilton
68 A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh
69 The Master - Colm Toibin
70 Ghost World - Daniel Clowes
71 God Is Not Great - Christopher Hitchens
72 The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
73 The Trick Of It - Michael Frayn
74 The Old Curiosity Shop - Charles Dickens
75 A Spy in the House of Love - Anais Nin
76 The Raw Shark Texts - Steven Hall
77 Picnic at Hanging Rock - Joan Lindsay
78 What’s in a Name? - Cyril M. Harris
79 The Slaves of Solitude - Patrick Hamilton
80 The Honorary Consul - Graham Greene
81 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
82 What Maisie Knew - Henry James
83 As Used on the Famous Nelson Mandela - Mark Thomas
84 Everyman - Philip Roth
85 The Well - Elizabeth Jolley
86 A Far Cry from Kensington - Muriel Spark
87 Misquoting Jesus - Bart D. Ehrman
88 Barchester Towers - Anthony Trollope
89 Turner - Peter Ackroyd
90 First Love - Ivan Turgenev
91 Run, River - Joan Didion
92 The Adventure of English - Melvyn Bragg
93 A Question of Upbringing - Anthony Powell
94 The Woman of Andros - Thornton Wilder
95 The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
96 The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
97 The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy
98 I Peed on Fellini - David Stratton
99 The Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene
100 The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai
101 Why Don’t Penguins Feet Freeze? - Mick O’Hare (ed.)

I still don't call Australia home

OK, we're back in Oz and just beginning to recover from our collective family jetlag. Getting back in tune with Godzone hasn't been helped by (a) the horribly hot weather, or (b) going to a triffic Rufus Wainwright gig the day after we got back.

Anyways, the plan now is to do a short series of retrospective posts filling in some of the stuff we did overseas, they will be appearing here in a bit. There are some photos up on the Flickr site until then.

Cheerybye x

Number of beds Beth has slept in since leaving Australia

10.

I is knackered.